The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-08-04
OUR NEWPORT LETTER
Life Among the Campers and the Hotels. Get.
ting Up to q New Variety Of Clans

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ting Up to New Variety Of Clans.
NEWPORT, Aug, There are now se,
eral hundred Salem people here campin
in cottages and at the hotels and board
ing houses. Those who camp brin thei
tents or rent them after they get her,
The main thing about this style Of livin
is that you get more climate for you
money than any other way. You get
day or night, rain or shine and mixed i
with your grub. II you are near the bul
: pine you get besides some game in tn
shape OF wood rats, and fleas are as al
feotionate as numerous. But the peopl
in the cottages and at the hotels an,
boardinghouses get some game too. Yot
don't see all the signs Of their ravage
because fashion DEGREES that the ladie
appear on the beach with their lowe
limbs entirely covered. But sometime
they can't demonstrate over the appear
ance Of things 80 effectively. Fo
instance, a little gray mouse mad,
his appearance at one Of the cottages il
Olssonvile one afternoon while the mer
Of the neighborhood we're out, and ther,
could'n have been more CONSERVATION /
an army of Boxers had arrived.
Beauties Of Nature
The camera fends come in pretty close
contact with nature "as she was" here
on the beaches when the tide is out and
the native Indian women are out alsc
after CLAIMS. They wear kind Of a bi.
cycle skirt and turning their backs on
the unabashed sea, go after the clans
with long sharpened stick. They ex-
cavate hole several feet deep in the
mud and 90 down head foremost after
the elusive clam and say, it's 'scomical, the
attitudes they are taken in. But they
are earning an honest living for the fam.
lily and they are Indifferent to the strict
demands OF fashionable society. That
they add 10 the picturesque APP
pearance Of the seaside no one can deny.
An Indian woman trudging along with a
creel Of about bushel and a half OF
CLAIMS on her back and her walking cos
tune dripping with seaweed and mud
clear up under her arms makes an oh-my
picture Of society before the white folks
took mp the burdens of civilization.
A Chapter on Clans.
But watching these aboriginies
at their native industries has brought
me 10 a more than speaking acquaint-
ance with very fine species OF clam
OF course, like all sorts and conditions
OF clans except the human. The little.
neck steamed and served with drawn
butter can't be beaten, but there are new.
er enough of them at hotel ever stop.
ped at. The razor.back, taken away out
on the shimmering sand beaches is a
fine clam when cooked right, but we
could never get IL 10 but what we
thought we were chewing on his India
rubber vitals about half the time. Then
there is the New York clam that has
been brought here and propogated and
is sold at the fish markets. But my big
blue clam is the dandy clam Of them all
and am sorry / cant write poem
about him. He ia often as big as a mans
two hands and 80 tender that he makes
the finest soup by just putting a little
butter and seasoning on a lot OF them
and Just pouring on as much boiling wa.
ter az the size of your family or the
boarding house require. His shell Is
.hin and he is easily broken by digging
with a spade. lie has to be cleaned OF
his dark snout, and trim off all the
brown whiskers around the edges. The
contents Of the black pod should also be
removed, but he is 10 large there is
plenty Of clam left. / found by examin.
ing these CLANS that they live on small
crabs about the size OF a shirtbutton.
When he gets hungry he Just opens his
shell and the little crabs walk in and
stake their claim and they stay staked
like the fellow who goes TO Cape Nome.
Crabs are not bad eating and clam
that subsists on that diet Ia good enough |
for me. II you have never met them |
come over TO Olsson's Bay and | will |
Civ, you an introduction any morning
there is a low tide-not TO the Indian !
women but the clans.
How People Live
August ia the best month over here. |
The tomcod begin 10 come in now soon |
and about the 20th If we have rain,
there is a run OF Salmon, and one who |
has never trolled for silversdes in blue
water hasn't had all the sport in the
world. There are plenty of camping \
places, cottages, hotels and boarding.
houses. The rates are from ten dollars
4 week down to nothing with all OF Gold.
smiths animated nature and excitement
.hrown in. Sea'bathing is ten cents II
you bring your own costume and dress at
he bath-house. II you are near enough
% dress at your tent or cottage il costs
There is no law against walk
ng the streets in your bathing suit.
When the wi I'd went TO the Northwest
asst week several baby sea.lions, as large
" young durham calves, were captured
IN the beaches north of here. They
must have got away from the herds and
plated like real calves the first few hours
Ishore. Otherwise they are harmless
md make nice pets, as they soon get 20
Weigh from 1900 10 1900 pounds.
The Ocean house, run by Mrs. Case
md her daughters is a very nice place TO
top at and the rates are reasonable. Ii
3 quiet there. You are sheltered from
he wind and the view is grand. The
Say View and the Abbey house are run
ling in opposition on opposite sides Of
he street, Mr.. and Mrs, Eugene vii.
ams run the former and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ibbey run the latter, and they are all
hotel keepers. II You 20 10
ne you will be sorry you did hot 20 10
he other. Down at Monterey theland-
)rd IL a Methodist preacher and Justice &
the peace but in spite of his jurisdic. '
on in this world aud the next he makes
pleasant for people and it is lovely
uiet place TO take your intended, your 4
III or your family. The bOardinghouses u
10 innumerable. DIR. Bay ley's fine res. I
hence up on the bay is opened this sea. q
IN and is conducted by his daughters.
he view here is the grandest at New :
Drt OF ocean and bay. h
Seldom old boreas roughens up the sea {
ore I'm Angnst. hnt Wahnnshav thn 4