The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-07-14
OUR NEWPORT LETTER.
Camp Life at Yadulna Bay Where the Break
ers Boar and Fishing Is Good.

Camp Life at Ya1una Bay Where the Break
ers Roar and Fishing Is Good.
NEWPORT, July l2.-We came over
| here on the 10th for few weeks outing
as has been our custom for many years,
There are three worlds, the land and the
sea and the other world, and il seems a
pity to live within a days journey Of
the ocean and know nothing of it. So
we pack our household effects that are
| Indispensable, secure a kind neighbor's
aid to feed the cats, check the bulldog
and the babywagon, and betake our.
selves TO Newport, the popular resort for
all valley people. The train from
! Albany runs over in about four hours
and after we pass Summit Station, we
soon smell the sea breeze and begin TO
button up our wraps. AT Yaquina the
| faithful little steamer is waiting 10 take
us for q sail down the bay TO the city
with the grand and aristocratic name.
Our arrival il not heralded by the
band. single toot of the steam whistle
brings all the movable population OF the
town TO the landing, A paling has been
erected TO keep anyone from Crowding
TO the edge OF the wharf. The crowd
get up as close as they can, and few
stretch their hands through the fence to
greet particular friends, fellows girl
or some mans second wife, cousin, or
some one Of more remote degree OF
consanguinity. My old friend Capt.
Allison, was there, Capt. Ball. and Mr.
| Whittier, who hauled our baggage 10 the
cottage for dollar. After il was there
another man offered TO haul il up for 80
cents, but he was not at the dock. My
Democratic friend, Healy, the former
postmaster, went to Sumpter and struck
II rich, having made q fortune in real
estate. His predecessor, Mr.. Hampton,
il his successor, and he is as good
Nasty as he is a salmon fisherman, or a
deep-sea fisher. The man who can iill
a barrel with silver-sides or Goldfish
quicker than Hampton has got to be
born that way. He can never acquire
the art. BY the way, are not all fisher.
men born2 My boys have not yet
learned to hold line with the old man
Of the family, but are making rapid
progress, and one Of them skunked me
two years ago with fly rod on the San
tiam.
II was a great comfort TO find our cot.
tage on Olsson's Bay all secured az clean
as the deck of Of man OF war, a fire in
the stove, the teakettie singing, the
honeysuckles blooming at the window, a
gorgeous bouquet on the front room
table and plenty OF clean sweet hay
for our bedding. We arrive at seven and
must unpack, make mp our beds, got
supper, and ask great many questions
about the nelghborhoOd. seven story
appetite and twelve hour sleep are not
wanting, What has happened in two
years. We went east for our vacation
last year. None of our neighbor cot
tagers are in yet The Croasmans of
Portland are not coming but some of
their relatives are to have their cottage.
MIR. Bozorth's family, Frank Waters,
MIS-. Shelly Morgan, and other Salem
ties are 10 be here soon and We shall not
he lonesome, There are number of
cottages 10 be had here, but of course
people must know what to bring TO en-.
JOY such an outing. Some old scraps of
carpet, few curtains, a few chromos
to tack on the wall will help ont won.
deriully.
Olsson's Ray addition 10 Newport is
only 10 minutes walk from the steamer
landing. IL is sheltered nook, facing
southeast, warm and sunny, but protected
from the northwest winds that make
lie unpleasant when exposed 20 their
tull force. Here ON the bay il Is always
sunny ana pleasant, the semi circle of
hills completely breaking the force of
winds The most delicate flowers grow
outdoors In this protected spot as Mrs
bayley.s and Mrs. Olssou's flower gar.
dens fully prove The bay is alive with
fish ON this side Just outsided the eel.
grass there We caught tins forenoon
about torty pounds dressed of the sweet.
Mah IN Nha a.r,UI.l
perch. Later we get tOmcOd, rockcOd,
and the regular bank Goldfish and silver.
side salmon, The latter bite a troll. All
are delicious eating and will keep several
DAYS, We have the freedom OF a fine
vegetable garden, and such delicious We
getables as grow in this mixture of sand
and guano and rotted shells, can be
found nowhere else in the world
The first day we got settled and nut
up our tent. While the ladies and chill. |
drcn prefer sleeping in the cottage. |
like the tent for bedroom. The per.
Tuned air of outdoors is a marked
feature OF this locality and comes throngh
the canvass walls day by day and al
night the salt sea air watts YOU 10 sleep
Your floor is of the choicest clover and |
IN bloom, but only few inches high. |
From out over the bar comes the boom. |
ing OF the breakers, where the never. |
ceaslng surf is battering away the last
vestiges of the millions OF dollars of let. |
ties and harbor improvements. Only |
last winter the tramway on piles thai /
reached from the south beach up 10 deep
water on the bay was driven over 10 the
other shore, and is being sold for stove.
wood at $3.50 cord. Ii cost the tax.
payers a great deal more than that be-
lore 1t became driitwOod. High tides
have carried away some of the bulk.
heads and large slices OF the main busi.
less street, but the bay remains and
ishlng is better than ever before.
r. HoFRR