Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-08
MONTERREY CALIFORNIA.

fines, augmented in no small degree by
repeated ''raids' on gambling places
throughout the town, the entire outfit,
including jack pot'and all its contents
fining its way into this fund, until
money enough to build the capitol was
secured by Mr.. Cotton, and the gamb-
lers still played their game.
Monterey's Sub Marine Gardens, a
new industry for at least one enterpris-
ing individual in Monterey has sprung
up within the past year. 1t sprang
from the bottom of the sea, and is
piled with The aid of GEL Buso"-the
gardens and menageries are 80 old as
''old ocean" itself, but have only
recently been brought to the notice of
the public and in their antiquity con-
sists their marvellous beauty The Mon
terey gardens have not been advertised
as have those of Santa Catalina Islands,
lying about 80 miles off San Pedro
Harbor, where the glass bottomed
boats through which can be viewed
the wonderful animal and vegetable
life that inhabits the bottom of the sea
have been in use for some time, and
thousands of tourists" have absolutely
courted sea-sickness, and many actually
took the dread malady home to their
"bosoms," all for peep at the gardens
of the sea whose counterpart is found
nowhere on land The master of "El
Buso' tells his enthusiastic passengers,
that there are by actual count 173
species Of sea MOSES, kelps, weeds
vegetables, etc, with coral reefs re-
splendant with color, all of which are
inhabited by $50 species of fish in this
bay. These coral reefs with their vari-
colored MOSES, barnacles and shell
growth, the result in tint and outline
of the action of the sea through the ages
since creation, assisted by the crystaliz-
ing influences ofthe waters of old ocean,
present picture of rare and marvellous
beauty, one that the most extravagant
imagination cannot conceive, one that
the most talented pen cannot describe,
and the most artistic brush cannot de-
pict.
These, interspersed with the multi
tude of shell fish, Of hue 80 dainty and
delicate, and shape SO unique and
picturesque, the houses of the inhabi-
tants of the bottom of the sea consti-
tute the architecture of this city of the
depths. Fishes without houses to dwell
in are here seen basking in the beauties
of these tropical sea gardens, these
aquarimus of the deep. The skeletons
of whales, the wrecks of centuries, lie
scattered in the depths. The Octopus
is by no means a stranger in these
waters, and can be seen clinging to the
bottom or to the sides of rocks with his
score or more of arms or legs, waiting
motionless for the opportunity to en-
brace in his strong farreaching ten
lacles, some de!enceless creature upon
which to make his morning meal.
Every rock in these placid depth, is
radiant in colors so harmoniously
blended, and so graceful in form that
it would put to blush the efforts of
artist and sculptor to reproduce it with
brush and chisel.
The principal vegetable raised here
without cultivation is the cucumber |
that attains giant size, the chief fruit |
is the sea olive that grows in abundance |
on tall graceful trees or stems standing
upright or in a graceful dropping posi-
ton, some of them reaching height of
80 or 40 feet, and the plant or tall king.
dom is mainly represented by the |
graceful Cypress, that is equally, or
even more attractive on the bottom of
the sea, than is its sister growth on
land. The crowning glory however,
of this fairy-like, yet extremely realistic
panorama, remains for the immense
and luxuriant floral bouque, SO deft
and symmetrical in arrangement and
yet so mammoth in it's proportions, it
seems the work of giant hand. l
wish only to say in conclusion, let no
visitor to the Pacific Coast, from the |
East, return without seeing the Sub
Marine gardens of Monterey"
j. S. DOUGLASS.
Monterey, April 10th, 1902