The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-05-15


very nearly a mile in length, costing
over 81, 100000 and was designed for a
receiving point for freight and passen-
gers for Los Angeles, being christenPd
Port Los Angeles. Although the bulk
of business transacted here at present
is fairly large and the steamers of the
Pacific transportation Co. make regu-
lar landings, it seems to many that the
bright anticipations of the builders are
not likely to be realized San Pedro
harbor, when fully complete, Will be so
far in advance of this pier, or any other
landing place nearby. that it will be as
certain to control the business by water
as anything in the future can be as
sured. As the pier extends, as stated,
nearly mile into the ocean. the fishing
privilege is much superior to any other
spot and is awaited of by hundreds
daily. Occasionally the yellow tail is
taken here,-a very gamy fish and most
delectable on the dining table; some
have been landed weighing fifty pounds
or more
Aside from the fishermen, the busiest
men round the beaches apper to be the
real-estate men. They deal in cottage
lots and sell and rent cottages. Some
Of the cottages are very elaborate,
belonging to wealthy residents of
Denver Salt Lake and other eastern
cities, but they are mostly small and in
10 way superior to those at Northport.
Whlie in location they are far less
picturesque. Ocean Park is only a
sand-plaln and the sandy soil extends a
long distance back from the ocean. \
winter resident who had the misfortune
to lose the walk i'll front of his cottage
during one of the infrequent gales of
the past Wlnter,-Washed away by the
sea,-told me it was often matter of
uncertainty to him whether he should
wake in the morning an owner of real
estate or of personal property, so quick
is it possible to transform property
from one class to the other in this
country of shifting sands. The gales of
the Atlantic would soon make havoc
with a beach village like Ocean Park
just perched as it is Oh the edge of the
ocean.
The central figure of Santa Monica,
summer or winter, is the Hotel Area
dia; one of those houses where one feels
a homelike feeling creep over him as he
enters the door. There are many hotels
where the most assiduous cultivation
for weeks will not nurse even the
faintest spark of this home feeling into
existence. And this class is more fire.
quently than not where the prices are
highest and the evening toilets the
lowest 1t seems to me most singular
taste that induces so many of the east
ern tourists to spend seven-eighths of
their time in the office and parlors of
the grand hotels of Los Angeles, swal-
lowing the generous quantities of dust
blowing through the streets of that
city, with the lovely orange cities in the
highlands and the health-giying, nerve
restoring beaches only a few miles
away. But it is the style to air ones
best clothes in the parlors of the An
gelus and Van Mugs and apparently a
privilege to plank down each week at
the cashiers desk ten dollars per day
for each member of the family. At
least many seem to like it, and so keep
it up till the pocket-book grows light
and the women weary. But the beach
houses have their devotees, neverthe-
less, and the Arcadia, during all the
winter months, was we'll filled with the
very best of the eastern sojourners.
On the one hand, and only few feet
distant, is the broad Pacific with it's salt
laden air blowing through the rooms
and corridors; on this side are one half
the sleeping rooms facing the ocean:
from the other one has the delights of
many-colored flowers in view and the
mountains for background. Climbing
rose-trees and heliotrope cover the
house almost to the upper story, giving
shade by day, odors delightful continu-
ously, and furnishing a nesting place for
the binds. On the ocean side is the fine
ly furnished sun parlor, where the la
dies sit by their work in the day
time with the roar of the surf for
a melody, and in the evening lively
parties of card players assemble Bill
lizard room, pool room, and a special
billiard parlor for the children, parlors
facing the sea and a fine dance hall fur
nish amusement for the time spared
from bathing, driving and lounging on
the beach. An orchestra plays during
lunch and dinner and in the evening
until nine O'clock This orchestra is
unique in that it is of ladies entirely,
three of them being sisters, their band
being known as the Klaus Sisters
Orchestra. The young ladies are finish
ed musicians and what is even better,
are most cultivated and companionable,
being great favorites of the guests.
During the evening the old men hover
over them like moths round a gas-jet,
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