The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-08-19
Editorial MeIange Fresh From the
Briny Bay At Newport
How That Resort is Swarming With Excur>
SiOniStS and Sight-SeerS
Miss Springfield the Journals Seaside Prize Winner Re-
ceYeS Continuous Ovation

history of this summer resort. There
have been literally thousands of peo-
pie handled by the transportation com
pany and entertained by the hotels
and restaurants here. Leading hotels
like the Bay View, the Abbey and the
Ocean house have been full up to the
neck, as the saying goes, and so has
everyone eating at their tables. The
ferries and row boats have all been in
demand, horseback riding, sea bathing
and excursions in all directions have
been in full swing. The weather has
been warm and perfect and surf bath.
ing so fine that enthusiasts have been
going in twice a day instead of once
year as some newspaper men talk
about bathing. The season will last
fun month yet Since Saturday
night we have had two bands and the
opposition is causing spirited playing
A baseball game at the park on the
hill was a SATURDAY event and there
is an excursion, a ball or a picnic on
for every day or night this week. The
State Press Association, an Albany
Sunday School excursion, a big Sun
day excursion from the Cascade noun
tains, and over one hundred ar.
rivals daily per train besides,
have filed Newport to overnowlng,
Still there is room, and still there are
/ 80 A..
Voting Contest has stimulated people
to do more in the line of an ocean out
ing than ever before. Certainly no
individual or head OF a family can
make a better investment than to
give himself, herself or those depend
ent on him a month of natures great
est sanatorium.
Perfect Seaside Weather.
Il is a great mistake to rush home
from the seaside in the middle OF Au-
gust when the most perfect season
begins to reach it's maturity All agree
that Newport has never had such a
perfect August-perfect pale blue and
pearly skies, soft breozes, no harsh
cold winds, warm bathing, gentle
swels and a surf as safe from under
tow as your bathtub at home. About
once in ten days heavy fog comes ~
from the southeast and drizzles for an
hour or two of an evening, but over
night the skies clear and with all the
dust in the roads settled, the hills
greener than ever. the skies bluer. and
the bay shimmering silver, there is
not a prettier prospect In the world
than this gem Of all summer resorts
in its setting OF emerald For several
days after such a mist fall the ocean
remains smooth, the long swells from
the west churning into foam that Is
whipped in long white streamer up |
sea again with the returning ebb. Lit
tie combers like flock OF white swans, |
climb over the sand-spit where the
boating parties love TO rock on the
waves and the white-winged sail-boats |
tack back and forth One Is only |
awakened from the dream OF beauty
by the shrill call Of the steamer
whistle summOning it's crew 10 go
meet the next incoming train, and
Newport stretches it's hospitality lit
tie wider, always having room for a
hundred or a thousand more.
September Better Still.
While July and August are radiant |
as summer brides in their perfect loy.
illness, the month of September has |
charm all its own. The trade wind has
lost it's chill and stiffness. the skies
nave soft maturity the hills are hung |
in delicate smoky mists. and the wat
ers give of an effect at sunset that no
words can picture. The first shower
starts the silyerside salmon 10 running |
and there is royal sport trolling the
bay Lovers OF hunting can get fat
pigeons in the hills. the deer begin 10
haunt the beach, wild ducks and geese
are flying over the headlands, and the
seal and sea-liOn sport In the surf on
every beach. Friends OF Wild flowers
find on every hill the Indian pipe. the
cardinal flower OF the west and IN
every sheltered nook that shyest of all
flowers loved by the poets. the purple
fringed gentian. The slopes back from
the beaches are literally blue with
huckleberries, and trouthshing at the
head Of tidewater Is az It's prettiest
The mountain trout seem to come
down 20 met the salmon trout while
the bottom OF the black watered
streams are hoored with hungry white
meated sea-trout. hardest Of all 20 hook
but not impossible after you have
learned the plans and specifications.
OF course. the enjoyment you can get
out OF all these pleasures depend some
On your capacity. Ii
Bought Seal Rocks.
Supi Edwin Stone has purchased !
ne Seal Rock properly. hotel and (
ibouf 81 acres Of One land. inciuding {
ne water front of wonderful rocks &
hat lut out Into the ocean and form q
} psgfect vindbreak and natural har- 3