Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-06-03


for this class of summer guests hav-
ing been provided There are mum
Der OF these hOtels, and any person
of moderate means can here spend
few days or wooks or months and
have a maximum Of enjoyment at
minimum rates.
But the mapority of the Oregon
people going to the seaside live In
summer cottages. This number Is
growing from year to year, and while
the seaside village Of Nye Creek has
attracted many people for years, the
number that will this year find shell
ter and comfort and pleasure there
will exceed former records by con
tEderable. Already many new cot
tages have been erected this season,
and more are to be built. Every train
going to the bay now is carrying
number of people who are going to-
repair old cottages or to build new
houses, while large force of work
men is kept busy, and has been for
some time, in erecting new houses.
Many of these are, of course, cheap
structures for they are to be used
for but short time; but some of
them are pretentious houses, and real
ly beautiful cottages are in course of
construction, the equal of any already
there, or at any other seaside re-
sort.
On all sides new cottages are going
up, and this is not confined to the
Nye Creek addition to Newport, but in.
cludes all parts of the little metropo-
lis of Yaquina bay. At Olsenville, in
Newport. proper, in Fredericksburg
addition, and, in fact, throughout the
-ntire place, the same busy scenes
can be seen and the place is a regu-
lar beehive of industry.
The pleasures of the beach are
ready for the visitors, and in fact,
the present time is as good one
for outsiders as any for while sea
bathing is not yet in season, the pleas
ures of boating, fishing and long ram.
bles on the seashore and in the woods
can now be varied somewhat by the
lover of the beautiful in the gathering
of those most delicate flowers with
which that section of the Oregon
coast is so literally supplied. There
are two distinct varieties of flowers
covering the hills surrounding the
bay and bordering the beach, and one
of these varieties is again divided into
many more Of every conceivable
kind. The two varieties are the far
famed, beautiful rhoIodendrons and
other flowers. The rhododendrons are
beautiful. The hillsides almost down
to the waters edge are fairly covered
with the rhododendron trees and
bushes and these in turn are loaded
with the blossoms, gorgeous in color
and delicate as violet. On all sides
these flowers can be seen, and no
OhS Ndh dPplGNldlS luelT Deduly uu-
less the blooms have been seen on
their native hillsldes, growing in great
profusion until the landscape par
takes Of the color of the blooms and
buds and becomes roseate with them.
No one can afford to miss taking
in Newport this season, If an outing
can be taken at all, and everyone TAX
ing vacation early should go and
revel in the floral beauties of the
beach and hillsides of the Yaquina
bay country.
The beach is in fine condition, the
winters storms having left it covered
with a fine sand, except for a few
feet on either side of the
mouth Of Nye creek. where agates in
countless millions are lying in heaps,
many of them, no doubt, valuable,
and as such eagerly sought for by the
summer guests.