Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-25

NNluB WOrOS OF welcome at Ine open
Ming Of this annual Northwest Indian
Teachers' Institute to our beautiful
4 Yaquina Bay seaside summer resort
~ would take the imagination of a
poet, the skill of painter and the elo-
uuence of a great orator to do it JUS
lice. Words fail to describe its multi
WDIied attractions, or it's unlimited re
8ources of entertainment and hospi-
tality. It is indeed, in the picturesque
language of the native indian, "skook-
utn illihee," the bounteous bosom Of
mother nature, the perpetual fountain
tf youth with is waters of restoration
Nominated by heavens brightest
nraales.
After seeing all the principal sum-
ner resorts and places of interest from
h Alaska to Mexico. the most expert
enced and disinterested travellers de-
ciare that Newport, on Yaquina Bay,
snrpasses them all, the gem of all the
seaside places. San Diego's land
locked harbor, with it's famous Coro-
nado beach, can alone be compared to
st for natural beauty.
Newport is the radiant gem of the
Pacific, with it's sapphire bay flashing
in brilliant sunlight, with skies of am
ethyst deepening into cerulean as they
bend and dip into the darker blue of
ihe Pacific; on all sides the everlast-
pg emerald of the hills coming down
Is kiss the white-crested breakers for
ever beating on the sands.
There are no beaches that in ex-
panse and picturesque beauty surpass
hose at Newport. Stretching away
10 the north are the grand curving
shores of the ocean, enclosing Nye
rreeS, Jump-off-Joe rocks, with their
Ihunderous caves, Monterey and the
lighthouse promontory, and still far.
her inviting to excursions, lie the
huge Otter rocks and the Punchbowl,
he black diamond necklace of reefs,
seaching far out to sea, and affording
b homes for the sea otter and the myr-
lads of sea birds that by daytime fash
Ind circle in friendly proximity TO the
summer visitors.
At Newport harbor are the jetties,
with the rushing tides flowing in and
but with rythmic movements of the
moon-mad sea. Beyond their shelter
ing arms are the fishing reefs, where
the deepsea fish are taken in unlimit-
ed quantities, and where the summer
excursionists pay their money and
take their choice Of pleasureab,e en-
6oyment or furnish amusement for
their friends and refreshment for the
ishes
tH To the south stretch the beaches to-
ward the lifesaving station, the mex
haus;ible trout-stored waters of Beav-
fer creek the wonderful Seal Rocks,
Mwith their swarms of seal, sea lion,
e black-fish, porpoise ami whales Still
farther looms the most striking prom
Ontory on this coast, Cape Perpetua,
and on a clear day we signt Hecta's
head. There are the inviting fishing
grounds of Alsea Bay, Drift creek, and
the trout streams and deer hunting
grounds on farther south, Yahats, Ten
Mile and the terra incognita Of un-
explored mountains so fascinating to
the lover of larger game. all within
days drive of-Newport.
Among the charms Of our attractive
summer resort must not forget TO
mention the Old Lighthouse, with the
lovers walk approaching that abode
of mystery. From here the romantic
can come upon the shadowy trail OF as
bloOd-curdling a romance as ever was
coined from the brain of any writer OF
fiction. Mrs. Miller's story of the
haunted chamber in the old lighthouse
ranks in wierd beauty with anything
ever produced by Hawthorne, and
should be made part of the advertising
matter of this bay. There is a stu
more beautiful walk up the bay past
the Talking Spring. to Bay View,
sheltered sunny cove at Olssenville' +
where the winds never beat, and the
waters sparkle by daylight, and are
agleam with phosphorescence under
the radiance OF the full moon. sun
farther up is Hinton's Point where
the buried treasure OF a Spanish gal
leon lies beneath the sea, and has de-
fed all attempts OF explorers to Wrest
its secret from the dim and piratieal
past. On all the hillsides stand the
skeletons Of the forest giants OF
former age, wierd sentinels IN the
army of second growth.
The summer visitor must not omit
to spend day on South Beach, carry
ing a lunch. exploring the silent and