Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-18
So Called Because Several Mis-.
guided Persons Have There Tried
To Drown Their Sorrows.
VISIT TO AN OSTRICH FARM.
Pasadena a City Of MlIlionaires--
Beauties of the Deep as Seen
Through Glass.
special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
ocean Park, Cal, May s.--People
often say when speaking of a place
away of somewhere in a remote cor
ner Of the earth: THAT is the Jumping
off place" Well, this is It, as since |
wrote you last in March two persons,
man and woman, have come here
and jumped off into the ocean. No
doubt their intentions were to make the
earth better, but unfortunately their
plans were spoiled by misguided NOR
tails who promptly got into the ocean
and rescued them. Two bodies have
washed up on the shore here recently
These two succeeded. The bodies were
not eaten by sharks though they had
been In the ocean long time. "Mexi-
can Frank" and all the fishermen here
frequently bring in sharks, for many
species OF this fish live I'm these waters
-shoyel- nosed sharks leopard sharks
and ether kinds you would not care
to know. Frank tells me that he has
never seen a shark In this bay that was
brave enough or vicious enough to at
tack a man. According to Frank you
can Ddlnt III UtlltiA tdltll WIN tlkHl
and ten-foot sharks basking all around
YOU. He says the man eating or blue
shark lives farther south and that 1t Is
much more healthful to battle in tub
when you are near where this shark
lives.
Since my last letter several boats
have been wrecked on our beach during
the fierce "nor'westers" and the other
terrible recent storms. The gasoline
pleasure launches "Donohue' and
"Wlllma" went down. The mabel
Cray" three masted schooner l5O feet
long and laden with 10000 feet of red
wood lumber, went TO pieces and frag-
ments OF her cargo were strewn along
the sand for 10 miles The schooner
Garden city" was blown against the
Redondo railroad wharf, demolishing II
and herself She had aboard $4,000
feet OF lumber---that's a good load,
We have now lived on the beach over
three months, have been lulled TO sleep
by the music of the breakers, the
same rolling, tossing, foam capped
breaker that have beaten on these
sands for unnumbered generations;
have seen the ocean like a sea of glass,
and Il is often this way, we'll deserving
the name Pacific or peaceful; we have
seen the terror striking appearance of
the ocean In violent storms and are
lust now able to realize to some little
extent the meaning of this expression
the angry old ocean" and that poetic
one, "the unforgetting tide"
ON AN OSTRICH FARM.
our visit 20 the Carvston Ostrich
farm four miles out of Los Angeles,
was treat Two hundred and eighty
ostriches, huge coarse ugly birds,
with few feathers so rich aud bCautl-
ful that many a woman would sell her
chances for heaven to own one. Fine
birds have fine feathers is not true of
the ostrich. He is very ugly, stands on
two thick bare legs, huge reddish
body sometimes Weighing 400 pounds,
and long neck at the end Of which IL
a large beak, a larger throat and a
tiny brain. When an ostrich gets loose
he will run into anything that happens
In his way. on his wings and back
part of the body grows a crop of feath-
ers that bring in better returns than
gold mine. All the young birds are
brown, Al eight months the males
turn black and begin to grow all the
beautiful feathers you see in the
stores; the female retains her sombre
color and never has any but the
brown and less beautiful plumes,
II takes 40 days for the egg to hatch.
The male bird sits on the eggs at night
che female In the daytime. Barrels Of
oranges are placed along tho walks and
visitors amuse themselves throwing On.
anges over the fence to the ostriches,
who swallow them whole as easily II
not as quickly as small boy swallows
cherries.
A CITY OF MILLIoNAIREs.
This ostrich farm is on the south edge
OF the city of Pasadena--a city of a. 600
Inhabitants, OF whom over 100 are mill
lonaires. Some of the most beautiful
homes and flower gardens In the world
are here and a few of the most
wretched people on earth $50 the driver
tells us) live In them. Palatial homes,
fairy gardens. nickel trimmed carriages,
red autos, pink teas, Partisan gowns
do not keep Off family rows, divorce
scandals and nervous breakdowns.
Just east Of Pasadena lies beautiful
Altadena, among the poppy fields, or
ange lemon, fig and olive groves, nest,
ling at the foot OF Mt. Lowe a bold
peak IN the Sierra Madre mountains ris-
ing vefy suddenly 5000 feet, A railroad
carries you up near the summit from
where southern California can be seen
at glance.
CATALINA ISLAND.
on April II we sailed from San Pedro
harbor on tse steamer "Hermosa" at
10 a. m. and at / p. IN, we landed on
Catalina islant, 20 miles out in the Pa
cinc. Twenty-Five miles long rough
and mountainous, with numerous little
bays or coves hdenting its shore, n
semi.tropical climate; skies Of blue;
good fishing and Goat hunting; such is
Catalina island, trtiw an isle OF summer
all the year--a makic isle, The most
interesting thing 10 us was a ride in
the glass bottomed bats. These take
you slowly along nenl the shore and
YOU see through themth wonders OF
the mighty deep. It's ANIMAL and vege-
table life Is 30 abundantand beautiful
In It's valleys and on its nbuntans that
YOU are lost in wonder ant amazement
and are apt 20 think thai the people