The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-30
THEY BAKED CLANS.
And Made Speechss-A Thousand
People Participated Sunday
at Newport.

One thousand people were carried
by the Corvallis & Eastern into
Newport in three days recently, to-
wit: Last Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Two hundred and eighty
seven went in Sunday morning.
Three hundred came ont on the ex-
cursion train Sunday night and as
many more returned to business and
the bumps of the world Monday
morning.
Though diminished in numbers
now, the crowd at the seaside is
still very large. But few OF the
cottages have been closed for the
season. 1t will be the first week in
September before there will be a
general homeward- bound movement
among the cottagers. At the ho-
tells there is not an abundance of
room. People were tnrned away
at the Abbey House in considerable
numbers Saturday evening, because
Of no place for them to sleep. Ev-
cry room that the we'll known hous e
could muster. was occupied. A
<number of people after the arrival
of the evening boat, walked from
Newport up to Olsenville and took
quarters at the Grand Pacific,
which in the furnishings and spa
cious character of its rooms surpass
es anything on the Bay.
Newport has been the storm cen
ter of Oregon politics for several
weeks past. Numbers of the men
whose names are frequently coupl-
ed with prominent state and dis
trict offices have been at the beach.
There is no doubt, too, that some
of them have talked politics. 1t
has been mainly in a joking way,
but under lots Of it there was a ser
ious aspect. For instance at the
clam bake Sunday Mr.. Huston of
Hil1sboro, who is just now a repub-
lican, but who was recently dem
ocrat, made speech of welcome.
1t was entirely innocent in its gen
iality but the sentences sounded so
much like those of Binger Hermann
on similar occasions at Newport,
that numbers present involuntarily
showed their hands deep in their
pockets in order to avoid the ex-
pected hand,shake. It was speech
that said that Newport is the great
est seaside resort in the world, that
the NeWporters. are the noblest.
most industrious and most honest
people On the face of the earth, and
that they all belonged to that great
middle class, known as the common
people, of which it was the speak
er's proudest boast that he himself
is member. He told them that
the agates found on the Newport
beach were such agates as had been
found nowhere else in the world
and such agates as it was puzzling
the scientists to explain. There
was melliauous rythmn in the
speakers voice as he shot soft soap
dope into the Newporters. a twang
of fulsome, soothing, dreamy, pur-
ring loveliness as though Mr.. Hus-
ton could scarcely restrain heart
felt emotion to leap from the dry
goods box on which he was mount
ed and press every Newporter to
his bosom. 1t was touching
scene when the speaker pointed to
Yaquina Bay lying just over his
left shoulder and declared with E
swift impassioned gesture that i,
was one of the greatest harbors or
the face of Gods green earth, and
by his tone of voice indicated that
it was crime for it to lie there un
appreciated and unimproved.
! Some of the Newporters grinnec
and swallowed the clever Mr.. Hus
toms dose of dope, paying little
heed to the regency of the speaker
political conversion and the cher
ished dream in his inwards for th'
time when he can write his nam
as Congressman from Oregon. Mr.
Huston is a pleasant speaker, anc
pleasant gentleman. which 0
course he had to be when a few
years ago, as a democrat, he skin
! ned the late Thomas Tongue fol
the state senatorship from Wash
ington county.
Mr.. Huston was not the on1
congressional timber that made
speech. Charley Moores, brillian
as writer and speaker. and wide
ly popular, wherever known, wa
called out from among the 100
people grouped about on the sand,
beach, and made to mount the DIR,
goods box that had served the 9th
er speakers. Mr.. Moores was hard