Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-10
GUESTS Of CITY
VISIT CATALINA
ENJOY DAYS OUTING ON THE
ENCHANTED ISLE
SEASlCKNESS7 WELL, YES
Salt Lake Officials Enjoy Themselves,
Of Course, but oh, What a Time
There Was on the
Steamerl
SEASlCKNESS? WELL, YES

The visitors from Salt Lake were
given an outing at Catalina island yes
terday as the guests of the local enter
tainment committee of the chamber of
commerce. The party, numbering 24O
persons, left at $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning over the Salt Lake route, re-
turning at o'clock last evening.
The party was joined by about twen-
ty members of the San Pedro chamber
of commerce on arrival at that city.
Formalities were dispensed with for
the day and all were invited to have a
good time. Good fellowship was made
n special order of business for the en-
tire trip, and, from expressions of the
guests, the day was most pleasantly
spent.
In the party were several ladies, who
enjoyed life greatly between efforts at
laughter at the antics of the male con-
tingent and attempts at opposing the
threatened contagion Of the fashionable
affliction of seaslckness.
Much Seasickness
The usually peaceful waters were
extraordinarily turbulent on the trip
to the island and many cases of sea-
sickness developed the hasty decision
of several members of the gay party to
madly clutch the rail of the steamer
being the signal for unanimous
applause by the more fortunate ones.
But from time to time those in the
fortunate class would develop unmis-
taxable symptoms of approaching death
and one by one the ranks were thinned
until there were but few left who could
raise a convalescent grin when the or
der was given to disembark.
Secretary Skinner always alert to
smooth the pathway to successful en-
joyment of the occasion, announced i'm
mediately upon arrival at Avalon that
he had meal tickets for all who were
the guests Of his committee, the an
nouncement causing another rally of
the already impoverished victims at
the wharf rail.
Those who could summon sufficient
energy to walk the short distance from
the wharf to the hotel sank helplessly
into the waiting chairs and prayed for
erable condition, and the photographers
who had accompanied the excursion for
the purpose of making photographs of
the party on the beach were forced to
call upon the loccl consta bulary to get
quorum.
Sang, Laughed, Joked
The first thirty minutes aboard the
steamer was the most delightful period
of the day to the visitors. They were
huddled in punches on the upper deck
singing. laughing and joking each other
about approaching seasiclkness. One
particularly handsome gentleman from
the shores of the American Dead sea-
some one said his name was w. H.
Overbeck-seemed to get much enjoy
ment out of his boasts that he was IAN
old sea dog" having made two trips
to Europe without experiencing the
deathly sensations, and occasionally he
would poke some sckly looking friend
in the short ribs and admonish him to
step to the rail. While engaged in this
pleasant pastme he was noticed to
suddenly Danish his careless, good
humor and lovingly embrace himself
momentarily. Ten seconds later his
face resembled that of a person in dire
distress. Two more seconds and he was
gone.
His misfortune silenced him until the
return trip was begun. when he began
to belabor his companions most sim
cerely. After superinducing illness for