The Republican journal., 1906-11-08
ma CATALINA ISLAND.
-,ppEsPONDENT MAKES A TRIP
X - THIS FAMOUS RESORT.

HIS FAMOUS RESORT.
snend a week of recreation
+ santa Catalina Island, the
resting and popular resort
,fItic coast: September has
some of the warmest wealth
.4a,on. and festivities at the
Fl IN full swing. We take the
uute from Los Angeles and
AM Pedro in little more than
.Ierea $4,000, 900 break water
-lrlcted by the ment,
r,r out into the deep waters.
it will make San Pedro
a the chief port for a large
I deep-sea carrying trade. 1t
~ shipping center, a port of
.1lltIes, through whose gate
nually passing a great and
mmerce.
ark on the steamer Cabrillo,
IS daily trips to Catalina, and
aiy out of the harbor toward
tWenty-eight miles distant.
.o is loaded to its utmost ca
300 tourists, and everyone
Jv and confident of a most
IL over. Our little steamer
considerably as we get out
.--L the long, strong, even
pIcltic, and hear the screams
iledS of snowy-white sea-
,ltf the bracing, salty air.
-gin to exclaim over the
Aouderful flying fish, which
IN To most of us. They begin
beneath the bows of the
gle, by twos and by dozens,
4ries of counting, and skim
.tel ike so many swallows.
M and color they may
impaired to mackerel. The
muscular fins whose spines
sl by a light but strong
and are four in number.
AR are quite small butter
stout fibre; the foremost
Ieugth Of seven or eight
en extended are more than
breadth. Breaking from
ID Aigh rate of speed, but at
he living fish extends these
and holds them rigid, like
If a soaring hawk. With
age of its deeply forked
1t hrst drags lightly, it
unvulsiye wriggle of the
HAT gives it the appear
ally Winging It's way. The
uetus thus acquired lifts
ID the water, over whose
l scales without further
ag distance, until losing
and in the sustaining
.r beneath its outstretched
touches the water, either
ut ny renewed scuillng to
3IILt. Often they remain
tiers until the eye can no
0-ulSh their course in the
risky walking the deck
lg the fish for about
IS Of an hour, for some
"-t peculiar feeling begins
elf noticeable IN the lower
9ur stomachs. We YEARLY
4s and note how one by one
1ghing passengers become
ladies' very quietly but
x the cabins, and the men
IN III vain effort to appear
ld not look pale. Suddenly
.yestigate the whereabout
r.. ladies, and diving inside
attuI sight. Pale faces and
S. stretched out everywhere,
is. coucLes and all avalla bic
With a CHASTITY smile |
or room for one more, for
' time for unseemly mlrth,
IeIng a hurry up call, so
x lHtently into the bottom
.nI some minutes L am per-
lg to take a cushion and
j ueighborly with the other
forms on the floor, under
I anywhere
# hour the steamer draws
If the island, the rolling is
and we cheer up, straighten
, and get outside, gazing
mig admiration at the few
- ones who have calmnly
Irck through this last try
and hugely enjoyed the
front of us Santa Catalina
lapri, from the sea, a
mountainous island, with
.eoking from this distance
-ndicular to the waters
ps nearer we eagerly sean
perfectly formed crescent
lifted with small crafts OF
NJion. from the multitude
70 the excursion steamers
nus yachts, while near the
ludreds of bathers disport
and a swarm of divers,
rur boat. diving for small
ellis.
re in its sheltered cove is
town of Avalon, with the
rising back of it, and the
It's feet. Going ashore we
=, to find the several hotels
geTtiowing this late in Sep
an many of the overhanging
ave cots. Up a side street
ity' and engage a single tent
X, with board at the Grand
"., The open-alr life has
4ASArya6 favor nf 1ata yparc