Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-05
SALT LAKERS ARE
HOMEWARD BOUND
Large Gap Made in The Utah
Colony at Californian Sum-
mer Resorts.
YOUNG GIRLS LIFE TRAGEDY.
Daughter Elopcs With a Muchly- Mar
rled Nlan-Gossip Of tho Ocean
swept southern Beaches.

Long Beach. Cal, Sept 3.-Tbo begin
ming OF September IS seeing q large
gap made IN the Salt Lake colony which
has been already lessencd Boy recent
departures A few win stay on tan
the middle or end the first autumn
month. but October viii md mono loft
Of the large number Of home people
who have summered here
Mr.. and Mrs Golden KimhalI and
family, who have spent several months
here will be among those who leave
for home in September.
Mrs. e, A. Trip and daughter were
seen 90 one OF the various bazars on
the Long Beach midway the other
evening. They viii occupy the apart
ment recently vacated by Mrs Murray
Godbe and family.
Mrs. Kate Hardin whitney, with
her children and mother Mrs. Hardin,
spent last week al Long Beach. Dur
ing the greater part of the summer
they stayed az ocean Park.
At this resort also Mr.. and Mrs.
Will ClaWsOn and Miss Louise llaWsou
have been stationed for the summer,
having % pretty cottage there near the
ocean front They are 500 pleased
with the place that they have serious
thoughts Of spending the winter there.
Artist WIN Ciawson divides bis time
between the scashore and bis studio
in Los Angeles. and has about on the
walls OF the cottage number OF Ell
fCctivc sketches OF the beach scenes.
other interesting sketches are studies
for portraits, among them one OF Mrs.
Huntington, the wife OF tna wealthy
railway magnate and the other for a
reproduction OF the famous portrait
destroyed bon the San Francisco fire.
other sketches show that his brushes
are not idle.
Last Sunday-the 25th-Was the day
set by the eastern prophet for a
destructive tidal wave at Long Beach
and the local papers heralded IL WIN
more or less faCetlOus comment When
daylight passed and nothing was seen
Of Il. various watch parties were plan
ned for the night hut bedtime brought
the usual sleepy feeling, so tnal III
spite OF the proximity of the cottages
to the seashore the night was spent
i'm bHssfm Oblivion Of tho pranks ma
ture might be cutting up II the
wave happened" 10 was not bolster
Gus enough to disturb the shore dwell
lers-even those whose hapitauons are
every month Tapped by the hish uoeS'
There are often high waves along the
beach. though mostly unannoupced ana
a pitiful tale goes the rounds or a
mother who left her baby In JUS car
riage on the Pike while she went It
one Of the curio stores edging the walk.
The pike" Is "a long cement pave
ment laid al the shore edge almost
level with the sea, and while the moJh-
or made her purchases the tide swept
i'm and caught the baby carriage TAX
ing q far out 20 sea. il was the last
ever seen Of the child. The tide here
last month was unusually high, and
the sight Of the huge breakers roulng
An helped one TO credit the truth or
the trarical story All along tue
beach notices were posted warning
bathers 20 keep out Of the SURF ano
the roller coaster erected out soil1
distance from shore was rendered uh-
safe. the posts being loosened by lhe
force Of the waves.
II fs worth while alone TO stand on
the long pier and watch on one slue
the big yellow moon gliding the gieat
tide. and on the other the my rl4l
Hgbts ~ the midway making
HnInluE NnllNNFllNNANN'Al A't.'r'n
Throngs pass and repass' PIANO
rlpvs down the pike I'm tho concert
hali. monographs and hand pianos
clamor. and a veritable Conoy Island
scene acts and re-cnacts itself night
after night. with some Of the oolec-
tionable Coney Joints left out-ior
Long Beach rs a temperance town
and the gayey one sees H. am trom
the heart and not from 'he h'"''
Apropos Of local tragedies--a hui
man-aud unfortunately "a common
one trarspircd within Juc past Few
weeks al cottage ON the sea troht
where some Of the SAT- Lakcr@ hdN
made their colony were for a. snort the
domiciled The cottage sheltered
family comprising father, mother ana
two daughters--One Of them an att
tractiye Young girl of something per-
haps a little over 20 years. In her
company was frequently noticed
dashlng sort OF man whose attentions
% the bright girl could not be mis-
taken Nothing was visible 10 heloh-
en- that the impending match was no,
destined 90 bo of the happlest, bur
after "a weeks trip The cottage roomcrs
returned 90 md a dark shadow fallen
on the pretty home The dashing love
or had been tracked and denounced
By "a dos artcd wife who. with her
two children lived 90 AI1mltor-a Zee
sort not no miles distant The hus-
band had been employed at Long
Beach and had taken room there on
the plea that his children kept him
awake nights THE room CHANGED
90 boz M the home ~ the young sin
% whom he at once began 20 pay suit
Not until the sensational appearance
of thc Wr1ngel wife was There "a hint
that the sutton was not free. Tho real
tragedy came iu ths disbelief OF the
girl iu the WHO'S story. ono night She
and the dashlng lover wero missing
and boo sign of them has been soon
since The mother goes about with
white face and dropping head ana the
father
~ know one thing ne said "my
girl D. a good GIRL she would never
have gone with him IF her own free
will Ito hyuu0fzad her--ihHrs all
There is to 90 and when hos tired OF
her. sho'u como back with o. broken
heart" Since tho olopemfnt tho
Alamutos' vito has heard from an
eastern city of another one deserted