The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-10
NAGDALENG The ISOLATED
NATURE ENDOWED H RICHLY
ALL BUT FRESH WATER.
A. American, ". j. Heney, Directs lie
Industry and 10 Physician me Priest to
It's I7S Inh~Abltants-The nay MaEnin.
cent and Necessary 10 the United States.
OK BOARD U. s. s. LOUISIANA,
MAdDALENA BAY, MEXICO,

MARCH 2s.
The time was when the natives of Lower
California who visited this bay referred
70 {, a. accused OF Cod No fresh water
va, 10 he found upon or near It's shores;
none nearer than sixty miles. Men and
animals have died Of thirst here. Epi-
denies have cut the number Of those who
have remained TO fight a tragic battle with
nature. Buccaneers and pirates have made
this beautiful sheet of.wster a rendezvous.
fyen the priests Of modern religion have
fed from it's shores. No man Of holy
orders comes nowadays to baptize the newly
horn or bury the dead. No green ever
hrightens the bare. brown hills which shut
~ the Pacific or the lower reaches of white
sands on the other side-sands where heat
spectres dance in the clear sunshine.
Md yet about 1876 p%ersons-it would
hardly be fitting to say souls; not in Mag
oa'ena Bay. at any rate-live here defying
nature and smiling over il in as desolate,
barren a place as one could fnd within
easy reach Of comfort and the institutions
n modern civilization. There arc about
forty women in the colony, and there arc
nearly q score Of children and as many
cogs and half p dozen cattle. The curse
ofna.ure cannot prevent the ring Of laughter
~ the children. and they and the dogs play
together with the happy no care Of child
hood that fears not, thinks not Of deaths
shadow even when il hovers almost over
head
NAGDALENA's PERFECT HARBOR.
r%orbidding and almos, hateful as are
me shores Of the bay, the bay itself is a
possession that would be priceless to the
United States Nothing but conquest could
over make our w country part with it.,
No more perfect bay can be found on the
shore ~ any country in the world. L j. a
perfect shelter. Anchorage can be found
any here in IL except very close TO its
upper shores. The breezes Of the after.
noon and night rufie its surface with white
crssts almost constantly. Fog rarely
blankets It's vistas. FROM San Francisco
almost 10 the end Of South America. except
mat at San Diego, there Is no other real
Iarbor. such as we find along the western
shores Of the Atlantic, Nature has made
i perfect as 2 sheet Of water. and then, as
II TO set it apart for military needs. left its
shores barren Of fresh water and made
The place inhospitable TO commerce and
trade.
Would you like a rest cure? Take your
tents and your food and water-you can
forget ell else but water, for you could
1--we here on fish and game and come
r. Magdalens Ray. Nowhere else in the
world except in the solitude Of the I'M
tracked forest will you find greater OPP
portunities for rest in a perfect climate,
Nth bright sunshine prevailing all the
time and Just enough Of heat, tempered
nth cool breeLes, 70 make one feel that
ell fresh Pure air came originally from
this place.
Even II YOU come here on a battleIhip
you can get the rest cure. You viii hear
the boom. boom of the guns and their
numbering echoes as from day TO day they
shoct their proiectiles, bur there are dread.
fully long watts between the runs the ships
make as they steam accross the range and
hang away a. black and white targets in
the daytime and al night aim their pro.
~iectiles AZ black targets with white centres.
all illuminated by sesrchlights until the
hullseyes look as IL they were painted with
phosphorous. Then az the ships one by one
finish their shooting and there Is nothing
10 do but 10 wait, wait until the various
reception committees finish their plans
for putting you in special full dress, giving
YOU dinners, With speeches that may weary
you. taking you 10 balls and receptions, |
giving YOU smokers Csh, those are better
and keeping you up until the wee hours Of
the morning, only 10 make you begin
smother round almost before your head
gets well settled upon tho pilloW-while
YOU are waiting for all this you hcsiH 20
realize what the rest cure. or ten days in
Jail, means
THE CENTRE or soLIrUDE.
II you are impatient and have no need
n a rest cure, and il you have nothing
practically 10 do but paint ship and let
your conscience get in it's work Of deadly
research Of your conduct. no place in the
world would drive you wild quicker than
Magdalena Ray. Your eye will travel over
tho spiny ridge Of hills that hide 1t from
tho Pacific, a ridge whose sharp crest has
never been blunted by generous rainfall
and whose appearance il such that you
feel that II you climbed to its edges they
could cut you In two. and you know every
ndulstion and can mark their outlines in
ne dark with a pencil with the accuracy
Of a photograph. You project your vision
70 the wide entranc from the ocean, and
hour after hour you can look for some sail
the smoke Of a steamer. and all you
get out OF Il Is practices in vacant staring.
You can look over 10 the land side ~ the /
bay and see a few sand dunes. and thehours
drag along and you Tonder if the sunrise
~ your stay will ever come. The warships
cease 10 interest you and you are ready
= prove that life II a burden. Here is the
Of solitude.
But II you wish to get away from all
ethers and live only with yourself rome to
hagdalena Bay. You will not find the
here. II you like peace and quiet
and can fish and shoot you will find this a
paradise. AZ voc az you arrive you will
zee vast numbers Of Tea birds. cormorants.
man.o'.war birds and sea gulls
flying resting about the hay. and
~ iu6llJ you VIII Hlu lnoutdIub upon lnOu-
Of these birds at rest upon two small
stands, II you disturb these birds In the
in the daytime perhaps forty or
fifty peicsns will rse up from the water.
and keeping perfect intervals, just az men-
o-var do oil a cruise, fly on 10 safety.
Indeed, you will revise your nomenclature.
will no longer ray a flock Of birds; you
MI say a feet Of birds.