The sun., 1910-05-28
CALrFORVIrS POET COLONY.
George Stirring Founded u al carmel
b,-the-Sea.

George stirilng Founded u AZ carmel
b,-the-sea.
California IL proud of its poets, a. IL
IA proud Of is pumpkins Therefore
any place where poets and the lesser
writers of plain fiction oomgreRate must
bs terra saHcia Carmel-by -the-Sea -
they have hyphenated names in Cali
fornia too Is such a revered spot
On the western slope of the Sisrras
the fact that poets and writers live AZ
Carmel is a. we'll known a. that James
Edward Britt n a member of Sequoia
Parlor. native sons % the Golden West
Carmel IL an institution more than a
geographical location. FROM all sec-
tions of the State. except the far south
which is considered rankly Eastern In
its tendencies and therefore efete. pride
points 20 Carmel A. unerringly a. the
needle seeks the magnetic pole. Cali
fornians think that there NAV he a Carmel
school u literature 20 he counted in
future annals with the Cambridge school.
the New York clique even,
Il Twas not a regular poet who discovered
Carmel by its blue crescent Of sea Fra
Jun,pero Serra. the priestly empire
builder - the eighteenth century. who
used 90 illustrate the parable of the
must ard seed 20 the untutored Indians
~ Alta. California. by planting missions
wherever he found a likely spot "a credited
with having been ihe diseoverer of this
bic of Already. 80 isalo'Isly guarded by
the fringe ~ the encircling mount aims
The ancient biographies have n that
when he sailed into the broad indsntati ion
Monterey Ray the good Fra spotted a
half moon beach ~ cleaning white sand
bounded by two rocky headlands and
giving onto rolling meadows by the
side of little river Being an eH-pil-
grim 20 the Holy Land FRA Junipero
Sierra was instantly reminiscent and he
exclaimed Mi CarmeIo'-
Thus Carmel received It's baptism and
Fra Iunipero established mission right
there within hearing distance of the surf
which still stands a hoary old pile u
adobe. provocative - purest romance
The good father died In his time. the Me1i-
cans came and went the Indians who
used 20 till the old pear trees which ztih
bear their knotty fruit went also Carmel
remained the sole property u the Jelly
hsh and the ground squirrel until Poet
George Stirling discovered 1t anew Ia the
latter Years Of the last century.
Poet Stirling was at that time less a
poet than he was Later when Ambrose
Bierc- discovered him and hudsd the
tunes that sprang unbiddrn from his,
Attic lvre He was a clerk in a real estate
once as matter u fact; but he saw that
crescent beach of cleaning sand. tho-s
blue mountains. pine clad and redolent
n suggestive odors and that crumbhng
mission In the pear orchard sheltering
beneath IL adobe floor the bones II
spiritual pioneer builders. all this he saw
and he determined that this was a new
Vale ~ Tempe lacking only the muses.
Poet Stirling became the pioneer muse
right away
He built him a log cabin there in the
forest u pines IN little grove where the
rabbits played ~ dewy MORNINGS. not far
from the river and within touch u the
sounding sea There hs wrote ~ the
legends n Carmel have II his Testimony
~ the Suns which was highly praised hy
Ambrose Bierce and Alfred Austin among
others u was published by Robertson.
a local book SELLER ~ san Francisco
Whether . was the io~timonv ~ the
suns Or just Circumstance that wrought
the transformation of that beach ana
strip ~ woodland whIch followed tho M
tory ~ Carmel does not reveal Maybe
o. was only an enterpT.Ing real estate
man with the soul Oi ppst ANYWAY
houses hogan % spring zap among the
pines. q stage began Its daily run be-
tween Carmel and Monterey four miles
away Came the literati first singlv.
then m droves ~ FIVE or six
David Starr Jordan. the president Of
Stanford University. Nas among the first
% install n summer resting placp az tho
beach other Stanford professors fol-
lowed Arnold Genthe o S,n Franciscan
who works art magic through a camera
lens joined the pilgrimage Then came
another poet. Herman George SChenauar
who wrote -Of Both Worlds
After these the writer's hosked There
wis Mary AuztIu. who lived many of har
vear- ln tho desert 0n the eastern fringe
of 'hr Sierra Nevada and who writes N
her desert land In fro~e that sometimes
has the sou0rpus ring NJ blank verse
Geraldine Bonner. who wrote of tho honn
DAYS DO California such hooks 40 Hard
uau Tomorrow. langla and -Ricb
Si.u Children. took up her abode In tho
growing colony James Hopper a for
urT school tsachor M the Philippine Who
found VEIN of literary pav dirt IN Lu1Dn
ami Mndanan. moved hiS family 10 Tar
mel aud found inspiration among the
Jagged CraEs ~ Point ls0hOz Herman
WHITAKER, q novelist also. made pro-
l0uguod soJourn- 100 the fedgling literary
colony
Then just A. Carmel was asserting ita
resp"ciahiIty and proclaimlng its unique
character ~ the home ~ genius Heli0nn
Hall over ~ EnRlpwOod y J burned
down and Upton Surlair's conmunistic
collection NJ celebritias found itself With
ont a home Sinclair himself tried Per.
muda Tor q time hut the Influences were
not benign down there Somebody told
him about Carmel IN California Ha vent
out West. looked Carmel over and decided