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■I The town of Avalon, with its picturesque cottages and homes on the 

 nlllsides, is built on a beautiful half-moon-shaped bay, with fleets of boats 

 and yachts of all sizes moored here and there. 

 ^^ For boating and bathing Catalina Island is unexcelled. Its perfect 

 Climate and sanitation, its smooth bays, its facilities for safe boating and 

 bathing render it the ideal place for ladies and children. The little bays 

 are crowded with boats — fishing, sailing, launches, yachts, all providing 

 for the public pleasure. 



»A remarkable display is made in glass tanks of living plants and ani- 

 als of Avalon Bay. This exhibition is one of the most interesting features 

 the island, and furnishes a rare opportunity for the study of marine life. 

 Take a marine automobile, one of the specially designed Santa Cata- 

 lina launches, and run down to the Sea-Lion Rookery, and photograph it; 

 or to Sphinx Rock, or to the cavern at the Isthmus, or to Moonstone Beach, 

 where the beautiful gems of chalcedony are found. There is no trip exactly 

 like it in the world. 



Santa Catalina Island is the home of the famous leaping tuna; it is 

 caught nowhere else with rod and reel. 



The Hotel Metropole is the headquarters of the Tuna Club, of 150 

 members, who gather here from all over the world to enjoy this exciting 

 sport. Here is the famous tuna book, containing the pictures of the mem- 

 bers and their catches, and here Is exhibited the gold medal of the Tuna 

 Club, which is fished for each season, and open to any angler. He who 

 holds it becomes president of the Tuna Club, and may be said to hold the 

 world's record for the hardest fighting game fish on rod and reel, one tuna 

 being the equal of two or three tarpons in point of strength. 



The game-fish of Catalina Island is the yellowtail, having some resem- 

 blance to the salmon, but a much harder fighter, ranging from seventeen 

 to eighty pounds. Four or five twenty- or thirty-pounders, taken on a bass 

 rod of twelve or fifteen ounces, generally satisfies the angler for the day, 

 as each fish will fight for fifteen or twenty minutes on a light rod before 

 coming to the gaff. 



Ranging next to the yellowtail as a game-fish Is the white sea-bass, 

 which contains a weight of eighty pounds, the average catch being from 

 thirty to fifty pounds. The largest sea-bass caught in Avalon Bay was 

 taken by a lady. This fish, which weighed eighty-four pounds, towed the 

 boat back and forth for an hour. 



SANTA BARBARA 



J. L,. HURLBUT 

 Secretary of the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce 



CABRILLO visited the spot on which the city stands in 1543. Vizcaino, 

 in 1603, named the Channel Santa Barbara, because he entered it 

 on St. Barbara's day, December 4, 1603. On April 21, 1782, the 

 Presidio was founded by Junipero Serra. The Mission, whose gray 

 towers crown the slope on which the city rests, was founded four 

 years later. 



The permanent population of the city Is 12,000, which is swelled at 

 all seasons of the year by a large number of transients. There are four 

 prosperous banks, three daily and two weekly newspapers, all the leading 

 denominations of the country are represented, fraternal orders are legion, 

 and many social clubs add to the zest of life. A fine public library of 20,000 

 volumes is conveniently located. The coast line of the Southern Pacific 

 Company passes through the city, and the steamers of the Pacific Coast 

 Steamship Company give water communication every other day. There 

 is an excellent electric street-car service. 



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