MONTEREY AS A SEASIDE RESORT 



W^ASHIXGTOX DAVIS 



'T must be distinctly understood that no other Golden State or Peaceful 

 Ocean pleasure and health resorts are detracted from in the least when 

 the charms and attractions of Monterey and her magnificent bay are 

 presented to all who are seeking restoration of health, and recreation 

 of spirits. Other Pacific Coast points have their advantages— hear and 

 lee what Monterey offers to satisfy your longings. It costs you little or 

 luch, as you choose, but it is n't necessary for you to be either sick or 

 tired in order here to enjoy Nature's bounties embellished by the arts of man. 

 Certain things are required of any pleasure or health resort— certain 

 elements must be found to freshen you from inland toil and city strife, to 

 "make a new woman of you and make a new man of your wife." These 

 elements are present in air, earth, sea, and sky about Monterey. 



The evening wind brings ozone from the rising, falling bosom of the 



western sea, where float the ships in plain view at their moorings, while 



the morning land-breeze returns the delicate mountain air. This daily ex- 



[change is only possible where mountains circle an inland gulf, sloping gently 



lown to the swelling tide along the great white stretch of sandy beach. 



If you are too lazy to hunt big or small game, too indisposed to ride 

 )r drive or walk or swim or row or sail — push out one hundred fathoms 

 From the shore and catch any one of 652 kinds of fish, from common crab 

 to leaping tuna. Fish from the North Pacific and the Southern waters have 

 fiTiade Monterey Bay their meeting-place for a long geological period. They 

 are gamy, gentle, or gay; all colors and sizes; most of them good to eat; 

 and the wather is suitable summer or winter. 



If you are too restless to fish, venture out upon the oak- and pine- 

 covered peninsula and go way round to Carmel Mission Church, the home 

 of the founder of the missions of California, Father Junipero Serra. Numer- 

 ms other historic places satisfy the curiosity of those who wish to see the 

 sivilization of other days. The seventeen-mile drive has a different fascina- 

 tion for every mile, and there is a new outing for every day in the year at 

 "lonterey and the peninsula and in the mountains. 



Westward and adjoining Monterey by trolley is Pacific Grove, home of 

 religious, educational, and social gatherings from all parts of the State and 

 country at all times of the year. It is a pleasant, very peaceful suburb of 

 Monterey and also lies at the water's edge. 



Eastward along the beach, only a mile by the new board walk, is the 

 great Del Monte Park, with its fine hotel; and Monterey has many other 

 living-places for visitors, all reasonable in price and good in quality. 



Tenting upon the foothills, within ten minutes' walk of the beach, with 

 its free boating, bathing, and fishing, is also becoming popular. You can 

 live in a tent In your own way, riding, driving, or walking into the moun- 

 tains, hills, valleys, ravines, canons, caves, where "the wild thyme grows, 

 where ox-lips bloom, and the nodding violet blows," and floating on streams, 

 rivers, lakes, bay, and oceanside; or you may revel in landscapes painted 

 with flowers, fields, orchards, and forests, overlooking the sea. 



Whether gathering up the mosses, shells, and things put out by the 

 sea upon its bordering sands; whether seeking historic relics, sketching 

 and painting from Nature, trailing through real sweet-smelling old pine 

 forests, following a lover's bridle-path to shady nook or enchanting soli- 

 tude, drinking at the many invigorating mineral springs, viewing the Gov- 

 ernment military parades, dining with a ravenous appetite and a splendid 

 menu spread before you; whether you are grave or gay, young or old, 

 Monterey and her surrounding wonder-works of mountain and bay, as a 

 seaside resort or winter or summer home, extends a perennial welcome 

 and a perennial charm. It is 125 miles south of San Francisco by rail, 100 

 miles by water, and was the first capital of California, sixty-one years ago. 



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