| matter as Se NA LAA oo Su 'MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1919, AR -- il: |v ME a Sek rE a N | ATL TWO A Is. THE DAIL . a an immen § due enhrely and exce CGerzemard Freer or drew . . An Intimate Sketch of This Island of Enchantment Just : we - ' . Off Los Angeles -- The Fisherman's Paradise. © Copyright. 1919, The International Syndicate. UST oft the const of California i Interesting History Is the much visited Island off one place has an interesting history Santa Catalina. It contatne ror it was discovered In the year 1542 Kreat national beauty and is &!hy a Spanish navigator. Several years Part of she Stage of California being | szo the log Of Captain Juan Rodri- &nnexed to Los Angeles County. Tt 13 ques Cabrillo was found in a public reached by boat from San Pedro, the library at Madrid. Spain, and was sent POrt Sf Los Angeles, the starting point {15 our government. It proved to be being about twenty-five miles from the & remarkadid hidthrical document and City. At thia place a boat is taken and tells how that daring navigator satl- one skims over the Pacific Ocean, a ing two caravals, La Vittorsa and San distance of about twenty-seven miles. Salvador. came upon the Island and spending about two hours on the little | deetded to name it after one of his Meimer which fs usually erowded ships. Sebastian Vizcalno. a noted piiat With, people of all classes. for Sania of the early seventeenth century, sail- Catalina. Nike Atiantio City. ha®|.3 ing the sheltered Bay of Avalon on Smusoments to suit all pocket books. Novem™er 13th, 1602 and thereupon It ix usually a smooth trip but a litle renamed the {sland for the saint's Plow generally sends many people lo day of his arrival and ignored the bed with seastekness for the Pacific name given by Cabriile. ay &! 'his point can get choppy over a| 4 record of Vizcaluo's voyage tellé Sighs wing, : wonderful stories of the natives af ee ahs many Mtraalions ut | Santa Catalina, whom he describes as ones are swimming an 0 fsb ne. Tie hathiog m poo Tor & fine sturdy race of peoplé who dress Is 11% beach and what there Is is peb- #0! bls advance in bly nd rough io the: bathers' feet. | orc. Ome considera : : civilization. All sérts of evidence of The beach slopes rapidly and ome *1this are found in the unearthing of enon Geel water. but this does not! cory pistols. mosoh] Instruments 3 SKY SWryone whe Hvas png implements of warb IGOl SP¥where near ths California Coast many of which are found in the ean Ta poles op a nave TO Of the island. Near the summit Bo objection to the abbreviated bath Ing suit and the women as well as men wear the les ; when in 'the water: To one coming |on its walls which seams to. Indios from 'the 'east the costumes of the|!hat it had been used as = kitchen. Nomen seem shocking but the visitors | A Dumber, of stone implements used la Cutalioa seem to follow the | for cooking utensils were found in te there is a cave large enough to ac: commodate several és and nearby of a mountain known rs Black Jask |, possible, clothing (a small one with evidences of smoke |' least e clo In parts of the Island and unearthed things which bear evidence that it was inhabited at least four or five centuries ago and that the people were latelligent and showed excellent work- manship in the articles they mads. The island is about twenty-two miles long and from ene to eight miles wide and contains approximately 55.000 acres. It Is hilly and contains two mountain peaks which although only 2,109 and 2,000 feet high respectifely, seem much higher as they rise straight up from the sea. hands frequently and has seen trou- -- a Nes ~ se sale to th nce ir h ma blue as the Mediterranean and under skies a3 soft as those which caver that water amid scenes which sum up all the glories of goMlen Califernia, tra etre tenet netstat Amos totes en atl its towering mountains. wyoded can-| yons and undulating shore lime. There seems to be everything at Santa Catalina te please the pleasure Seeker, For the people who prefer to be away from the crowd there is a splendid hotel with golf links. swim- ming pools and a stable of excellent blous times. First It was gronted| by Mexico to Governor Pio Pice whe afterwards deeded it to Nicholas Covarrubias, Sr. It was next pur- chased by sme Lick to be used as a range for his sheep. In 1580 Mr. G. Sbhatto purchased the island and con: ceived the idea of turning it intd all Summer resort and '~ that end laid off some lots near Avalon: Bay and sold them, calling this particular pant of the island Avalon but it was not & success along these lines and some #4 In skins. had large houses and}. Y BRITISH WHIG PLAYER'S CIGARETTES have | over th ii e world quahty acture 4 Iy Beaglful foims of ses life. the Pra CI able block and tackle was ust able to stand the strain acd the glant sunfish had to be placed on a truck and pulled by the ald of a number of men to make I! su as boate hired and the capiaim will tahe den) i tropical colors, their wierd- blus and green fishes d out of the hure bushes. of other sea weed 2nd ses the pebhilss om the bottom. On one Boats is 5 diver whe will geo and pick up any shell the requast--usualiy one of ~ the abalone type which are 6 sxquis- itely beautiful and so plentiful in that section. All this seems like fairy land &0d there are few who can resist (dling Away thelr time over this beautitel pleture. ne es dis, ki 8 § of § 5; £ Hn Hi 8