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While at Long Beach, visit Catalina Islands; the price is high, but the pleasure is great. Take a trolley or Salt Lake train to San Pedro, a short distance up the coast, here you will see the land-locked and sea-walled harbor where the government is expending millions of dollars in creating a harbor for the commerce of the world. Take one of those magnificent steamers and in two hours the twenty-seven miles from the mainland to the island is covered and you stand on the shore of a picturesque ocean mountain gem, twenty-two miles long and from one to eight miles wide. Its highest peak has an elevation of twenty-two hundred feet. It is a beautiful and enchanting spot, with its varied scenery, its smooth beaches, its lofty cliffs, canyons and rugged mountain peaks. Many are the attractions on this lonely island, but the one the tourist wishes most to see is a view of the submarine gardens through glass-bottomed boats. These gardens have been accurately and forcibly described by some writers as follows: "Floating over the green and blue water in the glass-bottom boat one sees the goings and comings of aquatic life. Here are shell- encrusted rocks, fishes, red, green and gold, zig-zaging leisurely among the waving foliage; here are real trees with long branches waving as on land by a tempest: great fish of all shapes, luxuriant foliage with branches bearing clusters of fruit resembling olives. Leaning over the transparencies in the bottom of the boats, people go into ecstacies." Divers there are who plunge into the crystal water and get silver coins before they reach the bottom, thrown into the water by the pleasure seekers. The divers also go to the bottom twenty-five or thirty feet and bring up shells and sell them to those who wish to buy. Surely it is a precarious way of earning a living, but it is clean and wholesome in the extreme. Now as we leave the island the thought comes to us, what a Patmos or St. Helena this would make if farther removed from the mainland. It is an island famed as a resort for those seeking rest and recreation during the summer months because of its equable climate, its canvas city, it fishing, boating and many other features for sport and pleasure.