The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-28

partner to dance win. Just previous 10 the ball
display OF fireworks was mad In front OF the holc
while huge calcium lights lit up the scene every
followed ny elegant banquet given to few of the
invited guests. Small talks were made by General
Rockefeller and several Others During the banquet
the Rhode Island officers and the Seveny-irst kept
up an lncessant cheering for one another. which
seriously interered with MANY an appetite. The
last boat for Providence left about midnight ana
she showed OF from alongside the City OF Lawrence
scene OF
THE Widest ENTHUSIASM
i0nowed- Cheer upon cheer rent the air. and the
Rhode Island bows Wei with their guests have the
pv the members Of the various companies on the
two boats; the LADIES threw hack gloves ana hand.
kercbleis IN exchange for Seventy regiment
buttons and the New York band and the Rhode
Island band Joined IN grand "Auld Lang Syne''
chorus as the darkness interviewed between the two
boats.
A PrrCH AND TOSS GAME
provost guard scared up all the stragglers after
inc hhode Island folks had gone and by TWO O'Clock
the ured guests OF litte Rhodyn were, with the
exception OF lew owls that never slept during the
trip. snoozing quietly In their berths The City OF
Lawrence slipped her cable at nve O'Clock and mad
ONLY been out In The sound about an hour when Il
encountered tearluly heavy sea. She pitched and
tossed In way that woke up every sleeper Some
felt good-humoed; others dld NOT. Those VINO dd
Tor the life OF tnem find out what that engineer was
about to let his ''machine' knock things around So
The Seventy-nrsf boys are by means horse ma
rnes or any other Kind OF marines and II Is not to
be wondered at therefore II quite number OF them
got heartily sick OF the way their beds Kept rising
and failing. IL was positively outrageous TO wake u
fellow out OF ms sleep by such tom-fooiery. they
thonght They knew ,nat thai somebody SEo was n,n 70
LOOKING as peaceful as could be; yet there
was the boat going up and down IKE churn
reached yet OF course the engineer was 10 blame.
He diGn't know his business; leastwlse II 1t wasn't
The engineer II was the cOnfounded pilot who had
hand IN the thing by steering the boat IN all drec..
tlons at time SO thought one OF the veterans"
he had been 10 the surgeons quarters the night be-
lore ana had got remedy TO make him sleep. and
the surgeon had told him TO keep quiet; yet there
was his berth
ON BEAM ENDS
every second. The fellow just below him had
already when he woke I'D toppled over the wash
stand, the valises were Waiting all over the floor
on their own hook, one OF his own boots mad some
how crawled out OF the open window. and the other
was oobbing all over his pillow. In fact there was
rascals IN the berths next TO him were making
hideous noises. why he knew not, yet they
himself: Everybody who had slept on the
saloon floor was holding fast to a chair or table
for dear life, and looking as though every lurch OF
ne steamer, every groan she gave as she plunged
headong dead against hlgc wave while IN the
very act OF tumDling from che top OF another was to
be her last and that tbe Seventy-first was TO be
SWALLOWED UP,
never TO be heard OF more. All this he managed to
see as he dragged himself to the window OF his
berth, and was thrown half way through II as he got
there by violent pitch Uf the vessel. He felt that
that pilot ought TO be seen, and he was just the man
10 see him. Hut Parker saved him The trouble, for
Parker was enjoying the scene hugely, and moving
about his saloon as calmly as though taking an after
sides Tor assistance but the pale face OF the be-
logged veteran won his sympathes first, lie
said
whats the matterfr
AR. Are You the prplot ?, gasped the veteran
"NO; why, do you want hlmf'
Eyes; tell HIM 10 stop this damned non.nOn-
sense, y and the veteran gasped again.
what nonsense Z"
This kind o. steering. I've been IN the business
and know It's all num0ug.n
Parker grnned broadly rs he walked into the
stateroom and stumbled over All empty champagne
'why, my dear fellow" SAID ne, "this is the
swell that's doing this. IL isn't much"
The veteran stood up aud looked out OF the win
dow "Swels be" ana just here the boat gave
a more violent lurcn than ever and Mr. Veteran
ne nad pegun. lie managed 10 get to his feet and,
assisted by two OF the ''OOys' who could stomach
any sea. he reached the outer deck, ana there he
was lett IN the sweet company OF half dozen
others, each one as mystlhed as himself about the
way things were being Knocked about The majority
oil the sogers'' had got out OF bed by this time and
instead of plying their misery stricken companions,
In defiance OF all rules OF Christian charity cooy
called Them 10 account for 'making fools of them
selves" one individual got piece OF pork. tied 1t
TO a string and amused himself by inviting every
one OF the uniortunates TO
TAKE A TASTE
II need scarcely be ADDED that this way OF treat
ing seasick patient was emnently successfu-after
FASHION. What on earth would have become OF
the men on the sick list had the sea" continued TO
be bothersome ii would indeed be very hard to tell.
luuccu, tueTe might nave Deeu MILITARY IuneTa
two next Sunday. But, fortunately, the botheration
didn't last long. and in an hour or two what the
veteran considered The pilots ''tomoolery' settled
down INTO an easy sail-al0ng, with the surface OF
the water undisturbed by ripple. This was all that
was wanting The veteran became the jolest dog
on board the man who cheered the Governor OF
Rhode Island az the Governor or Massachusetts at
the banquet and got irightfully laughed at by the
Providental folks for his pains; Russell, who broke
his wrist IN trying to
SLIDE DOWN THE BANIsTERs
OF the saloon on his little finger, and Miller, who
fell overheard at the Point because the water looked
SO attractively like grass plot, ana was nshed no
with "a bean pole, rega med their wonted rollicking
humor; and by .he time the boat reached the wharf
at New York the regiment felt so brimiu OF good
nature toward mankind In general that all the rain
at Providence and all the swells the Sound were
set down as among those things of the past which
were only TO be remembered but with pleasure.