The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-30
TR1p TO PUT.IN.BAY.
Correspondence of the IptellIgencor.,

NNOllSHFAhAS0SNSA t+~ @S-sN@t'e
PUT.N.BAY, June %, 1878.
A trip to Put.in.Bay, at this heated sea
sou, is a pleasure not without its alloy
The alloy is found in the ride by rail. !
came hither via the Baltimore s. Ohio road
from Wheeling to sandusky. A journey
Of two or three hundred miles by raA IS
no Joke under the most favorable circum'
stances: but with the temperature up
among The ninetics, O ireuul baby in tho
next seat, forward, another in the seat just
across, and never ceasing shower oil
coal cipders that reminds one unpleasant
" Of the fate Of 'Pompeii and HercuIan-
cum, it's o severe trial to the lortitude. 1t
is something Of an alienation 10 have the
only vacant half scat in the car when q
blooming young lady gets on at way
station, to have this accepted by her with
thanks and very sweet smile, and then
to find her intelligent and willing to talk.
But this is only temporary, for she gets
off after little while and you arc lett 10
silence and cinders again. Coal Is good
thing in its way and in its place. II has
WAYS under some circumstances that l
cannot commend, and these arc places
where it Is not welcome. The person
who invented bituminuous coal deserves
well OF his country; but the bcnetactor
would have been enhanced if he had also
invented way to burn it in locomotives
without distributing the residuum among
the passengers. But since this was neg
lecled by the original inventor, the tray
cling public would be infinitely obliged 10
anybody who will get up a supplement-
airy act requiring the locomotives OF all
passenger trains TO keep their Gin
ders to themselves. There is more
peril in this cindGr inaiCtion than
the general public may be aware of. ltis
not only that after a long journey, literally
in sack. cloth and ashes, VIC are like to find
ourselves at the end Of it buried like IN
Cient Pompeii, but we run the risk Of be-
ing burned up before our time by a shower
Of fire, like wicked SOdom and GOmOrrah.
An illustration OF this danger occurred
Yesterday in the car in which ! was riding.
A lady sitting near me, her head adorned
with q straw covering Goat, l believe they
call ~ Of the crumpled.cabbago.leai va
riety, came near being the victim of u
spark "a spark Of fire, not gay deceiEer)
An Odor Of burned jutc went round the
car; passengers smiled it. and turned their
noses inquIrlngly in various directions.
Suddenly man in tho rear OF the car
rushed exCitedly forward and pointed to
this lady's hat. II was smoking sharply
and the fire was showing itselfin thcstraw.
In the scat next behind her sat large
well.dressed gentleman, who took in the
situation ut q glance, and who at the pros.
pect OF conaagratiOn 30 near him, be-
came on the instant uncOntrOllably excl
ted. Without word he grabbed iranti-
cally for the gladys top.knot, and for mo-
ment or two 1t looked as II he would take
the whole head of. But the neck was
tougher than the hat ribbon, and finally
the smoking hat came of and the excited
gentleman proceeded to crush it Luriously
in his hands. TO see the look Of astonlsh'
ment and fright with which that woman
turned round and regarded that man II
was some moments before she could COM
prehend that she had not been assaulted
nv n maniac or Modoc after her
scalp. But little explanation made all
straight again except the hat and that
had rather been improved in its architect
ure by the crushing process. Several ex'
ira crumples added to its picturesque effect
when 1t resumed It's former place on the
summit Of jute. The victim of the contra.
temps soon regained her COmposure on
learning that the Ofllcious lunatic be-
hind her had severely burned one OF his
hands; but a lady sitting facing her was
80 overcome with the ludicrous aspect OF
the affair, that she laughed immediately,
and did not get her mirIh under
respectful control for ten minutes. l
mention this circumstance 10 impress
upon President Garrett the crying need
Of a reform on his Otherwise well
managed road, in the matter Of this
cinder grievance. He may humiliate
his male passengers in dust and ashes,
may fill our eyes and ears, and hair and
pockets with cinders, may soil our clothes
and spoil our tempcrs, and VIC will con-
tinue to grunblo and still submit; but
when 1t comes to whirling incendiArV
sparks around among the head gear OF
lady passengers and exposing them to the
danger Of not only having their hats
burned up on their heads, but Of having
their store hair torn from their scalpS by
cxcitable fellow passengGrs-why, that
is very different affair, and Mr.. Garrett
may look out Tor revolt.
But the B. s. o. ran us through to San
dusky without delay and set US down
within three minutes walk Of the dock
at $50 in tho evening. The in'Bay
steamer leaves thirty minutes later aud
goes over in about two hours. so that
leaving Wheeling at seven in the morning
We reach the Bay at nine or hali.pAsL in
the evening, Put,in.Bsy, as OF course
your readers know, is both bay and island,
the former having given name to tho lat
ter. The island is one Of the group near
the western extremity Of Lake Erie. 1t
lies about sixteen miles northwest Of San
dusky, as the bird flies, about twenty by
steamer. The Bay 10 historical as the
scene Of PCrry's naval victory over the
British in the war OF 1879, and several Of
Perry's men killed in that engagement lie
near the beach In front OF the Putin.Bay
Hotel, the place being marked by large
tree fenced in with posts and chain. The