The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-09-23
From the Quaker CITY.
A TRIP TO CAPE MAY.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1878

INK ~ NAfE MAJ.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1873.
Editor efftc Register:
About the middle of the dog days
season in company with friend DR..
Crandall then Of Kansas, now Of this city,
at D a IN. stepped OH board Union line Of
street cars. at 10Th and Columbia Avon-
ue. After threading our way for Z an
hour through the long aud straight streets
Of the town, arrived at the foot of Mar.
ket street, pushed our way through the
crowd, and stepped on board the ferry
steamer which soon 1oatcd US across the
broad and beautiful Delaware, and car.
ried US into one of the slips Of Camden
on the jersey shUio." W. loot No tim n
in hurrying through the long and extend.
ed ferry house and in seating ourselves
comfortably in one Of the company's OK.
curson cars we were soon off, our iron
horse slowly strutting and putting at
every step over the dead level" streets
of Camden, When outside the town, his
speed rapidly accelerated gradually the
shipping, the spires and domcs Of the
great city receded in the blue distance
rearward, as we were being whirled over
the apparently broad savannas Of the
petit state Of Jersey. After passing
Barnsboro, Glassboro, Winona, Clayton,
Malaga, and other unimporlant stations,
we made halt for the FIRST time at Vine.
land, 81 miles from Philadelphia, Your
correspondent was soon on the platform
while the NJ. D. was apparently snooziog
and in no condition to appreciate outside
views and scenery which were to me
fraught with interest, as having formerly
resided there for space Of time. Oar
fretting stecd was soon off. Six miles
below we stopped at Mllville, maDulac.
turing towp, and repenished our water
reservoir | understand the "ornory'
boys OF Millville, have more than once
played this game on the fai. ladies of the
Quaker City" AS the excursion train
halts for moment they commence cheer
ing, and the polite Philadelphia ladies
return the complimet by waving their
white embroidered handkerchiefs, Then
these mischievous Juveniles raise sticks
already in their bands with fish hooks
attached to the end, and seize upon the
kerchiefs and snatch them from the fair
hands Of the ladies just as the train is
starting AS debased as some say the
Jersytes are; it ought to mantle their
cheeks with shame to treat so shab5ily
the fair daughters Of the farcst city ia
Americl.
After leaving Millyile the lqnl is
mscrably poor, at least where the rail
way traverses, for about twenty miles.
AS we near Cape island, improved farms
make their appearance tolerably well
stocked and bestudded with fair crops.
When within about four miles Of the cape,
the first object deserted, is the towering
lighthouse at the..right, just at the mouth
Of Delaware Bay; it is revolving light.
The keeper informed me that the lantern
and apparatus connected with it, which is
suspended near the apex of the structure,
cost six thousand dollars. From the out.
look near the top can be seen Cape Hen
lopen and the Delaware "breakwater, "
and bay and ocean view as far as the
visual organs can carry the sight. As
We alighted at the Excursion house the
ponderous train disgorged its burden OF
the sons and daughters of temperance, it
being an excursion of the Grand Division
Of the Sons &c AS we reached the oX-
tended porch Of the hotel and faced the
broad expanse Of water, the cool aud salt.
cd and stimulating breeze from Old Nep-
tune seemed to impart new life and vigor
as compared with the sweltering atmos.
phere of the city, and the siroccoish air
that shimmered and glimmered above the
heated sands of Jersey. After a cup of
coffee and slight lunch, we commenced
promenade tramp up the hard and shin.
ing beach, Initiating our lungs with the
fine md tonic breeze, and listening to the
monotonous war of the sounding sea- On
our way up the beach we found on the
sand which had lately been washed up,
what should have called nondescript.
The learned surgeon at my side informed
me it was jelly fish, and proceeded to
partially dissect it with his pen.knife in
the absence of scalpel ard described
the anatomical structure, ana the habits
of the strange looking mass of jelly. No
external organs were visible; neither
mouth, eyes, fins, nor "head nor tail. :"
Its food whatever it may be, Is supposed
to be received into the system by absorp-
ton through the medium Of the nervous
organization.
After walking long way up, about
faced" and retraced our steps, until We
reached the bathing locality, which ex.
tends nearly mile. Hired rooms and
bathing rigs Of Mrs Peter Hastings, and
pitched into the ioaming surf. should
judge there were five hundred persons
bathing, men, women and childr, u, all
sorts and sizes, apparently from the mil
ionairc to the hostler. After rolicking
in the buoyant salt water for the greater
part Of an hour, returned to our respec-
tive bathing, or rather dressing rooms.
After being enrobed, commenced walking
along the board walk between two rows
of bath huts. At this juncture your cor.
respondent being somewhat inclined to
obesity, broke through the frail raised
flooring, caught his foot and pitched head
long, and with full force, against the door