The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-06-26

: | United States, 1t l6 q great pleasure to
! sit down here and have little chat with
some one who can understand what you
say. It's now long past midnight, and
my friends at home, and not feeling like
retiring have concluded to have a little
chat with some of my friends at Canton,
Ohio. 1t, seems sort Of queer to retire
with the knowledge that my friends on
the other side of the Atlantic are lust sit
ting down 10 tea and when "OId Sop
goes down In sunny France, (6 p. m.,) I
say 'Au reYoir, Old Sol, make MONDAY
hot for them on the other side, throw a
! tone in Nye's yard, he runs a soda fount
tyou- know Il .s--s ,---r ,r.--.
After bidding Geo. Saxton, Charles Rus
| sell and yourself goodbye, at your place
1.-THE morning following cur benefit at
Massillon, returned stesNew York via.
lBAltimore and PhilaaslfbSa. I was not
long in learning that my long dream was
about to be realized, that : was to make
tour to Europe, touching all the princi-
pal manufacturing cities of England
Scotland, Germany and France. 1 pack
ed my socks and paper collars and sail
ed on the steamer Victoria Of the Anchor
line for Glasgow. We left N. Y. harbor
March 29th, z p. m, sailed out into
terrible storm. 1t wasn't long before ev-
erybody concluded to retire so that they
would be up early in the morning. What
q moral crew thought 1. The fearful roll
ing of the sea and tumbhng of the ship
/ first suited me, l was delighted. As the
storm grew stronger, noticed some of
the old tars retire to the sides of the ship
to conceal their emotions. remarked the
singular fact to the captain, who inform
ed me that We seldom had stronger
seas than we were now riding, that it was
enough to make the oldest sailor sea sick.
He paid me compliment by informing
me that I must have shipped very often
to stand such sea. l said nothing but
laughed IN my sleeve. 1t was my first
| across-cut, had done not little coast
ing in my travels. The storm continued
and the sea ran higher and higher being
the only passenger on deck, the officers
allowed me to go on the bridge of the
ship, (the look out). I stood there, hold
ing fast for quite awhile, when things
commenced going round. The captain
looked at ne and laughed. To keep up
appearances as long as could, 1 remark
ed: Captain" in the language of the
yankee, II acknowledge the corn, put me
in my httle bed" And sicki oh, but l
was sick. l wanted to go home. You
have heard of people being sea-sick
| Well, take my advice and be satisfied with
having heard tell oft. You can imagine
my feelings when tell you that during
the next two days would examine the
! heel of my boot to see if l had not lost
some of the nails. I have often IN my
travels laughed at sea-sick people, but i
have made an oath never to laugh again.
The storm, sea and sea.sickness, kept up
| fO11-
esick, that continual clank of the machin-
| cry set us almost wild, but there came a
stay in the proceedings. On the night of
| March 31st, when off Halifax, we were
surrounded by dense fog. The officers
concluded that we would lay too until
imornlng, the machinery was stopped and
we were put to sleep by the music of the
fog whistle and bell, and strange to re-
mark we were within an ace of going the
same terrible way as did the Atlantic
Ii You wIlltake q map of the different
lines routes you va eeeas that the An
chor hne goes the fsFthest north, passing
! ing Halifax and striking off Newfound-
land, Had it not been for the fog our Of
icers say We would have Aeen the Allan
tic one hour before she struck, as she
| crossed our path going into the jaws of
deaths) during the fog. We passed and
saw the misplaced light Immediately after
the clearing up of the fog (the Atlantic
| had gone my our officers concluded that
either that light or our bearings were
| wrong, but knowing the coast SO well,
continued on. After the fifth day out,
we struck off the coast Newfoundland;
then for the first time did the sea quiet,
and we had weather superb. Talk about
your sunsets anc a mighty deep full
moon. shall not attempt to give. the
remotest idea Of the grandeur. Thea fol-
lowed the deck firtahons, of course, and
the last beginning of our voyage was a
9th day We sighted the Emerald isle con-
tinued along the coast during the entire
day, had the spots pointed out to Us
where the ships went down that we have
read so much about. On the morning of
the 10th day we passed through the Gil
| ants's Causeway and sailed up the beau
tiful Clyde river, saw the largest IRON
ship builderies in the world, several hun
dred of the monsters in every stage of
| completion. The beautiful palaces and
castles Of the wealth and nobility of the
British isles. On reaching Glasgow felt
repaid for my trip across the Atlantic,
Glasgow reminded me very much of Gin
clnnati Among our ships passengers we
had a number of notabIes, Mrs South
wick, of Boston, Mr. Tallman,- the great
Erie Railroad man, Mr.. Ballou mighty
pleasant gentleman from Australia, Mr..
Spence, wife and daughter of Cincinnati.
We made party of the above mentioned
and made tour up through the classic
lakes. OF Scotland, reaching Edinburgh
Easter Sunday. Of Edinburgh wll not
attempt to give description, suffice to say
that we saw the great Edinburgh castle
whose origin is wrapped in obscurity.
We walked the streets Of a city 1000
years old, saw the first whipping pillar,
saw the former and present residence of
| the not very late John Knox. Visited
the Hollywood palace, and thro ugh the
very rooms last occupied by the unfortun-
ate Mary Queen of Scots, her bed cham
Der remains in the same state as when
she left it. and her cabinet Whers the fa-
Yerite Riggio was murdered Is shown
and thousand other things. 1t would
make You sea sick to beaEsene half 1t
was here our little party separated, each
to go his own way. We parted, Promis-
ing to meet at Vienna. During my stay
at Edinburgh made the acquaintance of
a young American Artist. Enclosed I
| hand YOU a sketch he made while we
L
were enjoying a smoke (American) one
1 evening IN my room, and making out our
route for the next day. From Edinburgh
1 struck down through the manufacturing
cities of Scotland, crossed the Oheviot
hills, saw the Bonnie Highlands" that
we read so much about, passed through
the neighboIhood clustering with associa-
tions of Burns. Down into the great
towns of England, and over into Ireland.
Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Derby, Cam
bridge, Oxford, Birmingham, Sheffield
and all the manufacturing towns of Eng
land that 1 visited remined me very
much of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and st.
Louis. Their cities are larger than ours,
their shops built handsomely. The smoke
is the sniy thing that makes them similar
! in appearance In railroad depots they
beat us as bad as we beat them on cars
and system, their cars are miserable, their
locomotives with no pilot houses, no
head lights, in weight 20 tons more than
ours, immense drive wheels, road beds
and rails perfect No wonder they run
they run like lightning. 1t is common
thing to see fellow passengers hat cock
ed up on two hairs. The Yankees would