Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-11-04
Tvr r1Py1yGDALE local NAN ~
- A.L.u " I,[lRE

LHE L4H1HIt VIA - 49,
NEW IORh.
"Once mo; c on the deck stand W hai that
TO do with Farmingdale locals you ask, not much
Bat YOU know your correspondent Is sailor, ana
;s hardly weaned from old ocean yet So here
coes. Nothing new about the trip by rail to Bos-
ton. An old gent who sat by our side, was rather
locuacious, said he was getting up his family gen
ealogy, and had been to Bangor about il. said il
was very fascinating to him, he only knew Of one
thing more so, and that was going counting, Which
caused a couple Of young ladies on the next seat
in front to snickcr right cut. We got away from
him at BrunswicF, because We wanted to patron
ize the restaurant there which, by the way, - the
best between Farminglale and New io'k. After
that we fell in with sort Of Yankee clock pcdiar CT
the Sam Slick stye. only he was dentist, he was
f,om the proyincc, where he lad been plying his
vocation. for some wears. lie teld us lots OF
things new about the Blue Noses, and We divided
lunch baskets to the great delight OF b RON 'ar-
diner, who wa. exercising bis night OF travelling
on the NJ. c. II. X. We could not play mat on me
Maine Central.) Reaching Boston at eight We
started for the Boston n Providence depot, (my
eve amt il a rousey 7; Left there at ~ IN the
evening and tried to be economical ard coicd
ourselves away III common car instead OF taxing
n sleepinr car as we ought. The consequences
we rot to New York in bad shape still sleepy
and all out of sorts. On every hand after leaving
Boston we saw "BewaIc Of Plc%pockets. Inns
at first alarmed us; bat rejecting that ''hc who
steals my purse seals trash, we scstled down m
to a tranGuil state of mind about that part Of il.
We were speeding along by the Shore line AZ II
tremendous rate, when suddenly the cars seemed
to stop, and "twenty minutes Tor refreshments
was the cry, but strange sound OF water mat an
old salt could not mistake, set us to wondering ana
y, yraYpn "a nt1fat IN a
ferry boat, and up stairs was restaurant and
people eating and drinking up there. Before SIX
we were approaching New York, by early day
light and we were aroused from our dreams to see
kuickerbocker something, we thou tht 1t was the
Knickerbocker school OF Farmingdale, but it was
only the Knickerbock Hotel of New York. Now
we were in Gotham and the Boston X Providence
depot is not hing to the Grand Central these
cars with the inevitable (beware OF pickpockets
bear us swiftly away and we luo Our eyes TO see
what new buildings have been buHt SINCE we were
here There, Ii is no use to try and describe
them. The Tribune, new Post Ohce, W estern
Union Telegraph ard others are among them ard
soon glide by. We have to do with ships now,
and make for the old "U nited states Hotel,
where ship owners and ship masters most do CON
greyate. An eally breakfast, and thea oil Tor
BROOKLYN, fer this is now the grand cntIepo, Tor
inward cargoes. The ferries arc pouring out Their
passengers from the sitter city, and thus early
they are mostly laborers, operatives. market inen
&c. little later on and the stately merchant
the publisher, the scholar and the divine marcn
foIth from the boat oh what crowds Of humani-
ty. Crossing Wall St Ferry we have lovely
view of East river and and the harbor. 1t Is fair
" alive. Oh the steamers and ships. Great men
owar little steam launches, ferry boats, tugs the
Boston boats coming in, was there ever such a
sight, and all wishing and to5tng TIL you are
deaf And there in the misty morning, are two
immense piles the great East river bridge towers
high enough for the lofiiest ship to pass under.
Well they are wonder, and we doubt not before
the bridge is done there will millions IA II.
Some say it never will be done.
"Halloa Cap'nn we look around, and there IS
Mr.. Bradstreet of Gardiner Of course this is just
the place to find him. The water front OF Brook
lyn is the place TO see ships. Once IN while
in Farmingdae we may read that IN Bath or Poit-
land or Rockland, has been launched the finest
ship ever built! But here are good many finest
ships ever built, and see what they bring here,
cotton the king once from the South, wool from
Russia jute from Calcutta, hemp from Russia and
PHILIPPINE Isles, camphor, sulphur, pepper, tea,
coffee, tin, indigo and spices, to keep our great
and glorious Yankee nation gong and the wheels
of commerce revolving. Don't 1t look and smell
glorious aud how il fires the heart of an old sall.
or. And the men that ere bringing all tins here.
they are from all quarters CT the globe, bat 'he
pioudest of them all and the smarest is the down.
easter and his ship is the finest and best. Anu
"here we are again as the clown says. Inc
whirligig of time has made "Riehard himself
again" A beautiful clipper just in from Calcutta
is the objective point, aud what we shall do with
her shall be duly recorded in the journal. Mean
time right up the heights there is Plymouth
chu, CHI and Beecher, and farther on is Moody and
Sankey, and lots of things for us to tell you about
Everybod is getting ready for the election, ard
the day being spent, we wend our way back to
the United State9 Hotel We ask the piopue-
tor for room and he says, 'boy shew this gentle
man No. co." and up ard up we go, till our heads
reel and the boy loses his way and We think we
| are in balloon, and at last we reach 90-or 700
and tumble into he'd TO dream that the knicker-
booker school house OF Farmingdale is on board
the clipper ship. Gen. Witch and wife, children
and scholars, praise meeting and all are sailing up
to the top of the Western Cnion Telegraph build
ing and then on to the towers of East river bridge
and back to No. 290 and that is the last we know.
But we mean TO go for that landlord ard ask him
what he sees about us to make him put ms IN a
room so high up that his own boy could not find
the way. Yours, j. IL. DaEw