Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-08-26
"Crle PartingtOnss at Long
Branch.
LONG BRANCH, N. Y,
August q, 1876.

LONG BRANCH, N. Y,
August q, 1876.
To The Editors Of the independent:
General Grant, Gov. Tilden and
i arrived here to-day. We all feel
very we'll after the long ride
Grants horses came several days
ago. Tilden came by cars from
Saratoga. / came by boat for so
cents. [ left my ca binet-I mean
carpet-sack-in New York.
AT Jersey City where I boarded
the Plymouth Roc, there were
fully three Thousand passengers
shouting for tickets. One could
scarcely find standing room. / was
obliged to cit during the whole
ride. It's more comfortable to sit,
you know.
Have you ever been sea sick?
Well, you can't sympathise. It's
dreadful, so it is. You feel like
you had eaten ten suppers within
so many hours. / felt like 1 was
riding six Nightmares bareback
Everybody was sick except the
s. eam engine and sailors. Men
were retching on the right, womc /
belching on the left, and yawning
children scattered all around. For
two hours I felt as if I wouldn't
give a cent for all Vanderbilt's
wealth.
But the ride is an agreeable one,
after all, if you're not sick. When
on the boundles5 Atlantic, with
nothing in sight save a few sails,
the grandesG thoughts take possess
sion of one-for instance, ''suppose
this steamer would sink? ' AS
the mighty waves dashed ever the
terror-stricken passengers, it was
a %conso'ng sight TO see the captain
walk up to the bar and call for a
whiskey straight. The kind act
of that captain disarmed me of all
fear,
Several sailors who had we'll
trained voices, sang a few songso of
the sea, accompanied by a froWsy-
headed young man on the piano.
The captain-he was such a nice
ma1-called out at the top of his
voice beware OF pick-pockets.'
Eve yore had his hand on hisoWn
pocket or somebody else's. L firm
ly grosped q Sc, of twenty-five cent
fjewe'"y that 1 had bought in the
city. OF CO arse it looked like you
owned something to get frighten-
ed. Pocket-book l had none. 1
was obliged ID do something.
The whistle sounded and we
were at Rockaway Beach, a wa
terinG-place for the lower million
of New York.
Rockaway is all sand, lager beer
and clam shells. AT intervals of
every hundred yards there is a
ro .)e fastened to q buoy out in the
ocean, and he other end tied to a
post on shore. Clinging to these
ropes you will see girls of every
age, swayed to and fro by the
breakers. Some stand up to their
necks and await the rolling-in
waves. Others 60 out to meet
them, lodging through them like
a duck does the wavelets on the
Tuscarola II. The young ladies wear
a pair of pants reaching to the
knees, with a loos e-ftting JACKIE,
reaching below the wais.. A straw
hat of huge dimensions covers the
head. From be1ea4h the wide
b i'm Of the hat you see many a
pair of bright eyes peeiing mis-
chievOusly at you as you stand on
tt she e. 0, how they enjoy it
Every lover that visits here is ex-
pected to take his sweetheart in
bath 70. The.lover and rs Sarah,
dressed in bath suits, catch hands
and run into the ocean, like a
clown enters the arena of a circus.
Then theyjump, roll and shout for
q half hour, and emerge all drip
ping with salt water. Their white
feet look SO pretty as they scam
per away to their respective dress
ing-rooms.
On a young lady coming out Of
a dressing room, wearing a huge
hustle that wriggles like the rud-
der of a ca%nal-boat, you would not
recognize the fair nymph with the
symmetrical form that was dis
porting in the water before
your eyes a few moments ago
Pretty feathers make ugly birds at
Rockaway.
AT Long Etanch the bathing is
done the sumo way-the exception
is the costumes. The ladies wear
tights here. This is the aristocrat-
ic watering place.
This is a great place for politics.
The women wear political badges.
Some s"2dy country fellows have
hay seeds in tier hair. They are
for Hayes. of course: Some are
FOR Tilden. Women passed for
ty that would marry, are for him