Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-16

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Neptune and the father of numerous pro-
geny of Tritons Junior.) 1t is not at all a
violent assumption that some of the younger
members of the family may have come (when
business at sea got slack or overdone), to take
temporary mastership over the lakes and
ponds and reservoirs-even within the scope
of water-works and like human contrivances.
Hesiod speaks of the elder Triton as
A god
OF awful might
Leigh Hunt says, " Allegorically, Triton is
the noise and tumbling and savageness of the
sea" Elsewhere, however, he says somewhat
alphabetically But allegories are secondary
account, and puts merriment and visible
humanity on the sea, linking also with
things invisible " Wordsworth was so much
in love with this surf-roaring god that he ex
pressed himself even in this following fashion:
I'd rather be
A pagan, sucked in a creed outworn,
So might |, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Also Leigh Hunt tells us, in summing up
the catalogue of these sea-gods, that q Then
comes proper 'Wasserman by name, the
Homo Aquaticus, or man of the water. And
he tells us that q His appearance presages
great lowness in the price of crops All of
which, while it is an evasion of the question,
proper, is to be regarded 0or our present pur-
+bo IF ol
that Triton was not entirely foreign to the
regulation of things aquatic and even hydro
metrical At all events, either Triton or this
same Wasserman that Hunt refers us to has
been asserting himself lately, even in these
high and dry ATTITUDES, so far away from the
drip OF kelp or the foamy crest of great break
ing seas. Not any tempest could produce
greater destruction in the elements of human !
discord than the waterman now raging along
the mains and laterals, hydrants and faucets !
of our somewhat mixed and variegated water |
system. But that the channels of peace will |
run unvexcd, all in good time, we make no
doubt. Meantime, the plumbers and sappers
and miners who serve the needs of our water
supply are busy and, We doubt not quite in
different concerning the question whether
they are the servitors of Triton, Jupiter Plu-
vius, Pan plain Captain Lentz-who stalks
about with great business strides directing
the course of pipe laying and hydrant-setting
1t comes to the ear of this Annotator that the
Sweeny system will very soon reassert itself.
This will open the sluices of competition which
is the life of trade Meantime party spirit
runs so high that it is among the dreadful
possibilities that-but after all this is a mere t
local matter, disguise it as we may and rele- {
gate it rs we will to ''ail the gods at once ....
Speaking of water we are reminded Of Cap'n +
Avery's Lake Bigler steamship Niagara. We /
have lately had confidential talk with Mr. l
Monk concerning this vessel. He makes no I l
(and he as judiciously chary of his =
praises, in saying that this boat is very per-
feet specimen of naval architecture, that it is
capable of achieving very high rate of speed v
and that its Master and his assistants, in fact c
all hands and the cook, are all that could be 4
desired by the travelling public, makes regu- II
lar trips between Tahoe City and the Glen =
brook, likewise the tour of the Lake and con- Ii
meets with Bentons stages in manner of adj tt
mrable regularity, more to be imagined than "
described In short the Niagara is the steamer ::
If steamers, the very perfection and acme of cl
ransitory and transpOrtative delights, for II
ates of fare see small bills or enquire of any
Benton or Monk that can be met with in your
lays Journey Further speaking Of aquati- r
ais (what an almost dropscal mood we are ii
n, to be sure y Abe Richey has been telling
Is about Silver Lake, where he and his sub d
ervient Indians have been taking such nlyr-
ads of trout. He says that this sheet of wa p
er is easily accessible by the Amador and in
Nevada wagon road, and that just upon its W
margin is Mr.. Edw Hunts Silver Lake
House. (This same Hunt was formerly known =,
n connection with the Spo.tsman's Hall of %
he days Of the old Placerville route.) This -
beet of water is described as about three
liles III length by 4 mile or more III width OF
nd perfectly alive with rout-itself and its III
.fhutaries 1t seems to as that this is a de co
rable resort for pleasure seekers and inva- E ~
DIS. Let us all go there, echoing Percivals SCI
hes, In
On thy fair bosom, waveless stream, pu
The dipping paddle echoes far lea
And flashes in the moonlight CLEAN,
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