The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-10
SEASIDE LETTER.
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wxsrroRr HARBoR, Aug. ., 1878.
Editorial corespoudsnee Of the IntelllgenesI.
lhaye received letter asking me TO
give the readers Of the IsTELLlGEscER
something from the seaside, where have
been sojouining for some time past. This
| would have been glad to do ere this but
for the fact that l have found my time
FULLY occupied since came bere IN car
ryIng out short programme Of recrea-
ton exercises, and have not felt at lib
sr.y to set II aside In order to resume
my accustomed work at home.
Besides this, seaside letters are no nov
city to your readers. The sea and all
that Is in it hiss been extensively, and l
nigh, add exclusively written up by
newspaper writers. Who can add any
thing now Wonderful as is the ocean
IN all lie changing moods, 1t would seem
AZ Il there WA reslly no more to say
sbou. Il. will not therefore descant on
its wonders, but tell you little Of some
thing in very plain way about our man.
uer Of life a, this comparatively unknown
spot on the New England coast.
When people speak Of going to the sea-
side for few weeks ofrecreation they are
supposed to have in view some such
place as Atlantic City, Cape May, Long
Branch, Newport or Nahsnt. Nobody
would every suspect anybody Of coming
to a country place where there are no
hotels, mot even a postOftice, no fashiona-
BILE amusemen.s, and no style whatever.
Don't infer from this that l am outside
the male OF civilization, nor that We do
not see the news Of the world every day.
Although it is two miles to the nearest
postotice, and 10 miles to a telegraph
Office, and the same distance to rail.
road. Yet we. get the Boston papers
every evening, and are kept posted on all
the inpor.an, news, which is all that
any one who seeks this spot for health
purposes has any time to read.
We are at the mouth oil ssmaIi river
that puts into the sea at this point
through narrow channel. II Is NOT 90
wide as the Ohio between Wheeling anu
the Island, but Immediately above the
point Of debOuchure il Is spread out INTO
swide and very handsome bay where
fishing smaeEs and other light dFspso'
vessels fndsafs anchorage once upon
time Whalers came into thts river and
sailed up two miles to the riliaee 'oi
Wes,port, and only a fewyesrs ago saw "
= considerable quantity oil sperm oil
stored there that had been brought from
distau. voyages BY some OF these Whaiefs
Now all that business has gone TO other
places, and no sails save those oil Yachts
smacks and little bosss are seen In these
waters.
Perhaps some OF yourSreaders, will
wonder how lar OF wheeling editor
should come TO Strike such an out oil tue
way place as this. The answer Is very
simple. My friend, Mr.s'h' WOODWARD
is native oil these paris, and LOT very
many years has been IN the haoi' OIL
spending more or lea oil his summers
here. Being = practical man in all bis
ways, and desiring nothing Tor show but
everything for utility, he naturally took
to this place In his younger days and has
remained steadlast ever sInce. For any
one who loves boating, fishing and bath
Ing, and who wishes 10 couple with them
plain and unrestricted sort oil lie IN
the way Of eating, sleeping and dressing,
there can be no place more attractive
than this. | have never yet seen any
place thatI liked half SO well, and this
Is mythird experience here.
CLOSE BY THE SEA.
The house / stop at is owned by an old
sea captain, who has in bis time h'hsd
for whales all over the world. OF late
years he has remained on shore aud made
& business Of keeping boarderS in the
summer season. He has q commodious
white frame house on point Of land
that Is skirted on one aide BY the river
and on the other BY the broad ocean, and
this promontory lie not at the point where
his house stands, over a quarter OF a mile
wide; so that We can look both upon the
river and the sea, and enjoy all the
breeIss that are going. Our boats are
noored within atone throw Of the house,
aud we can go out 10 them as often as