Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-23
UP TO THE LAKE.
A RESUME OF THE EXCURSION
To Cleveland and Put-in-Bay-What Was
Seen and Done - Incidents
Of the Trip - Notes
and Personals.


Of the Trip - Notes
and Personals.
"All work and no play makes Jack
dull BOYS one of those homely
maxims which are so true. A little
recreation, properly taken, is as power
full stimulus to steady eXertion as can
well be devised. Especially Is this so
during the heated summer weather
when all the faculties, both OF mind and
body, are more or less Frustrated and
enervated. The very sight OF green grass
and country scenery lends an impulse
to labor that can only be appreciated by
the daily plodder over hot, dusty pave
ments or the ceaseless cipherer
in close buildings. But unfortu-
natelv for those who are
not blessed with superabundance OF
this worlds riches, the voice OF nature
calling TO her children to come and en-
Joy her charms, must be too oft unheed-
ed, and the longing 10 see with their
own eyes what they have heretofore
only seen through the spectacles OF
travellers be too oft stified on account OF
the invariable expense attending them.
Country relatives are not always abund-
ant and accommodating and railroad
corporations never regulated fares with
regard TO the poorer classes. COnse-
uuently, many a Bayard Taylor or a
Livingstone must stay at home and
dream of wonders, a sight of which his
limited purse cannot compass.
For some time past the press of this
city has given notice OF an excursion to
Cleveland and return at a rate so low as
to open an avenue OF escape from the
heated city to the poorest, and OF which
full advantage was taken. The train OF
ten cars which left Bridgeport on Satur-
day last, contained six hundred souls
burning for view OF the beautiful For
est City and brief experience at that
delightful resort, Put-in-Bay. Messrs.
Chris. Siebke, Oscar SandrOCk and David
Kull, Jr, were the managers, and were
indeiatigable in their efforts to promote
the general comfort and welfare of their
numerous charges.
The passage TO Cleveland was safely
made. Additional cars accommodated
those who boarded the train between
here and Wellsville, until the excursion
resembled some grand triumphal march.
No incident, other than the usual mer.
riment, occurred during the trip, and
about ten O'Clock in the evening the
party arrived at Cleveland, tired and
dusty, but Jolly. Arrangements had
been made with the leading hotels by
which the eXcursionists were lodged at
reduced rates and all were speedily ac-
commodated.
The many and varied beauties OF the
city were fast locked in the arms OF
darkness upon the arrival OF the party,
but the glittering electric lights OF the
Public Square drew many in that direc-
ton, though Euclid avenue, which has
been titled by Bayard Taylor 'the most
beautiful street in the world, reserved
its charms for more favorable time.
Consequently, the party left for the lake
trip early the next morning with CleVe-
land still yelled picture.
The steamer Pearl" as fine good
ship as sails the lake, had been
chartered for the occasion, and short
" before the chimes of the city call
ell the people TO prayer she loos-
ed her mOOrings in the Cuya-
hoga river and steamed out into the
lake. The White Spirit OF Erie was evil
IDENTIFY appeased and the CLASSY surface
was perfectly unrufiled beyond the di-
verging ripples which fell from the sharp
prov. A wind arose soon after, how
ever, and before long the vessel began
an uneasy rolling that was alarming to
some. 1t was not even a "foretopsl
breeze" and no bread was "cast upon
the waters"
Soon after noon, the Erie Archipelago
rose above the water, and after passing
Kelley Island, famous for one OF the
most extensive wine cellars in the
country, the vessel entered the
crescent harbor OF Put-in-Bay Island,
and the eXcursionists poured ashore
and scattered.
This resort is one of the cheeriest,
brightest and most attractive OF spots in
the country. The sun is more glitter
ing, the sky bluer and softer, the sands
brighter and the air more bracing than
at any other place on the lake. The
bay forms a perfect crescent, facing
north, enclosing in its centre the beau
tiiul rock OF "Gibraltar," the summer
residence of Jay Cooke, the financier.
About two miles off is the Middle Bass
Island, with ten pin alleys, billiard
rooms and the finest salon and
dancing hall in the West. Upon all
these places, visitors are scattered, and
and there can be spent, most delight
fully, summer amid the vine-clad isles
of Erie. There life swings merrily on
without care. Everybody is out on
the tawny sands, the deep green grass,
or the bright blue lake from rosy morn
until far into the night. Everybody
knows everybody, and there is no re-
straint. While no dlsagreeable license
exists, the walls of conventionalism
are RACED and mild abandon exists, as
captivating as novel.
But probably few eXcursiOnist wasted
time on such thoughts, but hurried
off TO see the sights, and we
will pursue them. Perhaps few
knew that this was the spot where the
gallant Perry put in before and after
he had met the enemy and made them
his, or discovered that the willow at the
landing marked the last resting place of
his fallen brave, but ignorance was bliss
and memories painful. Jay Cookies
residence was visited and his statuary
deiaced by the scribbling of the names
OF certain vandals with more desire for
publicity than regard for proprieties.
Kelley Island wine and Sandusky beer
were freely sampled, and, after exhaust
ing the sights and beauties of the place,
the Pear again bore her living freight to
Cleveland.
Unfortunately for our people, GER
tain social club OF Cleveland took pas
sage, and on the return behaved rather
disguStingly until peremptOry warn
ing from Commander Siebke restored a
portion of their lost senses. While they
danced. most of the Wheeling people
were on deck admiring the sunset, and
it was worthy their admiration. As the
luminary approached the water, his
course was marked by a path which his
touch had transmitted to FURNISHED
gold. His near departure had flushed
with regret the eastern sky, leaving the
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