Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
SUMMER PICTURES
Presented by a Register" Com.
missioner
Through Canada and the White Mountains
TO the Sea-Trayel Notes and Incl
dents A Warm Weather
Paradise.
NANTUCKET AND THE NANTUcKETERS

NANTUCKET AND THE EANTUCKETERS
Special Correspondence Of the Sunday Register.
NANTUCKET MASS, August 25.-In the
cruise of the Nameless, as illustrated in the
August number of Ha,per's Magazine, there
is picture of pretty girl sitting on the
old wharf here and engaged busily in taking
in peanuts and the sea breeze. Her face is
az placid as the countenance OF the Nadon-
ma, there is not mosquito within league
of her: the winds that fan her bangs come
all the way from Greenland and If the pea
mt CROP should fail she knows there are
CLANS in the sand and fresh caramels at the
drug store.
To any one who has ever been at Nan
tucket the picture is very suggestive OF
peace and plenty, and low temperature,
and days that are not half long enough.
| used to know a young fellow in New
York who told me that until the American
| people had their clothes made abroad they
never could understand how deep and per,
manent was the satisfaction which resulted
from knowing that ones tailor was three
thousand miles away, and with less than
thirty miles intervening between you and
| the main land and people here enquiring
| of YOU when YOU left the continent, the
ability to forget cares certainly grows con-
siderably stronger. I
The Winding Way.
came up by way of Buffalo and the
| Falls. reaching Clayton in the morning,
going down the st. Lawrence by daylight
| and crossing over by way OF Portland anu
| Boston. Buffalo was engrossed with Ter
race week and the horsemen had possession
| of the hotels. Niagara was given over to
| excursionists, and the list OF permanent
summer visitors was smaller than II iao
| been for many years. AT Clayton the
| Royal Mail Line furnish very lnulilefns
| steamers, and the breakfast arrangement IN
| the language of Ward would turn the
| stomach of the most shiftless hog" Once
started, however, the discomfOrts OF the
| boat are forgotten in the ever-changing pan
| Drama of the beautiful river. From cay
| ton 10 where il broadens into Alexandra
BAY with its emerald islands crowned with
| stately summer homes, through the Asr-
| rows formed by headlandS whose granite
surfaces glisten like gold in the sun ana
where vegetation finds no foothold, down
10 the rapids OF the Long Sault, the eye
never wearies of the varying picture. bon,
pvcastle, where DR.. Holland only lived
| long enough to show by what brief tenure
even successful men hold their possessions,
is pointed out near Alexandria, and many
| other even more handsome homes adOrn
the islands above and below, but the great
majority of the thousand or fourteen nun
bred lies which dot the river are I'M
tenanted and likely to so remain.
As the boat did not reach Lachine Inlet, it
was too late to run the rapids and We entered
Montreal vigorously through thecanal'
Mountain Paths.
Leaving Montreal BY way OF the Victoria
bridge, which, in spite Of magnificent pre-
portions. makes very uncomfortable tun-
| mel like crossing, the train stops Ter dinner
at Newport Lake or Memphrcmagtg just
| before reaching Newport the custom lnSpec'
tors go through your baggage for dutable
impOrtations. 1t is very informal pro
functory sort of search, and might be still
less SO without damage, for there is very
| little temptation nowadays TO smuggle
| goods from the Dominion, most OF the artl-
| Giles that could be carried in trunks or hand
baggage costing as much in Canada as IN
| the States. A silk umbrella. for Instance,
that cost 1915 in Canada was no better than
| one purchased in New York for s., and
| wearing apparal is about as costly there as
| on this side. An inspector told me that
good deal of whiskey used to be brought IN
| in small packages without duty, but the
| Canucks finally got to putting up an article
| for American use that would burn holes IN
| shirt sleeves, and in this way one evil cured
| another.
Crossing Vermont the Green Mountains
| give the State West Virginia sort OF a look
| that is very refreshing after a long session
of the low lying and scrub pine scenery OF
| Canada, and at sunset the trains pulls IN at
| Fabvans, and Mt. Washington and the 9TH
| er presidential peaks of the White Noun
J -" -Lo" Un theleft There IS everything
| in comparison, and without letting State
frlde stand in the way 9f XfraiGiis''in mountain
loon ifR 2 concerned, is not any more in
spiriung than that from the White Sulphur
porches, and Hates mountain, if it is little
harder to climb, furnishes as good view Is
Mt. Washington.
The crowd at the White Mountains has
been slow in coming, but during most OF
| this month the hotels have been full. There
were no rooms to be had at Crawfords, and
| at Fabyan's a good many had been turned
| away. Notables were scarce. Mr.. Bcecher,
who usually advertises this section liber-
ally, was absent, and eX.NiCe President
| Wheeler was very quiet lion.
Portland and Boston.
Portland was reached early in the even.
| ing, and was found filled with politicians, but
| the Maine law has abolished the saloons il
| il has not abolished the whisky, and the
canvass does not take on the noisy turn
| that political contests do in localities where
ward business have carte blanche at open
bars. The FusiOnists propose to make the
| fight for all or nothing, and have leopard
| lied the return OF one sure representative In
| Congress in the hope OF winning four on
| the general ticket made necessary by Gov.
| Plaistcds refusal to convene the legislature
| I, redistrjcting under the new apportion-
| meuI Prohibition can hardly be calledau
| issue here longer, nearly everybody hav-
| ing srttled down to the situation, which, in
b,ief. is that man who is thirsty and in
| dustriCus can get all he wants to drink, and
| the weaker brethren are not tempted by
having it displayed continually for their
| consideration.
At Poston the bars are open all the time,
but the barbershops close at eight i'll the
| evening. In other matters there is more
| improvement. The new city, which has
grown up in the old Black Bay district, is
| surprise to everyone who remembers Its
beginning, and it is difficult to believe that
| handsome thoroughfares like BoylSton and
| Clarendon streets and commonwealth
| avenue, and structures like the Bruins
wick and Vendome, the New South and
Phillip Brooks churches stand on ground
| reclaimed from the water
| An effort is still being made to save the
| old South church from the encroachmcnts
OF trade by SHINY attended exhibition OF
| antiques and curios. Fanienil Hall near
| il is not any richer in historical associa-
tons. but il has the good fortune to belong
10 the city, and pays expenses as amarket-
house.
| Nantucket.
| Nantucket. which is in easy reach OF BoS-
| ton, lies off the coast of Massachusetts,,
| about thirty miles from the main land.
| You can take the Fall River line to New
Bedford and cross over, or by way of B)s-
ton, going down the cape, which somebody
has described as gang plank thrust out in
the Atlantic ocean, you can strike the New
Bedford boat which connects at Woods
Hall and reaches Nantucket two hours
| later. The boat touches at Oak Bluffs and
Martha's Vineyard on the way over, but
these are only modern creations for temper
ing the exurberance of q picnic with the
solemnity Of 4 campmeeting, and the trail
Of newreSs is over them all. 1t is not until
you sight the hsrbor entrance, and the old