The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-09

morphosed into Young Dolphin.
correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. August I, 1888.
| left Richmond at 1lt o'clock to-day,
and arrived at Norfolk at 4 O'Clock ria
Petersburg. | had tourist ticket, as they
are the cheapest to buy. We had car at
tached to the rear Of our train from Peters
burg filed with tourists from Blacks
and-WhiteS. Nottoway county. 1t was an
independent coach, under charter 10 the
tourists, and though they were genteel
people ladies and gentlemen-they were
having 4 cay time at pranks and fun.
throwing off their wit and hulnOr on every
thing they passed. SO soon aS we got to
Norfolk they were lost in the crowd OF this
great city, and we heard OF them no more.
DETERMINED TO HAVE A LITTLE Fun.
As we could not proceed on our route
till tomorrow. we concluded we would
have TO take quiet quarters at the hotel and
wait till to-morrow's train; but we heard
on the train that the railroad TO " Virginia
Beach" THAT was ut first called the "IlOl-
lies y was completed. and ready and cheap
access TO that place was at hand. Three Of
us-friondS and business vOyagerS-werc
taking trip together. and so we talked OF
going at once to the Beach. The idea Of
getting full view OF glorious old Neptune
on the bald beach OF Princess Anne and
back to Norfolk for sixty cents was too
much for Us, and besides, as it was to lose
us no time to 90, 90 we did.
SAVING THEIR BACON.
At twenty minutes past I i. NJ. the
steamer Mystic was TO leave Roper's
wharf, and we had less than fifteen min
utes tn make the boat in. for we were some
five minutes behind time by the train. so,
sending or baggage TO the hotel, we put
out for ROpcr'S wharf on foOt-0ne old
man and two vigorous young forty-fves-
and saved our bacon, after some pretty tall
trotting, b. about one minute. VITA a
goody company of ladies, gentlem IN,
and children on board, we assembled
Eastern Branch for about four or i've
miles, and there took the nafrow-gauge
road TO Virginia Bench. At this end OF the
road we had TO wait some twenty minutes
for the train TO ARRIVE from the Beach.
We were quite surprised TO find it brought
some 100 or 200 passengers, returning from
this new watering-place, which had not as
vet single place for lodging, as we had
learned. The fact is the world is fast COM
ing to be restless, rowing mass OF human
beings, that will have little need or taste
for their own homes, if they shall have any.
What is to be its effect is not to he contem-
plated without apprehension.
QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED.
In some forty-fye minutes we were face
to face with the great ocean. whose ma
iesty and inspiring wonder is ceaseless and
grand. Who made the sea and who made
eternity? God made the sea and God
made eternity. The vast eNpanse OF wa
ters gives lis wishfully the best idea OF
eternity. We may stand and gaze and
gaze at its unending vista and love the
strange sadness it inspires, but casting our
eyes at its beach we grow cheerful and de-
sire 10 plav with its rollicking waves and
surf. We were landed alongside OF the
pavllion, which was being constructed ap-
parently with all possible speed, and found
there a company OF some $50 or 200. The
PAVILION, which is partly completed. Is de-
signed 10 be very large, and there were
already in Use about fifty bathing-houseS.
THE OLD MAN ACCEPTS i CHALLENGE.
If was after 6 o'clock-yes, quite = when
one of the Younger Of our party insisted on
wrestling with the sea. ltwas very cool
ave. Richmond people would call it cold
but the old man accepted the challenge,
and i'm a few minutes we were among the
TWENTY-FIVE or thirty bathers, happy rs
voune dolphinS. The water was rather
cool. but warmer than the air, and gave us
shrug or two before we could rel
ish the fun. In a short time, how
ever, we grew manly. and threw our
selves against the rolling breakers aS
they came heaving on the shore.
Turning our backs to the larger waves, rs
they came boiling upon Us, we were
knocked like bits Of cOrkwood toward the
beach and then drawn back again. 1t was
late 10 bathe. and we soon reluctantly left
the sport, refreshed and delighted. Having
an hour left before train time $3.50 for
Norfolk. we got some nice spots for sup
per, and at haf-past were at the hotel.
c.