Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
ON THE HUDSON.
THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER BY MOONLIGHT.
Apparently a land-Loeked lake-Ths
Glasses Of People Who Go to Great
Watering Piaces-Passing Al
bany-Some Lovely
Pen Pictures.
Special Correspondence

| SARATOGA, n. Y, July 6.-"The
Hudson by moonlight has been "writ-
ten" a hundred times, but it can never
be fairly described until language shall
be SO perfected as to present the realism
| Of painters canvas. Seated on the
| d. OK of river steamer one sees pic
ture which impresses him subjectively,
and an objective description tells little
and conceals more Of the dream.like
effect produced by active contempla-
ton OF nothing more than lights and
! shadows.
The quiet intoxication Of nicotinal
! Indulgence is nowhere else so thorough
~ delicious. The fragrance ola
! Good Cigar
makes itself felt anywhere, but here it
| il but part of the environment which
takes man ont of himself, makes him
forget what he had fer dinner, and cease
to think what he is going to have for
| brea hfast, how bis margins may stand
on the street next day, how he is tosettle
| the note which comes due tomorrow at
twelve o'clock, or how he is going to
| circumvent legal adversary at Sara
toga.
Cloud. bars of dull brick red hang over
| the mountains, which seems to com.
| pletely surround the water ON which
| the rays of the fair Luna are shedding
| light that has shown on more deeds OF
darkness than his Majesty the Sun ever
dared to look upon, andone gets mar
Vicious impression of the skill n the
pilot who
Finds His Way Out
of the labyrinth of little hills which lie
near to the waters edge, and which pre-
sents to the travellers uptutOred eye no
hope of safe outlet, though previous
education may have taught HIM that
the river is practically straight.
The tug boats, like immense beasts OF
burden drawing long trains of heavy
ladened canal boats, seem to be leading
dimly-lighted funeral professions Oh
the water, and the railway trains rs
they pass swiftly under the shadow OF
the mountains, throwing out masses of
black smoke, relieved only by the head
| lights of their locomotives, might APP
pear to an imaginative Old Greek, IL he
could look upon them, like the chaFiots
of Mercury, messenger OF the gods"
or like thunderbolts thrown from the
hand of Jupiter himself.
| But the night breeze which only helps
| the heat to penetrate into the heated
! homes Of wearied metropolitans, is get
| ting little too brisk for comfort. My
cigar is nearly gone, aud while am not
| quite ready to seek for more substan-
! lial dreams in close state room, 1t may
be worth while to stuGp human nature
| in the elegant saloon before \ majority
of its inmates shall have sought that re-
pose which rarely comes to
The Most Innoeent soul
which looks and longs for sleep amid
the ceaseless rising and falling Of river
| steamer, and perhaps human nature in
its ordinary phases could nowhere be
studied to better advantage. The ma
jority of the passengers are en- route for
Saratoga, and 1t follows that they are
drawn from the better class, if not from
the best class, Of New York and Brook
lyn people. Jimmy O'Flaherty and
Michael Moriarty take a run with the
old woman and "babbies" to Coney IS
land, but as rule they do not spend the
summer at so inconvenient a watering
place as 1.-THE Springs" probably hold
| ing that the inspiriting effects OF the
convivial lager have been more fairly
tested than the fluid which is so liber-
ally INDUCED In by those who visit the
Congress or Empire fountain heads.
A whole family is seated in line on
one side Of the saloon, and seonls tn be
attracting considerable attention, as its
members deserve, from passengers,
who, like myself, have grown tired of
breasting the breeze outside. The
father of
The Youthful Brood
is an old duffer with silk hat which
has been carefully smoothed over, but
from its peculiarly narrow brim and
peculiarly erect build might have come
over in the Mayflower, or might at least
have done duty at the Presidential in.
auguration of John Quincy Adams.
His linen and his boots are as immacu-
late as any which George William Cur
It's could present to an admirng public,
and a white choker adorns the rather
short neck of man who has evidently
made money, and as evidently knows
how to save it.
His wife is q characteristic specimen
| of the nOurcdaLr richeSSC. She wears
an elegant green gown of figured satin,
and her throat is decorated with white
collar and tie of the most brilliant
carmine. Her fingers glitter with dia.
monds, upon the cost OF which she is
diating 10 lady friend; her hair,
spread out in front in fritz! q supposed
TO be ornamental, leads up to bonnet
trimmed with flowers and satin; pair
of foot handles, rather literally dis.
played, end in pedal extremities which
hre NONE of the smallest.
This interesting couple have five chill.
dren, ranging from two to fourteen
years in age, and emulating in small
WAY the action Of their elders, The
group, as a whole, would have formed a
most delightful
Study for Hogarth.
Opposite to this anthropological COL
lection there is genuine bon ton New
Yorker Of the st. Nicholas Club manu-
facture, and warranted to be prouder Of
his birth than of his money, though it
would be hard to assert that he despises
the latter.
Next to him is Hebrew who might
have come out Of respectable old
clothes shop as lay figure for adver-
Using purposes, but who Is said to have
enough sugar at his command to buy
out the whole stock in trade of haf q
dozen such men a. the elegant knicker-
booker or the economical duffer in the
white choker. The son Of Israel, for
tunately, has not brought his family
along, thinking perhaps that his own
fragrant breath was enough to properly
Undue the air Of the saloon with odors
savoring of his native cabbage and gar
lie.
In short it is safe to say that every
condition among the upper middle
classes Of American society is fairly