The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-08-07

inc WHIT Ill front ol tnc Sed ' lew 10 Edgar
town and katama, a new watering place on the
South shore, where baked clans are set before
the visitors. The road is narrow guage, is
built along the shore at the waters edge, much
of the way on trestle work. and the train con
sists of locomotive, baggage and passenger
car. 1t has not been paying investment, and
this is partly due to the location of the track
the winters storms destroying good part of
the road bed every season. We had ali heard
otEdgartown as one of the old towns of Massa-
chusettS, and as once the home port of Il large
whaling fleet, and so several parties We're made
up to visit the place. With one or two excep-
tons the verdict was that the time had been
mlsspent. There was no sign Of life either past
or present, unless the graveyard may be ac-
cepted as such. and one Disguised tourist declar-
ed that ali he saw was revenue cutter and IA
monkey. Grass was growing i'll the streets,
the houses generally resembled those in most
New England towns, and neither the scenery
nor the surroundings were attractive.
NANTUCKET.
Friday. July 18th. an excursion was made to
Nantucket, and the sail of thirty miles each way
on the steamer Monohansett, and the four
hours spent on the island, We're alike enjoyable
The weather was perfect, and the waters of the
Sound so smooth that the most susceptible had
not even a suggestion Of seaslckneSS. 'Nan-
tucket is described curiosity picked in
brine that NOW lives on "reminiscences and sum
mer boarder>," says the New York Herald. and
that tells the story in few words. 1t is queer
and quaint and altogether unlike any other
place the writer ha, ever seen. The town itself
Is compactly built, with streets paved with
cobbe stones and sidewalks Of brick and fag-
ging, but the warehouses erected in the pros
porous day of whale fishing are empty and the
grass grows before their doors and between the
cobbe stones in The streets The population of
the place has fallen in forty wears from 9. 900 to
5000, but the summer months bring many yisi-
tors to occupy the cottages ana I'LL the hotels
and then the town presents quite a lively as
pect. As our steamer came alongside the
wharf the voice of the town cricr. Il noted
character, was heard. An American lila. on a
short staff hung over one shoulder and at inter-
walls he rang u bell. lie announced the hour for
the departure Of the train to Sconset on the
newly completed railway. and the hour The
boat was to leave. Some of the party took the
train for SasconSct.-o SronSet for short
nine miles distant. The road i narrow
guage, with cars like the open ears on the BoS-
ton street railways and the Fate of speed is
not alarming. Sconset is fishing Village
composed of quaint little houses and occupied
by even quanter people, but here also has been
an invasion of summer visitors and there are a
number of modern and ornate cottages The
broad Atlantic stretches unobstructed before
the beach, and after storm ii i said 10 be
grand sight to SEE the surf ron in. but
The visitors were not Iavoreu with an exhibit
ton OF This sort, and after an unsatisfactory
meal at one of the sO-called hotels started on
the return trip. \ recent letter TO New York
paper says Of the native population of Nam
tuclpt:
All show BY their manners, and especially by
the use of nautical Simlitude> in ordinary con
Ner>alon. their maritime ancestry. Ii You
meet an islander with whom you have become
Familiarity acquainted, instead OF asking YOU
Where are you going:" five 10 one the greeting
VIII be, "iloW are you heading:" The furmer
whom you engage to supply produce for your
table will agree TO ''land" milk or Vegetables
from his wagon at YOUR door, fresh picked from
his garden. 1t a lady wants you to assist her
IN winding some Worsted by holding the sNpin
and YOU are careless III the performance of the
office. sht may tell YOU to hold it t;t,It or YOU
Will get the yarn i'll a tangle. In hastily eating
tlSh man may get bone ''athWart' his throat
Ii You ride in wagon and YOUR seat moves the
driver may ask you to shift it ''mid>hips' or
fore" or aft" or to sit to lecWard." as the
case may be- Don't seek to get a joke on IN Old
salt. or YOU may be told too late that there wa.
never any use Of trying to get TO windward"
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