Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-24
BEAUTY AT A BOAT RACE.
hahdkerchiefs, Gloves, CarameIs
ana Ice Cream Lost On a Steam.
bOat Struggle.

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This lays way over steamboat racing
on the Mississippi before the war p
shouted an excited Southerner on the
upper deck of the Magenta" as her open
ing paddles churned the waters of the bay
into suds of salt foam recently, says the
New York Journal.
A hoarse yell of defiance from a red
faced passenger as he leaned over the
taffrail of the 3D. r. Martin, !" which was
tearing through the chopping seas within
pistol shot of the Magenta and par
allel to her course, evoked a challenging
yell from the Southerner.
Five minutes before, as the clock in
the pilot house indicated S:15 a. m, the
Magenta" the fastest steamer of Eras-
tus Wiman's Staten Island line, had has
thy cast off from the pier at New
Brighton, as the Martini" John H.
Starin's crack boat, came rushing up the
Kill Won Kull on her morning trip to New
York.
GA race, a race! - was the cry that rung
from the bow of the Magenta" toherstem
and everybody crowded to the side of the
vessel nearest the rival steamer. Men
half asleep over a morning paper reused
themselves and leaped to their feet.
A knot of Staten Island bellies in the
ladies' cabin of the Magenta had
settled down for little gossip over a
prospective days shopping, but hearing
the word trace, they gave chorus of
ecstatic screams and in an instant each
curtained cabin window was frame for
three or four flushed and pretty faces. g
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nervous little blonde in heavenly blue
bonnet, and then she added in tone of
resignation, whatever | have anything
to do with is always unlucky. I'll bet
the Magenta is beaten"
'I'll bet five plates Of ice cream that
she won't be-" rejoined the black-eyed
young wife of produce exchange opera
tor, who had instilled in her mind the
silent principles of speculation in futures,
whether by land or sea.
tits go, if you make the FIVE creams
for August delivery" mischievously sug-
gested the first speaker, after having
peeped into her purse and found that as
usual she had started to shop without
81 tell you what to do. Put up
margin of five cents on every plate to al
low for a possible corner in ice, and |
won't call on you for delivery until the
first of August" gleefully exclaimed the
pretty brunette, and she rushed to deck
as mingled cheers and groans were heard
from the upper deck.
Both boats were now fully under way.
The Magenta trembled from keel pilot
house, where the man at the wheel,
the infectious spirit of the race,
rang for the engineer to go ahead at full
speed, and the steam whistle shrieked a
strident challenge to the Martin. An
blast from the Martin visibly
threw her passengers into greater excite
nent, and they laughed in scorn as they
hailed the Magenta, which was falling
slowly behind.
Inrounding Robbin's reef Starin S white |
md speedy craft was over two lengths !
ahead, and the ladies on board the Ma |
yenta became correspondingly depressed. !
"Hope and ice cream deferred maketh /
he heart SICK" sagely soliiloquized Miss
Belle Turner, of Brooklyn, as she tried to /
comfort the sunny-haired hacker of the !
New Brighton boat, whose blue eyes /
limmed with tears of modification.
Four miles of shining water stretched |
ahead over which the course of the rival
steamers lay parallel to Bedloe's island,
where the race must practically end, as
me boat must go up the North river and
he other to her berth at the east OF the
Battery.
1.-TWO pairs of movsquetaires to one pair
If Sara Bernhardts that the Magenta
WINS" boldly challenged the pretty
laughter of sedate Wall street broker,
Is the gale caught the futtering crimson
Gather in her hat and sent it flying like a
lamingo into the water.
''This knocks poker out of time" said
young member of the New York club,
Who dabbles in oil to pay his living ex-
,enses on Staten Island. 81 believe that
his race is a Job put up by Starin and
Vimen to draw the custom of Wall street
men, whose natural instincts lean toward
1uying pools on such race as this.
"Bosh J" replied one of the Exchange
place bears "what do Wiman or Starin
want 10 run the risk of boiler explosion
or? Great Scott what's that and the
nan jumped three feet, striking his head
against the deck above.
aha. hal" laughed his companion,
we are only letting off steam. You
ought to be thrown overheard for talking
lbout explosions"
In Just twenty-three minutes from the
start from New Brighton the race was
ended. The Martin" was apparently
Unable to hold her steam for SO long !
inc at high speed, and the tMagenta's'
more capacious boilers brought her vic
@. off Bedloe's Island by two lengths.
"Hurrah for the Magenta ," was the
,heer that swelled musically from score
If white Threats, and the ladies laughing
v went ashore few moments later. |
MANY plates of ice cream, boxes of cara |
nels and even five dollar bills were lost |
Dr. won by the fair passengers from Staten
island