Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17
NANTUCKET UP TO SNUFF.
OLD-TINIE FURNITURE is NO
LONGER SOLD FOR A SONG.

NEW YORK, Aug, IA favorite trip
| with people who want to take sea v0y-
age, and have not time to take long one,
is the journey by water from here to Port
land, Me, and back. The journey occu-
pies thirty-slx hours each way, and one
can spend from day and a halt to two
days and half In Portland and return on
the same steamer A wiser plan is to
stop at Martha's Vineyard, the halfway
house, and from there sail over to Nam
tucket, which is so small and 80 far out to
sea that being on it is practically the
same as being in a ship. This latter trip
have recently made for the fourth time,
and confidently recommend IL TO person
of limited leisure who wants to put
few days where they will do the most good
to his health.
Although / speak entirely from sani-
tarY standpoint, there are really few
places more ENJOYABLE than Nantucket.
In the first place the old town itself is so
quaint and queer that there is no end OF
fun TO visit its various objects OF interest.
Then there is always, of course, sailing
and fishing, as well as bathing, while. as
at other summer resorts, tennis and roller
skating form the land amusements.
Nantucket's Columbus is Mrs. Eastman
johnson, wife OF the painter She says
that she discovered the island in 1868. Up
to that time, she insists, Nantucket was
practically unknown to the inhabitants of
the main land. She has spent a portion,
II not the whole, of every summer since
then on the island she rescued in her own
opinion from oblivion, and one of the pret-
test cottages which contrasts with the
ancient dwellings of the old town belongs
TO her.
People who, like Mrs. johnson, remem-
ber Nantucket as it was ten or fifteen
years ago, are fond OF lamentlng the
change it has undergone. Nothing could
be less changed. Excepting that a score
or more Of cottages and a hotel or two
have been built along the shore on the
outskirts of the town, while n narrow
guage railway runs across the island,
nothing is changed. The people, to be
sure, are becoming perhaps more grasp
ing, or, rather, they are realizing the
value Of those of their possessions which
find favor in the eyes of visitors.
GENUINE OLD-FAsMONED FURNITURE.
Time was when one could buy genuine
old-fashi0ned furniture Of all sorts at the
cheapest possible prices in Nantucket,
but contact with the outer world through
the annual influx of summer visitors has
changed all that. A Nantucker now
knows that his grandfather's clock, even
if IL has stopped never to run again, and
the rest of the ancient family furniture
are worth many times their original cost
owing to the still existing craze for old
fashioned things, and bargains in such
articles are, consequently, no longer to be
had.
The furniture which one can still buy,
however, Is still genuine and not imIta-
tiOns, which is not the case with most
household articles Of Old-iashioned shape
that one sees. / once made the mistake
of asking the probable age Of a porrInger
belonging to a family old enough 10
possess a genuine article of ancient date,
and the owner, with visible annoyance,
Acknowledged that the thing had been re-
Gently purchased of some jeweller. MOrti-
fed by my having mistaken a spurious
thing for a genuine, l made another mis-.
take by saying that as my family owned
one which was nearly two hundred years
old | naturally supposed hers to be equal
ly ancient.
NANTUCKET's OPPORTUNITIES.
Nantuckers are but slowly learning to
make the most of their opportunities. 1t
WAS only last summer that old Mr.. Sylvia
(Phmbus what a name } came to the con-
clusiOn that he ought TO charge a small
fee tor admission into his windmill, which
IS ore of the sights Of the island. AL
though the fee was but cents, he made
$40.
While the natives have changed but lit
tie, the visitors are not wha5 they used 10
be. Nantucket, Ia fact, is putting on airs.
But year or two ago one could go to
dance there without changing the blue
fiannels one had been sailing in. Even
''bOiled shirt WAS not required. At a
ball at the new hotel the other night,
evening dress was made requisite for
admissi0n II be cares about dancing.
therefore, the visitor 10 Nantucket must
take his swallow-tail coat with MIN.
The most characteristic feature, per-
haps, Of Nantucket Is the longevity Of its
inhabitants. For example: The man who
once drove me up from the beach got out
and walked when we came 10 n particu-
larly sandy place. In order, apparently.
to induce me to follow his example, he re-
marked that he was "A years Old. Con-
ceive OF septuagonarian working as a
hackmaul
If some Democrats think that Cleve.
land is not turning the rascals out fast
enough, there are Republicans who are
perfectly satisfied with him. A man IN
Martha's Vineyard, who voted for Blaine,
told me that he considered Cleveland a
model President, and was more than glad
he and not the man he voted for occupied
the White House. lie added hat he was
not alone in his opinion, but was. on the
contrary, q representative OF n cOnsider0-
able class Of Massachusetts Republicans
THERE ARE NEW YORK REPUBLICANS
VINO are equally agreeably disappointed
Ia the course OF the Democratic President.
l know OF public man here who not only
voted for Blaine but used 10 say that ho
would vote for the devil II he were on the
Republican ticket, who was summoned 20
the White House 20 consult with the
President In regard % sanitary matters.
He returned full OF praises Of the Presi.
dent. He described him as the evident
professor OF that somewhat rare quality,
good common sense, which Is often, II not
slwnys. better than genius for the govern
ment OF x people. This Is the opinion Of a
man prejndiced In the opposite direction,
who had an opportunity OF seeing the
President In perfectly informal way, and
not AZ dress parade,
FOR THe INTERVIEW TERMINATING
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON,
the President asked his visitor 10 stay
70 dinner. The invitation was accepted,
aud tue visitor had the pleasure OF having
a family dinner with the ruler OF the ma
tiOn, no one but himself being present, In
addition % Miss Cleveland and a friend
who was staying with her, aud the Presi-
DENTS secretary. The lmplicity--albeit |
N was not exactly 0f n JeiisfsOnian char
nctor--Wllh " hich che meal was served.
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