The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-08-28

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FRIDAY. AUGUST %, 1885.
BACK FROM THE ATLANTIC.
With many regrets that We could not
make our stay longer we prepared for
our return journey. Nc. had become
SO facinated with fishing that he took
hook and line in his pocket with clam
for bait and while waiting at the wharf
for the freight to be handled previous
to the departure of the boat, he Joined
crowd of boys fishing and succeeded
in catching sculpin and thus ignO-
minously ended Mes magnificent fish
ing experience.
After leaving the old home we
watched one house after another recede
from view until at last only the grand
old mountain was in sight: this we
could see fer fifty or sixty miles along
the coast. Our first landing was at
Brooklyn where we had few mo-
ments and occupied our time in visit
ing the sardine works. They catch in
large quantities near here, small
herring and put them up like sardines.
lISt sttdhtDS dHu thCu Lying tuChi
in Olive oil; they are afterwards sun
dried and put up in oil. These works
give employment to 145 people, putting
up daily 200 cases of 200 boxes each.
The trip around the coast was very
pleasant. At Rockport we saw a new
ship on the stocks, being the largest
ever built in the state, and, with the
exception of the "Great Republic" the
largest sailing vessel ever built. In
Rockland harbor We saw Mother Ca
ry's Chicken; 1 mention this for
the benefit of your marine readers, as it
was the first one l ever saw on this
coast.
Arriving ut Rockland we learn that
we cannot 60 to Portland until next
day, so we take in the city. More and
better lime is burned here than in any
other town in the world, | suppose.
The entire harbOr front is lined with
lime kilns. Not our poor little ragged
lime kilns of the west, but great patent
kilns turning out 125 to 200 barrels of
lime each day, employ ing hundreds of
men and giving employment to hun
dreds of vessels in bringing wood for
burning and carrying lime to every
port OIL the Atlantic coast. We were
at once taken charge of by City Mar
shall Brackley, not, however, in his Of
fetal capacity, but as comrade of the
G. \. r. and an old army friend of the
writer. and together with the COM
mander of the Post and other COM
raies he entertained us royalty until
our departure the next morning. We
were taken into the country several
miles and shown the quarries where the
lime rock is found. Going down into
them they look like the canyons of
Colorado, and run for miles all over the
country. We visited the G. A. r.
hall which is convenient and splendid
in all its appointments. Edwin Libby
Post is the best, all things considered,
in the state. Now over ten years old
it has never teen behind day in its
reports: it has splendid membership,
many of its members formerly belong
Ell to the old 4th Maine that had such a
brilliant record. The last report writ
ten by that gallant soldier Gen. Phil
Kearny, speaking of the troops under
his command at the battles Of Grove
ton and Second Bull Run says, "The
staunch Fourth Maine under Walker,
true men of a rare type, drove on
through the stream Of battle irresist- |
IDLY" Gen. kearny was killed after
writing this report and it was never
signed, but was submitted by Gen. |
Birney, his successor 1t also has |
many of the I'd Maine Battery (Hall's)
among it membership. Gen. Tillson |
ali artillery officer who went into the
war with but one leg, serving all
through and steadily advanced in rank
from Lieutenant to Brigadier General,
and won an enviable reputation, he is
also a member. The Post went in a
body to Portland and 1 am convinced
thai the quartermaster is not short in
his accounts of cooking utensils, but am
in. doubt As to the Posts that camped
near them. The citizens have just pre-
sented the Post with magnificent
banner that bears the proud device,
''FrOm the Home of Gen. Hiram G.
Berry, We shall !long remember our
visit to the Rockland comrades; We
have never been treated better Tor
oftener) than while there. In the
morning Comrade Moody, of the S. of
'. had a carriage to take US to the
rain, and we reluctantly babe adieu to
,ur old and new made friends, and left
or the west.
Before leaving we formed the ac-
Iuaintance of c. A. COombs, superin-
Iendent of the Knox & Lincoln Il. r.,
md had very pleasant chat with
lim from there to Bath. Mr.. Coombs
vas formerly of Kansas" having liv-
ID near Black Jack i'm "the fifties" and
'elated many interesting incidents of
'arly times. He commenced his rail-
'oading in Kansas, having charge of
me division of John Browns under
ground railroad. Crossing the Kenne-
,cck at Bath, we took the Eastern r.
{. 10 Portland and the Boston 4 Maine
I. II. for Boston, passing Old Orchard
5eech where we had spent day.
Through EXter, n. H., Haverhiil, l
Mass, and many other towns We ar !
i've early in the p. m. at Boston and ,
axe up quarters at the Parker House. 1
This was Oh Thursday: we remained [
lere until Sunday evening. During
he time We visited Bunker Hill, climb t
d to the top of the monument, 29S t
tops, and spent very profitable hour \
n viewing Boston and surroundings S
rom this dizzy height. We visited s
he Charlestown navy yard, one of the I
est yards in the country, now almost +
eserted, no work whatever be-
ng done. In this yard is the celebrat- b
d rope walk wherein is manufactured n
IL the cordage used in our navy. We t
pent nearly one day ut the wharves il
monS the shipping and watched with Il
interest the vessels diScharging cargoes g