The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-15
HO! FOR EUROPE.
The Trip Across the Atlantic.

Two friends, 81. and ", bid adieu to
friends and board the morning train at
Sharon, Pa, bound for New York via
Washington. After a pleasant stay OF
two days in the capital city we again take
the cars and duly arrive in New York,
where we meet by arrangement two
friends from Sharon, T. and N. all bound
for three months cycling tourin Europe
Our business is transacted as speedily as
possible, engage lodging at the Grand
Central Hotel and slumber while Nor.
pheus tells to each little story about
the cradle of the great deep: How on
the morrow Neptune without the formal,
ity of an introduction will grow familiar,
and, like mother, lay us down to rock,
and unmindful of all that is "like Lilies
grow intensely white, wither, but unlike
them cannot die"
The following day We board the great
steamship "City Of Rome," the largest
passenger vessel aaoat, 5s6 feet in length'
52a feet in width, strongly and beautiful;
.ly constructed, employing 265 men, burn.
ing 27O tons of coal per day. Precisely
at ~ m. the gang plank was raised and
the great floating palace steamed out Of
the harbor. Waving a goodbye to the
multitudeo of friends upon the pier we turn
our faces toward the blue waters of the
Atlantic. We pass the foots of the Pc
destal Of Bartholdi statuet, Coney Island
and drop our pilot off Sandy Hook. We
are now upon salt water and our beloved
country soon fades out in the distance.
Farewell, the dearest spot on earth is
now behind the midst. Our attention is
now turned to the passengers on board.
We are four Of eight hundred, most Of
them are Of foreign birth returning to
their fatherland. Only few native
born Americans. To us, belonging to
the latter. class, the ways of some Of the
would be elite are. strangely peculiar.
Butitis not our purpose in going abroad
to criticise foreign dudes or censure Gus
toms unlike our own, but we wish tosee
things as far as possible with unprejudic-
ed eyes, and for a few months study atthe
feet Of our foreign masters. The accom-.
modations of our boat are great, but
limited to the saloon passengers. All is
done for them that can be done to make
the e5voyage pleasant and enjoyable. But
this is "a foreign company run upon q
European plan largely, and naturally
there seems to be a great difference
between the gentry and the supposed
lower classes. So obvious is this that it
has become proverbal among travelling
|speople that the Anchor Line cares we'll
for first class passengers but the second
and third take care of themselves, The
weather is unusually fine and most of
the passengers are up on the decks and
|esll@ seem to enjoy the beginning Of the
voyage except q few who are suffering
from sea sickness. A sail now and then
appears on the horizon, ne watch it, de-
termine its course, and at last it sinks
down behind the waters. Night comes
on: and as the stars twinkle above us We
tbranaS a TG .tba , old t;tchen; window at 4 home.
sniyu ss.t tn ,ha M wb;atl;no nf the wind
anu shas ~ sae ,an;ner ~ ~ tho chin IA the
so,, saaou o of X a3na gnle trees Thus the
Goan sN.a lug g .s. g rns life is ihronpht IN
nioI g % o.. @ ~ rtu rea3a ,vell and we rise
asiose. Sa ~ Pc Pc. ,lacI 80 WIS & that
eall{ sa anu ssau ~ psnarsJA .h;ia dozsns with
we nave 5geeu sRa.eu VIZ gneHs msiL hove
scaIcel sslep ~ - eay a die dpl;e
SIaWiea - ri "a aonr 9We can anly
aihe ugau ur pnr sam , nstbv @ for there is no
give susm 90 @ s;oIness = oni2stS brave Il ont
The GI.e ~, saooHd dsn.closes ,};ta the frst and
Ia'.s.,.sn ao s ;rj, aso;y tn sloene.y1The third
re-, ao .sa M : hacom :, 3 more ACQUAINTED with
uey = -Tt,rn NO arejota a storv
eaon o.nsis :. ssaS @ frsanantly singing soma
.. sIng a.soss, - asat ti,er Nnw 5end then
oosPel ~ nts - 10 - sav someth;nr
so!ne.onI as. sa rasv .il;nd,,1ye in Good
ianny ss.s ,a,,s,, "' @ 6ny s,tant;on 10 freo5snt.
y, hsAa ) y m nn13n stbp 1inwer deck by an old
fdlIae who says.He's been to Amerika
5to nlaysfor weddings and Dances We
hove listened attentiyely to- him several
times and conclude that any one who can
listen listen with any degree of pleasure or
5aga, ..ueU .notienca, the chances are he won't
10 aao s;ck Rnt honor is due tothe most
fseSIs s IIe. sattemnt to cheer up the disconso.
iets ieto nm , hoard. shin. SO three cheers for
jGIS 1,II .freland SPACE does not permit of
writine @ at length of the many characters
IN ~ hoard 40 for n change let us take a trip
down A in tia steerage. It is dinner time
and and ahont three hundred persons with
cnna cn tin mans wash dishes, etc. are wait
:;ng IN fnr n he;r.repast. Great cans of soup,
sIs areat ,lbs Of meat, great kettles of po!a.
ssass daajt ont without the least obsery.
av9. ence % If table setiouet Long racks with
O. ancs NJ noe;tv for holding fiity or one hun.
.drsS p; nersons are used for dumitories..
Now ;mao;ne kind reader. three hundred
neonIe rsy Dntcbmep Epglishmen, Italians,
S ySsptease and others, chucked in one above
enntber- 81 l;Te- n1ail2in U, S. postoffice, to
] slsen and ina room with little air aud
| I less l;ght DO you wonder, that passen
aera are sea sick 2. Ibelieye. q two ounce
.SRottIa Sott a. fnlI of this atmosphere would make
anv ] resnectabIe American sick fifty miles