The Republican journal., 1886-05-20
Two Nights at Sea and Day at the Hub.

Two Nights at Sea and q Day at the Hub.
The season of the year has come when business
and pleasure may be combined by trip to Boston
on of the fine steamers of the B. & b. S. S. Co.
1t was purely in quest of pleasure, however, that
the writer embarked in the palatial Penobscot last
Thursday for a trip to Boston and return, thus
having two nights on the water, and day for
sightseeing at the hub. We found in the Office
Messrs. Hanscome and Patterson, both clever and
courteous gentlemen and well known to the tray
cling public PuIser Hapscome can hand out the
key of seaslck-proof stateroom with one hand
and make change with the other while giving sail
ing directions to Il "tired' traveller that enable
him TO make more or less straight course to his
bunk, while Mr. Patterson has been known to start
up town to execute a commission quarter of a
mile away just as the hands began to haul in the
gang plank and to come aboard on the end of it
with thc-lobsters. We do not doubt but that if
he had had two more minutes to spare the Holsters
would have arrived all made into salad. And
that reminds of Steward Pote. We have often
thought that the bills of fare of steamers and ho-
tells give too much on paper, and that less variety
with better quality and cooking would fill the
bill, and the traveller, more satisfactorily. Mr..
Que caught on TO tllls lueS. lie provides inc
staple articles-some would kick if they did not
get beef steak three times day-with the delica-
cies in season, all nicely cooked and appetzingly
served For example, the bill of fare for Thurs
days supper contained, among other things,
broiled Penobscot salmon and Strawberries mot
Penobscot strawberries, of course] and Friday
evening the same with lobster salad also. Another
strong point with Steward Pote is the butter,
al,
the bread is good enough to match the butter. Al
together Mr.. Pote is nobly keeping up the reputl
ton of Belfast for good living.
How to kill time in Boston while awaiting the
hour for the boat to start homewarl has always
been a troublesome problem with the writer, but
on this occasion an expedition to the new yacht
Mayiower was determined upon. A policeman
interviewed as to which line of street cars
would land us nearest the yacht; but alas, he had
never heard of the Mayfower or the Puritan he
knew where South Boston was, but he never went
there and did not know what was there. Boarding
ear the conductor interviewed. He knew
all about the yachts where they We're to be seen,
etc, but confessed he would not cross the street
to see any kind of sailing craft. "Givc me
good game of base ball" said the fare -taker with
enthusiasm. Hereupon the scribe mildly intimated
that he could not be hired to sit out game of base
ball. but would have walked miles to the Pur-
tan scoop the Genesta The conversation Ian
gu>hed after that, and in due season the car
reached the jumping OF place, with yacht clubs
and boat houses near at hand and yards full of
yachts, while far away, at anchor, the Puritan
doomed up. 1t was Il cold day and the writer
pcrforce turned his back on the famous sloop and
started across the point for the yard OF Law
ley Il sons. Here the Maynower launched
the week before, lay alongside the wharf with
bowsrrit in, mast stepped and Triggers getting
ready to send her top,nast aloft Her boom, 90
feet in length and IA inches in diameter, lay upon
the wharf. There was no point from which a good
general view could be had of the craft. The wharf
was too near and a steam launch lay alongside the
MaytloWer, 50 that we could not Judge of her out
lines from the shore. ON deck she looked like 4
pumpkin seed, and her raking stern post and very
long oveihang are not handsome, or rather do not
appear so to the writer, whose ideas of marine
architecture may be Il little old fashioned 1t looks
as though lad taken the stern of an English
cutter to put on a Yankee soop, but we have no
reason to complain of the results shown in the
Pnritans performances last season. The May
flower is from the same yard and the same arch
tcct and though larger and somewhat different in
model from the Puritan the two sloops, seen in
the water are much alike as two peas. The
May flower is built of the best materials and put to
gethcr in the strongest manner but there is no fan
cy work and her internal fittings are not Al all pal
ata. Mahogany i, somewhat spaIingly used, and
the greater part OF the woodwork is pine, painted
white. Her skylights are set with common win
dow glass, but this probably is to be replaced with
a more substantial article Like the Puritan the
MAY flower is painted white above the water line
with gilt band elaborated into scroll work ON the
quarters. Her spars in dimensions would put to
blush many three -masted schooners Her mast
measurement from deck to hounds, 81 feet; mast
head II K feet diameter at deck 1915 inches The
toplts from hounds to truck is As feet, the ga 50
and the boom GO feet long and IA inches in diane
ter. The bowsprt is IS feet cupboard and IA inches
in diameter. When these spars are spread with all
the ~ail they can hold the Mayhower will present
an appearance for grandeur in IL sailing craft hard
to beat.
In the shed from which the Mayhower was
launched a large schooner yacht, also designed by
Mr.. Burgess, is approaching completion. She was
all plauked at the time of visit and good idea
could he had of her lines and if she is speedy
one her model bellies her. She has good breadth
OF beam with very sharp ends, and the material
used III her construction is of the best. If She
proves as formidable among the two stckers as the
Puritan in the single stickers, Mr.. Burgess and the
Mes7rs. Lawleys will be likely to have their hands
full. We old salts down east are glad to know that
the present craze for steam yachts is not driving
the sailing craft out of existence after the fashion
that the British tramps' have obliterated our mer
chant sailing marine, and will wish success to the
Boston sloops and the new schooner i'll the coming
contests.
Two OF the Boston dailies were revolutionized
last week. Half a dozen of the editorial staff of
the Advertiser and Record, including Mr.. j. f.
Chamberlain the managing editor, resigned, and
will take positions the Post which has under
gone another reorganization" A syndicate said
to have millions behind it-and they will be need
ed-has bought the paper and will endcavor to lift
it out of its present financial straits The Post has
lost its odtme constituency without securing a
new one, and doubts are expressed by practical
newspaper men to whether it can ever regain its
former status as dividend paying property.
There is certainly room for great Improvement,
which will no doubt be brought about and which