The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-06-03
Our Georges Letter.

to be sick. is the water route. via the Boston
and Savannah Line. This line runs two iron
steamships. the City of Macon and the Gate
City. one leaving Boston and Savannah each
Thursday and arriving at the opposite port the
following Sunday. With letters to Messrs.
Nickerson and Crosby. Boston agents of the
line, we We're taken charge of hy Mr.. Augustus
! Nickerson, and introduced to Capt. Kelly, and
Purser Hall, and assigned nice room. just oft
the main saloon. on board the City of Macon,
| which is the larger ship of the two. Our trunk
was checked to savannah, and our grips con-
tanning few of the necessaries for the trip
We're slowed under the lounge and our coats and
wraps hung up on the hooks. our bar. in case
of sickness was established in the towel rack
which completed the arrangements for our COM
fort. The room has two berths the lower one
narrow, and the upper one narrower. \ set
bowl. two pitchers of water and a lounge across
the room completes the furniture while win
dow looked out on the ocean, our room being
on the port side.
The Boston and Savannah line forms the
most direct and cheap transportation of freight
from New England through the South and
Southwest, railroad connections being made at
savannah to all parts of Georgia and Florida
General merchandise constitutes the outward
freight. while cotton, lumber and fruit is the
principal return cargo. Having first class pas
>enger accommodations, polite and attentive
officers, and an excellent table. the line is well
patronized by travellers during the fall and
winter seasons to the South and in the, spring
and summer to the North. The City of Macon
is an iron steamship of about 300 tons. built
by John Roach at Chester, Pa. in 1877. She is
a propeller and runs about eleven knots an
hour. The saloon on the main deck is hand
>omely finished in walnut and maple, is well
furnished and has an upright piano, which
by the way. is in tune. We were most high
y favored in having three passengers who
could take up music with both hands
and fire it about the saloon, while that
human tiend, who sits down and plays with
one finger and whistles in another KEY. was
not aboard. How this happened don't know
Capt. Kelly carries Il deck load of music in
himself, and can cuff the ivory like a master
and sing like a revivalist. He can pilot that
piano through the whole Moody and Sankey
sci Of gospel hymns and not strike rock or a
flat. Capt. Kelly is an old deep water sailor
and is well acquainted with all our old salts at
home and in SearspOrt, having met them dur
ng his foreign voyages. He is very intelli-
gent, well posted gentleman, and is Cuptajn of
the City of Macon in fact we'll as name. Mr..
Hall. the pur>er. is a genial, polite gentleman
who understands the loneliness that passen-
gers sometimes feel, and he takes especial
pains to make them at home during the run.
and his room is always open, a loaing place
for amy one who cares to drop in. While bol-
inc him for information ! discovered that his
mother was Linconville lady, and his father
came from Rockland, although he is a Boston
boy himself This accident of birth ought not
to be laid up against him for you can see he is
0tnt0St Il Maine man. Although it is our inn
mortal soul that we need to look out for in the
future. there is 4 small tract of territory in our
interior department that needs our immediate
and constant attention. and (Which comes high
but we have to have it, ! refer to our Stom-
achs. Although mine is only number
youths size, it has cost me more money to
keep it furnished than all the wealth | have
laNished with prodigal hand in every other
way. Perhaps you don't see the connection
between my stomach and the Savannah Line of
Steamers. Well, I'll tell YOU Being on the
ship from Thursday afternoon till Monday
morning, the table, and not only the table but
the food that Is put on it. is matter of some
moment 10 the passenger. There is no doubt
but that we live like fighting cocks Capt
Kelly (and also understand Capt. Hedge of
the Gate city, sets Il fine table. The food is
excellent, is well cooked and served, while
the bill of fare is varied, and will suit the most
fastidious, unless he is seasick. when grilIed
angel with troubles served from a gold dish
wouldn't tempt him. On Sunday for dinner
we had lobster salad, turkey. salmon. beef.
green peas, ice cream, several other meats, lots
of side dishes, and buildings and pastry. and
in the morning please understand among other
good things we had baked beans and brown
bread. Notwithstanding all this array of edi-
blcs. they had little or no attraction to part of
per Thursday. Five at breakfast Friday, four
at dinner. three at supper and one at breakfast
Saturday. and she held the fort until We ar
rived at Savannah.
And thus they vanished one by one,
Like leaves and flowers the group is gone.
or words to that effect. Why those ladies
simply hove themselves away. They were
retched set all of them. This seasickness is Il
singular thing. 1t is as natural for woman
to be >easck as it is to breathe, and when thew
are not is the exception. We had no bad
weather at all. 1t was little hubby off Hat
tera>, that is, the ship rolled trifie, as if suf-
fermg with slight case of stomach ache but
there was no necessity for any one being sick |
l have seldom taken the trip between Belfast
ana boston when it was not roughcr. and my
better half, who was never sick before thought
1t to be the correct thing to put in one dav w.
ing flat on her back. only raising her head long
enough to occasionally make deposit in tin
contribution box that was hung on the edge of
the berth for the benefit of those who felt dis
posed to ante up. There are ALWAYS three
classes of passengers on ship. One class
will come aboard with hand over the mouth. |
and make bolt for the side of the ship. or
dive down into the stateroom, determined |
to be sick any how. Another class is lust as |
confident that it will not be sick, under any cir
cun>tance. This class is very liable to find
that mistake has been made in casting the |
horoscope, and that it is the unexpected that
oNertakes them. The third class is the most
amusing to study. The members of this class
have never seen salt water, but theoretically |
they know the whole thing. They have taken
long voyagcs-in prnt-and have had the ship |
roll and the waves run mountains high, (again
in prlnt,) and have never been sick. because !
they bad an unfailing remedy against that |
terrible disease, $ mal-de mer," which is |
nothing but imported sea sickness. There
Is nothin" in this wide. wide world so
terribly deceitful as Il ''sure cure for sea-
sickness The City of Macon left Boston in |
the middle of the afternoon, and at supper |
time young lady from Kentucky appeared at |
the table. Her seat was at Capt. Kelly's right
hand, ami during the meal he asked her if she
had been on the water before. She never had
"Oh! then We shall not see YOU at the table
again / presume:' said the Capt. Lifting her
"blue grass region" eyes to the Captains she /
asked ''Why:' 'Oh! WELL perhaps
you will not care to come-somc don't"
"1ou think I'll be sick Captain*' sob! no,