The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
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i friends and board the morning train a
Sharon, Pa, bound for New York vi;
washington. After pleasant stay o
two days in the capital city, we agail
take the cars and duly arrive in New
I ork, where we meet by arrangement
two friends from Sharon, T. and NJ, al
bound for three months cycling tour
In Europe. Our business is transact
| ed as speedily as possible, engage lodg
ing at the Grand Central Hotel anC
slumber while Morpheus tells to eacl
a little story about the cradle of the
great deep. How on the morrow Nep
tune without the formality of an in.
production will grow familiar, and
ike a mother, lay us down to rock
and unmindful of all that is "like
lilies grow intensely white, wither,
but unlike them cannot de-"
Ire following day we board the
great steamship "City of Rome" the
largest passenger vessel af1oat, $50 feet
in length, 5215 feet in width, strongly
and beautifully constructed, en-
ploying 265 men, burning 27O tons of
coal per day. Precisely at II M. the
gang plank was raised and the grea
| floating palace steamed out of the har-
| Dor. Waving Il good-by to the multi.
tude of friends upon the pier, we turn
our faces toward the blue waters Of
the Atlantic. We pass the feet of the
Pedestal of Bartholdi Statue, Conev
Island, aud 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
mist. Our attention is now turned to
the passengers on board. We are four
OF eight hundred. most of them are of
foreign birth returning 10 their father
land. Only few native born Ameri-
cans. TO us, belonging to the latter
class, the ways of some of the would
be-elite are strangely peculiar. But it
is not our purpose in going abroad to
crltlcise foreign dudes or censure Gus
toms unlike our own, but we wish to
see things as far as possible with un-
prejudiced eyes, and for few months
study at the feet of our foreign mas.
ters. The accommodations of our
boat are great, but limited to the saloon
passengers. All is done for them that
can be done to make the voyage pleas
ant and enjoyabl But this is for
elgn company run upon 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
proverbial among travelling people 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
all seem to enjoy the beginning of the
voyage except few who are suffer.
ing from sea sickness. A sail now and
then appears on the horizon, we watch
it, determine its course, and at last it
sinks down behind the waters. Night
comes on and as the stars twinkle
above us we imagine that we are
watching them through the old kitch-
en- window at home, and that the
whistling of the wind through the rig
ging OF the ship is the moaning of the
maple trees. Thus the first day of a
sea-faring life is brought to close.
Our party rests well and we rise early
and go upon deck. Why is it that we
have been spared while dozens with
scarcely strength enough to walk have
crawled up to get the morning air and
lie like dead upon the floor? We can
only give them our sympathy for there
Is no cure for sea sickness only to
brave it out. The second day closes
like the first and we "turn in" again
to sleep. The third we become more
acquainted with each other, and in
turn we relate story Or sing a song,
frequently singing some Gospel hymn
together. Now and chen some one at
tempts to do or say something funny
that we may all indulge in a good,
hearty laugh. Our attention is fire.
quently drawn to the lower deck by an
old fiddler who says "He's been to
Amerika to play for weddings and
dances. We have listened attentive.
ly to him several times and conclude
that any one who can listen with any
degree of pleasure or even patience,
the chances are he won't be sea-sick.
But honor is due to the most feeble at
tempt to cheer up the disconsolate on
board ship, SO three cheers for Old
Ireland. Space does not permit of
writing at length of the many char
acters on board SO for a change let us
take trip down in the steerage, 1t is
dinner time, and about three hundred
persons with cups, tin pans, wash
dishes, ETC., are waiting for their re-
past. Great cans of soup, great tubs
of meat, great kettles of potatoes dealt
| out without the least observance of
table etiquet. Long racks with Ca
pacity for holding fifty or one hundred
persons are used for doTmitOries.
Now imagine, kind reader, three hun
dred people, Dutchmen, Englishmen,
Italians, Yankees and others chucked
| in, one above another. like mail in a u.
rs. postoffice, TO sleep and in a room
with little air and less light. Do you
wonder that passengers are sea-sick :?
| believe two ounce bottle full of
this atmosphere would make any re-
spectacle American sick fifty miles
from salt water. l am growing weak
er now and / must hasten upon deck.
Night comes on and the third day
comes to close. This is the 10Th of
May and we remember that to-day our
friends will scatter flowers upon the
graves of the honored dead. We cam
not help but think of home and how
appropriate it would be if we had a
few of your beautiful flowers to deco
rate the graves Of them that sleep be-
meath the rolling deep. Sunday is
bright and beautiful. We attend
church services in the saloon and had
the pleasure of hearing sermon from
the Right Rev., the Lord Bishop of
Carlisle. This was the event of the
day. All quiet at evening. We lie
down and wait anxiously for the NOR
row. 1t comes, but dark and gloomy.
lOur spirits are heavy, and we are get
ting tired of sea life. We lave count
ed the hours before landing over and
over again. We look at the water and
imagine we are making better time
but the sailors warrant us that we will