New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-17
Wayside Sketches.

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Having reached Bremen in safety.
remember your request and take thi
opportunity to write you.
Although left New Ulm on Arg. Is,
New York was not reached until Sept
4 llth where [ found Rev. Father Berg.
hold awaiting me.
Wednesday was spent in procuring
sundry articles for our trip, and en-
Thursday we visited Central Park.
This park is one of the great attrae.
tons Of New York City, not only on ac-
count of its area, that of 800 acres, but
also of its pleasantly arranged shady
walks. its hills, rocks and holloWs, and
its museum of natural history and Zoo
logical Garden. The latter engages
the attention of the majority of the Wis.
ltors, to the park and justly SO as the
animals which it contains are seen to a
much better advantage than in tray.
cling museum.
The next day was spent in Coney Is
land, Brighton and Manhattan Beaches.
the popular sea bathing resorts, and in
Brooklyn. Coney Island and the afore-
named beaches were almost deserted. it
being the last day of the bathing sea-
son, hence nothing of particular inter
est was to be seen.
But the proprietors of the different
restaurants seemed not to have forgot
ten how to charge, the prices for every
thing being generally exorbitant. At
Brighton beach an ascent of 800 feet
was made in an elevator formerly used
at the Philadelphia Centennial. A very
tine view Of the suburbs OF New York
and Brooklyn was obtained and an idea
given of how things look from bal
loon. Father Berghold had been in the
same elevator at the time of the Cen
tennial. The person in charge of the
elevator said that $500 were paid for
having it removed from Philadelphia to
its present location. [ was heartily
glad when ground was again reached.
AS nothing of particular interest was
presented at Manhatten Beach the rest
of the day was spent in Brooklyn.
After visiting places of minor inter-
est in the city, The New York and
Brooklyn bridge, undoubtedly one of
the greatest works of engineering in
the world, was then visited.
Although many thought at the time
OF its building that it would prove Il.
nancial failure, the receipts of last year
show the investment to be better than
the most saugu:ne dared predict. We
calculated that 1900 passengers passed
over per hour the day visited by us. The
foot passengers pay one, and those rid
ing in the cable cars three cents each.
The next morning we left New York
for Hoboken, where the piers of the
North German Lloyd line of steamers
are situated.
Although the above line is q German
one, English passengers are landed at
Southampton, England, hence many of
the passengers were English although
the majority were Germans. Our
ship, the Elder is a very large steel
vessel nearly 500 #. in length, 40 #
wide and 40 #. deep, has Sc fire places,
necessitating IS men handling the coal,
OF which $50 tons are used daily. The
officers and sailors are very gentleman.
" fellows, and everything seemed to
work like machinery, no swearing,
scolding or quarreling being heard dur
ing the whole trip. The board was ex-
cellent, fully eqnal to that of a first class
New York hotel, indeed L was surprised
at the general excellent equipment.
The fare from New York to Bremen
is from $40 to $3.50 first Glass and 500
second class. Our ship sailed l p. :,
Saturday September 10Th, and for the
first three days the weather and sailing
were very pleasant, but Tuesday noon
the water became more rough and all
were soon sick. One of the passengers
suggested that this was one of the re.
| deeming features of sea-sickness, viz
'They all get it, Thursday morning
signs of a storm presented themselves.
and at 2 p. N. the ship was tossing
terribly and in the evening still more
Many did not retire at all, for fear Of 8
mishap. One of our passengers, feel
ing very sick, asked the ship.surgeon
what was the best thing to do during
seasickness. Well says the doctor
1.-The best thing for a person to dc
| when he feels seasick is to yomit.' =
/ The poor fellow, who had already
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