Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-19

AiotOh " oOuu hubklu when, after II advising girls to dress becomingly, to buy good materials and have them made | up in the fashion, he adds: "You must not | buy yards of useless stuff to make knot or | @ hounce of, nor drag them behind you over | the ground. And your walking dress must | never touch the ground at all. I have lost | much of the faith once had in the common | sense. and even in the personal delicacy of | average English women, by seeing how they | will allow the dresses to sweep the streets. as if it is the fashion to be seavengers."
 HILARY. MIR. wAKRMAN's J0URNEYINGs. The Glory of she American Pilo,-A
 Picture of Life on an ocean Liner
 The Sublime and tho Ridiculous
 Blend in Gruesome Comparison on
 . TransatIantic voyage-Ips All
 Right 1T You've Been There Before.
 AT SEA, June 23. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 There is only one place where the great Atlantic liners come to complete stop. un- less from accident, between their New York docks and Queenstown. This Is for a most interesting little incident and ceremonial, of which first trippers usually have no knowl- edge, and which even old voyagers seldom quite understand. It is called Cropping the pilot"
 If you are still upon the promenade deck and have got the mists of parting out of your eyes, you have perhaps wondered what that bronzed faced man in citizens clothing was doing up there among the bespangled officers upon the bridge. He seems the quietest fellow on board. His eyes are sin gling out the rev of channel buoys, or, with a glass, rapidly scanning the lower Jersey shores and the gleaming lines of the Long Island sands. or again glansing at this point or that along the sea horizon. His is an anxious face. The lines in it unconsciously picture the human look that tells of some- thing lost, or of great danger that there may bs. have seen men like him stand where he is with that same look, and the perspira- tion dripping from their faces in streams in the coldest of weather. This man is not the ships captain; but while he stands there. now and then giving low toned order, he is absolutely the commander of the ship. He is New York pilot, detailed from the lower Wall street pilot office to take your ship to sea. In ordinary cases his fee would be based upon the ships tonnage. With the larger ocean stsamships Bumped" price is made. He must remain aboard until Sandy Hook Is passed, and as much further out as the steamer captain desires. If 1t be pleas- ant weather, when you are abreast of Sandy Hook you will notice row boat, yawl built. manned by two men, putting out from the lightship anchored between your steamer and the Hook. This lightship is simply a New York hsrbor pilot boat. by pilot rtgu- lations made to do her turn" of "months stand" In this unsavory, though often excl ting, berth. Her crew are pilots' 'prentioes getting their frat lessons and experiences at pilots' duties and hardships. The boat be- ing rowed brisily towards your steamer in the channel Is called a "pilot's punt" and | the two oarsmen are knottily built prentice lads of eighteen or twenty years of age. At the same moment the punt heads for the steamer the latter's engines slow down. The | punt and the steamer meet at the point of au
 exact right angle. Lines are cast; the punt | made fast to fiOat alongside the ships port
 time the pilot has resigned his poet ou the
 bridge. The chief officer immediately takes his place. Stepping to the chart room the pilot certifes in the log book that the shil
 has duly cleared the port of New York; the
 ships commander certifes the pilots fee
 which pilotage Is duly paid by the New York
 agents of the linei and in moment more | tuS pilOt nus bcch dtoPpeo Ahto tbo Wais ing punt. By the ships rail stands the pur.
 ser or the mall steward. A thousand alden
 da good byes have been hastily written
 sealed and stamped, and hundreds of tele grams indited, between the docks and tn,
 Hook. These, the last slender thread be
 tween land and home and the irrevocabl
 6nality of your voyage, are let down by lin
 to the pilot, who takes them as with uneon
 scious tenderness in his arms. Iu anothe | fnat a,t tba ohip,s anuinaa ara auafn thunIer
 ing. The pilots punt shoots straight for th
 lightship. The officer on the bridge mods t
 the boatswain. whose shrill whistle "strike
 three fags." The quartermasters brin
 down the ships three fsgs-the "blus Peter or sailing day flag from the foremast. tn
 and the ensign from the Raff-as a dead sho 1 hunter will bring some gay bird of passsg from its flight quiverlngly to his feet. : fare we'll cheer ringe out over the port cid after the departing pilot. Your voyage ha ,, now really begun.
 There cau nowhere be noticed c dolorou change than that which in twenty four hour time after sailing day has come over th
 manner, appearance and environment (
 from ono to two thousand souls on yot
 great ocean steamer. Tho quiet people | dark gray serges and tweeds hold their ow !. handsomely. These were tho least hiiariot | and obstreperous at calling. Hut they con | prise but a triaing peroentage. Nearly tho rect have como aboard as they woaid a n | tend reception or the opera. with view
 making something or an impiession. Tn 6 quite forgiyable human weakness of ey \ being on tho alert to be thought well Of, h
 had every form of expression. This one h f CT has arranged to receive all manner .- needless correspondence and telegrams. Al Q other has actually sent to choice circls f P. 0. cards, with name of steamer, aailil - date and hour, with a delicate intimate - that the presence of dear friends at sailir l- would be charming token of regard. Tn if brings e score of carriages, a crowd of fol r a dozen or so regrets by messengers. ar
 what is still more acceptable, because of 1 @ impressiveness, 6 perfect ovation in fruit k bon bons and flowers. It is e feast to th - class of departing ones to overhear covert i I- quiries like, "Who are those people t "What party is thatI" "High rollers. th e crowd, ehr And the silks, diamonds al 3. They know it, and pleasant little thrill # conquest comes of 1t all. But the height e delight or despair to these nouveaux riches h found in the matter of parting floral offe .s ings. The chief steward of the great lin D. upon which am now writing estimates t le value of flowers cent to the cabin with l. twenty-four hours previous to calling as of 3b GU IchCHiuk tWcuty-ufo uuuuItu ut 10 larsi One stand never cost less. than thr D. hundred and fifty dollars. How its posse Ye BOT, wicked old crone of seventy, hid u
 derneath paint, wig and bangs, and besps h. gled with diamonds, glared with scorn at | sr fifty or one hundred dollar offerings pill ht upon the cabin tables! But some of O l. New York werthies are very clever abo In this steamship flower show.
 ge 'Do you see that magnificent fgurs or as the steward, pointing to piece four f. sd in height artistically formed into semblan ne of the coat of arms of quite . celebrat ne English house. s'TLe lady of the family in whom this was sent claims to be of mol cd birth, although her husband sells rum for si- living. Shs crosses often with us; and 6 is usually has the handscmest offering ss ss aboard. know her florist very we'll. S as makes the order herself. Just before sgo in ashors' gong is sounded, if you keep shs in lookout, you will see that her offering nd suddenly whisked ashore. "Soores of ' 'as do that"
 of "where Is the point in the maneuverT' mt "Oh, Q 'crasher' on the rest of the pass H. gers at half price. The flowers go back nd the florists, are taken to pieces, and are fe, sold in cheap bouquets at the ferry hou 1st before night"
 nd did keep . sharp lookout and did e, = t.-.~hsv oQ kha Anank v(an~n ff.hJ.l