Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-07

the attractions Of ''the village Long Branch
is quite city. TO be sure, its shop-windows
do not compare very favorably with those OF
Fourteenth and TWENTIETH streets, nor its
restaurants with De monico and Sherry's,
though the outing caps for Twenty-Five
cents and clam chowder for ten cents
VIII oh one finds mere are just as good as that in
New York ar double the price BY the way,
while eating our chowder, we were entertained
by quaint OF Cf oientalism which chimed in
wei with the phantasmagorical aspect of the
surroundings generally. To begin with, the
house was one OF the very Oldest on the island.
Iow-rattered fisherman S hut OF sixty years
ago, mOderniZed with cheap wall paper and
Wore estershiTe sauce bottles In one corner
was an old tashiO ned ''cheSt OF drawers, - ma
10 any. and inaccessible al to looking glass.
On the wave battered stone window ledge were
some Tots of geraniums, looking irreverently
fresh in their ancient environment. At one
OF the modern tables was our party.
RED CHECKED AND BLUE L1PPED
from our sea bath, chattering small talk and
smacking our lips over the Teppery chowder.
native costume. in native cruss-egged pose,
showing off their baskets of fine linens to the
landlords buxom daughters. What gentle.
sweet oices they had. in their broken English!
Whist mild Eastern eyes, with almond shaped
lids and drotping ebon lashes! What small.
brown hands manipulating the dainty hand
kerchiefs as sirlly as woman, insisting they
were ale so fen, handle embroidern' What
queer little embossed velvet caps on their black
hair, ana how complaisantly ami comfortably
they remained in their, apparently, unnatural
pose while the women rubbed the delicate
fabrics between their coarse, red fingers and
haggled over the prices! 1t was g)oI to sit
there and watch them; to let go the reins o I
Imagination and see that rough walled, FISH
wife, tar-rope, falt-alred interior sixty years
ago. when no Ottoman foot had ever
touched its threshold. and now to-day, with its
ingram carpet, hungry tourists, tacetious land
lord soft voiced Turks and-Worchestershire
sauce bottles! Verify ''ontres temps ontres
moeurs." How good the chowier was, and how
nipping the cold as we resumed our stroll. EY-
erybody bundled up in fur capes and Mack
INT shas a n he'd nv in hartt
low dog cart, her ewes and checks shining III the
cold air, her horse scarcely touching the ground
and her stolid English groom sitting behind.
Then came dozens of family carriages, public
cabs and one great gldeo
oPESwINDowED TALLYHo COACH
with its six foam-covered horses, its smart dri-
hungry passengers home from the Monmouth
races. 1t a thrilling pretty scene
but the waves had dealt roughly with US that
day. our toes tingled from the pebbles and our
cheeks and lips from the salty breakers; our
palms red from holding the slippery rope;
the chowder ana wine had drawn the energies
stomaohward and the tired head wanted rest.
II was sweet. TO drag along to ones room, crawl
into a flannel dressing gown and felt slippers.
sunset and lie down under lambswool blankets
for q snooze before O'Clock dinner. Now
that flannel, felt and lsmbswoop' business
may strike you as an exaggeration, but it is not.
The weather to-day is quite as cold as our mid
November.
estnaval Importance in New York since the war.
It was the Jay appointed by the navy depart
ment in Washington for the rendering up on the
part OF America the remains OF the great John
Ericsson to his native land, Sweden. Since his
death seventeen months aYo his body has lain
in the Marble cemetery on Second street, whence
it was taken on Saturday afternoon after impos-
ing ceremonies, carried to the hearse by six
Americans who served as seamen or the mont
tors built by Capt. Ericsson during the war;
thence attended by an escort 5000 citizens and
a full representation of the Tinted States army
and navy, as well as numerous societies and
the I" Baltimore" appointed by Secretary Ira
cy the very best vessel belonging to the
American navy" and hence a worthy bearer
OF bhose honored remains back to the shores OF
th'-ir nativsS land, which they had left in pride
and strong slanhood to serve q foreign govern
ment II mighty scene that solemn, long
procession, Sesded by pls.oons OF police, mill
tary ana marine regiments, societies IN uni
FORM, citizens IN carriages, the open hearse
drafed IN the blended days of America and
sweden, all marching slowly and reyerently
20 the funeral march Played by the Maynard
oand; At the Battery the pro esso1 was met
bearing
~, FLAGS AT HALFMAsr.
1here were the cruisers Chicago HAt-
Ianta ana Yorktown" Secretary Tracy's |
yacht. the government steamer 'Dispa,ch, - |
Sis steam launches and forty cutters, gigs,
ttaIseSs And eaIges-truly q cosmopoli-
IAN exponent OF tins Democrats continent
as the baInmore turned her bow seward each |
var snip ~ ancnor in the bay hoisted the Swe-
olsn nag and hred q salute OF tWeuty-one guns: