Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31

her pier, with her proud PROV up and her rig
giug scraping the sky as though to say come
and see me and die: She cost only one mil
lion eight hundred thousand dSllarsi she is
pure white and floats the English flag. She
draws thirty-One feet of water afore and thirty
three aft. Her main salon is the most sump-
toous apartment conceivable, the pure white
woodwork of the ceiling is carved and filled in
with gold, an electric globe suspended from the
center OF each of the hundreds of medalons;
the carpets, tapestries and hsngings are OF rich
gold glinted oriental stufis, and the dome over
center connecting with libraries, smo king rooms,
etc, is of glass tinted and ground in the Same
shades. A superb Steiuway In case to harmon
iZe with the room Is fitted into a niche grand
enough for cathedral organ. The cabin seats
rooms or Hobbies are paved with thing the
exact counterpart OF fine red and cream stone
tiles, but made of rubber and delightfully."-
spongy-responsive and noiseless to the foot.
The service is OF solid silver and presided over
by a French chef In fact the Teutonic is one
of tn very finest boats in the world, and well
worth the trip to New York to see. 4 prettier,
but not so handsome a boat is the French
steamer champagne. , staunch little rig, as
Her cabin is in crimson and gold,
her staterooms modelled after some court
beautys bondoir, and her hunkeys themselves
exquisites that would put to blush the manners
of our 400. Passage to Havre on her costs 500,
including wines. She was to sail the next morn
ing at 8 O'Clock. and there were only foui things
that prevented four long hours staying aboard.
viz, $500!
DEAR GAzETrE-I don't want 20 hear any
thing more OF Yankee stinginess, .closeness,
selfishnssS and all that sort of rot as the
newspapers here call it.. This household in
which we are soTortunate as to bedomiciled is the
very exponent of hospitality and thoughtful
ness. It is to the son of the family that we are
indebted for all this pleasant and interest
with the Old Dominion steamship company.
and though young man is an eI-
perienced NAVY" having made the trip
around the world and is just beaming over with
aneCQOte. eDlgOde
romance, backed by fluent tongue and a ready
wit. His mother, now IN her sixty-third year,
has never lived more than fifteen minutes walk
from the spot where she was born. has never
been inside = theater or witnessed q dance or
horse race, is dear. white haired, rosy
checked, gentle woman, full Of quaint Eastern
sayings and radiant absolutely with devont
love Of God and faith in His word and promises
truly unique and beautiful in this great sim
teeming city, and to the wandering, unhappy
victim of ambition, an anchor to the shore of
peace and good nessl-this home where even
the marketing is done according to Gods
word where hymns are sung on Sabbath
evenings and tenderness and unselhshDess direct
the daily life!
saw dainty bit Of prettiness in Washington
Square yesterday. In the basin OF the fountain
there are great clusters Of lilies, blue, yellow.
green, and as shiny as satin. On one particu-
larry large lie af four of those tiny, saucy, Eng
lish sparrows had lighted. their separate
weights having made little hollows In the sur
face into which the water ran, and in which
each parrow was taking bath. Such a splut-
tering such q chatteTlng and dabbling of brown
wings you never saw. Wasn't il pretty sight
to bless the eyes of tired walkers and little
pale-cheeked children, who get their only
glimpse OF the country in these public parks and
squarest
Talk about democracy New York is the
most democratic spot under the American aagi
If you don't believe it, 90 down to the battery
on Friday evenings and watch the crowds colse
to hear the Ninth regiment band By the way,
these public concerts q great educational
and refining power in this wicked old city
There is not prettier spot anywhere than Bat
terry Place, with its sheer green lawns, big shady
trees and white walks. In front is the ocean,
and at either side the old and the new
Castle Gardens where SO many smaller but more
gilded .'castle gardens in the air'' have tum-
grant who builI them. There were fully 10. 900
people present, beginning with tins rosy
checked, contented middle class, who came
early and occupied chairs near the
music EtInd, holding their babies and lunch
baskets In placid oblivion OF the discomfort;
then came the ''hoodlum,' tramp and
tough" lounging about the enclosure smok-
ing vie pipes and reeking OF vile beer-here
and there pathetic old 1righ face lighted mp
sweet wings OF ''KAthleen Mavoorneen. - Or
fswearing Of the Green''-(for the Ninth
band is strictly an Irish band). Further
back came the "bon-ton," transients. tourists
like ourselves. bent upon seeing ''the great
in al Its pbasesi Oh, it was .
picture worth studying, and made one long for
the facile pencil OF Rosa Bonheur to transfer
it red hot and pulsiDg to the undying canvas
BELLE Hunt.