Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-25
A MIDSUMMER RANBLE.
tEOFFCT CITORrS AMONG THE
ELtE NOSES

Fr'voling Mt Narrasanset Pier Tho
Hymphs Eathing I,oston Still Serene
zen" Thaxter's P"etical Creation - A.
liar Blaine, Senator Mander-
son, and General Greedy OF for New
brunswick.
New brunswick, Canada. letter.
week ago snatched my wife off the
red hot gridiron of Washington and hicd
me away to the North. bound ON an in
definite wandering. We did not care
Where our Journey was Intercepted or
terminated. We had no itinerary. I
hate itineraries TO be bound by an
iron rule of travel, to be due at par.
tlcular place ut a particular moment
there is nothing more dreadful, cxcc-t
perhaps, sweterin. at home.
So, as said. we cut ndrift just before
we were broiled to death. and started
North, bound nowhere in particular, but
resolved to find cooler days
We found them scattered all along the
shore. Breezy days and heavenly nights!
Fresh bluetish and late Strawberries and
savory clans!
Narragansett was the first place
we struck. Our English cousins do not
say they strike" a place when they
travel; the suggestion of a tllump does
not seem to them TO express the serene
idea of arrival. But our American
struck is certainly a good word forus;
and when | caught a vicious clil on the
forehead from the corner of 7-story
truck l at Cnce remarked, I'VE have
struck Narragansett Pier
What surprised me most was the com
parative vacuity of this famous Rhode
Island watering place. Nobody there!
Season not yet well begun the first week
self, the hotels as big as Westminster
Abbey roosting above high water mark
! along the bay: OF what avail the fa.'
famed picturesque Casiuo--heal quarters
of aristocratic frivoling? OF what avail
the possession of an eX war governor for
chief of police: OF what avail tie
odorous clam bakes?
A few premature persons .ounged in
the Casino, and few dozen wallowed
III the warm sand of the cove beach and
disported in the waves like lively dol
plins. Dainty nlaidens with hare feet
fought the cold breakers and were tossed
higl. in air to the music of a laugh,
then shivered and rushed to the encoun-
ter again as if performing a severe but
needful duty. For. to tell truth, the
water north of 40 degrees is still fraught
with "reminiscences of tie icebergs off
the Banks
One day and night we five raused at
the Pier, then pressed on. Tho roaring
train, then couple of hours in Boston,
of which I have only TO report that the
majestic Common, the peerless State
House, and the ineffabe Boston accent
are all there yet.
That night we pushed on out of the
city and made Judgment at famed APP
, pledore, the biggest of the little Isles of
(! Shoals. Ten miles off Portsmouth in the
sea sits the tranquil rock, of pink gran
lite, holding up the Laighton light house
and the Laighton caravansera. This
hotel, kept by the two big brothers of
Celia Thaxter. is a rambling and far
spreading nest of houses, about the only
houses on the rock. 1t is the most pros.
porous hotel on the Atlantic seaboard
except some of the Coney Island con
Germs. There We're 300 or 400 guests
present. and more coming.
Good season? Yes, said one of the
twins. "frst rate; but we H. We never hat
a lad season. In 43 years every season
has been boom.
And you have all made so much
money that you are going to sell out anG
rest?" asked, repeating a rumor had
heard.
Perhaps" he answered. @Not set
tied yet "
1t is reported that the Laightcns anG
Celia Thaxtcr, who own the resortin com
mon, have cleared nearly half a million
dollars, and have just received an offel
Of half millio;l for the island.
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