Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-20

NO 0xc6pdoH. IIoM 6dStoI1y hAtu AoItu-
easterly storms the shelter there for YES
sells must be pretty good, but from the
west or southwest probably not SO good.
But it will pay anybody to go to Cape
Cod, away up, once In lifetime. Some
people go back there again every summer.
Perhaps should describe the life-saving
station before leaving the region alto
gether.
Among the stories told me by those
Nantucket captains was this: A large for
eign steamer somehow got in pretty near
the island from the northeast in the win
ter. She was probably storm delayed and
out Of reckoning, and Yves attracted by
Sankaty's far-reaching and brilliant light.
She came to anchor. She was out of coal
and could not sail out because of the reef
dangers, and lay off Sconset-no harbor
there. Sending a boat ashore to make known
her situation, coal was engaged at Nan
tucket City and hauled over the island,
some ten or twelve miles, and this captain
took it out in bags in his dory, and go had
it hauled up the side of the great vessel,
alongside which he lay-his dory, say, Is
OF IS feet long; the steamship, 300. think
he said it took twenty tons of coal just to
fairly start the furnace fires and get up
steam. OF course he had to take much
more than that and needed time to do it.
But he did it and the big craft steamed
back the way she came in, and when well
beyond all the reefs could use her sails
also, and went on to New York. That
shows the pluck, daring and enterprise of
Nantucket men.
do not remember any life saving sta
ton at the time of my visit, tho there
may have been, but do remember this See
ing lonely houses down way the south-ea
coast, where no one lived, inquired and
learned that they were erected by the Nam
tucket Humane society. They are at in
tervals mile or SO apart along near the
coast, perhaps all around the south of
the island. These plain aud substantial
shelters, doors free to open were fitted
with some stove or fire place, and wood
prepared inside, matches, candles, and etc.,
80 that any ship wrecked persons getting
alive on shore, would see house not
oyer far away and naturally go for it and
find how to get warm, and perhaps some
thing to eat, (hard tack and water) or
to wear. It is said man was found naked
and dead somewhere on the heath two
| miles or SO inland, who evidently had
| escaped the sea by swimming and wandered
| about and yet died of cold, hunger and
| nakedness. It must be very chilling and
dreary down on that south coast in the
| winter.
That humane society deserves ''honora-
BILE mention!" If you get look inside
some of those quaint little houses, you see
| all kinds of addition as if when their first
families grew they gradually made room
for one and another child until there was
| room enough for all. But then, as on
| ship board, people can be slowed away
| in close quarters, and SO long as they
| have plenty to eat and to wear and fresh
air, they may live and thrive. Whatever
else there is, there is fresh air at Nan
tucket. The island being quite at sea
gets sea breezes, clean and pure, from all
sides. I was there in August and wore
an overcoat good deal of the time, and
although my blood was thin, went out in
the wind and slight rains with impunity.
There is charm in battling little with
the weather; yet many days are very
pleasant. I would not say the wind
ones head there even in the
winter time, much less in the summer, but
itsswould certainly at times blow anything
away that was loose and not too heavy.
That may be one reason the houses at
Sconset were built low down and spread
out, and are not liable to blow over. The
wind there and away up Cape Cod seems
to make what few trees there are grow
very stunted. One sees it the same way
on high, billy exposures in our state where
trees which flourish lower down give
place to dwarf oaks peculiar to such wind
sought places, and was going to add that
if you cant rent one of those cottages as
some do, you will find them filed with
valuable old time furniture. Those sea-
faring people brought home things from
France and other foreign shores.
Because they are plain looking and
plain spoken, one must not think then
ignorant They read books and magazine:
| hoy 10 10 4lo;,
thinking. City people might well envy
their vigor, their independence, their hon
est manliness and womanliness In saying
plain looking, I mean as regards fashions
in face and physique they average we'll
They have their own fashions and they
suit the place; and their houses are al
neat as you can find, bright and CHEEKY
and sweet within. The windows and win
dow panes may be small; very! but big
try help the living, and so does the COO
fishing and the small farming. Horses
and beach wagons also, enough for all
need, even for beach parties.
q said Sankaty light was two miles from
Nantucket city, should have said eight
or ten, more ikely.) A railroad from tn
old town which lies on the north side tx
Sconset was talked of and has been in op
Grafton some years believe and is prob
ably used chiefly in the summer visitors
time. A direct boat from New Haven tc
Nantucket in the summer, after wasting
more money on it, might eventually make
one of the most charming short trips Q
New Havener could take, having Block
Island and Martha's Vineyard on the route
The vessel should lie in a day OF SO at these
two in turn and do the hotel business her
self, the passengers going ashore at will
and going in together and save handling
baggage. They could do the three islands
in week or any desired number of weeks,
but for short stay this boarding. house
and hotel business, wherein people are
overcrowded and incommoded and over
taxed, as if travellers were simply made to
be fieeced, would better be confined to the
steamer; SO it seems to me. And let the
fare be good, and some could enjoy it as
well as afford it, more than yachting.
There is a hotel at Sconset, and modern
cottages. Mrs. Hanaford of New Haven
has well written of this charming place Gin
summer), as you have noticed hitherto in
mention of her book. Besides the modern
cottages there are old-time ones. People if
they choose could take along good tent
beach below and the ocean in a half circle
before you.
"The Sunshine" runs from Hartford to
Mantle, New London and Long Island
Whenever I have been on her notice
many passengers and some freight. It
would take a rather larger and stronger
boat, more ocean built, for the journey we
speak of. Of course it takes money and
determination to get up such route as
I have mentioned and maintain it.
Iaaean of summers, until it pays-and I
cannot see why it should not pay in few
years, and ultimately pay well from New
Haven, unless people are afraid of being
sea sick, and do not love the edge of the
ocean, and do not wish to know how very
glorious the ocean is compared with the
sound. Such sunrises! such water scapes!
and sky scapesl such landscapes also good
of their kind, and clam bakes, and beech
parties, and yachting too on the north side.
Those Nantucket men know how to sail
Yes, one can ramble there at his own will,
and have nice fare including fresh, sweet
fish. Much content for q, reasonable pay
at Sconset. That is the place to go to have
it.
List of Patents.
List of patents issued from the United States
patent Office on Tuesday, February H. 1881, for the
state Of Connecticut, furnished us from the office
Of Earle & Seymour, solicitors of patents, s6s
Chapel street, New Haven, Conn:
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