New-York tribune., 1891-08-31

corresponding, VIC poke down he switchboard b
the hope that 10 will take on the last certful CT
Qarbage shot into the bay, u not on the ground
and so let us alongside with a gentlepess that
wonldn't break an eggshell-unless there LappcneJ
to be one in the garbage-heap over which VIC
scrape. But the sewerage Of the town Is all right.
After leaving Woods Hole little Of IN.
terest turns np--nnless you happen to meet o
swordfsh- you come TO Martbas Vineyard
Nor Is this Vineyard 40 interesting as IT, tempt
one to become laborer in 10. u is worth passing
perhaps on the chance Of seeing the Heet VI essele
that have been wind-bound In vlncsar Haven
come streaming out, il, happily, the vino clnnges
from foul to fair Sch0oncrs, barges Nres orig
antines occasionally fullrigged ship Their white
sails cover the Sound for miles Some such sight
would be seen. fancy, were you passing one Of
the penitential islands Of space when lot Of storm
and sin bound souls were released from Purgatoryi
As for the Vineyard itself, 1t was originally h..
tended for and devoted TO camp meeting purposes.
Now young men have taken the place Of the
elders and tents have given place TO modern cot
tages By no means certain is it that the change
is for the better. Everything is obtrusvely new,
seeming to have been begun yesterday and flushed
to-day and SMELLS Of paint, clapboarfs, shingles
and russell shoes. Better to live In the odor Of
ground. the indescribabe bouquet, in fact that
distinguishes Nantucket and sometimes makes 1t
recognizable at a distance.
In the building of these Vineyard cottages O.
scroll-saw must have played an important role.
Given such saw, a paper Of tacks. small ham,
mer and a box Of water colors, and IL would seem
that a irst-class cottage, according 10 the pre-
vailng style, might be turned out in short order.
As for living In it, that's another thing; but no
calculation seemingly is made on that The peo-
ple of Cottage City live mainly on the front
stOops of their cottages Bedroom doors are
swung open TO the street. Wrong doing so far
from being winked at, is made impossible. 1t
Is as who should say, Come, look in upon u.s. and
see how ceanly are our lives. Sinners and saints
are alike under surveillance. All well enough
for little WHILE but you'd think that occasionally
some one would want house and build one.
Vineyard Haven, where, as already mentioned,
coasters put in for anchorage when wind and tide
are too far from right, and Edgartown are two
good old places, and as yet comparatively un-
tpdiiad. With an eel-spear and dory ond
might have quite a good time along the creeks.
But deliver me from place where there are not
even elders to spear and nothing at all to catch
save a nasal accent.
After leaving Cape Page, whose light marks
the eastery end Of the Vineyard, the first sta
tionary thing that you come 10 Is the Cross Rip
Lightship, queer looking concern. with iron
cages at its short mastheads which are meant,
fancy to kindle flares in when it becomes neces-
sary 80 warn vessels from destruction or TO signal
one into safety. With it's excellent sewerage and
drainage, distance from dumping grounds and free
dom from morse cars, concrete side
walks and electric lights, this Cross
Rip ship seems not bad watering
place, and one might summer in 1t nicely II
they but had more hunks and were more pressing
in their invitations that you occupy them. AS
it is, there is no way for it but to keep on I'LL
you make Muskeget and TuckernucR, which little
islands answer as annexes to the Nantucket they
adjoin Muskeget has not much mere to recon-
mend it than Cottage City, but Tuckernuck has
o. rather weird attraction for the uninitiated, and
upon it the late DR.. Bigelow, Of Boston, dis
tinguished surgeon, spent many vacations, and
hi, son still retains the summer home. Tuckernuck
was formerly famous for clambalSes, then called
sauantums," and thither went frequent sailin9
parties to enjoy them. Now il seems q case OF
s1uantum subject we've had enough or them.
Besides, clans, like good men are getting scare. W
tuchet over, wouldn't furnish much more than q
bushel Of either and this would scarcely go round
This is not fun, but fact Ihe clam OF tne region
Profunds Clamair loudly as you like, dlg deeply
as you dare, you can now call but few up from
the sands
Eel Point and Madequet, now abeam OF yon, are
as the places on which generally
get aground and where the Indians and first set"
tiers originally located the town or Nantucket.
The Indians left because there was no whlskey on
the shore the whites because there was no or
scarcely any water in the shallow harbor Ana
now it is given to greenheaded Mes and FRANK
Gardner.
Coasting along Long Hill, you soon come to the
bluffs where Charles O'ConOr so long prolonged
his life and where his large cottage, now owned
and occupied by the family of the late Judge
of ST. Louis, still stands. You VIII
remember that Judge Breckenridge dropped dead
this spring at the Congregational Council, in which
he took q prominent part at the conclusion OF an
able speech He was greatly respected and be-
loved in Nantucket, where he spent the summers
which resulted in his purchase OF the UConor
cottage -
Now swinging in from the bell buoy which
marks the harbOr bar and has rung the knell OF
many o stranded vessel, we point for the brig
lights on shore. Shoal water navigation begins,
but keeping the red buoys on our starboard; the
black ones on our port, we feel cautiously along,
and If haply you do not ground, soon round Brano
Point and land on what is known as the steamboat
wharf where William Clark, with a tin horn
under his arm and army OF backmen vocli-
Grating with equally cracked voices the names OF
hotels which sound all alike, and no end OF IN
describable smells, welcome you, assure you ta'
you are in Nantucket. JOHN PAUL.