Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-01

ng ana ever picturesque coast 70 pc much | engaged in listening, but indeed as picture galleries delight yet weary me, so did this and had to take nap after very good dinner served to the inspector and his guest in the quarter deck section. Rank in service has it's uses. The United States | service at sea as well as on land recognizes | it's value without overdoing the formali- l ties. The bright October day of which I am writing gave very clear views of the coast, | could neither sketch nor l remember it as I wished, except always varying in detail, with general similarity of picturesqueness, for we were running sufficiently near the coast all day to have good views of it. I doubt whether the great steamers for St. Johns run so near all along there, but if they do that would be good way to go and see it-or any of those good, staunch sound boats that run in and out the coast to Machias or Eastport from Portland. hoped to get something on our return, but could not, ,as the weather was very different; also, we kept further at sea, and, having visited the lighthouses, we ran in in long, straight courses and did not touch our outward landings on our way back.
 There was row of interesting looking islands along toward Vashi Island, chiefly masses of rock, small, rugged, we'll lifted up above the waters with few spruce trees to enliven them, and l get rapid outline in pencil of some. Then catch sight of Vashi's island lighthouse and make this sketch. The keepers house is connected with the same by several smaller buildings, barn at moderate distance, main part of the lighthouse is square, with a railing around at base of laDtern. That the keeper can get out and look 1rf To fhn rvJo free from sleet and snow, with hot water, not hot weather, as the types made me say at Menan, brushes and serapers, etc. Somehow, it must be done at all light houses, no matter how it storms. That is the time lights are most needed, ships plough those seas all winter as well as summer.
 The holiday season, with it's joyous fare and bright visions to us inland, may be dark and tempestuous on that rock-bound coast, with settlements and harbors not very numerous. Look at 8 good map of Maine and see. Those buildings joined in oil and probably boat Considering that the keeper must go to and from the light house in all kinds of weather at regular and irregular hours, day and night, it is we'll his way is under cover.
 Would you know what discomfort wind and rain or freezing spray and sleet make sailors and lighthouse men on the eastern coast, you have only to look how they guard against it by great heavy overcoats and waterproofs beside. I was on that sea late in November on large steamer and know how it is.
 While writing out my original notes into narrative hitherto unpu blished, of which these papers are a condensation, I had letter from one of my Iris friends, dated last day of December, which says: "We went down to Mt. Desert on bit terly cold day, blowing northwest gale, which covered the Iris all over with ice. The day following furious snow storm set in, changing completely the character of the scenery"
 Those few lines give us the winter pie | ture and emphasize my remarks. The Iris was on her quarterly (winter) trip, to glad l den the lighthouse men and families with | stores, provisions and news of home friends and the wide worlds doings at the l holiday season.
 Nash's island lies south of Pleasant bay. We were there at 80 p. m. In twenty minutes or so we are on our way through Moose-a- bee Reach to Moose Peck Head ligh1 house. About which and other different things, I trust interesting to your readers ! remain to be said, especially the unique situation of some of the light houses tc eastward still. W. L. B. or to Saratoga.
 Another big party left for Saratoga yes terday. This was the seventh of the Sara toga excursions. Another large one fo next week is indicated. E. L. Norton hat charge of the New Haven party which lief | fbnoa ubn the following:
 Mrs. A. G. Heaney, Mrs. G. c. Gilbert Miss K. L. Mccarthy, Miss Mary G.. Mo Carthy, Peter Gibbons, A. T. Maynard Miss M. F. Healy, Miss M. Newman, Mrs
 N: A: Beecher, Miss F: E; spery, Mrs; (
 w. Benham, Mrs. J. Scott, Miss Kat Connor, Miss Mamie Buckley, Miss Ami
 Lynch, Mrs. Charles Turner, Mrs. E. l.. .Smitt Miss M. H. Malloy, Miss Kate T. Cleary
 MT. and Mrs. L. w. Rowland, E. E. Clir
 ton, George Foster, Mir. and Mrs. Lyma
 Post, D. Keefe, W. H. Greeley, Mrs. D. A
 Keefe, MT. and Mrs. J.Colton, Mrs. Has
 tings, MT. and Mrs. J. w. Downes and tw
 children, MT. and Mrs. R. R. Har1is Mis-
 M. Morstatter, Miss K. Morstatter, Mrs
 R. E. Gear, Mrs. J. T. Parker, Georg
 H. Andrews, L. B. Travers, SM.N. SmitI
 MT. and Mrs H. s. Wooster, H. S. Wed more, MT. and Mrs. F. c. Bartholomew MT. and Mrs. George E. Dickerman, Nil
 and Mrs. B. Kelsey, Henry Kelsey, Mis- Ella Sprague, Mrs. G. H. Robinson, Mrs
 N. E. Mason, Mrs. E. M. Densing, MT. an
 Mrs. C. J. Buckbee, Miss L. Jessie Buck bee,- A. B. Dodds, Miss Stella Dodds
 Mir. and Mrs. A. P. Ludington, MT. an Mrs. P. B. Orcott, Miss Mary Mur
 son, MT. and Mrs. Aaron Basset
 Mrs. Georgia Thorp, Mrs. E. R. Allen, NJ
 and Mrs. H. s. Pierce, MT. and Mrs. Wi liam Quay, Mir. and Mrs. F. 0. Perry, Mis
 c. Hemingway, Miss Nellie J. Guinan, Mis
 Alice A. McKeon, Miss M. J. Reilly, Mis ton, S. P. Nichols, Mrs. T. L. Blakeslet
 Mrs. H. M. BIakeslee and Mrs. A. F. Todd
 Hartford Bicycle Races.
 The bicycle clubs of this city have cha1 tered a special car to carry them to tn
 Hartford races next Monday and Tuesday
 The New Haven club is to be represente
 by Fred Catlin, Howard Hewett and
 Sarom.
 The New Haven Bicycle club will enter
 tain the Brooklyn wheelmen here nez
 Sunday morning. All will breakfast at tn
 Fremont house and later in the day the
 will ride to Hartford to attend the tou1 1 Aducuo lucIo Ou Mouudy duu [ next week. About fifty of the local clu
 will wheel up to Hartford with the Brool lyn visitors. More of the New Have
 wheelmen will go up on Monday to talk part in the big parade.
 Who is the Mother2
 In the way of novelty in the shape C mule raising Jared Bishop of Cheshir is in a fair way to take the premium. Las spring MT. Bishop purchased suckin mule from parties in Middletown intend ing to bring it up on the 'sbottle," bu after arriving home with his purchase tn thought struck him that 8 young buffal COW that he had in the barn and whic
 was longing for her calf, could probabl
 be put to good use in acting as mother the mule. He had the COW tied up an
 cut her horns off and then turned tn
 mule in box stall with the COW. Ther
 was short fight and the mule came ou
 victorious. Now the pair are inseparabl
 companions and the mule is thriving, an the COW docile as a kitten.
 Outing Given by s. H. Street x Co.
 The employees of S. H. Street & Co.,
 manufacturers of the celebrated Perfectio buckwheat and other cereals, were de
 ightfully entertained last Saturday by MI
 s. H. Street at his handsome new cottag l at Morris Cove The beautv of the 1oca