Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-22
THE IRrs1N GREAT BELLOWS.

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 Bound Coast From Lubie Strait to
 Seal Harbor.
 Day dreams and night dreams may be alike, whatever my real reveries at anchor and asleep may have been there were cer tainly new phases and new features on the third and last day of this trip on the Iris. hope they will never fade from my mem ory. As look back it all seems like pleasant dream which can never come again except as memory. About which as follows: The officers and men have the staunch little ship under way about o'clock a. m. and before my waking began and tell me afterwards, "they left East port in fog go dense they could not see the fish canning houses nor the wharves," some few hundred feet away. Housing to the consciousness of being in motion, the frequent sounding of our steam whistle ,.i further wakens me. Nov are frequent and fast. Pulling some cord or wire he strikes, one, two or three strokes on bell in the engine room, and and can hear the strokes changing very rapidly and they mean: Go slow Go fast! Stop! Change these terms good many times and ways and you will understand we are running very carefully, feeling our way as it were in the dense fog through Lubic strait, narrow channel between Campobello and the mainland, going south.
 freely admit was apprehensive; we might foul on some rock or other. It was too interesting every way to think of lly- ing still any longer. Therefore, soon be- ino drQooaH I ont 6aoLy fo 10nl- arounp and see erfog, nothing else what ever visible, except the Iris and the vsfy neal water. All the rest was dense fog. dare say the officers and men were all glad when we were well through this strait without any accident. As we still go on, our steam whistle sounding about once minute in the early morning. At length another steam whistle sounds very near us, and in a few seconds we see a large steamer on our left going up the strait and though seem- ingly only once CT twice her own length away cannot even discern her name, as she quickly passes, and it is out of sight in a | few seconds more, entirely concealed by the fog.
 Probably one of the large St. Johns steamers taking Eastport on her course to New Brunswick. If she had struck us l there would have been trouble! Now we see how two steam vessels, in near parallel
 but reverse courses, might very easily col lide in such a fog but for the frequent l sounding of their steam whistles. Before long the steam whistle of West 1 Quoddy is heard in the distance, and we l are getting out of Lubic strait on to the 1 high seas.
 | West Quoddy Head light and fog horn
 marks the westward approach or departure
 through Lubicsstrait as regards Passama- quoddy bay. The Indians left many names in Maine and on all our waters not a few.
 I do not know the meaning of many of
 them. The sail rocks, the schooner which got on the lower rocks under the light
 house and finally got off, and all about it l I have said,
 l We did not see anything of all this on
 our return, having no occasion to call at
 any place reached in the two previous
 days. The captain of the Iris knows by
 the sound of West Quoddy whistle on his
 right where he is, and at the right
 time on the great deep changes his
 southerly course for a westerly one. But
 he does not depend on the fog horn only
 nor yet on guess work, nor yet instinct 1 There is method about it-exact work ot
 sailing, which all these coastwise steam
 pilots understand and practice. Observing
 it on difft boats, more interestedly on this
 one, think I have the idea very nearly
 Every trip and part of it has it's writer
 story in the Clay book" Anything ot
 consequence is written down and not Jeff
 to memory, rain or shine, fair or fou
 weather, every course by the compass
 taken and recorded, rate of speed, deptl
 of water is required to be sounded, wind
 and currents, tide-in fact, everything
 which might pertain to the future safet1
 of the vessel. These books, sufficient!
 numerous at hand in the pilo
 house, charts and all on the shelves O.
 any doubt his information is at hand
 Thus and thus came before. Thus ant
 so came in wind and storm So man
 hours, moments, seconds. Such cours and such course. The log books, charts compass and all tell him however dens
 the fog where he is. And now at safe dis
 tance from that wild coast between Lubi
 strait and Little river, but not so very ia
 at sea, we go straight for Moose Peak w , are, perhaps, half mile away from tn
 feet of the "hills rock, ribbed and ancien as the sum-" around which and all i "poured old oceans grey and melan . choly waste" They are getting
 good bath to-day, for the ocea is reused by some far southerly storr
 whose great green pillows have journeye,
 up here and caress the shores in vii,
 way and boom against the rock waste, ant , boom! and boom! I can't tell you how l sounds. You have got to hear it to know Not like cannon, nor like thunder. Onl like itself. It is incessant, it reaches eve 80 far along!
 Owing to the dense mist for some whil we cannot see the pillows strike. Ca
 only hear it. Music in it? Yes! Grand a great Oratorio. Wilder tones and mild CT tones, louder tones and stronger an deeper. And they roll and they roll an, every wave gives it's soul to the rocks as strikes them. You have heard the Halle lujah chorus? So have I. That is on thing and this chorus is another, but kin 5 dred.
 ''The floods lift up their voice. Tn floods lift up their waves" They wer not raging to-day, only moving in grea green swells, without breaking until the dashed upon the lower rocks and fun themselves upon the cliffs and all alon the cliffs. The "Anvil Chorus," grand a I heard it at the great Mozart festival i New York with 500 performers of a kinds, 25O anvils and all their hammer beating them, and cannon outside, an Gilmore's wand directing all, was sligh thing to the hammering of these waves aringing of their changes the whole day What were they saying! Something abou the voice of the great creator; perhap something of the decree, "Thus far shal thou go and no farther and here shal
 thy proud waves be stayed" w. L. B. At Again.
 7 Senator Seymour has written to the Ne, Haven Register two-column letter adve I eating special democratic convention nez 3 winter to consider:
 3 First-The party position toward constitution, l reform, by means of a constitutional convel l tion, and
 Second-The revision of the rules of the stat , l convention so as to provide for a fairer repr l sentation in that body.
 Incidentally MT. Seymour pays his It spects to the average democratic state cor 8 vention as follows:
 There is no time, and no disposition # thel B l were time, to give these matters due thought, a | an assembly whose chief work is to name stat | ticket and incidentally to adopt a platform. Tn
 | delegates go there to secure the choice of a eel 7 1 and having done that there is no power that ca a hold them there much longer. This was tl
 chief lesson of the last convention, and the sligl a attention given to MT. Pigotts valuable prop f. | the nominations, the failure to get more than
 small faction to stay to discuss them afterwar, : ! and the final postponement of the matter witt
 out action, are likely to be the summary of fl
 1 ture attempts under the same conditions. Agail
 | the men who are ordinarily chosen to push
 men to settle such matters as these, even iF the a could be brought to give them consideration ar a l would proceed to final action.
 This ia tsinterestin, readin' D esoecial]