Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-10
Held By Quarantine.


Held By Quarantine.
While we are dragging out the time
here, / will tell about some of the peo
pie on board and about the concert we
had, last Monday night. There are
ninety first-class passengers, and we
have gotten to know something about
every one. Perhaps the most interest.
ing is family from M. Connecticut
Mr.. S. and wife and two children-a
girl five and boy eight. He is min
ister, and they have been abroad for
Mrs. S. g health. She is the brightest,
sweetest woman I've seen for a long
time and her husband is perfectly de-
voted to her. He is large and strong,
with lots of sense and character, too, ]
think. The children are such well-be-
haved little things. Every one agrees
that it is model family. He preached
last Sunday afternoons helpful talk
on s.Have faith in God.'' He is decid-
edly of the progressive type. Then
there is Bishop w. of Pennsylvania.
He lead services the first Sunday. He
is delightful old gray-haired man,
SO attentive to his wife and niece. The
latter is Vassar graduate, a girl of
great refinement. Indeed, the passeng-
ers, as a whole, seem to be of a high
grade of culture. There is one strik-
ing exception, girl, coarse beyond
description, flirting with everyone she
can. She and her mother are about
the only blots on our social landscape.
There is a young Dutch reformed min
ister from Brooklyn and another Epis-
copal minister and his wife. There is
a young Hungarian artist, with sweet
face. who is bringing her mother with
her to America. Then there are two
Louisiana creoles, very viyacious mid
die aged women. There are three
sweet faced sisters of charity and three
priests. These last all sing, and, to-
gether with a young Swiss German,
made a quartet at the concert Monday
night. This young man has full bass
voice, perfectly inspiring. Then there
are three women who sing we'll; one
has very firm voice and has studied
under the best teachers in Europe.
Certainly her voice has been worth
it is clear and full. The
most celebrated man on board, per-
haps, is Professor D. of Harvard. He
is at the head of the political economy
Prof. P. and Mr.. j. have
enjoyed visiting with him. There is
another Harvard teacher, an instructor
in history.
At the concert the singers that
have mentioned took part. Mr.. r.,
our elocutionist. gave funny selection,
Mr.. J. read from Macbeth, and fat
man gave an address, ending with a
poem (D that he pretended to have
found. 1t was about the steaming Of
the baggage at Rotterdam. Some of
the rhymes were amusing, such as
''hullabaloo" and "ninety-two," ''pro-
voken" and Hoboken." A short
Dutchman played on the piano the ma
tional hymns of Germany and France,
and in closing we all sang "My country
'tis of thee" Another feature of the
evening was the telling of two stories
by Professor NJ; he certainly knows
how to tell stories well. The admis-
sion fee was fifty cents, and the pro-
ceeds, fifty-seven dollars, were divided
between the s.life- saving society" and
the home for invalid seaman at ROtter-
dam. After the entertainment was
over we went On deck to get little
fresh air before going down to the
depths. Miss B. and I went 10 the
very stern and watched the phosphor-
escence a long while. It looked like
hundreds of stars breaking in the fOamy
water.
We have had three glorious sunsets,
each better than the one before. The
first was gorgeous, all red and fry,
the next was more like an afterglow IN
q golden yellow, with darker clouds
scattered through it, and last night it
was all in delicate shades with feecy