New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-26

the rather appalling hour Of half-past i've III 'he
afternoon, or, at latest six. BY the time we were
under way il was nine, and there was supper, ana
then long evening deck, and the open channel
| and moonlight. and clear SKY.
| The voyage is like walk along PiccadllN'
There are lights On one side or the other all the
way. You are never. or almost never. ont OF sgh'
Of lighthouse or lighship from Southampton 10
Brcmerhavcn. The English coast is illuminated
and before Dover is below the horizon some Igh'
or other on the Belgian coast rises II Is torch-
light procession. There is need of them nil' re"
coasts are more dangerous or send their treacber-
Gus shoals and sands further out 10 sea Inc
great ship regards them not She knows her road,
and could hardly miss il she steams from
flaming headland to flaming Leadand. She Is
conveyed by n succession of fleets: mos'ly
Of fishing snacks. Az moment In Monday
morning | counted more than 200 craft of all
sorts and sizes in sight. There had been an early
fog and when II lifted we saw amid what narrow
intervals we had felt our way. The rule on these
German ships is caution long after the fog had
tlifnned into luminous haze on the horizon miles
away Tire ship kept on at hslfspeed. The German
Is seldom in hurry and his stewardship is to Keep
on the safe side.
So il wos midnight before the Ems dropped
her anchor in the Weser, still many miles
below her port We were turned ont at half-past
five Tuesday morning; fiend with cornet on
which he blew blasts from hell parading up ana
down the gangways. No bath; all baths engaged
all the way from New-York provision Of bath
rooms deficient, according 10 English and American
ideas. A certain difficulty In getting hot water
also or enough of it: for the contents Of small
milk ing are not enough. ! asked the steward II
there were no hot water cans on board "Oh yes,
fo,, AZ embark AT
baJf-past eight reach the wharf AZ haf-past nine ;
inst time 10 walk to another tender alongside the
same wharf, and steam of again up the river 20
some still further inland port where lay the
Trave
The Trave Is q newer ship than the Ems; more
luxurious, faster, though not so fest as the LAM
the Spree or the Havel In another ten minutes
we ore of on our return voyage; we meaning
five persons who doing the round voyage Not
much time to look at the German Empire; bremen
itself is thirty miles away. Everybody knows now
little North Germany is attractive; we DO not re-
oret II The Trave is TO us the most interesting
part of the country: really beautiful SNIP
saloon saterooms. everything about her htt"d WIN
elegance Again all ports aud passages wide open
the salt dir of the ocean blows free through t1e
ship Both ships well Differed and manned; me
saorl!ke men on deck and on the bridge Inc
cooking on the Travc is good II You ike Nor'h
German cooking. When she steamed up thc
Solent on Wednesday afternoon we all agreed we
should like to go on TO New-York. but conld not.
We had had what came for; days ana ngh's
of sea and air The heavens and the waters DE-
meath the heavens were in almost too kind II moot
hardly cloud or a breeze or ripple; no per-
ceptible motion: yet the doctor told US one morn
ing that many OF his steerage patients were III
their berths But let the weather be what IL
may. know not where or how three days couid De
better spent than in these good German shlpN OH
,his Lrood German ocean. G.. w. 5.