The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-22
ACROSS THE WATERS.
AN INTERESTING DIARY
OF THE DURHAM
PARTY's TRIP.

DIR. A. q. Carr Gives ms Some
Incidents I'm his Inimitablc
Il style.
i The following letter was be.
gun on the steamer and ended
at Leipsic:
"CoLUMBIA,' May, 26, 1892
i DEAR SUN:-As ] promised
|you, see | proceed to write.
/ You can see by this letter
heading | am now on the Steam
er Columbia Of the American
Packet Co, and bound for Ham
burg, Germany. We are now
about 200miles from New York.
The trip from Durham to New
York was uneventful except
that Lawyer Fuller and wife
could not give us up and had to
/ follow us to New York. In New
York some of us stopped at the
9th Avenue Hotel; some at the
Bartholdi Hotel and some at
the Continental Hotel. | did
not stop at the Bartholdi this
time as lowed the hotel proprie-
tor for back rations for my last
visit. We all went over to
Hoboken last night, took the
steamer Columbia and this
morning at Ia. m, we put to
sea, amid the crying and sigh
ing of parting friends, the toot
of the horn and the "Boom-der-
ay" Of the drum. We have a
fine band on board and at inter-
vals during the day it makes cid
ocean howl and swell as the
discordant notes float away
over its angry bosom. AS you
already know our party con-
sists of the following persons:
b. n. Duke, wife, Angler, little
Mary, Nurse, R. E. Lyon, wife,
Bennie, Mary, George, Buch-
anan, nurse and Uncle Wash,
Miss Carpenter, also DR.. Carr,
wife, johnnie and Willie
They were all present at the
breakfast table, but at supper,
alas. some Of them were not,
Strange to say B. n. Duke alone
survives his family, the sea-
serpent has bitten his wife and
children severely. r. E. Lyon
and wife have also settled ac-
counts with old ocean. Little
George is bed-ridden and says "a
| trip to Europe amt worth 5
cents nohow." Master Buch-
anan is as spry as a cricket.
Mamie has been ailing but is
improving. Bennie stands up
like a Major DR.. Carr is half
drunk or a fool we don't know
which yet, but we strongly sus-
pect both. His wife is power
lful pale "around the gills."
She came to the dinner table but
left in, a hurry to SEE WHAT
TIME or DAY 1T WAS. Johnnie
and Willie Carr both took the
headache this morning and have
not returned from their state
room. / thought about asking
the coroner to 90 down and eZ-
anime them TO see whether they
both were dead or whether it
was only a case of suspended
animation. Coroner has not yet
made his report, and so we pass
on. Everything is now in a
hub -bub. They are getting up
pool on the ships run. She will
make at least 500 miles as we
have a beautiful sea, and it is
not at all rough. Mrs. b. n.
Duke continues quite sick from
the chill she had in New York,
and has had high fever but that
A is now subsiding. She has
sorethroat, headache &C., from
cold. Some one asked Mrs.
Dukes nurse what these A.
mericans were going over to
Germany for. She said we are
| going 10 "cow's BAG" springs,
and this answer set old man W.
TO laughing and he has not been
sea sick since. At 91.2 =. m,
retired and found wife and bcys
sleeping nicely and after saying
my prayers | was also soon ID
the land Of Nod. Ships run AZ;
miles.
FRIDAY May 27.-Up ant
dressed at G a. m. Left wife anC
boys in stateroom, came on deck
and continued this letter. Hav,
not seen a representative of oui
lparty this morning. Will sc,
how many csme to breakfast
IL il a beautiful day, and at this
writing the sea-god Is not at al
langry, and our steamer /.
ploughing old ocean with un
obstructed power. Water here
water yonder, water every
where, above, below, around
in fact nothing but sky ant
water. Nothing to interest yot
except we saw q steamer Of the
Red Star lins about 5 miles a
way and a whale spouted only
one time in the distance anC
then scurried away from obser,
walton All out on deck except
Mrs. b. N. Duke, In the after
noon and she Is confined will