The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-16
7 FAST AND PRESENT STEAM
BOATING.

10 Oh v Nh0h8Ahb
Interest. From small Governors Island,
where q ricKety old fort, half hidden
10 greenery, strives to impose itself
upon q too coniiing public in the
light OF q defence; and the still smaller
Liberty Island, where stands the grand
gift Of the French nation holding Its
torch OF welcome to all nations, and
then across the sparkling waters to the
green and purple hills OF New Jersey,
all Is beautiful and full Of life. Ply.
ing these waters continually are crafts
Of all nations and every size from the
giant Campania to the tiniest steam OF
naphtha ~" - But OF them all there
IS no sig W Ii we watch for with
such plp urA interest as the coming
aud goin OF tn bg steamers. which
Gorning "a evening mai stically
round Battery Point as they set forth
through Long Island Sound.
Floating palsces truly are these
stesmersl They may be excelled sone
day (all things are pOssible) but 1t Is
hard for US to onceive OF such thing.
Nevertheless we modestIy remember
that as long ago as 1927 the Benjamin
franklin of the Providence line was
considered by the best judges OF the
time to be a model which could never
b, surpassed Let us contrast the
franklin with the C%onnecticL 1T which
delighted our eyes this morning as she
graudly swept down the East River
past our Windows. The franklin was
a very big boat for her time, but she
was but little more than one. third Of
the length OF the Connecticut with not
a third Of its carrying capacity. From
pictures of the Rhode Island and the
Massachusetts, boats nine years lts-
than the Franklin, when contras'ed
with one of the Connecticut taken four
years ago, one may judge that the
much Wanted little Franklin would
cut but a very small figure to-day. Yet
she, too, must have been @ pretty sight
from the windows Of ths a~ristocratic
mansions, which SO enely fronted the
fashionable promenade OF the Battery.
or from those of the few charming
country dwellings which crowned the
Heights Of Brooklyn, looking down
through cedar groves to q broad gray
elled beach where now stand long rows
Of ugly store-houses.
There Ia no color that shows SO well
Upon the water as that which In our
youth we were taught to call no color
a clear snow white. or this we have
proof every day, In contrasting the
dark colors usually employed by the
trans Atlantic steamships, with the
pure white of our "White Squadron"
and that of the beautiful Sound steam
ers. 1t sometimes almost dsZzles the
eye, as II the sunlight were reflected
from polished marble. aud adds i'm
mensely to the effect of size, and causes
great majesty.
A trip up Long Islanl Sound In one
Of the boats Of the Providence & Ston-
ington 3. $. Co.'s line is one Of the
most delightful that can be made.
| Starting at 5.3U on q summer Alter
noon one may pass between the many
places Of interest which line the shores
Of the so-called East River. and get
| well out into the sound befors tie long
summer evening twilight shall be end
ed; and Their after the shades OF night
have settled over all-what a delightful
| sleep shall we get in the spacious
berths of the commodiOus staterooms,
fitted up a. no palace was fifty years
ago, and as, In fart, In point of CON
yenience, very few are now.
Then il we wish to go farther we can
leave our boat at Providence In the
morning and take a Parlor Car Train
directly to Boston, or Worcester, or
even on to the glorious White Noun
tains, without further change, II we so
tesire. Or-baving stopped at Ston-
ington instead-we can reach the fash.
ionable Ngrraganset Pier, or more
grandly situated Watch Hill, where thu
ocean way es boom almost at fest.
Yet-s0 Discontinued Ia poor hu nan
natutel-we wish for something still
better. We would that We could
make these beautiful trips entirely by
daylight The editorial "we" has
more than once stayed upon deck all
night rather than leave the beauty of
the scene, yet 1t is scarcely so beautiful
y moonlight as by daylight. We once
had the pleasure OF a trip up the Sound
in q little u. s. Revenue Cutter by
courtesy of the Commander and hi.
wife. We went slowly enough, stop
ping to board suspicious looking craft,
and a%nchoring In some favorable place
each night, taking nearly q week to &c
from New York to New London. But
what a delightful voyage 1t wasl W.
have wondered, ever since, II there
were not peOple enough in our part Of
the world, who are net rich enough, OF
however wealthy, who would not wish
to be at all the care of owning yachts,
who yet would like to take this pleasure
in a more leisurely way, and, leaving
New York In the morning, stop over
night on the way ! efore proceeding on
their journey to the mountains or re-
turning to the City, to make 1t pay tC
run at least one or two daylight b0ats
between the historic shores which
border our dear old Long IslandsSounr
From our sanctum's windows W,
soon hope to see the brave little Vik.
ing which is pictured on OF opposite
rage, and which left Norway on May
lst to tempt the tel rors Of the S ormy
Atlantic. She IL expected to come
Town through tho Souni, perhap:
closely in the wake OF one Of our big,
beautiful Sound Steamers. what a
contrast will bs there The little, ope
ail boat, covered orly with the shields
IF her stout-hearted crew, and helped
m ita N asaOa nv OaTa swiplled IN