Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-26
wAKEnrAN,s wANDRxINGs.

n Great East An&lian ~ AtefAuG
PIace-Ancient and sunny Scarbor-
Ough Beside the North Sea-Its bay
as Beautiful That OF Naples-A
spa with n Curious History and n
Woman as Discoverer-A Gray Old
Town of Gray Old Stairs JumbIed
About the Finest Beach in Europe
Its Ancient Castle Ruins and Mod
ern Characterful Crowds.
SCARBOROUGH, England, Aug. II.
Tothe Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
Scarborough, over here on the North
Sea, is the greatest seaside resort on the
eastern coast of England. For vsst
crowds 1t is like Southport on the west,
and Brighton on the south, coaat. It has
been watering place for nearly two hun
dred and fifty years. Before thst good
fortune 1t was little else than dreary
fishing port, with a great, grim castle
dominating hamlet and harbor and wise
woman, who used her eyesight and other
senses, was primarily responsible for Scar
borough's transformation from obscurity
to opulence and Tenown.
"Mrs. Farrow, a sensible and intelligent
lady, who lived at Scarborough about the
shore, and observing tho stones over which
the waters (from q cliff side spring. passed
to have received rusees color, and find
ing il so have an aoId taste different from
the common springs, and to receive pur-
pie tincture from gals, though 1t might
| probably have medicinal property. Hav-
| ing, therefore, made an experiment her
| self, and persuaded others to do the same,
| 1t was found to be effoaoious in some com
| plants, and became the usual phyeic of the
| Inhabitants. 1t was afterwards in great
reputation with the citizens of York, and
and gentry of the county, and at length
VAS 30 generally recommended that per-
sons of quality came from a great distance
to drink II; preferring 1t before ali others
they lad formerly frequented, even the
italian, French and German spawa."
Thus runs the ancient, ungrammatic but
truthful chronicle. Dame Fsrrow hss
only few lines in Scarborough LEGAL his
tory and no monument. These are the
only really mean things you will find about
the rinsome old town. The "sps8" the
good dame discovered is spa which has a
curious history of it's own. Nearly fifty
years after its discovery She spa was pro
vided with cisterns or wells for collecting
the waters To protect these from the en-
croachment of the sea, a stout staith OF
stone bound BY timbers was erected around
the wells. Forty years later o great mass
of the cliff above, containing nearly an
acre of pasture lsnd, sunk perpendicular
ly for several yards. As this huga mass
of cliff went down, the sand about the
strstth, some distance from the subsidiDg
cliff, shot up into the air to O height OF
from thirty to fifty feet, an entire MACS
nearly one hundred feet broad and three
hundred feet long. The wells ascended
with the straith and sand, but the spa it
self was lost completely, and was only re-
covered after long and diligent search, and
great expense upon the part of the inhsbi'
tants. Local folk lore holds TO the belief
that this VISA just judgment for Searbor.
ough's in9ratirude in forgetting its debt OF
obligation to Dame Farrow.
But after knowing Scarborough, l be
lieye had there been no Dame Farrow, and
no "spaw;" no earthquake snd no redis
, covery; no grand spa saloon in the italian
Renaissance style, accommodating severa
thousand people, opened by the Lord May
! Ut oL LoDuoI; no hpsciOus pronenaaSs ol
grand Cliff Bridge across the shadowy ra
vine; no grand aquarium, said to. be th'
finest in the world; no splendid orohestri
: of two to three hundred performers; NJ
broad sea wall promenade, and no count
, less sheltered walks, grottoes and bowers
3 and no high-sounding names of Nortl
Chaiybeate and South Sslt-well. that th'
. glorious face Scarborough sets to the Ger
, man ocssn, its fuest beach In Europe, ant
1 all the magic 1t takes from the mighty sea
r would have made the charming old tow
8 all that It now is to countless thousand
r who loiter here for pleasure, rest or health
8 For back of ancient Scarborough town IL
Manchester and Keighley, and Bradford
and Wakefield, and York and Hudders
field and Leeds, humming with spindle
and changing with cranes. and the Goa
q pits of Lancashire and Yorkshire snt
!. Motifs, Uhere there are hundreds of thou
sands of strivers, white or grimy from
-. endless toll. Often there are half an hun
. dred Thousand of such as these at Scar
. borough. 1t is at such times that one ma,
know, If he will use his eyes, how prec
ious a thing ia the CLINT of the waves, tn
g cool touch of the golden sands, the whis
" pered lullaby and mysteries of the sea
N and all the benefcence of Gods blesse
sunlight kissing through Hfe-giving air
70 the pallor from out these toil-sesrre