Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-21
least AND PRESENT STEAM
Boa ATiSG.

.ng New ok 8 DPhu'I III Hht W. 'i-ci q
an ever changing panorama otenu!es'
interest. From small Govern rs lslan',
where a ricKety old fort, hait hidden
~ greenery, strives to Impose ltssh
upon too conf ing public III the
light of defence; and the s"ll smaller
Liberty Islan1, where stands the grand
gift of the French nation II 'ldlhg its
torch OF welcome to all nations, and
then across tie sparkling waters to the
green and purple hills or New Jersey,
AL Is beautiful and full OF life. Ply
ing these wa'erJ continually are cia1ts
Of all nations and every size from the
giant Campania 20 the tiniest steam o.
naphtha I.ir - But OF them all there
- no sig W n we watch for with
such pie ura interest as the coming
and goin OF tn Big steamers. which
morning :. evening maltstlcal ly
round Battery Point as they set .orth
upon or return from tEeir trips
through Long Island Sound.
Floating palaces truly are these
steamers! They may be excelied some
day (all things are possible) but 1t Is
hard for US to conceive OF such thing.
Nevertheless we mOdestly RENE mber
that as long ago rs 1927 the Benjamin
FTdU XIII VI cue IlONiichOo iaho was
considered oy the best judges Of the
ime to be model which could never
b. surpassed Let US contrast the
FRANKLIN with the CoLnecticLt which
delighted our eyes this morning as she
grandly swept down the East River
past cur window. The Franklin was
4 very big boat for her time, but she
was but little more than one thirl OF
Lo 49, hn ia, tuit M
! third of its carrying capacity. From
n'ctuIes OF the Rhode Island AMI the
Massachusetts,, boqts nina years l.ta
Than the Franklin, when cOntTas'ed
with one of the Connecticut taken four
Years ago, one may judge that the
much Wanted little Franklin would
cut but / very small Fl cure to-day. Yet
she, too, must have been a pretty sight
from the windows of the aristCcrat.c
mansions, which se-enely frontei tho
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 broad grav
rlled beach where now stand long rows
of ugly store-houses.
There ia no color that shows 50 well
upon the water as that which in our
youth we were taught to call no color
a clear snow white. OF this we have
proof every day, in contrasting the
dark colors usually employed by the
transatlantic steamships, with the
pure white of our White Squadron"
and that OF the beautiful Sound steam
eTs. 1t sometimes almost daZzles the
eye, as If the sunlight were reflected
from polished marble, aud adds i'm
menSely to the effect of size, and causes
great majesty.
a trip W Long Islani Sound in one
of the boats of the Providence 81 Stor-
ington 5. 5. Co.'S line is one of the
most delightful that can be made.
Starting at 53U on a summer after
loon one may lass between tie many
places of interest which line the shores
pf the so-called East River, and get
well out into the sound before TIE long
summer evening twilight shall be end
ed; and then after the shades OF night
have settled over all-what a delightful
sleep shall we get IN the spacious
Eerths of the commoiiOus staterooms,
Tilted up as 70 palace was fifty years
ago. and as, IN fart, in point OF con-
yenlence, very few are now.
Then if we wish to go farther we can
leave oar boat at Providence In the
morning and take Parlor Car Tain
Irectly to Boston, or Worcester. or
even on 10 the glorious White Muun
aims, without further change, II we so
iesire. Or-haying stopped st Ston-
iIgtCn instead-we can reach the fash
ionable NarragenSet Pier, or more
grandly situated Watch Hill, where III
ocean wav es boom almost at our feet
Yet-so DISC ntented is poor bu Ua..
laiuI Give wish for something still
better. We would that we c.ull
make these beautiful trips entirely by
Iaylighil The editorial "we" has
mere than once stayed upon deck all
night rather than leave the beauty of
he scere, vet 1t is scarcely so beautiful
y moonlight as by daylight. We once
had the pleasure Of trip up the Sucnt
in 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 anchorlng in some favorable place
each night, taking nearly a week to 90
rom New York to New London. But
what delightful voyage 1t wasi We
have wondered, ever since, II there
were lot people enough in our part of
the world, who are net rich enough, OF
however wealthy, who would not wish
TO lie at all the care of owning yachts,
who yet would like to take this pleasure
IN more lsisurely way, and, leaving
New York III the morning, stop over
nlght on the way efore proceed ng Oh
heir Journey to the mountains or re-
urnlng t. the City, to make 1t paw to
sun at least one or two daylight boats
between the historic shores which
ooi der our dear old Long Island..Soun ?
From our sanctum's windows We
"on hope 10 see the brave little Vik-
ing which is pictured on or opposite
age, and which left Norway on Nav
lst to tempt the tel rors OF the o.ny
N'iantic. She is expected to com.
iO~n through tho Sound, perhaps
iosely In the wake or one of our b o.
Neautiful Sound steamers. WHAT A
will be thersi The little, opea
2lll boat, covered OILY with the shi-lds
# her stout-hearted crew, and helped
n Its ?: :ssIge by oars wieIded by
'rawny arms. and the great, peacefnI.
luxurious craft, the lifting emblem ami |