The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-06
son having that experience.

harthd y vineyard Ontains ABOUT
100 So. miles. Cottage City is stu
ated on the eastern part of the island.
The Methodists, captivated by the
beauty and healthfulness of the To-
cation, built a tabernacle and set up
their tents aroundit. Presently the
tents became cottages and it is now,
as its name signifies City of Cot
tages." 1t has population of more
than fifty thousand people every
summer, and ten thousand perma-
nent residents. 1t is a unique city,
with little circular parks here and
there; irregular avenues, shaded by
scrub oaks, connected by innumer-
able concrete walks twining in and
out among groups of beautiful cot
tages. There are miles and miles of
concrete roads, making it paradise
for bicyclists.
The shores OF Martha's Vineyard
are exceedingly attractive. All traf-
fic between New York and Boston,
and Boston and the Sout h passes
through Vineyard Sound, which is
said to be the greatest marine high
way of America. Sea bathing is safe
Mt all hours. After your first bath
you feel more at ease, and by the
time you go down under water and
get "A mouthful of salt water, you feel
very much at home.
Agassiz Hall, where the Institute
is held, is located on the Highlands.
Here there is perfect quiet at all
times, and the ocean breeze fro IN the
broad Atlantic is very refreshing.
The school was attended by seven
hundred students coming from thir-
ty-two states and Nova Scotia. The
School of Methods, for the instruc-
tion in the most approved methods
of teaching in the public schools,
maintains its reputation of being the
best in the country. The Academic
department is also well equipped for
teachers who desire to make spe-
cialty of the higher branches. Ma
ture Study, under Mr.. Boyden of
Mass. was especially fine and inter
esting; also Pedagogy under DR..
Snyder of Colo, formerly of Penna.
The average teacher sees that there
something yet to be attained in
the realm of his profession and in
the salary he draws. Here we come
in contact with teachers of broad ex-
perience and cultured minds. All
this must result in better intellectual
work and a more complete life.
Now let us taxa an excursion to
Gay Head. Here I caught my star
fish, Qam proud of that Gay Head
Light, one of the finest along the
Atlantic Coast, is situated on the
southern point of Martha's Vineyard.
The wonderful cliffs Of many colored |
,ut -s, the tribe of Indians who have
. p to their land, the ride in an
art with an Indian driver. the
Ia md view of the surf-all make you
long to stay month instead of a ,1oy..
Nantucket must not be sligE led
This island lying twenty-eight miles
from Martha's Vipeyard was discov-
cred by Bartholomew Gosnold in
1902. 1t is famous in history and
story and many relics of the old days
still exist in the quaint tisherman's
huts and old whaling boats. What
Il busy place it must have been fifty
years ago when the city of Nantuck-
ct was the capital of the whaling in
terests of the world. Since the ad-
vent of coal oil, whaling is confined
chiefly to the Pacific coast. Nan
tucket is now very popular as a sum
mer resort.
And now the time has come to
leave this fairy-land with its beauti-
ful ocean sunrises and sunsets, where
the swish-swash of the waves has be-
come music to the ear. Reluctantly
we pack our trunks-not forgetting
the loads of relics and trash
board the steamer enroute for New
York City and home. -
Looking back upon it all, can
only say it was most beautiful,
most profitable trip. I have seen
nature in new form and have learn
ed to love Nature and Natures God
who hath measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand, and compre-
hended the dust of the earth in
measure" X. S. BowERsox,
Aug 10th, 1884. PaXtonville, Pa. |
ADAMSBURG.