The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-08
TREASURES OF AN OCEAN rR1P,
All Sorts of Odors Emanate From the Steer
 age People.

PLEAS URES OF AN OCEAN TRIPp All Sorts of Odors Emanate From the Steer
 age People.
 Naples, Dec. 21. 1894.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The party who sails from New York for Naples in December and who imag- ines it is all going to be peaches and cream, rose leaves and smilax, may find himself mistaken. If he starts on Saturday, there may come up little blow on Sunday which may grow to be a big blow on Monday and become a first class howler by Tuesday Tuesday and Wednesday he may need his full reserve of athletics to hold himself in his bunk, while his sea trunk and his minor effects are being bonlbarded from one side of his cabin to the other. h. stead of enjoying the tropical surround ings promised by the flippant agent or the line, he may be holding on to din- ing table like a grim death, while waiter at an angle of 35 degrees with the floor is endeavoring to steer plate of soup into his neighborhood. h. stead of enjoying the summer attire ne was assured he would need. he may De piously observing his supreme folly in leaving his thickest wraps behind. AS one result of the storms, he will, II wise man, make inquiries; and If he makes them judiciously and of eXper- fenced and disinterested marines, he will earn that the middle Atlantic, that is the Atlantic between New York and Gibraltar, is apt to be very stormy from the middle of November till the middle of February; and that the storms that spring up are more persistent and or longer duration than those of the north- ern Atlantic.
 Another, and an awful, fact to be ac- quired and pondered is that the autumn and early winter is the time of the an- nual home turning of the Italian. The Italian leaves his native land during the early spring. He digs and delves for American railroads during the summer and autumn, and with his hard gotten gains returns at the beginning of the winter for a few months of that siesta without which life to an Italian is not worth living. Now, let it be known that the Italian steerage passenger is no more addicted to ablutions than any other steerage passenger, and that therefore, when thousand of him are packed into vessel there necessarily arises an odor. The character and the qualities of the odor arising from com pacted numbers of unwashed humans may not be described. A person who has passed an hour or so in a Chicago slaughter house may have notion of it. An old fashioned, rnventilated sleeping car produces a fair if weak, example. The full, unadulterated, na- tive things with all It's powers of pene- tration and adhessiveness is to be had in full measure nowadays all the way from New York Gibraltar. If that stink could be solidiied and sharpened, not a ship afloat, nor fortress on land, l could stand shot of it. It was every | where from stem to stern of the Furst | Bismarck. Now it would rush along in huge waves of dreadful rowers now 1t | would meet you with a stiletto thrust | in an unexpected corner It was most | interesting to observe the sagacity dis played by the gulls and the other sea fowl. Instead of flying directly in the wake of the vessel as is their want, they invariably flew off one side and to the windward. If by any lack of fore sight one of them hit the odorous train, screaming with pain and terror, it whfrled away and never returned. Dur ing Tuesday when the wind blew a gale directly abeam, there was partial re- lief All the clotheslines of this hotel are strung with the garments of the poorer passengers. Those who could af- ford it burnt everything as soon as they landed. The ship itself should undergo prolonged Immigration before it be al- lowed to re-enter New York harbor.
 The Azores were passed in mists and rain, through which came bits of views of fertile fields, charming valleys and attractive towns, all backed by rolling hilltops and glorious mountains.
 What a grand thing it would be for an American millionaire to pay the king of Portugal the few millions his majes- ty would take for the islands and then employ a portion of his remaining mill lions in benefitting and civilizing the There are odd islands all over the globe which seem created for this kind of enterprise The Azores are particularly inviting. There was a mill ionaire on board quite competent to put the scheme into immediate execution, out he seemed to lack requisite sand lnd proper ambition. It would not have cost much to seduce the captain. The were eager to be influenced Oy promises of places in the cabinet 'f the new potentate and the Italians could easily have been organized into LII army which no foe would dare to ace. Such an opportunity may never occur again. What a vast benefit 1t would be to the world to have centres # American civilization sprinkled over t? If the English have Gibraltar why mould not a Vanderbilt have the Azores? If the French have Madagas- ar, why should not Gould or an As- or have Crete? There should be reason ii 5.l,. |