The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-07-13
Another Letter From j. &. McGrew,

Another Letter From J. e. McGrew.
ION board steamer Kaiser wilhelm. in North
Sea, June 18th, lS95.l
Editors lntelligencer:
We mailed you our first letter yesterday
from Southampton, and 1t left by steamer
Furst bismarc for New York today, so
now commence on this, our second letter.
We arrived in Southampton at 5:3O yes
terday, and left at $3.50 p. m. From the
time we closed our last letter until we
arrived In port, We passed many interest
ing places along the shore-the many
lighthouses aud light ships and the
Needles, which are at the west end OF
the Isle OF Wight. The Needles 10 an
especially interesting point. 1t IL 80
called because there are three large rocks,
sharp pointed. each being separated one
from the other by the water, but close to-
gether and close to the main isle. On the
| outer rock IL a lighthouses; on the one
| nearest the main isle Is the house the
lighthouse keeper lives in. The main
isle Ia at the end OF q perpendicular rock,
some 200 feet in height. On this isle,
along its shores, are many beautiful
places.
are somewhat amused to see the small
passenger coaches las the train 10 stand
ing on the dock ready to convey the pas
sengers right on to London, which Is only
two hours ride). The passengers enter
the coaches py the side doors mot end
doors, as we do in ours), each compart-
ment having u separate door to enter.
After leaving Southampton we pass up
or back through the same channei we
came in on for about a couple of miles.
Then we pass out the east channel, with
the Isle OF Wight just on our right about
half q mile, and soon pass the motifs
castle; the the Queen OF England's
castle, where she spends about three
months Of her time each year; then on
past the many lighthouses. iight-ships
and towns, and found forts built Of stone
(these being built out In the water), with
their cannon pointing out. We are now
passing some of the lighthouses. and II
being dark, the lights show up very
beautiful, indeed, with their revolving
and changing lights; first, one REDS
flaming bright red; then q blue; o 9
bright, sun-iike One-all OF which dazzle'
the eyes as we look at them, as they have
strong refiectors behind the glass to sent
the warning light to all vessels that sal
on the blue seas. .,
IL ia now Friday morning, June 14th
We have steamed on through the English
channel aud Dover straits, and are now IL
the North Sea. 1t is most too cold to b.
pleasant, yet we are on deck with on
wraps and rugs on and over US. Seasick
ness seems to have been . thing Of tn
past. have only been seasick once, aut
tQe0 only very bitkntty ~ - -
hours. My wife and daughter have no
proved to be as good sailors. They, how
? ever. have had none since last Saturday
which was six days ago. We are now on
of sight Of everything except water, an
we see a steamer or sailor often, and yer.
many fishing smacks-fieets of them
They are little sail boats, about Is to 8
: feet in length, and have their sails uE
/. CONTINUALLY sailing along. They hav
their fsh-nets out behind them, and the
= troll along and thus catch the hsh. The
D are owned by large companies, generally
months at a time, having steamers to visI
them at intervals to take the catches an
I to bring supplies to them.
We are now passing by or near the epe
where the hne steamer Elbe, OF this Fam
0 line we are on, went to the bottom in
collision in q fog q few months sg'
Nearly all on board persisted. Many
them are in their berths In their stat
n rooms now, as she went down in q fe
= minutes, aud in the night. As we a
D." oassiug, our band OF music on the low
or steerage deck Is playing some swee
y mournful music. aud they are hoidir
memorial services, as one OF the membe
Is Of this band had q brother who went dow
on the Eibe. While we can see the tea
occasionally trickle down his cheeks, al
D. IL causes feelings OF tenderness to con
1t over US, yet it Is a scene to nee, and Of
feelings for him causes many wet eyes;
IL is now 8 p. m. We see in the di
10 lance, about fifteen miles, the shores
81 an island. We arrive at Bremerhaven,
Germany, at midnight, too late to go
shore, but are W at 4 q. M, and all pa
ssngers leave our ship and 90 on shol
by the use of small steamers which col
alongside Of our steamer, and we are tn
landed. ! was the first passenger
lie touch German soil, my wife and daught
10 next. We pass h custom officers wit
" out any trouble, aud are o on our ira
on our way up to Bremen. We get
Bremen, and are more than pleased wi
the clean n beautiful city. The stree
and stores are as clean as they can pos.
bly, be. We nee many things here We
different from what they are In our cou
:. try. We zee dogs hitched TO small Wagon
especially milk wagons, pulling the
rs. while the man with the wagon mere
holds the handles and controls the wage
" These dogs pull large loads. We ha
ne some funny experiences In getting used
he their money-''marks" and ~"pfennigs'
trying to talk German, &c. We, howev
get along tirst-rate, aud enjoy 1t. II
he had Messrs. Gus Haerle and Patsy Faga
,st or some other one of our good Germ
friends along we might have gotten alo
better, possibly. However, we knowi
we are all alone in this wide world,
hustle along, We pass on to Hambul
=. We find their trains, in travelling, We
Qluerent 10 OUTS. lntlT cOaCues are ma
or up OF FIRST, second and third class coach
,as In q train. We get Into the former, IL
little compartment where six can Ri
10 We are securely locked in; our conduct
he comes around, we pass him our ticket. a
we see no more of him until we rea
our destination, when we are let out.
can, OF course, raise our windows. at
Io. we learn the combination. We lind
some Of the compartments, just over I
NJ, door, "Raucher" (smokerJ; over othe
,rs "Nicht Raucher" tho smoking).
In soon learned this part of German.
believe II l were to stay in Germany
: months, so as to depend on my o
resources to talk or not talk, and ii
come back to Lexington, there would
be a German in our town but wha
could help talk into ut least a bridge s,
u. scription,
var We arrive at Hamburg and rave q fun
ex perience. We go to u carriage to get
u.s. as there were probably n hundred star
81 ing In waiting for passengers. We find
Ell. cannot get in any Of them, AZ we tr
=. several, and they all jabbered away q
pointed ahead. We kept going, and pr