The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-08
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.BERMUDA'S SIGHTS.
Delightful Letter From a
a Passenger on the
Friesland.
VAGARIEs OF THE GULF STREAM
Home Of the Onion and the
Potato - News of the
Travellers.
AGARIES OF THE GULF STREAM

L al RCORlS dAoO ~ to
of letters home, which THE Jersey City
| News" is enabled to give to it's readers.
The letters contain matters highly inter
esting to the friends here of the trav-
ellers, and give fuller details perhaps
h a those already published. The first,
which follows, is dated from Bermuda,
February o.
THE greater numbe of our party have
gone ashore to see Bermuda. A few of
us remain on board. The wind is still
very heavy and the sea tempestuous. we
are anchored about half a mile from the
shore, and ! really thought I could see
enough from the ship to satisfy me.
this group of nearly 400 islands, some of
them not much bigger than your hat,
but size is of no consequence; they
game would pay for the powder" so I
stayed on the ship and lounged about. L
sometimes enjoy the luxury of pure idle
to talk, and this is one of my off lays
when I felt inclined to crafty my inclina-
ton. Even now l am smoking a cigar
and having "a reverie by myself. and Jot-
ting Town leisurely my medftations for
those at home.
BERMUpAs STARTLING sIGTs;
George are right before me as l write.
We know Bermuda principally, as an
onion orchard and the home of the early
potato. The islands are close together in
a bunch. They produce little fruit and
their agricultural products are limited.
Hamilton is the principal city, with a
| population of about six thousand, of
wrich three Thousand are white and the
rest colored. There is one INDIA rubber
tree near the city, and TINS IS sp o a1sea
books as an important object OF interest,";
also a row of half a dozen palms speci-
ally referred to as worth seeing. some
churches, the custom house, and a few
hotels make up the others. You have TO
go ashore in a little steamer about the
size Of an ordinary tug boat, ana linen ahen
In a carriage. The roads are said to be
good. 1 didn't think | would like this
long drive In the wind, and n tn that is Is the
! above catalogue of curious sights.
Our unfortunate companion whose leg
was broken in the late storm win pc
taken ashor today and consigned to the
hospital. where we all trust he will have
a speedy recovery: 49,
THE air here IS d~eHghttuly painS,
day doesn't make 1t cold. The doors afid
| windows are vide open. and I have laid
aside my big ooat ts. 4 eaDie hsd esp 3 r=aaa ias
blizzard last Wednesday. | hope it did
| noL reach the proportions of the one that
1GsnLF STaEAM'S FINE WORK.
Bermuda IS about seven hundred miles
due east from Charleston. South Caro-
New York. Ice, frost and snow are said
to be unknown as native to the place;
Pie gulf stream runs betwee IT ana
the main land. thereby moderating the
| Temperature and producing always a COM
Portable moderate heat. In coming down
we ran q Ions. distance light in tins
| stream. While 1T is pleasant to the feel
ings. sailors fairly abornil1ate II. TOT
| squalls an storms are usually prevalent
and make a s, dreadful = FL / ugly bIS,y sea- even now
that / am a little a~pprehensive OF our
comfort when we sail; as we expect to do
/ y will MT he nh1jorpd to 90 Il through a Saml-
1sr e eop sps eusis Of Thursday II ar night. Our
| captain said it was the worst night he
| tiemen who spent tina night with me in
the smoking room declared that in nearly
twenty VOYAGES they had made across
| the Atlantic they never suffered a more
| Uncomfortable time. But now we are on
the win we will have ito trust to .Provi-
dence and the skill of our captain and
Last night i crawled, into my little
bunk early. and slept well. In fact, en-
joyed my glumber So much that LIE felt LIKE IKE
me at six o'clock this morning by pound,
ing the gong so. vigorously, as if he had
some spite against 1t.
THE PIRATES NEST.
Bermuda IS called the nest of pirates.
In its earlier history many an expedition
S nous pF 81 tbe sea tAae rsttur aed to ,ts tbs s asal
to divide their plumber and live IT up.
Even today, under it's present admins.
disabled vessels driven into its port for
safety are charged such exorbitant fees
for the protection al affo o r 60 i, hat at It, is a al
that when absolute necessity compe!s
| them to enter, the captain considers his
ss aThs party xiFsu Why W enffa ashore this morn
little lighters to do the job. Everybody
was well pleased with the excursion, but
they had twelve miles Of carriage riding
to. reach the city of Hamilton, and they
had to t tahs It tb right bas in b the te sanin q nj aii
not make one of their number. They saw
aScve. and. besides, they got drenching
wet from the showers That overlook
them. -
lance beneath you meet with a porous
w wsfePia nsaS syld Fl Ike 9 hous s9rfi IL H sna 81
are entirely built. All the roofs are COW
cred with it. and every year they give
Fences Fences a are ana also aes Built t Of E tbs Soe same m ma ma:
terial. and It. enters It sba largely ngscs into timost
GOSSIP OF THE SHIP.
"At seven o'clock P. NJ. or six bells
tobserve how nautical my language has
ocean. We had a delightful sail during
the evening although the sea was q little
E az Been n b sSNaeaus ali aa y. spe W saiia We're ere
spread 50 that the vim might help US
on our progress. The stars came out and
the full moon lit up the wide expanse Of
waters. The crested waves shone like
| silver. and the spray few like diamonds
from the sharp bow of our ship:
II have been picking I'D a few more
items of intelligence about our craft.
/ She is Differed and manned by Germans
IN every department, from the CAPTAIN
4 down. both men and women. She is
four hundred and At~hirty-seven feet long.
with engines of nearly five thousand
| horse power. and a displacement or sew
l4entyltwo hundred tons. There are twelve
J stokers shoveling sOn coal all the time,
! and she burns one hundred and eight
4 tons OF coal every twentv-four hours.
Thine is measured on s~hip-board by the
striking of bells. AT twelve-thdrty in
the morning, one bell will strike, at one
O'clock two bells, and so on every half
! hour till they strike eight. Then the
| whole thing Is repeated, by which the
! entire. day is divided into six watches
! Of four hours ach The crew are dis
tributed into three even sections and as
signed for. duty during a certain watch.
and after dinner, which we finished about
eight o'clock in the evening. / went to
the smoking room, where men most do
congregate, and while burning up my
! usual allowance of. tobacco. played a
7 few games OF whist. e ! sat down
In the saloon near my stateroom, and
while my wife E to sleep | wrote I'D
this record OF reflections and the days
doings. 1T is d q little after twelve
O'Clock and time to turn IN.