Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-20
SiASCONSETT-lN-THE-SEA.
MT. xunlzittricl< Pays His Regular Annual
 Tribute to tho Sandy Shore.
Special Correspondence. l

away 10 Keep rom being mixed up in the
 fortnightly West Indian revolution, which
 keeps the manufacturers of arms from go- ing into bankruptcy After the usual summer swelter in New York I find it
 very comfortable here in an overcoat, not the leather ovGrcoat with copper lining
 worn during the summer by the Jersey
 man to keep tho mosquitoes scarfpin from
 penetrating the cpidcrmis, but the light
 airy ovCrcoat which is the brother of the roseate summer drink which waits one to
 fairyland. The peacock diSports in his
 feather duster, and all is lovely as an in-
 fant' dream. SiasconSett is still SiascOn-
 sett, and that is the highest praise ono can
 bestow upon it. Nothing ever changes
 down here except tho weather and So bills,
 but the former is the moro easily changed
 even by one who has never had profession
 al experience in the weather bureau. Yes
 terday q man found a diamond pin that he
 lost last summer right on a beaten path
 In New York it would have been caught
 on tho fly while descending from the own
 CTS scarf If you were to stand Jacks on
 their heads down here, the natives would
 never notice them or pick them up with
 their feet. As result of the fine woat her
 whale stories are larger than they were
 this time last year. 1 mean tho same
 stories are larger-SO much larger that it
 takes longer to tell them. In fact, the
 whales that figure in them have grown to
 so great q size that it is estimated by con
 servative persons that hundreds of barrels
 of oil were lost by gathering them too
 soon.
 The bluefish arc also running and swim
 ming well. l saw an II poundcr yesterday
 that was caught by q man who had wired
 Q silver dollar on his hook This shows
 that even bluefish are imbued by the spirit
 Of tho i'm which 1.-Two f. i.,
 bly due to the fact that when cl0so to shore
 they hear mercenary people discussing ev-
 erythlng from the dollar point of view
 One of the great charms of this place is the spirit of Americanism that pcrvadcS it
 from Sanpoty lighthouse to Undcrhill's $
 china shop on tho bluff. When you go to
 be shaved, you don't land on an earl and
 carom on duke even in the barber It is
 great blessing, and ono for which wo
 should be duly thankful, that there are nci-
 ther natural nor artificial noblcmcn hcre and it is fortunate that the best markets for coroncts and feudal castles are at Newport
 and Bar Harbor. Tho only royal person- ages recognized here arc tho kings and
 queens that abOand in packs liko fox hounds. A beautiful macadamizrd road is now being laid from Nantucket to Sias- consCtt About two miles of it arc now finished, and next year, when it. is com plPtCd, the hcyclrr will be in his element and never know 6 punCturc. This will put the horses into caves for winter lSr | and thcpour Cquincs who have been trudg- ing across the mOraSS through the rutS
 will doubtless feel happier compounded as mock turtle and OK tail soup. This | finely ballastcd blucStono road frightrns | the horses ill the same way that a large. wholesome meal frightrns a hungry man. | and the drivers are now certain that they l wasted he money they spent on their horses 1 in former years for nervous prustration | They are so lively that they don't seem | liko SiaSSctt horses, which will probably mako them amrnitble sooner ar later to some tyrannr.tl blue law. About week | ago the stone arches broke down, and | since the date of that accident so anxious
 are they to push the good work ahead that | they have been crushing the stone with | lithia water.
 Tho only nlON,lIitu l ever saw here | must have come down with me from New l .l"r>'y in my l,uat. After l had gone tn | bed this Nj rri-i"Wn nightingale began to | play u dram snEI upon my tinpanum un- 1 til l thought WiIs back in my own lutlSr | Erouhd which tl!U lnuS,IuitOCS are sO plvn- I titul that l throw them into | he summer | tenant without uNirt charge. When l heard l the fruu fru;t uf this specimen and felt his
 tail feathers trailing softly along rly nosr | it nadr me sud and surchurgrd my soul | with a MClanuhuly about three sizes too | large for it. But he didn't attempt 10 bite
 mo. He seemed to rejoice ill the fact that
 he was with mo that knew his ways. And ! then knew he was from New Jersey, for I he pcrchcd upon my nose as if he would 1 trndrrly embrace mo and began to cry in | tho bitterness of his woe. And as great sa- ! limo tears dropped lovingly from his eyes I into mine ho s&s CE his hind legs like tho | leader of an Oc'rh"stra and began intoning | the names of the stations on the Delaware l Lackawanna and Western railroad But l the mosquitoes of New Jersey, biting as 1 they do with the sting of a tax collector
 are not much greater in numbers than the | prairie dogs will shortly be on this ocean
 island. They are multiplying like Italians | just at present, and when tho native gces | them eating the corn for which he charges | the alien from New York 30 cents dozen he immediately pulls the lobster pot out of | the sea and sets it on the farm. A flock
 of these dogs will attack a finc green farm | and in a few hours leave nothing intact but the utensils and the mortgage. Foxes and quail have also been put on the island | Tho former are now extinct here, and the | quail were SD greatly reduced in numbers | last winter by the snow and cold weather | that a law has been passed to protect them
 for three years, during which time the poor l native must I,r thankful while he takes his ItoaSt straight. The weather iS like that of l>;"pt"ml",r at the present time, and this is | about the regular thinG It k Il poor man \ paradise just aS bicycle is q poor man 'S four in hand. We're SCunsctt nearer New York, only miHionaircs could enjoy it, but | town slvrr milliunarrs cant enjoy it be | :ause, having; all tho money they want | hey can't take the time to leave their
 shops Therefore the poor man is rich nan down h"re--So rich that he doesn't
 anow he's poor until he returns to the
 lowlin-, metropolis and dreams long and | ,ondly oG leather robbed SascunS,tt int he Sea R. k. MUNE-wTNL--.