Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-06
CHEAP VACATIONS At SEA
Sailing Vessels Glad to Get Pas.en.
gcrs at a Dollar a Day.

Sailing Vessels Glad to Get Passen.
ger Mt a Dollar a Day.
If a man is not in health and wants
to spend his vacation in a manner
which will do him the mos; good mt the
least expense lie cannot do better than
to take Il trip as passenger OH ii smiling
vessel. A trip in a schooner plying be-
tween New York and some port on the
coast of Maine, or if he has time, to
points of the maritime provinces of
Canada, will soothe his nerves and
build up his weary frame and send
him back to work again filed with
new life.
To take a long trip OIL a sailing YES
sci Is an expensive operation in money
and time, but IL short trip OH Il coast
ing vessel is economical. 1t costs $500
to go around Cape Horn as passenger
In one of those splendid, great Yankee
clippers, but for n trip OH IN ordinary
coasting schooner the expense is only
81 u day rs a rule.
Ii one is fortunate in selecting his
vessel he can generally occupy the cap
talns stateroom and is sure to be
comfortable. AS to feed, he will get
the ordinary fare of the cabin-lots of
saVory stews, e pic. etc. 1t is Il coarse
food. perhaps, for the f%as.idious. but
he will get an appetite from ozone
and the iodine of the Sea breezes
which will make pork aud potatoes
taste like Il dish from the table of Lu-
cullls. The passenger is always u
person in whom the officers and crew
take Il lively interest. He comes to
them as q rule like IL creature from an
other world. With all that pertains
to the daily life of sailors he is usually
profoundly ignorant or possesses just
enough of knowledge to make his ig-
norance p%alpable.
He is interested in the vessel and
n sailors. and the sailors are inter-
ested in him, while the ship says never
a word, but bears him day by day fur
ther away from his old life and every
wave crest that slips by him browns
some care or veNation until he is ready
to swear that 1.-THE earth is II desolate
place; IL garden of rest is The sea-"
The money received for Il passenger
is a perquisite of the captain, so most
captains are perfectly willing to put
up with the Inconvenience of having Il
landsman botllering about and asking
FOOLISH questions" If n man is mar
ried and wants to take his wife on one
OF These trips there is trouble in get
ting permission. Scarcely any skip
pc. takes his wife Oh trips, only at
rare Intervals, being thoroughly i'm
bued With the idea that a woman has
no place on board Il ship. Still, n cap
tain OF Il coastins vessel is Il thrifty
person. and money can accomplish u
great deal.
On the big California clippers things
are different, but even on these a wom-
an passenger is hardly persona grata.
The captain of INT of these big ships
frequently has his wife and family
along, but he is not eager to have any
body else's wife and family aboard.
These vessels have staterooms and
cabins fitted up in a way that would
do credit to u transatlantic liner and
the captains table is a good one.
Scarcely a California clipper leaves
his port that has not on board at least
one, perhaps several, passengers-men
who want to escape for Il while from
the temptations aud cares of the world.
One going on a trip in a sailing YES
sci should remember one thing il he
wants to have a calm and unruffied
trip, and that is that the captain is an
ship. Do not dispute him cr treat any
thing he may say with levity. He is
used to being respected and obeyed.
and always try TO remember. when on
his w quarter deck or in his own
cabin, that he is monarch of all he
surveys.-New York Press.