New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15
A VACATION IN FOG.
SUFFERED ION THE WILD NEW

"What, back from your vacation so soon7 A
little earlier than you expected. isn't it?'
eyes. 1 am back earlier than I expected"
Biggs answered. land don't want you to ask
me what l came back for. either"
"We won't ask YOU" said Riggs. sooth
ingy What Is it to me?'
IL came back to get warm" said Biggs "if
you must know"
II don't want to know" said Riggs.
isn't it enough" said Biggs, "to have every
body. from the proprietor of my hotel to the
elevator man here in the building, worrying me
about what I came back for?"
ut seems as if it ought to be enough" said
Riggs
But it appeared that Biggs really wanted to
tell and as the two started for luncheon
together he began Of his own accord Il always
said" he began, that New-York was the best
place to be- In the summer. 1t may be pretty
hot sometimes. but NewYork is better pre-
pared to stand hot weather than any other city
in the world. And so, with Manhattan Beach
and Long Branch ard the Highlands close at
hand, / always thought that the bother OF gong
far for a vacation more than 1t was WORTH
and / seldom went But this year my cousin
Polly wrote to me how lonely it was down on the
coast of New-England where she is staying
with twenty girls in the hotel to one man. and
finally went down.
Il don't know what l wanted to go 1or. IL
wasn't uncomfortable here. The night got
there nearly frcZe to death sitting on the
niazza Polly said the wind was little fresh
even for that place. but l ought to have been
there the week before, when the storm was ana
when they all went out with their winter clothes
and rubber boots on to see the waves, and the
fishermen said there hadn't been anything IKE
1t before since 1873 But the wind was blowing
thirty-five miles an hour right then. and that
was enough for me.
"Thc next morning put on a. fresh. clean, out
Ing suit, just as if l had expected summer
weather 1t was beautiful suit that bought
on nurrose TO wear down there, and Polly said
she was proud of me, though she was a htue
afraid l might get pneumonia Evidently she
was proud of me- or Of the suit, or something
for all that day she just took me around ana
showed me to the other girls. I didn't know
another soul in the place. so she had me all 10
herself. and it really was worth something to
see how happy she was when she looked at the
other girls.
you'll die Of modcsty some time, SAID i'isss
"you ought to do something for It,
aft wasn't altogether so easy showing me to
the other girls either" Biggs went on, Tor the
fog was thick enough all that day to boil pota-
toes in Only the air didn't suggest boiling al
all. But Polly said that this weather was IN
usual She had been here two summers pelore'
and sometimes it almost warm She
thought that so much cold was a sure sign that
It was going be warm soon IT was Ioesy an
the next day. too. and for that nlght a ihoon-
light sail was announced. They call IL san,
thoucb if was to be on a steamboat When 1
saw the ad refreshments and saw the 1og' "'As
inclined to make light Of it, but soon 1ouho
that il was a serious matter for II appeared 'ha'
they were going to have it regardless OF inc
weather. and Polly was bent on going and on
taking me with her.
81 told her 1 would much rather sit on the
rio,ya with her alone and talk about the days
when we used to make mud pies together or
some other ploasant subject. She said that the
disnaritv in our ages was too great for us ever
IN have made mud pies together, and she didn't
remember anything about it. but 1t was not 100 |
great for us to so moonlight sail together'
1 spoke about the fog and she SAID that IL "fia
likely to clear up any minute. L remember tha'
the last time / had seen the moon, before lett
Nav-york. it was past the full; looked the
matter I'D and found that it would not rise that
night till after 10 o'clock. Polly said that the
party would probably stay out a good deal
later than that so it would be all right, ana
anyway moon was OF no great consequence vi
a moonlight sail found at last that sne
simply regarded that moonlight sail as an ts-
necialy convenient occasion to dangle me bo-
fore the other girls some more. 1t appears that
where there are a lot of girls moonlight
sail men are regarded uncommonly desirable.
didn't know anything about it before but
Polly let me into the secret.
'Wel. we went. We had not much more than
started when / overheard the captain saying