The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-21
VISITED NORTHERN SEAS
a SUMMER DEUTSCHLAND or THE
MIDNIGHT sun.

New Haven Tourists Visit the Iceianders;
Also tho Land of the Norsemen and
Vikings, Lapland, Finland and Lastly
the Land of the Car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward M. Clark OF
Whitney avenue have returned from a
tour which began at the northernmost
part of Great Britain and ended in Ger
many.
The whole outing was most delight
full. The Ohio, a Cramp boat, owned
by the American Steamship line was
fitted out like a gentleman's yacht for
cruising purposes The largest liberal
ity was granted the passengers in
every way; the arrangements for their
comfort were perfect. The table was
elaborate and the service excellent.
Iceland, which has SO many natural
wonders to tempt the traveller, was ex-
plored for the geysers and the lava
beds.
ReykJavik is a place of about four
thousand inhabitants. Travelling there
is all on the backs of ponies The
houses are matched with sod, from
Which wild flowers, moss, tall grass and
DAISIES grow in profusion. The people
are hardy race, who "go down to the
sea in ships and do business in great
waters" Englshmen own or control
all the desirable rivers, and have a mo-
nopoly of tho salmon-fishing; and the
tales they tell make an American
sportsman green with envy.
The scenery of the Norwegian fjords
is superb; and there are no finer waters
in the world for steam yachting. The
coast line is over thousand miles long
"a chain of perfect harbors with sur
faces as mirror-like as a pond The
whole atmosphere of Norway is one of
peace and liberty; Norsemen and Vik-
ings, who in days of old were the only
people that were free and were govern
ed by the laws they made themselves.
AT the end of old Europe that thrill
ing sight the midnight sun, was seen.
1t takes the traveller some hours to
climb that bold mountain of rock, the
North Cape; but once there, before him
stretches the Arctic ocean and the mys-
teries of the North Pole
Sweden next The international ex-
hibition was in full swing, and that
proved an attraction to the tourists.
Stockholm-stick Island as it is called
by the natives, is most uniquely placed
on several islands backed by wooded
hills and nothing more lovely than the
approach to Stockholm can be imagin-
ed. 1t was here the travellers expert
enced their first real appreciation of
the skill of Captain Boggs in manoeu-
vreing his ship in and out among these
Islands. The captain is a type of the
down east Yankee tar-fearless, faith
full and sailor every inch of him. His
uniform courtesy won the hearts of
everybody on board
Lapland and Finland. which is only
kept by Russia as protection to st.
Petersburg, was also visited 1.-THE
gates of Russia are wide to those who
enter, but narrow to those who go out"
was felt on leaving st. Petersburg,
where the waste of time with passports
was trial to the temper. The city
suggests ancient Rome. 1t is built on
both sides of the Neva. There is a
prevailing sense of vastness, but in
spite of much that is curious a stranger
finds it wearisome
The shops are small, many of them
in Easements, with their names inscrib-
ed in beWildering Greek characters and
their walls covered with pictures of
their contents. AS only twelve per
cent. of the people can read this is the
Russian method of advertising.
The droskies are a bright and re-
deeming feature. They are the small
est carriages in the world. with drivers
like old women in low-crowned hats
and long blue dressing gowns, buttoned
from head to foot and wadded till they
look like featherbeds belted in where
the waist should be-
There are 10000 of these sleds on
wheels. There is no tariff or fixed price
for driving. foreigner is asked five
times the right fare and a Russian dou-
BILE. The horses, short, stout, gentle
little animals, are as hardy as their
masters; both eat when they can and
always start off with a smart, cheerful
trot
The country between ST. Petersburg
and Moscow is fiat, marshy and in
tensely melancholy. No birds are to
be seen and even beasts are rare or
long distances apart
But the Kremlin--that Tartar fortress
with its gilded domes, cupolas and tow
ers, each of a different architecture and
all lavishly decorated in green, blue,
yellow and red. 1t is by far the grand
est and most historical sight of Rus
STA.
The cheerful landscape OF the North
Sea, or Kaiser Wilhelm canal, was a
welcome relief This marvel of mason
ry is sixty-one miles long and built at
an expense of 10000, 900. AS $500 is the
charge for every steamer passing
through it's locks it will not be immedi- |
ately popular with steamship cornpa- |
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