The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24
Guv. On the Isle of Palms,
We have reuned and are still uring. Mos

We have reuned aud are still ucing. Most
of the OLD boys have skee:ed back to their &c
cotton patches, but We are loath to break the
magnetic spell that has teen wesved over US
By the kindness and cordiality of our recep-
lion and treatment since by the hospitable
people of Charleston. We've beea here near
two weeks and have yet to experience one
single event, one single word, leok or act
that has caused the slightest or most transient
feeling of unp;easan,ness, aud could this
world remain jnst as for the past Reunion
days we wouldn't accept a ticket to the jas
per walled city of the New Jerusalem, but
would prefer going to the elsie of Pawms."
This southern Coney Island was known iE
the elden time So Losg Island, with Goat
Island adjacent, and they were both owned
by the Swintou family, some members of
whom We had in S1mter. The shores of
these are la9ea By the surf of the broad At
lsntic and were once only resort for hunt
ing and fishing Now from steamer to Mt.
Pleasant wharf you enter the Car Of the Sea.
shore Railway and are ''electrocuted'
through the old town of Mt. Pleasant (muca
of which is new towa to your scribe) and
steam-no, you don't steam, nor fly, nor
sweep, you glide over the tressle bridge,
across the cove with 8 soft. swift cslerity,
enter Aoultrieville, pass the old historical
fortress, pass the big modern Fort Jasper
with it's immense disappearing guDs, which
appear &C apparent, the mortar battery, the
old Aoultrie House, the palatial Atlantic
Beach 6ote, the Myrtles (uear which par
son once drove himself and family out into
the vastly deep and cever drove them out any
more), around to Breach inlet, a narrow, but
deep, strip of water, dividing Sullivan's from
Long and Goat Islands, and across which
you speed with comfortable haste, and land
on the Isle of Palms (a!so called Parms, also
Pawms. Next y when the throttle is pulled
-leastways the volts are turned loose and
you shoot through the sand doons and among
the palm( (et,os) and live oaks with fearful
aud wonderful velocity, over serpentine
track that causes you to rock and sway as
though you'd took some-thin' thick and
strong. (Eit's lie, we didr's.) The im-
mense 200 foot Ferris wheels looms up and
quickly you pass it, the exqu;aite picnic
grounds cuder the grand old live oaks, the
steeple chase track and pull up alongside the
gigantic pavilion under which is an immense
prominade and dance foor with music and
refreshments, bathing suits and dressing
rooms, ice water, and chairs galore, where
you may sit ia quiet and look and listen, or
yon may form one of trio over the mad
steeple chase. or for dims you may comfort
ably seat yourself within nice large COM
partmeut of the Ferris wheel and be gently
lifted to the dizzy height of 200 feet and view
tie grandeur of the aarbor, the limitlees ex'
panse OF ocean sno ether, the broad, smooth
she'll besprinkled beach of nine miles in
length, the white crested "breakers" ae they
surge over the bar. the costly jetties, and all
the points of historical interest and from
which sheets of FIRE flooded the scene in the
days of yore with the soubfe, but now
,sileot, Fort Sumter as the central figure. You
may don sbort s'eeved suit and join the
roilicking surf bathers, OF you pay pream.
bnlste the level sacd aod gather bushels of
rare ocean curios, while you take in the
animating ozone from the salty breezss, or
sit and list to music's mystic melodies, or
trip the light fantastic toe. Tbs trip is rs
cents in money and S25 in pleasursble enjoy
meet and double that when you're accompa.
MED by grace and beauty in the shape o!
womanhood, ss vas our own good fortune.
Well, we'll, we started to write up the Re-
union and have left ourself on the Isle of
Palms and you'll row have to await tho next
boat. Guv.
Charleston, S. c., Msy 10, 1899
P.S. Have We enjoyed ourself? We'll We
should give very broad-guage, vide, wet
sraile.
Dr.. Boli's Cough Syrup is still in the lead
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