The Princeton union., 1900-07-12
iNNE5OT &
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.
VOLUME XIV. NO. 81.

how broad think we will have a bet
ter conception than ever before.
With passenger list of 450, how
ever, 100 of them first cabin, and all
occupied in much the same manner as
they would be at home, it is impossi-
bic to conceive of loneliness. Some
are busy with the needle, others read
ing, writing or conversing, others still,
promenading the deck or playing at
quoits, SWITCHBOARD or cricket. Chill
dren are playing hide-and-seek or
swinging on the second cabin deck,
their happy voices making music every
where.
With the staunchest of boats, the
most careful of captains, the finest SER
vice, the smoothest of waters and the
most congenial of companions we are
willing to hazard a Yankee s'guess''
that what all pronounce a wonderfully
propitious voyage is nothing less true.
Until Tuesday afternoon, we exper-
fenced matchless weather, blue seas
and crimson sunsets, and had begun
to hope that the most unusual exper-
ience of a passage of the Grand Banks
without fog would be ours. 1t drifted
down upon US at this time, however,
and the footing of the fog horn all af-
ternoon and night was most dismal to
hear. 1t grew very cold, too. and the
temperature of the water taken toward
evening, 28o, betokened the near prox-
unity of ice. The boat made little ad-
vance during the night, was quite
stationary, in fact, for several hours,
and we imagined all sorts Of dire dis
asters, icebergs, etc., swooping down
upon US and this was, truly, a very pos
sible danger. But the coming of the
morning sun dispersed the fog and our
fears as we'll, and since then, although
the sea is heavier, our big boat rides
it very steadily and few have missed a.
meal.
The saloon equipments are all that
could be desired and the menus tempt
ing to the most epicurean taste. Life,
indeed, is little different from that in
any well-appointed hotel. Sunday
morning service (Episcopal,) was held
in the saloon, with a song service in
the evening. There were meetings
also in the the second cabin and strains
from the gospel hymns hoated upon
the air many times through the day.
There are several clergymen aboard,
one OF them an archbishop. Among
the distinguished people with US is the
EFst*: Hon. sssif s Henry Stroag g, P:ea= c.;
Chief Justice Of Canada. There is
member Of the Queens council from
Montreal, there is Lady Seymour"
with maid and two DAUGHTERS, from
Halifax, N. S., ana there is Mrs Yaw,
mother of Ellen Beach Yaw. Of our
own Minneapolis. There are many
truly brilliant people to whom we have
the pleasure of listening, particularly
during the social evenings in the
saloon
Monday morning found US out of
sight Of land. The mountains, some of
them snow-clad, of the south bank of
the St. Lawrence by which we had
been passing the afternoon before had
disappeared and we were we'll out in
gulf We sighted Cape Ray at about 3
P. NJ, and passed sufficiently near to
gain a good view OF the lighthouse,
fishing villages along the coast, also
the wreck of the Montpelier, a large
steamer of the Elder, Dempster line
stranded upon the rocks about seven
weeks ago. The pathos of the sight
was indescribable. The great boat,
its mainmast gone, its side broken in,
lying deserted and alone upon the
rocks, the seas beating about her, was
so suggestive of certain pathetic in
stances in the lives of the human
family.
We spent the day very pleasantly,
joining in games of Quoits and shuttle
board, promenading and watching the
shores of New Foundland. Took some
snap shots, also, Of groups onthe deck
and succeeded in getting one of the
Franciscan monk of whom VIC spoke in
a former letter. After dinner. the
deck steward as master of ceremonies
cleared the floor for dancing, the
''band'' appeared in the person of a
fireman armed with an accordion and
several hours were spent in tripping
the flight fantastic
Tuesday at breakfast we heard what
was at once put down as fish story''
of drove of whales seen in the early
morning. This was proven true, how
ever, and later we saw two for our
selves spouting in the water but a
short distance away. The body of one
showed above the water to about the
Esize of horse for an instant and then
disappeared but the spouting like a
Il m i,nic oevsa, continual for soma