The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-16

HTH ton, contributes to the Age
 Herald another interesting let ter describing a visit to Chester, one of hhe very old towns in England. Miss Kelly writes from stratford-on-Avon, un- der date of June 2l, shortly after her ar rival at the birthplace of Shakespeare: The ship is in itself filled with things to be remembered. Only little while ago, in January, Pierpont Morgan re- sceived the signatures which gave to him "a controlling interest in the Dominion tLine, and as stewards and employees are tEnglish you can imagine their feelings.
 When young Reginald Vanderbilt ,wished to come to Europe on his we'd tding tour this was the line and steamer ! he chose. But leave the ship itself to see the ocean. Come to the stern and see what wonders are there-where the steer age passengers live. It is just after lunch on the day before landing and we I go to see the gulls. These are large birds .that remind one of pigeons but have eol- bring so beautiful l thought only of a lqbride's going away gown as they fioated Bon the water-road behind us, with pearl hgray backs and white wings tipped with black. When they rose into the air they showed their spotless white under-plum- hge These birds are very queer They Hollow for miles and seem so tame that fthey fly almost within reach around and Iaround and sometimes seem hanging in Fair. Though they keep the same rela- kive place over the ship, one can see no Emotion of their wings and they seem able Ho keep on in this changeless way for kniles.
 ! When d bit of food is thrown into the lwater the gull drops down from the sky Bike d white stone and after pulling at Ehe cake takes it's place above as motion hess as before. We watched them for Hours from the stern where so much trefuse food was thrown overheard.
 We have all read of the reward Colum- Dbus offered for the sight of land, and Ihow the sailors vied in watching 1 khought the reward a proper one but go Eourself and you will know how after hine days on the water the sight of land teeems one of the things to be desired. lThe news spread like wild fire, Land in ieight! Irelandl We make mad rush tfor the side where land is said to be- fWe go from the deck to the promenade fdeck up to the very top. We lean far lover straining our eyes to see It is band though so little that it Is only the toutlying cliffs. It was near breakfast fhat we were first told that land was hear and all the morning we staid where kwe might sec The coast became now Beautiful and the rosy glow that seemed to radiate over everything was not so much in our eyes q combination of khe shades of rock and soil Toward levening the green that makes the Emer- Bld Island was apparent. Its beauty is lndescribable as is the song of bird.
 The steamer stopped just within the barbor of Queenstown, which Is the sea bort of Cork Here the pilot came on I Ixrnft al al kwere bought that we might read the hews, though, as Shakespeare says, f'There is no news but the old news" Seeing the people go into the tug was kery interesting though a great deal more was done at Liverpool We celebrated the last night by having a musicale in The saloon and it seemed more like house party than anything one can imag- ane. Indeed there is great deal of pleasure in the thought that there is handl
 Anyone would know with what hurry Hbreakfast was eaten, although it was nearly noon before the passengers were allowed to land at Liverpool New Brighton tower was first in sight and Fhen that famous resort with it's white gbeachj We swung slowly up the Mersey river.f Baggage was hurried past One pSnew by the cessation of the talking on Ideck that we were at our journeys end, For there is state of expectancy in fwhich one waits, We could see the gang plank up but one might not pass. We leaw the way in which the baggage was hnloaded. There Is wooden Incline From the ships side to the wharf. Trunks are placed at the top and their weight carries them quickly down the steep plane to the line of men who roll them Unto the custom house. There was ex- Icitement in watching them slide down lsome came as if thrown by engine of Iwar some moved sluggshly, others lstuck, and one lively little trunk came ldown with a spin right across into the wall, rebounding into the line of men. lSome of them were shapeless masses of fin: one was unstrapped and the men took it by it's straps to make it spin fast ter
 bone think of lunch. This was the signal flor passing to the custom house to make la declaration. When the luggage is pre-
 pared for landing a paper is pasted on lbearing the initial of the surname. then Ehis luggage is supposed to be placed on la platform with the same letter to sim lplfy the work. Mine went astray, or compromised for part was on the J plat Horm and the rest at the bottom of a pile iof Ps Passing the custom house is somewhat like dying-one must do it for ! Himself. So I began an apparently fruit Nhess search with an old ono-eycd Irish fnan, our brogue his Irish-mine South