The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-28

touched TO be sure but the service is
still rendered. He gives all sorts of adj
vice as to what is best to do and to eat
Those in my own party found in this
respect that it was often best TO do
nothing and eat as little.
The deck steward and there are sew
era1 of him passes the refreshments TO
you in your steamer chair He VIII
serve anything from light lunch to
full course meal. He is prompt and ac-
tive and really earns the ten marks ne
received.
Those who were in the smoking-room
most of the time and required fuller at
tendance of the steward of this apart
ment gave him more.
In paying the musicians a paper was
circulated. Each puts down any sub
scription he feels like making. Most of
the names on the list when it reached
me were for the amount that subscrib-
ed. On returning / gave only half as
much for the music for the reason that
our position in the crowded dining-room
did not permit us to get as full benent
of it and for the other reason that
thought I had been a little too liberal
outward bound, when my finances were
at the flood rather than the ebb-tide.
I had overlooked the bathroom stew
ard, whom remembered with a few
marks on my return voyage. On the
whole 1 thought 1 had given very
good account of the numerous steward
ships imposed upon me.
Soon after the captains dinner notices
were posted that we were in commune
cation, by Marconi. with The Lizard, a
British point of land near our course.
A most beautiful and satisfying sight
greeted us as we came on deck early
the next morning: The first land we had
seen in six days. Those green cliffs of
England were about the prettiest things
We had ever seen. The sunrise was the
first on water. Every day before had
begun, continued and ended with clouds.
One of the most interesting passengers
met was F. c.. Strubberg, of New
York He was making his eighty second
trip and was apparently just as anxious
to see the land as we with our first ex-
perience so far from it. He has made
two trips to Europe, four crossings, over
and back twice, annually for the last
twenty years. He goes every spring and
fall simply as a buyer of one line of
goods, ribbons. He gave me many point
ers.
Our eyes were tired with the ocean
scenery and our feet with floating
decks We possessed the same feeling
in a degree that Columbus must nave
enjoyed off the West Indies in 1892 and
were impatient for the pilot to step
aboard and take us to this new country,
old to him. We swung round the Ply
mouth breakwater and boarded the
tender which was to take us 10 all
actual ground footing. We bobbed up
and down on the cnOppy waves, puI We
didn't care. The Kronprinz was all
right inside but we liked the view OF
the exterior Just then. The huge black
hull which had held us nearly week,
with the four big stacks above, turned
away with those for the French and
German ports as we sailed serenely into
that same harbor. which the MayfioweT
and the Pilgrims left confidently nearly
four hundred years ago.
At the dock we stretched ourselves and
prepared to open our trunk and grips
for our first experience with English
customs and the officers which perform
their own duties and search for our.
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