The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-27
ICE BERG SEEN FROM BIC LINER
North Carolina Congratulates the
Captain on His Estimate.
The Game OF Decimal pO0I-Not Much
Sport Aboard ShiD-UD the Clyde To-
GlasgOw-HistoriC Spots Pointed
Out by An Enthusiastic Scotch
Woman.
Glasgow, Scotland,
June, Bird.

Woman.
Glasgow, Scotland,
June, Bird.
For The Messenger.
Just one week ago | arrived in this
sturdy Scotch city which reJoices IN
being called the Second City of the
Empire" 1t was my intention tc
leave for Edinburgh in two days bur |
have been unabin to do SO yet, OWING
to the very great attractiveness of all
that is to be seen and heard. Every
thing here has 4 firm, solid, subs.an-
tial appearance. The houses, which
are all built of very d~ark-colored stone
look like nothing can shake them; the
people have the same firm, solid, sub
stantial appearance that the buildings
have, and the life of the city seems to
move along in a steady, regular stroke
in perfect harmony with men and
buildings. | have not yet seen one
person in a rush and | have yet to see
a single lcafer.
My ocean experience was one of the
most delightful surprises I ever had.
When | left home | felt sure that /
was going to break the Atlantic long
distance record for sea-sickness, and
yet | was out of business for one day
only and part of that day | looked as
well and felt as well as I ever looked
and felt ON the streets of Wilmington
or on the gravel walks through the
campus at Chapel Hill.
Soon after reaching my room in the
Columbia on our sailing day a pleas
ant, talkative fellow, full of fun and
radiant with good humor, walked IN
and asked if | was to share his room
with him to Scotland. 1 promptly an
swered that | was sole owner, prop:ie-
tor, and tOcum tenens of oom 6S, that
his stay in it depended entirely on
me, and that in lieu of my card |
would say:
I'm a Tar Heel born, I'm a Tar Heel
bred,
And when I die, I'll be a Tar Heel
dead"
to me he grabbed me by the hand say
ing:
God bless you North Carolina! I am
from South Carolina. Take the upper
hearth, or the lower berth, or the whole
room, and if any man, woman, or child
monkeys with you on this trip he Will
have me to whip"
Of course we became friends, and his
nam for me, North Carolina" became
my cognomen on the ship. Only, by the
way, only yesterday, on a crowded
street in Glasgow 1 heard voices call
ing North Cardinal! Hello, North
Carolina" Upon turning [ saw a gen
tleman and his wife, Canadians, and
fellow passengers on the Columbia.
running to greet me.
Life on an ocean liner, SO far as L
know it, is rather dull. 'Tls true mat
there are a few games that n can
maui Father Time owe the head With,
but they are to real sport as humble
the-peg is to foot ball. One invention
for killing time is called decimal pool.
Ten men, or ten women, or a few OF
each UP to ten, chip in twenty-five
cents apiece, and the two dollars and a
half thus made up is called the pool
The ten persons then draw for the
IiOIl " w y AAs
noon the ships run for the preceding
t~wenty-four hours is posted and the
person holding the number Wnlcn
stands in the units place Of the day 5
run takes the whole pool or two dol
lars and a half. l never could SEE
much fun in the game, and yet n
man "wOn out on w consecutive
days, and gave his winnings to charity!
On our fourth day out we saw soV-
eral whales frollcing about IN the
waves, but nothing we could do, caught
their attention. The next afternoon, L
heard the cry can iceberg!' and rush
ing on deck l saw away out on the
waters the cutest, cunningest, and cool
est little iceberg imaginable. TO my
eve it looked to be about the size OF
a small farm, and about as high as
an iceberg of mat size ought to be.
Soon some one cried is an
other!!" and sure enough, away on 10
the right. was another n toward
which we were moving rapidly. never
saw SO large e pile Of awe-lnsF1flng
GOODNESS, if I may call it by h name,
in nv life. The captain OF our snip
said that it was at least two miles anu
a quarter long, one mile and three
quarters wide, not less than two nun
dred feet high, and certainly at least
fourteen hundred feet deep down under
the water line. I made a careful study
of this iceberg, certainly the most
careful study | ever made of any ice
bere I ever saw and I must say that l
had to rush up 10 u good captain,
grab him by the hand and congraIu-
late him upon the accuracy OF his es'l-
mate. He seemed deeply touched
swelled out in his gorgeous uniform,
and asked me where | learned TO size
I'D ice. told HIM that | learned years
ago in North Carolina by buying ice
in ten-pound lots.
However, l shall never forget my