Milford chronicle., 1905-06-30
4 Summer Visit to the Kappa
1dnn0cK.

In company with four healthy young
people, whose views of the world are just
passing from the stage Of childhood to
that Of young ladies and young gentle
men, the writer left Milford for Ellen
dale, Del, last Friday, where we started
by way of the Maryland, Delaware &
Virginia railway for Baltimore, and there
embarked on the large steamer Middle
sex, which is one of feet of fine river
steamers plying between Baltimore and
the different places along the Rappahan-
mock river.
In the past fifteen years we have made
many trips over this route, but always in
the winter, when the country was garbed
in brown or the SHOWS of that season, and
we were not prepared to see the beauties
that a sail up that great waterway OF Vir-
ginia opened up to us.
The steamer started from Baltimore
with a moderate load of freight, and fair
list of passengers. The wind was fresh
from the southeast, while the weather
was clear and comfortable to be out on
the upper decks to enjoy the beautiful
scenes along the harbor as we passed;
but the grandest part of the trip was the
sail down the Chesapeake in the bright
moonlight. The young folks took in
their full allotment Of this part OF the
trip, and before retiring at near midnight,
they did ample justice to hamper of
fried chicken and sandwiches; with no
bad effect on their slumbers; unless the
rolling out of her berth by one of the
girls could be attributed to that cause.
At four a. m, the steamer made her
first landing on the Rappahannock, and
the boys routed us out for good at that
hour, when they proceeded to clean up
the hamper Of grub, and then watch the
freight handlers unload freight.
As the steamer zigzaged across the
three mile wide river to make the twenty
stops between the mouth and our destl-
nation, MAYORS, the beauty of the Rap
pahannock was unfolded to us as we
never had seen it before The high
bluffs ranging from few feet to more
than one hundred and fifty feet of sheer
ascent from the waters edge; the beau
tiful green fields of grass and the ripen-
wheat in golden yellow, and the fine old
manor homes nesting amid the forest
trees, made a picture to be kept in the
impress of memory.
The amount of freight taken from this
river each day in oysters, potatoes, beets,
calves, lambs, crabs and grain, by these
large steamboats, is a matter of surprise
as to where it all comes from.
After an entire day passed we finally |
landed at MAYORS, where we were met
by our friends with true old Virginia
greetings that made the welcome a real
pleasure. 1t took only short time to
Dad the baggage and we started for the
Island Farm" passing over scenes
where we have followed the dogs and
hunted quail with several friends in
Milford in years gone by.
The ''lsland Farm" in summer is a
,lace Of joy to the grain growing farmer
o look upon. On it We saw over two
hundred acres of corn, rustling and shin
ng an almost black green color in the
un, and more than two hundred other
cres were IN wheat then being harves-
ed, while the herds OF cattle and sheep
lere sleek as moles. On such a place
here is work a plenty; fourteen men are
} feed daily besides the regular family, ,
nd Nanny" Ellen has charge Of this
in undisputed reign, and she