The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-08-17

jim Horner and concluded to go to
Boston by sea- The fare including eat
ing and sleeping from Henderson to BOs-
ton and back twice $50 miles including
as good if not better food and beds than
we were used to at home, was only
$24. 90; and it would be such relief to
be out Of sight Of the road-roller and
other familiar objects on Henderson g
main street for awhile, and our work
could Accumulate q little in our absence.
We understood it was almost a different
world from ours, and we wished to see
how they did and looked up there; what
they ate and wore. Boston has the
name, and is really thought by many
| people to be ''the Hub and we had long
wished to see the movements OF the
wheel from that point OF view. The
| pleasures of an ocean voyage and the
| leisure time were the last straws that
''broke the camel's back of obstruction
| so we started August 3, 3a.m.
| Horse show, races and excursions filled
Norfolk full and made it difficult for
street cars to run. heard a conductor
! on whose car we were, cry out to some
i people on the ground, "YOu down.
, homers better keep out of the way
A few minutes later asked him if down
homers" was cussing. He smiled. Nor
folks population for many years was
composed largely OF North Carolinians.
who referred to North Carolina as ''down
home till they came to be known as
! 'dOwn homers.'
| The ''good'' ship on which we sailed
was half as wide as the lot on which
live, and quite as long as the lot. (Size
of lot 100 1922 There were near 100
(, passengers, about 40 sailors and l 1,75O
tons of freight, including 800 bales OF
cotton 1t required forty or fifty big ne
groes with good large trucks nearly hall
a day to load her. She was four stories
high and could and did carry as much as
three or -four long freight trains, and
went about Is miles an hour. 1t was
p. m., about dark, when her ropes
were drawn in. l felt little peculiar be-
fore that, but the moment she glided
further from the wharf than Icould jump
had emotions as many as Samantha
Allen ever had. The jig was up with me.
and for few minutes | was thinking
how it would look at my funeral, and
wondering what would become Of my
wife and children, til it occurred to me
that the whales and sharks would attend
to the funeral and that the orphan asy-
lums and insurance money would pro-
vide homes and husband for those left.
Nobody else's emotions were in evidence,
and soon, in fact in two minutes l was
famed by the salt sea breezes to de-
lightfnl composure. The good" ship
was steady and strong, so were the
breezes Soon we were in bed, but we
did not fail that night to say our Now
Hay me down to Sleep etc.
Next day ships, whales, fish, birds, chief
" the stormy petrol and sea gulls were
in sight all the time, but we saw no land
except the outline OF what we were told
was the Jersey shore. Whales spouted
J up the water in the distance, two large
/ fish as big as hogs ran us a race by get
prov of the ship and though we were
going Is miles per hour they easily kept
out OF our way for miles and would jump
:, forward and out OF the water at times
and play with each other, all this to the
great delight of the passengers. Many
} ships loaded with coal, lumber and other
7 freight, and drawn by tugs, and Others
t propelled by steamer the wind against
!. their sails we met or passed. And the
sea breeze, pleasant company and splen-
. did surroundings were so fine.
Providence, r. l., 6 a. m,, 2nd morn
ing. The beauty OF the city and it's parks
and buildings and monuments, and the
t summer residences and government forti
9 fieations on the bay and the shipping in
& the harbor were a wonder and delight tC
@ us. As we were entering the bay big
;, passenger steamer from New York came
and easy as Bobt Lassiter's white horse
u cOuld trot around Joe Stones lumber
II wagon.
t After breakfast, several hours touring
the city and supplying ourselves will
souvenir cards, a new form OF petty lar
ceny to which travellers are subjected
we set forth by electric car to Newport
T. The ride was delightful, forty or fit!
to miles, very little town, but farms inclosee
IN with rock walls all worked like gardens
rs and splendid houses, barns and cow
in every where In Webster's Speller b
III SAYS: 81 like to see a nice stone wal
ev round farm" l told Jim l was sur
~ he had formed that taste in Rhode Islam
9 and Massachusetts and could find pleas
ure in travelling there.
Newport. We had supposed there wa
a town, bathing place for all. and som
single story marble cottages OF the nc
strung along a coast like Wrghtsvillt
Morehead. Virginia Beach or Nags Head
le but this left out of view the "Stern an
lI rock bound coast" immortalized in vere
ne by Mrs. Hemans and in nature by th
n Creator.
IN The government buildings and me
as employed at Newport would make nit
re town, the people living there, a city, an
Ia the plutocratic homes a paradise
ha wealth and magnifcence could make on
W which they can not do.
W The rich own 3 IA miles Of the coai
an extending along tall, rugged and linden
Is ed cliffs from Northeast to SOuthwes
OF one castle and lot to about every iN
ge acres. Containing the perfection OF a
ct chitectural beauty in marble, granite ar
m brick, with such trees, lawns, shrubber
=. walks, flowers, yacht landings at tt
o., o. foot of stone or iron stairways, as Y
I'll had never imagined to exist. The re'
of this stretch OF IA miles of castles I
the front, l know not which, is mo
beautiful street On the street side t
,rs. houses are remote from the street al
Of nearly obscured by shrubbery and tire
~. whose branches are uncut, aud such st
pendous fences and gates OF iron
an stone! These mansions had apparent
yer an average Of 40 or so rooms. lar
md enough for any one of the 400" to G
re: tertain at once all the other 800. The
fellows wished to exclude the public fro