The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-08-30

from New York city, on the Benefactol
or Regulator, pleasantly recalls 'the
City by the Sea-
My genial old time friend, Mr.
C. Won Kampen, ]. W. Duls and John
G. Gieschen sailed on this goon ship
three years ago, the Captain told me
All this delighted me and made me
lfeel perfectly at home.
! Alas, sea-sickness took hold of q
good many passengers, and many felt
as / set forth in these lines, written by
me in Wilmington
Sea Sickness.
A steamer on the mighty deep.
! A steamer on the sea-
| O, that's a thing of iOv and pride,
| O.. that's the thing for me.
| 1t rides amid the breakers wild
That toss it in their glee.
And sea-birds, as they laugh and play
| Cry our. Zee. ice"
A steamer on the mighty dsep,
| A steamer on the sea.
| O. that's thing of iov and pride,
But! takes all pride from me.
When breakers shake it's iron ribs,
They shake the ribs in me.
And as sea-birds take I'D their food,
/ cast mine in the sea.
A steamer on the mighty deep,
A steamer on tlFs' sea.
o. that a thing of Joy and Dride;,t
For all the wOrld-but me.
sea (seel
When friends who ns'er have beeuf 30
Come back 50 mOurnfully.
Sea-bird like. in pityIne tones,
I CRY. 'i-ee. ice"
ALL sights upon the SEA are WondeE~
full. The quick-f1ying fish, playful
porpoise, spouting whale, swift birds
or sea swallow, Mother Carey's chich-
enss, white dressed sea-guus, etc.
In addition to seeing scoras Of steam
ers and hundreds af said-boats, we
were specially favored by passing that
model vessel, Kaiser Wilhelm, der
Crosse" and also OF coming near to
the finest, grandest, and swbftest new
steamer of the world, ''FrlnceSsiOn
Cecilia" on her very first trip from
Bremen to New York city. We sight
ed her off the English coast, and passed
close by her in the English channel
Oh, what monster she is ID size
and how she did fly over the waters,
almost lii ke a bird. The granaEest and
most surprising sight that greeted our
eyes was E.ng1and's Iron Navy. Forty
think of it, forty of Englands finest
iron-clad war ships steamed by us,
in regulor fleets and spuadrons, all
ready to have a nights maneuVer, ON
the open sea. What giants iron and
steel they are. They appear in two
ffotillas several miles apart, the one
having an admiral on the advance
vessel and other fleet led by a vice
admiral I could write on about this
fleet If space would permit. 1t was
an ever-memorable sight.
The founder and first proprietor and
editor of The Messenger, was born in
the mountain city of Clansthal, Han
over, city of 1900 people. I ex-
pect to visit the house and room, in
which the noble, brave, generous and
talented julius BonitZ whose name will
live forever in North Carolina, was
born. 1t was but a few houses from
the home in which I first saw the
light His parents and mine were
warm personal friends, but he and [
never met, until We met in Wilmington
On the day, when his sister, Mrs.
Wacksmith in Washington City, was
20 years old I happened to be there,
and We spoke of him, and of your
good fellow townsman Mr.. VIM. Bonitz
and of the birth place of each Of us
| may write about it later
The Germans of Wilmington mostly
came from the neigborhood of the
city of Bremen, Northern Germany,
from where l am writing. They cane
from the many beautiful little villages
of this district. Some of these Villages
l hope to visit, and also the village of
Altenbruch, where the Rev. PeschaC.
father of the late Hon. Edward Pes
chau, of your city was pastor for
over 40 years.
I want to stand in the pulpit and at
the altar, where he stood, walk
through the parsonage he occupied for
so many years, and to lay flowers on
his green grave.
T. w. E. Peschau.