Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

Torrance one OF the pierrots passes around.
Usually the pierrots are all men. They may
have one woman with them.
In a walk along the great beach TO
Marske or Redcar--s beach that could
no more be crowded than one could inn
agine the North river crowded, even II II
lay at the gates Of a great city-one comes
upon a sport which may be peculiar to
these strands. 1t is sand yachting, and
the broad, smooth, hard beach gives
splendid opportunity for It, especially
at low tide. The sand yacht is a struc-
ture made Of four bicycle wheels with
pneumatic tires Of course, lightly con-
nected as for the understructure OLA car
riage, but no carriage body is placed upon
this light skeleton Instead a seat is built
above the rear axle and a mast is stepped
above the forward axle.
The mast carries a three cornered sail,
controlled from the seat, where the opera
tor or sailor also controls the fore wheels,
by which he steers, moving them by a
rope. These sand yachts make good
speed over the sands and seem to offer
good sport, scudding to the waters edge,
lacking up the beach, manoeuvering at
the will OF the rider-and occasionally at
the caprice of the wind, it must be said.
OF all the advantages Of Saltburn as a
delectable seashore resort, none is greater
than that it derives from It's situation
within walking distance of some Of the
most charming towns and villages, while
by rail one can visit any of a score Of
beautiful and historical places for the
| modest price ola few pence, or two shill-
ings at the most. 1t is astonishing to an
American to find the number of eXcur-
sions these railroads run at what seems
a nominal cost. Think of going fifty
miles and back for so cents. Whitby,
with it's fine ruin of st. Hilda's Seventh
century, Abbey costs only about half that.
And interesting persons are to be en-
couEtered almost anywhere on the way.
Yes" said a contemplative Yorkshire
man visiting the town, as he stood in one
of Whitby's precipitous streets looking up
at the appalling approach OF 1879 steps to
the abbey, Eyes, know now what an
eloquent preacher from Whitby, whom 1
heard once meant when he said mar had
toI Struggle up to God, but could tumble
into a tavern. It's true here
There are other contrasts In Whitby.
however. Could there be a more pleasing
street or house name than Flowergate? We
came upon 1t at a turn Of a road leading
to the river and determined to have a
look in. Among all the squalid places i'm
a~ginable there are certainly some as dis
tressing as Flowergate, but they do not
usually have to belle their names so
shamelessly. The place beneath this floral
label was filled with brats and the evil
dences of wash day, not to mention GER
tain washing left undone.
Some Whitby shop windows carry the
visitor back to childhood, to small and
solemn interior communities and to days
and places of conspicuous and oppressive
mourning. For they are filled with Jet,
the Whitby jet. jet jewelry and adorn-
ments of all sorts. IThe Whitby jet natur-
ally suggests the %neighboring fossils, and it
is curiously interesting to find that here
abouts-and hereabouts alone, it is said
one may come across in the rocks the
fossil nautilus, the same nautilus exactly
which is to be seen in the surrounding
waters, the same jaunty little chap whose
sail is said to ave suggested the pattern
Of the sails of the first ships.
Have you fancied that the town crier is
in these days of newspapers a thing of the
past? Not so in Whitby, where he jangles
his bell and cries the news and the lost
as OF yore. Only it is to be said that usu-
ally the news has gained circulation in the
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And 1t isn't only shoemakers' children
who go barefoot in these wilds as else
where, il one may stretch the saying a
little. Here we are at any OF these coast
towns right in the midst Of the Holsters,
so to speak. But can we get a live lobster?
Not at a hotel, restaurant or market. The
lobster is rarely found in the bills of fare.
The shop windows are filled with boiled
ones. If you happen to be down at the
landing when the fishermen come in In
their coolies or smacks you can get a live
lobster IL you are quick about it. Other
wise the fishers Immediately proceed to
boil them, after which they may be sold
at more leisure.
1 asked in a restaurant at Saltburn II
they would serve me with a lobster if l
brought one in. They seemed to think the
suggestion extraordinary, but many said
yes, II l 'fancied' one, they would, If l
would have some tea and bread and butter
with 1t. And this in the country where
they brew ale-and drink 1t. too!
In some of the places they still auction
the fish catch in bulk on arrival or in the
morning, and the fish are later sold at re-
tail from door to door by the wholesale
purchaser. The fisherman's jargon is toe
much for any ear but a native one. To
hear a group OF fishers talking the stranger
would never think that they were speaking
English, the accent is so strong and the
enunciation so thick, even worse than N
the ordinary Yorkshireman. Even keer
listening will scarcely enable an American
to recognize an occasional familiar English
word.
OF course the local pronunciation Of
proper names in England is an Old story
and yet the jar is not inconsiderable al
hearing Staithes p~ronOunces Steers. II
seems easy afterward TO hear Ruswarp pro
nounced Russ-up. The staithes are thu
quays, but in this instance they have giver
naEe to the place, one Of the most pic
turesQue OF fishing villages, located at thC
foot Of precipitous cliffs.
But Of all the Journeys about this part
Of the Cleveland district the walks are
probably the most attractive. delightful
invigorating, inviting-the walk to Marske
along the sands. or TO RedcaT, the inland
walks TO Upletham, Ginsborough and the
rest: Guisborough with its twenty-five
public houses and no ~drunkards, its i'm
posing ruins Of the Priory, its inns that
have scarcely changed since it lay on the
post road OF the Whitby and York
coaches, its delightful landscape at the
border Of the great Yorkshire moors, its
respectable and established middle class