The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-26
April 10, 1911.
To The Citizen =.

The Bermudian party of The Citi-
zen contest seemed to be highly fav-
ored by weather. The journey and
stay in New York was very pleasant.
The party stopped at the New Grand
and so could spend the afternoon in
visiting the stores, also the new sta
tion of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
After dinner, in the garden, at the
BreSlin, we were taken to the Hip
podrome which gives a great variety
of ofperformance-everything the best
of the kind.
Wednesday we were down to the
dock at nine and made all the neces-
sary arrangements and went up on
deck and watched the panorama of
New York and Staten Island 1t was
a beautiful day for starting. Those
of our party who staid on deck were
able to avoid sea sickness even on
the Bermudian. Tea and cakes were
served at four on deck The wind
blew cold the first night and when
we entered the Gulf Stream it was
very rough; only one of our party
could not stand the rolling. | was
able to take all my meals in the din
ing room. Chicken broth and crack
ers were served in the morning. In
the afternoon great excitement was
caused when whale was sighted.
Sea gulls and flying fish were also
seen flying around. At night the
moonlight on the ocean was the at
traction. The pilot came out to meet
the boat when we were twenty miles
from land (not light yeti and when
land was sighted the passengers were
very glad. 1t was beautiful sight
coming into the harbor. The Ber-
mudian is so built that it is the only
large boat that can dock at Hamil-
ton. The scenery is so Unexpectedly
artistic. The white houses seem like
ivory with the green foliage as a
background, make very attractive
picture. The steamer made good
time, reaching the dock at $50 and
the crowd was there waiting. Our
hotel, the Frascati, was four miles
out, so we took a Victoria and had
most delightful drive. AS it was
Good Friday the stores were closed,
but we were able to go to the Devils
Cave that afternoon.
Our guide had another party in
charge, stopping at the same hotel,
but as they ere going to have long
er time they didn't go with us on all
the trips. We questioned our driver
about the flowers, foliage and houses.
The flowers were the Hybiscus, the
Life plants, the Bermudian, a little
blue star flower, Spice lilies, yellow
daisy bell flower, yellow trumpet and
the fields of Easter lilies. The
hedges of match me" oleanders and
to see high stone wall covered with
a cactus of the snake variety looks
very odd. The century plant in
bloom all seems so wonderful to us.
We passed the immense rubber tree
seen in the guide book, also a ma
hogany and ebony tree, then a very
curious one called the monkey tree
out at the Public Gardens of St.
George. The bark of this tree is COW
cred with small thorns and is light.
The houses we passed were small and
white from many coats of whitewash.
They are built of stone states IL to
16 inches in size and one inch thick
and are coated with two layers of
cement and then whitewashed every
six months to preserve them. The
roofs are kept as clean as possible as
the only drinking water is the rain
water gathered in cisterns. Guests
at the hotel were cautioned to be
saving with the water as it was very
scarce. We had refreshing rain
Sunday night. Sunday morning two
of our party went to the Cathedral
and the other two to the Barracks.
In the afternoon we all took a four
mile walk by the South Shore going
through the Public Gardens and en-
joyed looking at the ocean, the honey
comb rocks and the lovely pink sand.
In the evening we listened to a con-
cert at the hotel. We changed to
the Princess Hotel Saturday morning
as the other one was too far from
Hamilton. We took the trip to
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Fine view
from the top. The guide described
the lamp, 500 candle power, but the
reflection gives 100000 candle
power. 1t has five wicks, to 1 s in
ches; uses gallons of oil in summer
and gallons in winter; test of oil
800, we use $50.
Monday was our last day for sight
seeing so we had to keep going. 1t
was raining when we started in the
opera buss for st. George. We stop
ped at the Devils Hole, Crystal Cave
which was only discovered four years
ago by two boys who owned the en-
trance and discovered the stalactites
and were selling them when the own
er of the cave found it out, closed
their entrance and gave the boys Sc
each for their discovery. 1t is very
beautiful cave. The guide at the
Devils Hole said it was not appro-
priately named but should be called
"Neptune's Grotto." The Grotto is
25 feet deep filled with fresh water
from the Sound which rises and falls
with the tide. The opening is so
small a shrimp can come through,
and there are 800 fish in the water,
angel fish and carp. The fish live on
shrimps and their own young and
they have to he ranlanishad nnna q