The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-07-13
BEAUTIFUL GALVESTON
Maysville Girl Tells of the Delight o
Surf Bathing and the Many Other
Charms of the "oleander
City"
Houston, Texas, July 6, 1914

sure.
We left here yesterday morning about
6 o'clock and reached Galveston about
1890. There WASH t much to see on
the way down there, few orange
groves and some fig orchards and of
course miles and miles of level country.
I don t believe l will ever forget my
first glimpse of the water though. The
causeway is certainly wonderful
thing. 1t is two and half miles long
and is made of concrete. This crosses
the bay and on one side as far as you
can see there is nothing but water and
sky. After you cross this you are still
two mile. from Galveston. They have
very nice depot and there were Ger.
tainly lots of people / used to think
there was crowd at the Grand Central
in Cincinnati, but that isn't a handful
compared to the crowds at Galveston
After we got off the train we went
down to the docks and much to my dis.
appointment there were no large ships
in so we started out to the beach. 1t
certainly is a pretty place. All along
the streets they have great palms grow
ing and Oleanders. 1t is called the
oleander city and the name certainly
suits it. It was just about noon when
we got out to the beach and of course
| have never seen any thing like the
Gulf of Mexico. OF course the water
looked muddy near the shore but several
miles out it was the most beautiful
blue | ever saw. You could hardly
tell which was water and which was
the sky. Then there Were hundreds of
seaguls and they are so pretty and
white and look beautiful flying around
There We're lots of people in bathing
but it was so sunny then that we decid
ed to wait awhile. We had our dinner
aud then spent a couple of hours watch
ing the people. | had about decided to
watch the other people and not go in
as the waves looked pretty large, but We
went in a little after four and then we
were living sure enough. | never eX.
pee Ped to 90 beyond the first rope but
before | knew it | was out with the rest
of the crowd. The water certainly is
salty. ! think | swallowed several gal
Ions but / didn't mind that one bit |
When you first go in, the water makes
your eyes burn like everything but you
soon get used to that. The water is 50
heavy it holds you up with out the least
trouble and when the large waves come |
you jus' have to jump them. We didn t |
scream at all. | think charles was sur,
prised at Virginia especially. We stay
ed in more than > hours but it didn T |
hurt us any. About six clock the men
took US out to ride the breakers aud
that was the most fun of all. They just
toss you over the waves. There were
about two thousand people in the water
when we were and you never saw such
happy people in all your life. Every
body around you talked aud laughed
ike they had known you all their lives.
Hhe men had lots of fun playing ball in
he water. They had large. ball like
balloon and they would throw it and
ust when one of the men would think
e had it a big wave would take it
way Off. l got some shells out of the
water and behold when l looked at
hem they had live crabs in them.
cid on to them though as they were not
irge enough to hurt you. Two of
hem died last night and the other one
led this morning 50 took them out of y
he shells and of course will keep the
ielIs to bring home. am a,little sun
urned but not very bad. guess il
i'll wear off in a day or so. We h.,
upper and then we walked along the q
"a wall. They certainly do turn on :.
nd they have a band concert and there =
ust have been several thousand, Is
ness eight or ten thousand PEG, lie on
hear the music. We walked owe =
the Galvez Hotel, a one million dol 4
T hotel that was just opened last set !.
N and there on the grass was the larg
It fish l ever saw. 1t was called
lne fish and weigher one hundred
FUNDS. 1t had been caught on the
er l think and it was attracting =
tile attention. They caught one las.
INNER that weighed $500 lbs, but I
ink that is like the fish stori
ad about. Galveston is called the q
tlantic City Of the South and they
i'm to have the finest surf bathing -
the world. 1t was moonlight and the In
iter looked beautiful. ! am sorry to
We TO write about Galveston because -
can I do il justice. One would have n
see it and bathe in the gulf TO APP q
eeiate ID. You must come sometime
yon don Z come this summer. ! hope
n get to so again before | come home q
i am afraid ! won't.
LOUISE.