Evening star., 1918-06-23
Picked Up Here and There.

facked Up F1ere and lnefe.
y fAs bars on motor vehicles are down
bn quaint Nantucket Island for
Automobiles Admitted time in his
to Nantucket. mer resi-
dents are arranging to bring tnelr
automobiles with them from the
mainland. They are going to spin
over the smooth oiled roads between en-
the picturesque fishing town ana its
villages, Including Siasconset, in
which 10 the actors colony.
It was little more than q month ago.
says the New York Herald, that the
vote to allow automobiles on the
meeting. There have been scores or
town meetings at which the same
question was brought up. but the
town always voted q big mo" ma
jortty. Not few summer sojourners
owning beautiful estates here have
objected. while others have been
content with bringing their driving
But it is far different this year. The
Nantucket railroad. running between
Nantucket and 'Sconset." has been
scrapped. The rails were torn up only
. rev weeKS ago anu Snlppeo away py
Water. Even the little locomotive and
two light coaches, which more than
once have jumped tho track and rolled
ever on the moors, have been sold to
funk dealers.
This left horse-drawn vehicles as
the only, means of transportation on
the island, there being no trolley
lines. And, anyway. the year-round
residents had the Automobile fever.
Even the nty-odd-year-old' eea
captains. who long ago retired and
SETTLED here, were inclined to talk in
favor Of the gasoline buggies." as
some Of them called them.
They've got to come some time,
why not nowr' they said.
Many admit that the scrapping OF
the railroad, which has been called
The twentieth Century Limited" had
. loe to do with the vote favoring
eu$amobiles. The railroad always had
been 4 poor paying Investment. Com
muters were frank in admitting they
almost took their lives in their hands
riding over the uneven roadbed.
Besides. the fare was excessive. 1t
took more than half an hour to go
eight miles. Post cards bearing pic
Thousands. partly because they re-
1erred to the train as able to make
o mile in more than twenty minutes"
Clinton Folger. formerly mail car
risr. was the frst man on Nantucket
20 operate an automobile. Away
back IN 1911 he purchased a machine.
carried it to the island and used it
two or three times to carry mail
pouches to Siasconset. After each
trip. however. he was hailed into
court, as nobody had a right to
operate such a vehicle.
The steamboat plying between New
Bs1ford and Woods Hole, on the cape.
and Nantucket carried scores of auto
mobiles the first few weeks following
the vote. The first day the craft was
1eaded to its capacity with that sort
Of freight, and there was a long wait
ing list OF owners who wished to have
their automobiles brought across.
Newport Is taking on a serious air
these days, says the New York Sun,
Newport Farmerettes Sell has been
Products at New York. by Miss
EAith wstmors, who is the local
chairman Of the food conservation
committee Of Newport. that the prod
uots Of the numerous war gardens
new being cultivated in and near that
famous resort shall be sold in the
public market stands in Washington
Square. Miss Dorothea Carroll, Miss
B6fbAra Norman and Miss Ruth
TAomas are among. the farmerettes
who have been working hard in the
4ArAens, and they will sell the prod
uctS Of their labor to all comers at
IN early hour in the morning. Their
forces will be augmented at the close
Of the schools by girls from the high
seheel
In . Paris letter to the New York
Sun the writer describes a blind ar
tillery officer ac-
a Hind Officers companied by a
sense Of Beauty. woman. woman 1sssss It was
evident that the lady was taking the
seldisr for afternoons outing, a
service Of love gladly rendered by
many French women who try to bring
. little sunshine into lives suddenly
larksned ana rendered helpless.
70 amuse her charge she told him
Of the latest feminine fashions, at
which the officers face took on look
Of interest.
before was blind" he smiled, "I
lovoA pretty frocks and my woman
friends said had rather q nice taste
IN aress. My mother and sister al
ways consulted mo when they were
ordering their new frocks. Now" and