Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-02
MAILING its long trip around the

making its long trip around the
| curve.
Like Family Gathering.
Taking officers. servants and pas
| sengcrs all together. these packets
! furnished a good picture OF a great,
| big. good ma cured family gathering
| When meal hours We're announc,d.
the captain took the head OF the
table, and, with his white jackctcd
! walters. saw to IL that everyone was
properly served with such dishes as
We're desired. In asking his guests 10
! be helped IL WAS not the ordinary
| stcr"otypcd invitation, but Il genuine
| solicitation 10 pass UP your plate and
| let me help YOU 10 Just htil"
pleasure 10 the captain To serve
| YOU abundantiy.
The boats usually lief, Richmond in
the afternoons. No tickets were sold,
and passengers, settled for fare and
bcrths after all got started. When
reeady to take UP fares. the captain
| would go into his Office and make it
known that he was there for that
ards go through the boat aud out on
! deck ringing brass bell and re
pcating sing song couplet
"All who have not paid the fare,
Step TO de cabin and find de cap'n
there"
| The captain required YOU TO regis
ter your name, ADDRESS and destination.
| and entered the number Of the berth
assigned 10 you. ! found there was
much depending upon the selection
! OF u berth after my iirst trip. as | cN-
| pcrlcuced personally. Thinking that
J the middle berth was more convenient
to get in and out. took one. But
| had not thought OF the possibilitie:
! Of passengers above and below being
| diSagrceablc ncighborS About III,
time WAS snueiy settled down some
farmer got on the one below me. and
another climbed inro the upper one
over me. Unfortunately for me. they
were acquaintance, and instead OF
going TO sleep they improved thciI
opportunity for exchanging all the
neighborhood news and discussing
politics and crops-and literally
talked over me, under me and
through mo the whole night
NJ the beginning OF this converse.
ton ! felt Indignant nj the disregard
they showed for my chances OF sleep
nut as ] got awake and became in
tereStcd IN the news and noted tho
iudicrous position We all occupied
became amused and listened unit
long nast midnight. when they actu-
ally talked me 10 sleep.
Discussed the News.
These loquacious fellows would ex
haust "a subject, rest for while ant
/. me with:
Say, nin. have you heard OF siss.
Jones elopment?"
Nav, what about it?" from III,
man D|ioW.
"Ncthin". she jest ruined off viii
that no count Tom I.arkin and 30
married"
5 "Whar she now?"
Back home and her daddy is tax
: Ing care Of her as before"
Whar's her husband"
. old man Jones took his shotcu
, and RUINED him out the county"
ia. ha. ma from both Of them.
~: addition 10 this gossip. ais
r learned that one OF them had sold
I good milk COW for SO. and was hon
4 ing TO get 81 busnel for his whca
g while his butter brought cents
r mound and eggs cents dozen
e When 20 through the markets &c
I Gay and pay 30 cents a pound for but
r ter and SO cents for eggs, ! actual
: .gin To doubt whether my mcmor
d OF s-cent eggs was dream or a d,
: fusion.
d When River Wns High.
q AT certain points the canal boat
& would 40 out into the river where
. had been damned up and affordc
N Gool DEPTHS for miles. This saved
:; great deal when coustry,tlng In
~ canal. and served the sa~c purpoS
=. But Casionally when the river wa
% very high from freshcts II bccan
q menace to the boats when they ri
y tempted 10 enter the canal: somctIm,
q boats would he carried over the da,
IS before they could get into the can: