Year: 1870

Church going on Sunday In midsummer is an
amusement which doesn take well with Gotham.
ites which fact Will no doubt in great measure
account for the popularity Of excursions On the
Hudson when the bells call to prayer once week.
There ore those VINO Ind fault with Sunday excur.
sions but really, after all, isn't there something ter
rible in the idea OF being wedged into narrow pew
with the mercury at ninety in the shade, all pro.
liability just to listen to sermon about what hot
old time folks who don't mind their business in this
world will have in the one to conner The contrast
of sail on the river to this kind OF cruelty is per.
fecty Irresistible to the majority of church goers
even, True curates Will contend that the Sabbath is
violated by


PLEASURE EXCURSION


on the Sabbath, but everybody is not croaker for
tunately, and there is but little doubt that Colonel
Fisk studied this Sabbath subject very seriously be-
fore he dared to outrage New England sentiment
and feeling by putting the Plymouth Rock In the
desecrating waters Of the Hudson. The croakers
who week or so ago protested that this same rock
would be put OF sight for want Of patronage in
week, had reason yesterday to wear sackcoth and
ashes for the steamer left Thirty street at nine
O'Clock with an immense crowd on board. The
rrepressible band was on hand as usual and as the
boat steamed out into the river the tooers struck up
the Geneyieve march and gave it as


MUCH LIKE HYMN


as the impious bass OF the music would allow Some
how or another people who get UP at eight O'Clock
on Sundays think they get up very early, and, of
course, miss homo. made breakfast Ii they want to
catch hafpast eight O'Clock boat, and there were
good many of this kind OF people on the boat yes
terday. Thanks to the restaurant on board, how
ever nobody tainted for want OF plenty to eat and
for upward Of an hour after New York had been left
In the distance


The dcafening din of knife and fork,


That fell like tomahawks TO work,


put Mynhee3 Brandt into the best possible humor
and his Prussian blade into carving actively. But
everything wasn't lovely


AFTER BREAKFAST,


for the heat was intense and as the boat plouched
her way through the waves she appeared TO be
cutting her course through an atmosphere fresh
from the Haverstraw furnaces. Newburg was
reached, however. al one O'clock and as If to give
the passengers right hearty welcome, q spanking
breeze sprang that made everybody feel as happy
as q clam at high tide. The effect was electrical.
The genial countenance Of Captain Tilton was
marked In smiles he took or his gold laced cap to
1t the wind spoil his barbers artistic way of parting
his hair; and as for Major General KimbaI why he
felt so jolly over the thing that he would have got
up on chair and made speech about eVefythfnQ
in general ana cool air In particular had there been
one handy. The breeze continued to grow I'M force
and GOODNESS until POughkeepsie was reached, when
everybody went on shore to get roasted for, some.
how or another, there is something In Poughkeepse
air when


KILLS COOL BREEZE


In summer ut first sight The stay In the place was
happily brief one, and the steamer was headed
for home at haf-past three. The breeze was again
met ia mid stream and turned into aperiect snorfer;
in the highlands. And just think of itl The ther..
mometer was nnety-hve in the shade IN Gotham and
yet the breeze was as cool as though 1t had been on
an investigating tour In the New York ice houses
before 1t started. The natural consequence Of this
on the excurIonists was happy, and yet not so.
Champagne flowed freely in the statcrooms and
'prvate parties'' made most OF the OCCASION In.
deed every body did his her best appear the iol-
lest, best humored, whoesouled fellow or fellowess
on board the craft. Even an individual who got a
bad headache early In the forenoon from an overdose
OF mixed Croton, got suddenly and sufficiently well
TO get another headache before nlgltfall and n
young lady who by some unaccountable means, left
hsg bQnnAt iA . sta!eroom whose number ahe could