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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ed trolley line takes onlya little longer. Our ship—the stanchAnne Arundel, if you please—wouldrequire nearly forty hours for the jour-ney. There was the perfection of lei-surely travel for you! So, near the close of a busy day spentin the interesting old town, we sailedfrom Baltimore for Washington. TheAnne Arundel was one of the patientwhite steeds tethered in the inner har-bor, and to work her free and set herstraight in that little pool was not aneasy matter—two tugs and a perspiringcaptain accomplished it. Later, whenthe captain had set her bow straightout toward the bay in the gatheringdusk, he made the acquaintance of theships company. It was an old-fash-ioned custom to which he had held forforty years; the folks who slept uponhis craft those two nights were hisguests and they found him a host ofhigh order. Wit and romance were up-on his lips; he knew the legendary loreof every bit of his run. A man whohad handled a government transportfor four years up and down the Poto-
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AN ANCIENT ARTIFICIAL WATER HIGHWAY RUNS FROM NEW BRUNSWICK TO TRENTON. mac from Washington to the frontwould have enough material right thereto last a generation. Then, if you were permitted to comeclose enough into his confidence, hemight lead you into his own little cabin,just back of the wheelhouse, and showyou his treasures. For instance, therewas a yellowed newspaper clippingwhich told of how Capt. W. C. Geo-hegan, of a Bay Line steamboat, hadsaved sixteen marines in a long boat,adrift from their ship one snow-fillednight in Hampton Roads—and this wasGeohegan himself who handed you theclipping. You do not have to go out into mid-Atlantic for your romances of the sea.Every nook and cranny of this bay holdsthem. The date on the captains medalis more than a dozen years after thatepisode. He did not believe in runningafter a medal once the trick had beenturned. They had to seek him out. So much for the captain. The shipscompany was filled with equal interestfor the chance traveler

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