Motoring aboard (1908) (14596156520)

Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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what theywanted if this be true, for the wishing chair hasbeen occupied almost every minute of daylightfor centuries by the steady procession of travelersand excursionists who have visited the Causeway. After taking a boat and visiting the near-bycaves, w^hich open out into the sea and can only beentered when the sea is relatively smooth and atlow tide, and running the gauntlet of curio ven-ders, we started on our run to Belfast. Our routetook us, first, through Bushmills, only a fewmiles from the Causeway. This is where thefamous distilleries are located from which comesthe finest of all Irish whisky, known wherevergood liquor is known. From here we ran in afew minutes to Port Rush, a popular resort hav-ing the finest golf links in Ireland, thence south-east through Ballymena and Antrim, reachingBelfast and the Grand Central Hotel, which istoo poor for such a pretentious name, just aboutdark. The afternoon run took us through a typicalIrish country of the better class. We saw no 234
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it ^ I ■r- Co« e • t» tCfje #iant30( Causfeloap noticeable poverty; instead the country folklooked fairly prosperous. Our American flag,which we had attached to one of our lamps,and which had fluttered in the breezes through-out the entire trip, attracted a good deal of atten-tion. We imagined it gave us a welcome be-cause almost every family in the north of Irelandhas friends or relatives somewhere in the UnitedStates, if not on the New York police force.Our siren seemed to be an entire novelty andfrequently, if we let it out while going throughsome of the streets in the little towns, whereevery front door opened directly upon the pave-ment, it would bring the entire population towindows or doors, and send children, pigs, dogs,and geese scurrying to places of safety. If Belfast was all there was in Ireland it wouldnot pay the motorist to go there. It is a greatbusy, thriving city of nearly 400,000 inhabitants.It has been for many years, and is at present, theheadquarte