The Beatrice Daily Express

A Family Trip from Buffalo to Florida
and Back on a Steam Yacht

There are at least four people in the city who can laugh at stern winter's fiercest onslaughts. Most likely some of you will say to yourselves, "There's nothing strange about that. These four persons have probably got good, warm overcoats or sacques, as the case may be; or maybe they've got in an extra supply of coal." But the reason is they are not going to be in Buffalo or anywhere where winter can get at them.

The four persons referred to in the foregoing are Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones, all of this city. For some months past arrangements and preparations have been making by this party for a proposed six months' pleasure trip aboard a steam yacht. The arrangements and preparations have now reached a stage of comparative completion. The yacht, a pretty little craft 55 by 9 feet, lies in the Coit slip near the foot of Erie street, ready to start on her long voyage to Florida and back.

Mr. Jones was seen last week by an Express reporter, who questioned him in regard to the proposed trip.

"Do you expect to go all the way by water?" he was asked.

"Yes, that's what we expect," answered he.

"How will you do it—what route will you take?"

"Well, here, I've just received this sort of guide as to how to get there by water. We did intend to go to Philadelphia after arriving at New York by way of Erie canal and Hudson river, and have the yacht shipped from New York to us; but we've changed our plans, as you'll see by reading this over. We've decided to take this as our route. These directions were sent to us by a friend of Mr. Bradley's, Mr. John Carey, of Rochester, who is going in company with us, but with another party—about four, I think. He and his party will have a yacht of their own, but the two yachts will cruise together."

Here is the route: From Buffalo to Albany through the Erie canal, down the Hudson to New York, through the Kill von Kull to the Raritan river, up the Raritan to the Delaware canal, down the canal to Philadelphia. After stopping at Philadelphia for a day or two the voyage will be resumed down the Delaware river to Chesapeake bay, down Chesapeake bay to Hampton roads and James river, across James river and up the Elizabeth river to Norfolk, Va. Another short stop will be made here before continuing up the Elizabeth river and through the Dismal Swamp canal to the Pasquotank river at Elizabeth City, N. C. From Elizabeth City they will pass down the Pasquotank to the Albemarle sound, across the sound to Croatan sound, through Croatan sound to Roanoke marshes, from Roanoke marshes down Pamlico sound to Juniper bay, across Juniper bay to the Pamlico sound again, down the sound, passing Brant island, to the mouth of Club Foot creek, up Club Foot creek to Club Foot canal, to Harlem creek, to Newport, to Beaufort, N. C., down Bogue sound to Bogue sound inlet, to Bear inlet at Swansborough, N. C. From here they go outside on the Atlantic and follow the coast of North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida down, going inland and coming out again at intervals until they come to St. Augustine, Fla. Here they will stop a week or so, taking in all the points of interest there. From St. Augustine they go down through Matanzas river eighteen miles to Matanzas inlet, then out on the Atlantic again and down forty-five miles to Mosquito inlet, through Mosquito lagoon to Indian river, down the Indian river 150 miles to Jupiter inlet, through the inlet to the Atlantic again, down the Atlantic to Lake Worth inlet, then south twenty miles on Lake Worth.

This is as far south as the voyagers will go. They calculate that they will reach there in about thirty days. This may seem something like pretty fast time, but Mr. Bradley claims that the yacht which he has engaged (the Sassacus) has a speed of about fourteen miles an hour.

The party expect to spend about three or four months in Florida fishing, hunting and having a general good time. Among the places of interest they will visit is the Silver Springs. Mr. Bradley, who has made a number of such trips as this, says that the water of the springs is so clear that you can see a pin through eighty-five feet of it. Said he: "I was down there one time and I had a nickel with a hole in it with me. Of course I couldn't squander it in any way, so, just for fun, I dropped it out of the boat. You could see it sink rather slowly to the bottom, and there it was on the bottom as plain as day to be seen—hole and all."-Buffalo Express.