At 7:00 A.M. we take street cars to Hotel near Castle Gardens. At 10:00 A.M. we call on Gibson, shipping agent for Guzon line, get intermediate passage to Liverpool, England, at $35.00 exchange balance of our money for English money at Liverpool.
At 2:00 P.M. we board the Manhattan and at 3:00 P.M. are under way. We pass Sandy Hook and discharge the pilot boat between 5:00 and 6:00 P.M. in a heavy northwest wind. We have a nice view of ships going and coming in - both sailors and steamers. At 8:00 P.M. I am seasick; no supper! Our berth is in the extreme stern and has the heaviest rocking and pitching of any part of the vessel.
Thomas Steed summarized their travels from Utah to New York in his journal.
ReplyDeleteLeft Farmington June 16th, 1875, at 6:30 a. m.; arrive at the Detroit depot at 4 a. m. Here we had to stop over until Monday. We visited the wharf, strolled around the City and saw wealth in lavish profusion. The cemetary [sic] then attracted our attention. It is certainly the most beautiful spot for a burying ground that I ever beheld, decorated with all the taste that wealth and art can produce; then we saw the Fire department and admired the nice arrangement and order that enables them to get on the way in half a minute when the alarm is sounded. Monday the 21st, we left Detroit at 2:10 a. m. on the grand trunk line thru Canada to Fort Erie, crossed the international Bridge to U. S.; passed Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, Albany and at New York landed at the Hudson River depot at 8 a. m. Here we visited the Offices of Guyon and Co. and secured our passage on board the Manhattan, to leave the pier 46 at 3 p. m. Wrote a little note home, and took a check on the Office of Guyon and Co. in Liverpool. Capt. Jones true to his time, started out. We got a fine view of the great City of New York, with its fine mansions, churches and towers as passed up the Sandy Hook; we get a view of New Jersey City, Brooklyn and Staaten [sic] Island with its forts and barracks and the long row of towering masts of vessels from nearly all nations; we passed close to a find French Man-of-War, laying at anchor.