Passengers
can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if
they desire, without
additional expense, and all boating at the
expense of the ship.
All passages
must be paid for when taken, in order that the most
perfect arrangements
be made for starting at the appointed time.
Applications
for passage must be approved by the committee before
tickets are issued,
and can be made to the undersigned.
Articles
of interest or curiosity, procured by the passengers
during the voyage, may
be brought home in the steamer free of
charge.
Five dollars
per day, in gold, it is believed, will be a fair
calculation to make
for all traveling expenses onshore and at the
various points where
passengers may wish to leave the steamer for
days at a time.
The trip
can be extended, and the route changed, by unanimous
vote
of the passengers.
Chas. C.
Duncan, 117 wall street, new
York R. R. G******,
Treasurer
Committee on Applications
J. T. H*****, Esq. R. R. G*****,
Esq. C.
C. Duncan
Committee on Selecting
Steamer Capt. W. W. S* * * *, Surveyor
for Board of Underwriters
C. W.
C******, Consulting Engineer for U.S. and Canada
J. T.
H*****, Esq. C.
C. Duncan
P.S.—The
very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship
“Quaker City”
has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave
New York June 8th.
Letters have been issued by the government
commending the party
to courtesies abroad.
What was there lacking about that program to make it perfectly irresistible? Nothing that any finite mind could discover. Paris, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Italy—Garibaldi! The Grecian Archipelago! Vesuvius! Constantinople! Smyrna! The Holy Land! Egypt and “our friends the Bermudians”! People in Europe desiring to join the excursion—contagious sickness to be avoided—boating at the expense of the ship—physician on board—the circuit of the globe to be made if the passengers unanimously desired it—the company to be rigidly selected by a pitiless “Committee on Applications”—the vessel to be as rigidly selected by as pitiless a “Committee on Selecting Steamer.” Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. I hurried to the treasurer’s office and deposited my ten percent. I rejoiced to know that a few vacant staterooms were still left. I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about me.
Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship. I then paid the balance of my passage money.