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[[strikethrough]] Towards [[/striekthrough]] Lewis scraping bow cabin outside and staining Towards evening I went ashore. [[red underline]] Saltaire [[/red underline]] is a pretty, cleanly kept summer settlement of unostentatious little cottages among little sand hills over grown with [[strikethrough]] tall [[strikethrough]] grass and shrublike [[strikethrough]] pip [[/strikethrough]] pine trees. Every thing well kept and in good trim. Plank walks leading to the sea shore which here offers an excellent beach unmarred by any of the usual tawdry outcroppings of near by cities People at [[red underline]] Saltaire [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] seem youngish and of good middle class. including physicians etc. There is a restaurant a club building where the cottages can get their meals. also a port office, telegraph office and a simple but well kept grocery store. The water both
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in the bay and on the seashore is very clear and well adapted for bathing. Several sail and small motor boats and more boats anchored near [[red underline]] Saltaire [[/red underline]] A board walk leads across land to [[red underline]] Light-House [[/red underline]] etc. A passenger motor boat makes two trips daily to [[red underline]] Bayshore. [[/red underline]] on the opposite shore of the Bay to connect with trains for New York, trip to N.Y takes 2 hours of which 1 hour in train.
The arrival of evening boat in [[red underline]] Saltaire [[/red underline]] is the rendez-vous of the whole population, specfically on Friday when "Papa comes home" All men carry bundles along and wives and children are waiting for them with toy. wagon of wood same as children use and as which the handles are wheeled [[strikethrough]] to them [[/strikethrough]] on the narrow boardwalks. In all