1881-09-13-Wyoming

Diary of Jonathan Pyrah

Pyrah, Jonathan. Diary, pp. 1-23.

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Sept. 12 - A fine day & a calm day and sea. On the we were looking for land and saw the first lights on the land called the Long Island at half past seven o'clock p.m. We sailed on & got into [p.14] the river between New York and New Jersey and anchored there at 12 o'clock. Been nine days and 9 hours. It has been the quickest passage the Wyoming has made. I expect that is because there were a right man in the boat.

Sept. 13th - Stayed in the river till about 8 o'clock, then sailed up into the docks, then got out into the covered dockyard. Then waited for our boxes, been got out of the Wyoming, then opened our boxes and a man looked our boxes. Then we fastened them up again and took them into another boat, then sailed on to Castle Garden. Got there about 20 minutes past 12 o'clock a.m. As we had to stay in Castle Garden all night me and another man went out into the Gardens which [p.15] nicer than any place I have ever saw and you say so when you come. It is amusing when you have seen nothing but water for so long. We had to sleep on the floor all night.

Sept. 14th - Got up at half past 4 o'clock and I washed and went out with Dan Green into New York City to buy some bread and butter. I gave 8 cent for a loaf of bread and 8 cents for a half pound of butter. We saw some of the best fruit I have seen in my life. There were some apples as big [as] our Jonathan's head and some oranges as big and pear were grand and peaches and grapes grow outside. Potatoes as big as my foot nearly but they know how to sell them. Bread and butter and cheese is like it is in England and they are very good too. Milk [p.16] is good but dear. It is from 3 pence penny to 5 pence per quart. At 12 o'clock a.m. we got on the boat to go over the river to New Jersey from Castle to get on the train cars. Started from New Jersey to Salt Lake at 3 o'clock p.m. Had fine for about a half hour. Then we had a stop.

Sept. 15th, 1881 - Call up at half past 3 o'clock to guard our carriage while the others sleep. We got to Philadelphia at 1 o'clock this morning which is about 85 from New York. �

Letter from James Finlayson

Finlayson, James The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 43:40, (Oct. 3, 1881) pp. 634-35.

S.S. Wyoming, September 11, 1881.

President Albert Carrington.

Dear Brother,--

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Sept. 13th.

Sister [Ann] Hall gave birth to a daughter [p.634] on Sunday evening, and both mother and child are doing well.

We arrived here at the dock at 8 o'clock this morning; were in quarantine last night at midnight; will leave tomorrow about noon. All is well. In haste, etc.,

Your brother in the gospel,

James Finlayson.