Lady Victoria Campbell

248 " ETHICA "
After seeing the difficulty in embarking at Scari-
nish on Saturday morning, I can quite understand
the desire for improvement.
Perhaps had the authorities of Post Office and
steamer company been less rigid, the impulse which
drew so many together for the construction of the
pier in Gott Bay would have been less active. In
1908, when a better type of steamer was at last
launched, Lady Victoria, with the pier nearer in
sight, wrote a letter to the papers. As usual, the
things that lay behind pressed heavily on her pen,
but it is a vivid, if allusive, presentment of past
troubles and future hopes.
GLIMPSES FROM TIREE
July, 1908.
More than one paragraph in the well-known
" Oban Times " has greeted the debut of the new
mail-steamer " Lochiel." None of them give an
adequate idea of the pathetic surprise, the rejoicing,
while trembling lest this priceless boon of an up-to-
date steamer should be withdrawn, after years of
pleading that a quicker vessel than the far-famed
" Fingal " would mitigate late summer posts, and
long periods of detention for passengers, on a
vessel originally designed for inner waters.
Knots of people gathered to witness the
" Lochiel's " arrival. School children will re-
member the year when one of the " popular " fleet
approached the shores even with ease in our