The Morning herald., 1878-12-14

nicatious win be written on one side only
of the paper, and accompanied with the
name of the writer. The HERALD 10 not 70
be considered as endorsing or being In any
way responsible for the opinion Of cores
pondeHts In this column.
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Mr.. EDITOR In the Gszette Of the 10th
| I sac communication from Francis Vim
cent, stating that he did not write the orisi
nal, or first article in the HERALD OF the
90th OF November, lauding himself as the
father of the movement in establishing
Ilifs>boat stations all along the coast from
Cape Healopen south, and also further stat
ing that the Delaware sea coast from Cape
Henlopen to Rehoboth was the most dan
gsrous stretch Of coast along the whole
Atlantic coast And, after I have proved
that Vincent was not the original instigator
| or father of tho movement for life saving
boat stations, aad also that the Delaware
coast from Cape Henlopen to Rehoboth
was not the most dangerous along the
whole Atlantic coast, Vincent now goee
back on the O'Byrns boys, and charges
them with Dragging of his great deeds too
trong, and says that If they have got Into
newspaper scrape they must get out OF 1t
the best way they can, as he presumes they
are able. Is this not the most sublime con
ISOLATION that any two young men ever cot
for putting up great historians Now, does
any fair man doubt that these two limo.
cent o Byrne boys got their text and chaps
ter from Vincent himself-as the O'BJrnes
are comparatively strangers in Delaware,
only having been here few years-and is
not the language of nearly all the laudatory
article of the Goth of November, Vincent's
languagsi Vincent, don't 60 back on the
boys, stand up to the rack, fodder or no
fodder. What cock and bull story you
wrote in the Gazette of the 10th, about
the ship Montezuma. You say she, on
beautiful moonlight night, nearly calm,
nistook Cape Henlopen light for the light
on the Five Fathom Light Boat, and headed
for Indian River, supposing the sand and
Rehoboth Bay, glistening in the moonlight,
to be the sea, and of course struck. Ny
God, Vincent, what do you meant Do you
suppose any captain sailing a ship out of
the DelaW are would take larger light, and
from 80 to 40 feet higher than the light on
the Five Fsthom Light Boat of Cape May, |
to be the Five Fathom Light instead of the |
old, high, 6rst-class light of Cape Hem
lopen, and then, on a beautiful moonlight |
night, have no more sense than to try to
rur his ship across the beach into Indian
River, and I might add, up int Waples'
Mil Pond. Where do you suppose the
pilots would he seeing ship acting In
that wayi OF course they would
as it 10 their duty to board all ships
when frst sighted, If the weather allows
boarding, and, as you state, it being q
moonlight night, and nearly cslm-of
course, board. Their was one excuse, Vim
cent, they may have taken the ship to be |
the Flying Dutehman, the phantom of the |
sea. Now honestly, Vincent, do you think |
the government rhould go to the expense |
of establishing life-boat stations for such |
captain, and do you think any owner Of |
ship would trust such captain! But to |
save your tortured brain any more trouble |
about this moonlight Montezuma wreck, / |
will merely tell you that 1t never occurred, !
and the Messrs Cope never had a captain |
named Furley, but they had. think, two
Captain Turkeys, a Captain Mercan and a |
Captain Julius and others. The ship re-
ferred 10 was named Tuscarors, and went
ashore on a stormy night in December.
1s4S or 1S49 For 25 or 30 years of NV
life time followed having frames Of ships
or vessels cut, and l sold them to shin
builders In Philadelphia, New York and
Boston; therefore, was acquainted with
the first builders Of eur times, and a great
many captains and sea faring men, and
being brought up along the Delaware, and
sailed on it sometime, and have charts of
our coasts, and have studied them some, /
aught to know enough to dispute your
nonsense about coasts and vessels. You
deny the name of the vessel and date OF the
elephant swimming ashore on the Delaware
coast, but cir, you admit that an Elephant
did swim on shore there, that Is enough to
upset your assertion that the Delaware
coast was the most dangerous for, hiss
torian Vincent, you can prove, or is 1t be-
lieved that an elephant could swim safely to
the shore from Cape Hatteras shoals, or
Bsrnegst or Absecom or many other shoals.
Now, sir, there are five great inlets on our
coast of the first class, and four of the
second class. The four first class-one leads
to Boston; second, to New York, through
the North river narrows between Staten
Island and Long Island, and also through
He'll Gate and East River as 1t 1, called
but really the East river ia a Sound; the
third 10 the Delaware, between Cape MAY
on the north and Cape Henlopen on the
south, about 12 miles apart: the fourth is
the Chesapeake, between Cape Charles on
the north and Henry On the south, and
about IL miles alart The other fnnr ara