Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27

zs.cuIsr has IL. where the natives who in.
5nlre in summer recreation, 60 10 hsh anu
,,,,ebIe ON the surf, and 70, the east the
ISLAND narrows again to slender thread
sometimes broken by the sea and skirnng
Tnckernuck and Muskeget. famous for
their bluefsh and their clans:
m il is difficult to describe the geography
of Nantucket within ordinary limits, 1t Is
st;II more difficult to so review its history.
Mold who was trying to help Raleigh colo
nize Virginia, first sighted it in trying 70
saiI across the Atlantic by the shortest line.
Subsequently il was decided by Lord Ster-
ling to Maybew and Lor, who sold 1t in l6o0
70 the ten original purchasers for ESD and
,vo heavier hats. and the names OF these
or;g;nal purchasers and their associates are
stiil perpetuated by numerous descendants
remaining here in the persons OF the Conn,
swain, Macy, Starbuek and other tamf-
The Foulsers came later in the person OF
pa,er Foulger, and the record says he had
sort of intellectual bulge on the balance
AZ the inhabitants, who were llliterate.
tnvhov he impaired the desire for knoWl-
sdre to his descendants, for the present
secretary of the Treasury traces back MS
Inc TO Peter and his family. Brightness
all fingers on the island in at least one
,ther descendant ..--. ....
Old Time Reeollections.
Until nearly the end of the seventeenth
oantnrv the town was called Sherb urne,
and for the balance of that period its re-
cords are uneventful, but the next century
brought the reyolution-in when l,oVv
Santucketers lost their lives, and witnessed
the Inauguration of the islands whaiing
business, which grew until the NantucKes
E. TINA nmmbpra0
seyenty-two vessels. Digging out his oid
Custom House records Mr.. Landlord, the
nresent "King of the Island" showed me
The entry of the ship in this port, from
which vessel, q few days afterwards, the tea
was thrown into Boston Harbor; There
were long statements in some OF these ola
hooks of prosperous ventures IN lar away
seas and quaint reminders,of Eastern civiii-
sation' scattered around, gathered IN ooth
hemisphere, in the whaling days: and
stories of big lawsuits, when Dan "eoster
had TO be called over from the man iahI,
and desperate years OF female smugglers
and other memorabilia, all going 10 Illus,
trate the flush times which followed the
declaration of peace. But gradually the
whaling business drifted over the bar to
New Bedford, the bank was robbed, the
newspaper suspended. the Indians all oled
and among the whites the survival OF the
fittest seemed likely to be practically test:d
before the summer business came ana
frightened up the old town again.
Permanent and Transient.
The crowd comes for various reasons.
Some of the number are hunting health
bnt the majority are after rest and recrea-
tion. The cottagers include people from
all sections. O'Conor who came here an
invalid soon after his nomination for the
Presidency, has become prominent resi-
dent, and built himself spacious home on
the cliffs above the town. he is not on the
best of terms with the Committee, the cool
ness growing out OF alleged over assessments
by the town authorities. and he sits down
on the natives as occasion offers. The bar
BIER complains that when he enquired OF
the old Gentleman how he would be shaved
the veteran gared AT him as though he had
he.n a witness in the box, and replleu:
I'm silence, sir" And another brother re-
norris that when he called over the street
and told Mr.. O'Conor the walking was bet
ter on deponents side, the legal gentleman
told him ii such was the case TO stay there.
These admonitions however, are not
to he taken as induces OF gen
eral disposition, for there Is no more
kindly and courteous entertainer than the
old veteran, and his manner ordinarily 10
pleasant and aitable.
Among the visitors, Eastman Johnson,
the artist has a quaint cottage here, ana
Ex-Governor Hurlbut and other Massachu-
sets peoplc have built handsome houses at
prominent points along the shore; En-
CONGRESSMAN LawndeS and wife, and Mrs.
Roman, of Maryland, have pleasant cot
tages, and a happy crowd OF visitors ana
the registers show the presence oil good
many Southern and Western guests al
hotels and boarding houses.
Summer Recreators.
How these people amuse themselves IS
easily seen. There is little opportunity yet
for display or fashion. The bathrooms are
too small for comfort, and the drives are
mainly one horse roads, where horse and
wheels track in 10 keep from running over
the cranberries. Bat the drives are high and
breezy, and you can go for miles along their
SUBMITS without distractions, with the
bey simmering on one side and the open
ocean beating on the other.
There is good shark fishing at Wau.Wlnet,
hut il is rather rough and bloody business
for beginner. The boatmen take You oil
through the surf in small boat cattsseeddes
"dory 70 ItflRs nt the shark is caught on a chain
hook about the size of a pot-hanger and
bated generally with blue fish. The sharks
caught here range from three to six hundred
pounds, are not aS gamey as the man'eater
variety, and are pulled up to the boat gen
orally without much trouble. Then their
noses have to be held over the gunwale
while somebody hammers them with a
club. and by the time a half dozen are
landed the party is prepared TO take any
position to all abbatour.
"a SOutherly wind"
Blue fishing is better sport and the sail
ing could hardly be improved. The skip
per is study as he sits with one leg over
the wheel, ana when the girls make him
laugh there is a look of reproaCh comes in
to his eye afterward as much as TO say, this
is too serious a business Tor levity. AT the
fresh water mariner who offers TO steer Tor
him he only glowerS, but when the wind
frcshens and the female portion of the car
go goes ashore, he brightens up cOnsidera-
bly, and puts off for rougher water. Then
the fun commences. Under three reefs aud
with scarcely more canvass exposed than
would cover q dining table, the CatbOIt in
the stiff breeze goes through the boiling
water like a sword fish, and the spray flies
over her from one end 10 the other, but
over the stern the hooks covered to the
shank with "squid" are tossed, and the
hundred foot lines stream out and pull
taught with the rapid motion. There is a
strain on them that you think a fish could
hardly increase, but the blue fish takes
hold vigorously when he catches on. AS
we spin past the corner Of the Rips" there
is yell on the mort side, and looking out
along the line which the Commodore is
pulling in, hand over hand, thirty yards
away you see a siX.pounder come sliding
in on his tail, helf the time on the surface
and the remainder scarcely hidden from
observation. 1t is straight pull for the
open fish box, for slack line would give
him q chance TO shake the hook loose, and
as he comes over the side and is dropped
in among the balance there is a vely COM
Portable feeling as the boat is put about to
look for the rest of the school.
If you want to be happy come up and
stretch yourself on the beach where the
| children are bathing in the quiet cove,
| neither thinking or caring about rough
water and troublesome currents outside.
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