The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-27
WHAT THE DREDos BRINGS Up.
Many Strange Things Found on the
BOTTOM OF New York Hay.
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Eometimes it is a different thing from
mud that the dredge brings up from
the bottom Of the bay. Usually it is
mud, hoWever-lnnd and gravel, bits Of
rock, and long strings of slime. It is
clean mud, however, and the dredgar
thinks nothing of plum ging feet fore
most into it ID search of anything bright
that glitters for 8 moment in fhe sun
as the Jaws of the scoop are ierked open
above the scow. Close othe docks the
mud is not so clean. but the chances of
finding something valuable are so much
greater that the difference IS not taken
into nraetical consideration. Sometimes
Il i I. silver dollar that gIitters IN the
sun and finds resting place in the scow:
once ii 4 rare while a7 watch. made uso.
less by long contact with salt water.
comes. to excite in the dre7cer the blis-
terino regret that it cannot be sold on
pawned and uuita freauently knives Of
strange shane and rusted out Of eli sem
blanee to edged steel ioin forces With bits
Of broken olass fo cIf. the feet of the
dredger who treads nnwa1.ilv. along the
bottom of the scow. Twice the barbor
dreloes have hroncht mn within tba
MAST wear q bright shladad knife show
mo along ito ,,o;tt' and ad % ! narrnflaj
stain as fbonob blood bad sf,,cI, thara
Once tha sharr laws IF the 5000, cIIt ar
both faai IF drowned man and fha
tida carr;ad tha hodv havona the raach
f s,,.a,,,sl;,,e, b,oi.s h,,,,,aTs bana
w;t1 ana of e 4i,1s-o,.s 81 os tbo,er
r;ng had haan Torn from, ~ i = bv graaf
force fell ont Of the seoon several
months aro. The dredgers Thought that
The man from whose arm the hand had
been torn had been led down T., . dock
while intoxicated and robbed and
thrown overheard bv the members IF 8
Gang Il s i common nraetiee bus
the dredge rarely f1isturbs the BODY.
An immense dra0-nef. STREET he'd anross
the Narrows wonld catch . multitude of
strange and ynvsterions thinps II
wo1,ld be storeIo,,se fer times rnore
ghasfly than norgne. There is fra.
dition that wears AGO murderer was
convicted hv b,ooi-stained knife
brought mn in dradpe The names
and dates are lacking Another tradi-
tion saws that q dredger once hrought
mn his own runaway dauohter from,
fhe bottom of the river 4 phasflv
hru;se IN her tennle fold tbe story ~
her death. The dredrer beat his brains
out against the barred door of an insane
asylum two wears later. He had lived
sane long enough to murder the man
that ran off with his dauobter and .
merciful court sent him to an asvlum
for the insane. A third blood-eurdlino
tradition Is to the effect that q fsrpdoeT
nursed arudre against another
dredper for many Years. honinr for ven
geance. At len9t6 when the enemy crot;
between the laws of the snoon E, fasfen
q loose riyet the Jaws closed an hin,
and -he was .sulIno mt over The wafer slr'
Then the 1redge went ont slowly and
the last fhino that tbe dradoer saw a.
earth was fba face IF his rnnrierar
gr;nninp fri,1mnhantlv over the eflca
of fhe scow. These traditions have no
facts to make thana. real hnt the dradO-
ers believe in them. An old Spanish
proverh saws. ssFor the character Of
the neonle Iook in the bottom of the
cara. . New York wol,Id not. fin,
much of a character in the he'd of tha
East river or in the sin adioininp tha
mouth of the sewers. When the water
closes over the unlawful deeds done IN
the darkness or the NIGHT only tha
dredge can bring it hack "a life. How
many bodies weighted with lead lie II
the mud beneath six fathorns of water.
| how many bodies float ont "a SEA
no man can know. How greatly the the
number of discovered dead exceeds the
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