The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-09
A Trip to the Fishing Cabins


A Trip to the Fishing Cabins
Through the kindness of the Messrs
Denny, on Tuesday w. T. Garrison
Esq. and your correspondent took
trip on the "Wrp. Srhaubel, ST." to thu
cabins ut Hope Creek, intending L
spend day or 81 in sh iotin .and fishing,
We boarded the tug with our small boat.
packa res aud gun" in the midst OF 8
hail squat, which softened into a rain
hat ennJiGu d in fi'ful dashes even
to nur destination. Natural curiosity
| led us to make a tour of observation
around the tug, not forgetting to peep
into the larder. We we're struck with
this popularity in thu crew: half of
them were r~ed-headed. and nicknaned
accordingly, "Reddy" "Pinky" and
"Brindle.n Freddy" is a punster,
and is rs sharp as the progerbial greas-
ed lighting. 1t was he who said. when
asked if he were ready, that lie had
been freddy for twenty-one years,
"Brindle" is a f~ull-blooded native of a
cluster of houses south of Salem. This
is his first experience in tug-hoating
Hitherto he has been a quasi news-gath-
erer, pen-a-liner, or something of that
sort, of the Standard, that newborn
PruhibitiOnist organ of Salem county.
When told that the RECORD man was
going to write him up he said that he
was a reporter, too, and if il was do2e,
he would let his band play. Ta-ta,
"Brindle''. Andthen there is our own
"Pinky," who swears by all that is
good land bad, too, | fear yea, even
by Captain Sam himself, that Penrs.
grove IS The place of places, and tha'
its girls are very pretty.
But to Resume. At 2 Is we left The
pier, and soon ~signalei the"McCall" on
her return trip. OFF Carney's Point
we passed the sIoop "Tarhox'', Capt.
! joshua Atkinson in command, hount
under an ashen breeze for the lower
waters of tie raging canal. Deep Wa.
! ter Point looks bcaatiful from TIE riv
er. What a splendid c~oun'ry-seat il
would make far some money-hag ri
Third street! But TO the average farm,
or ornament. dress and beauty do moi
bring in the cash. The spirit of i'm
provement has reached even prosaiC
Pennsville, as some new houses are
seen peeping tllrou.h the budding trees
Pennsville and Port Penn are two oil
the deadeSt places jmaeinahle. If 2
fugitive of justice should make an asy-
lumo of either of them, lie w0ald b.
safer than nrnnc+almeut in any barge
| city. New Castle is New Castle, and nev
er will be anything else. unless "a Van.
derbilC should lavish his wealth upHI
its impr pvement, and even then Atkins
Lawrencc's camping place uron the op
! posite shore would b. preferable. The
| massive walls of Fort Delaware are
| rapidly looming up through the mist.
The walls battlem"nts,a aud, indeed, the
whole affair, is sad to be in a bat
state OF repair; but orders have beer
issued for the immediate mounting Of
fifteen modern guns. G ngress should
paw prompt attention 10 the REPAIRING
and fitting up with new and efficient
machinery OF all onr seaboard aud
river dpfenscs While there is no pres
ent prospect of there being needed tol
war purposes, UT they ought IT, be kept
in thorugh condition always. II view
of the threatened approach of the chol'
era there is Il project on foot to make
the Fort Il Larziretto station. 1t is i
good idea and should be pushed, for il
would make an admirable and a conf
paratively safe one. The mounts OF
the Battery, clothed in emerald velvet
show the coming spring, while thu
black, grim guns peepins through theil
Enclosure gives a picturesqueness to thu
sc me which renders it singularly
attractive. The low lying walls inclot
ing the Cemetery conceals a most beau
iiful spot for the resting place of an he
roic soldiery. The G. \. r. P,sts o
| Salem County, and especially The Ac
ton Post, have made this sp1ta Mecca
of patriotism for thesurrouudiug c0un-
try, so that ON Memorial Day is gates
are always crowded. AMI most = 5
pecialy viii tllish I've so ut the next on.
when the silver-toaed Headricksoa,
| the Nestor of the South Jersey BT,
will pronounce d most fitting euio9.
upon our heroic dead aid extol thei
living comrades through whose match
less bravery the country was not onl'
preserved Undivided, but was enlarged
quickened, yiyiied.
Passing between the Fort and Reed.
Island we left Delaware city with i'll
greedy Canal Co. benin us, N were
soon over themy thical l2-miie circle
which Delawart so boastingly claims,
and We. Is afraid to force judgment
Reedy Island Light is soUu far in ou
rear with its house-full of beau,if u
girls. The first familiar tting which
greeted our sight is the swift skit
"Belle J. Al!oway," the namesake .
thai brilliant aud successful st hool
marm." Soon Amos" aud son and til
vet ran Hewitt Were seen, who bad
us welcome and kindly placed their aC
commodations at at our dlSpO;al' 4
this point, Alloways Creek, 50 me $50
shad had to be shifted to the tug fror
the layb0atm adrenchinS rain. The
were as fine Il lot Of shad as we hay
ever seen. Here we were summOnet
to supper, and did good justice to In
cooks work. We slowed up at 18th
B~c0thers'' to take OH fish and pa
off %prcvender. The rain had now 50.