The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-09
NO PHANTOM APPEARED.
Philadelphia Preaa.


 the New Jersey coast as "Capt. Kidd's Night" when, according to local song and story, the victims and all the acc cursed crew of that bloodthirsty pirate rise from their graves and along the shore e-enact scenes done while in the body.
 This is tradition, and to many sea- faring Jerseymen truth. They believe just as much in well-regulated ghosts, specters and such gruesome things as they do in their own identity. Ac- cording to their gospel, the seashore Friday night should have been thronged with Unconditional ghosts poorly-clad skeletons and hetero- geneous aggregation of supernatural horrors. But 1t wasn't
 It was the sort of night when any we'll meaning ghost would like to leave the portals of the tomb and raise high links among the blackened ribs of lost ships on the beach. The beach was deserted by all save the life savers who patrolled their usual beats hol- low with fear and trembling.
 Merrily the inquiry for ghosts was sent by telephone from lite-saving station to life-saving station, from Sandy Hook to Cape May Saturday morning, and as result Supt. Ravens assured the anxious that the spooki and specters had remained within tho shadowy precincts of the tomb. II every place along the coast where Capt. Kidd buried his gold they say that not single avaricious phantom came to steal the hidden treasure These facts all go to prove that there has been a general reform of th4s par ticular brand of ghosts, for heretofore on the night of October II, in every year, spooks were seen digging up and dragging off buried gold all along tho coast, while in some places doubloont covered with green mold were found
 Around Barnegat Friday night wa' termed "Wreckers' Night" and diff. ferent variety of specters enjoyed the evening air and haunted the lonely shore. The ghosts thereabouts are those of the victims of the time marauding Jerseymen who by false beacons decoyed vessels to wrecx and ruin on the coast. The appearance oi these specters seems to be better au thenticatcd than those of Kids's kind for the notorious Wreckers of Barne- gat" are figures in local history and their descendants live in Ocean county at this day with hereditary evil pro- pensities, kept in subjection by fear of the law. The memory of the "old- est inhabitant" is not overhauled in vain for tales of rapine and murder by night in the storm on the shore.
 Jonathan Spauldin, of Metedeconk alleges that on the night of October II, away back somewhere in the last century, his great grandfather, Cy- renius Spauldin, and Job Hulit saw 8 strange sight, a sort of blue glare at sea, off Mantoloking. That the blue glare extended and showed in the center of 6 great circle of flame 6 great ship-of- the- line. The vessel came close into shore and the movements oi those on board were plainly seen by the wondering fisherman. Then the blue glare deepened into & great ghostly flame and the Jerseymen were mortified to see long procession oi women and children made to "walk the plank" into watery graves. The light, internal as 1t seemed, was SO in- tense that every line of the ship and every movement of her crew were plainly visible. Not 6 sound was heard by the swed and mortified Jerseymen who, perfectly petrifed with terror,