The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-13
.SEACOAST MONEY MAKERS
NOTEL PLANS OF And WOMEN
MESSENGERS.
How the Captains Wife Saved the Ship
Women's Feet as an Artist Sees Them
How to Clean Engravings.


If any one pauses to think while
passing through the crowded streets O
New York or London, ne is apt tc
wonder how SO many people manage
to make a living. 1t is pretty well un'
derstood nowadays that the result o.
any one persons labor will amount tc
little or nothing, and that one only
finds himself in any way OF making
money when he is workingin harmony
with others. But if II has to work
it is much better to have a speciality,
although it certainly requires some in
genuity to think of any occupation
that every one else is otalready busy
about.
On the Jersey coast there is one
new method of earning money. Both
in Long Branch and Asbury Park
there are men, one in each place, who
call themselves messengers. Late in
the afternoon and evening of each
day they go the rounds in answer to
any demands left on the states of their
offices during the day. Their bust
ness is purely to shop in New York.
If anyone wishes any article in New
York, from millinery to provisions,
these men go up in the morning and
buy it, and bring it down with them in
the afternoon, delivering it always
the anne day. There is a regular
percentage charged, and Of course
they get another one from the shop
keepers who want their custom.
If they had happened to think OF. it
first this would have been a very good
occupation for women. The fair sex,
however. have not shown themselves
wanting in originality in the way of
work in these places, either. One re-
markably beautiful girl, Miss Atch-
kinson of Asbury Park, has for sew
eral years carried large sums OF
money from business firms to deposit
in the banks of Long Branch, going
backward and forward at all seasons.
Now that there are five large banks
at Asbury it is not likely that her bus
mess is as brisk as it was, but
it is said that many of the business
men of Asburv still deposit in Long
Branch from habit. Miss Atchkinson
has often taken as much as $4,000 a
once.
Another lady in Asbury Park was
somewhat addicted to painting as an
amusement, and fifteen young girls
came to her one afternoon and begged
her to teach them all. She was not
especially proficient herself, but fin
ally she consented to show them what
she could. Now she has a class of
thirty who take one hour twice a
week and pay a dollar a lesson each.
The rage for tiny paintings on all sorts
of dainty trifies has brought a great
demand for this work, and two sisters,
who also live on the Jersey coast, fur
nish a large wholesale house in New
York with a large portion of the So
called imported hand work painting.
During the sulnmer season they paint
thousands of shells, a few daubs an
swers for these, and only five cents
apiece is paid for them, but the sisters
make a considerable amount of money
out of their sale.
These are about the only attempts
at originality l know of along the
coast. Most people, who have nc regu-
lar 'longshore occupation, take to keep
ing boarding houses Oh bathing ma
chimes.
The Captains Brave Wife.
On the river Byram, a little stream
which divides the States of Connecti-
cut and New York, in the village of
Port Chester, in a pretty cottage, re-
sides a little woman of unassuming
manners. whose deed of heroism will
live as long as stories of the sea are
read and deeds of prowess. cited for
the emulation of Others.
January 3, 1885, a little after mid
night, and on the ocean, nearing st.
Helena, was the good American ship
Frank N. Thayer, commanded by
Captain Robert *. Clark. Soon after
the midnight watch was changed the
captain was reused from a sound
sleep by hearing his name called in a
tone of alarm.
Fearing that all was not well with
his ship he hurried up the companion
way in his night-clothes. AS his head
appeared above the companion-way
he received a number OF stabs in the
face. neck, and head, but he managed
to see that his assailants We're two
Manila Indians, members of his
crew.
He fell to the floor beneath, where
the Indians followed him and plunged
their knives into his sides, leaving him
for dead. The carpenter, the lookout
man, and mate were killed. The bal
ance of the crew were locked in or ter
rified, and the captain, his wife, and
daughter were left to the mercy OF the
infuriated Manila Indians.
The captain, faint from the loss of
blood, was assisted to his cabin by his
wife, One of the lungs of the officer
was p~rotruding. The brave woman,
with a nerve as firm as adamant and
with a care guarded as that of the
skilled physician, forced the vital
parts back and sewed up the frightful
wound. She then bandaged his face
and head and set herself to the task OF
making their position safe by securing
the windows to the cabin, arming her
SELF, and placing the wounded captain
in a position to defend or assist in the
defense of the cabin.
The precaution was taken just in
time, for, firing of the vigil they had
kept about the captains cabin, they
determined to finish him. Buthe and
the intrepid IN at his side re-
PEELED the mutineers, who had broken
open the cabin window.
What words can describe the cour-
age of this wife, who stood with firm
hand by her husbands side ready to
do or die, hearing meanwhile the
tread of the Indians thirsting for his
blood. d
The skulking crew, by the courage
of the wife and captain, were at last