Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21

selves. In spite of the tram cars that come as
far as they dare from the great city and halt by
the village-side; in spite of the railway that
brings and takes vast crowds of curious visitors;
in spite OF the tremendous steamship and vessel
life and its splendid panorama before their very
ewes; in spite of the churches, mi ssions and
national schools, wedged between their curious
habitations, aud in spite of the uuceasing fric-
ton of their daily contact with the fine activities
of splendid city, housing the brightest and
most cultivated people in Great Britain, they
suffer no diminution no infringement,
NO CHANGE.
As to dress. customs, dialect, mannerisms
mode of life, modern progress stops aghast at
the outskirts of Newhaven, walks around 1t,
and passes on, as if with sigh of relief at hav-
ing escaped bootless struggle.
But no one who knows the Newhaven fisher
folk at all will set them down as lacking IN un-
usual intelligence. 1t would be difficult to find
anywhere in our own country an isolated town
of 90 % people possessing SO many self-suStaln-
ing, alert, CHEEKY, active minded souls There
are not simply few predominating lntellects
bending all other wills and wishes to their own.
Man, woman or child, one and all, suddenly
whisked to anywhere else, would thrive Their
activity is remarkable; their perception. quick
and true; their amiability winsome; their physl-
cal power and industry are amazing; and their
tranquility and content are sometnlng GOOD TO
see and know. They are the only CHARACTERISTIC
community comprising distinct class, all OF
whom toll bravely in the same manner OF
drudgerv ever came upo" in all my wander
ings who were willing that the better favored
should enjoy their good fortune. and were
themselves cheerily glad to remain as, and
A GOOD deal of this was made clear in the few
trims took with the Newhaven fishermen to
sea The total feet comprises five thlrty-ton
boats costing E350 each; twenty seven twenty
tv-tou boats costing ESQ each, and LEO fve-ton
boats costing fs5 each, giving total capital OF
nearly 500, 900 invested in boats alone Inc en-.
tire gear - consisting of perhaps 100 miles OF
nets, tons of lines and hooks for long line fish
ing with crsels, Grams, cressets, aad various
unbaleman paraphernalia. involves an original
and repair outlay OF nearly an equal sum; so
that the Newhaven folk alone, who comprise
but small proportion of the whole fishermen
along the shores OF the Firth OF forth ana the
near fishing ports have no mean investment out
of which, with the addition OF their labors, to
deserve an excellent livelihood. Cod, maddox
and herring are chiefly sought. me nshing
grounds for the cod are in the middle OF the
North sea, about 100 miles east OF the isle OF
NAV, which stands at the mouth of the Firth of
Forth. The fleet are usually away from port
from Monday unit Saturday. during a few weeks
of the early spring: There are no hand
liners as with our Gloucester fishermen, who
frequently go out from their schooners, an
chored on the banks, in yawls and dories to take
cod with single lines. The NeWhaVen men, on
arriving at the grounds, .
'.FLoAT AND ANCHoR;'
that is, they sail lazily at the rate OF about
four or five miles an hour, reehng their lug
sails according to the wind, away from the
anchored" end of a codline, which is always
from five to seven miles in length. The hooks
are twenty-one feet apart, and three buoys
only, one at each end, with ceuter buoy, each
surmounted by a red or black flag. are used for
the entire line length. The work is usually
begun after midnight at such a time will
enable the crew to "get her all in the water
before sunrise. jock lights. famboyants,
and ordinary flash lights are used; end the
effect with large fleet, on moonless night, is
as though innumerabIe sea volcanoes were send
ing forth, in regular pulsation, tiny flashes OF
fame Four men are required to shoot the
line. Three bait the hook with herring, and
one ''pays OUT the line
In f.haddockin' " seven men comprise a
boats crew, and each man owns line to which
is attached eiphty-four score OF hooks, forty
two inches apart ESQ feet long. The Joined
seven lines constitute fleet of lines, the
total length of which is more than seven and
one-half miles, As the paddock boats make
three trips week to sea, and haddock- hooks
are baited with mussels, which are gathered
along the shores of the Firth, ''mussel- gather
ing " done by the women and children, and
..haddock4 baiting,' add largely to the earnings
of the fshermensS wives. BY an Interchangeable
law the wives and daughters OF each .'haddock-
in crew. bait that crews lines, receiving three
shillings, sixperce per line, or twenty-four
shillings. sixpence per ''feet:" and il the crew
have in it unInarriedi men, these cannot favor
their sweethearts with the labor. but must give
it to the women folk of their married compan-
ions The paddock elect of lines is shot
lust as the day is breaking. As they snap and
fy like whip cords into the sea. many a hook is
embedded in a fsherman's hand. Bat this does
swer You, while drawing the savage barbs from
their flesh with their teeth. The haddock lines
are not permitted TO remain under water but
half an hour, and are scarcely ever drawn
without an excellent Weld of fish.
All the herring taken by the Newhaven fisher
men are sold for fresh consumption in Edinburgh
and its suburbs. the greater portion hawked as