The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-11
WRECK OF THE IRON EAGLE.


I ~ ~ b.AI'l =, ' .lu NlN lO,a-libnfN lnfK-
ley, who has been nj work over on Wallop's
Island getting out timber for the now club
house which is to be built there. came homo
lat sunday bringing with him Il pioco of an
oli wreck that set the oldor people of the island
TAKING ABOUT romance connected with
NaI!ops which had acarco boon brought about
in fifteen or twenty years. Tho piece OF the
wreck was well-shnped wrought iron eagles
clhw larger than mans hand. 1t was rust
/ eaten, but sti preserved its outline and about
all tho scay details that had once made it
beautiful. This old claw was Mt ono
time tho ngurehoad Of tho schooner Iron
. EhElc-Sho was called a schooner. though
, really yawl rigEed-a vessel that in the
days Just after the war was probably the fast
est craft Of her inches anywhere about the
/ Chesapeake Bay. or the Atlantic coast for that
. matter. She had been built for carrying oysters
/ to market from tho bays Of tho Virginia penin-
sula. and might have made her owner rich
light speedily but for the fact that whom he
had got her in ommission. and was making
money hand over fist, he lost his head and took
| t" drink. The boat was neglected rs we'll as
| business, and so ii happened that at the end
| oil three years tho Gallus craft had come TO look
/ like vessel of thirty: moreover sho had got o
, heavy mortgage on for ballast we'll.
At tins time, 1t was in tho month of Septem-
! Der. twenty-five years ago, came a young Jer-
!
first OF host that has since arrived. and he
( had boon attracted by the stories Of oysters to
to found hero. 1t happened that he reached
tho Island on the last day of a camp meeting
that had been held on Rattesnake Ridge. and
lust in time t. witness tho marriage of Annita
Blocom to Wnrdwell Mears. both of whom were
prominent Chincotcaguers. Miss Annta's
| 1ather being the owner Of the swift little
schooner Iron Eagle.
Chincoteaguerss, did not go on wedding tours
/ p fool Nuifa 20,
cottagH he had built for her facing the beach, a
n mi.e abGye the present steamboat landing,
won't or 20 the lie saving station on Walop'a
ls!Hnd, where he was engaged for the season.
capt. Blocom Iron EaEl q rs mate. and began
putting the scho nor in shnpe for the seasons
wonder of the ChucoteaEuers it was novelty
to them to see stranger take, hold of another
said 10 them that he didn't like to SOC such a
boat and wouldn't be, found dead in the like of
true enough, but did not really explain the an
linus Of his efforts to make tho vessel profit
fallen in love with Mrs. Wardwe Mears. the
GiHuEhteEE oi oaPt Bloom: and noticing that
termlned to win her regard first OF all by work.
Ing tor his interest.
Of what followed there nre various versions.
some sny that Dan was q consummate rascal.
and that. much a1 black snakes about
m Way to Gb enrt ca o h orTs ne Ew1Eke1
that Anniln had been tho tlirt of the island
always accustomed to tho alteration OF u host
Of young men aud was by no means willing, Mt
last. t. be content with the devotion of but
tWo sb hdG Gu tnon pr9E@ % b9twGen the
but passed safely through it all until. at last.
having boon weddoi and left alone to pass a
dreary winter practically by herself for
Chn"9teagne ctiuuctto does not permit u
settled Iaiy t" g around to parties and
Il was taking her from the gayest life on the
Into this life came tho kindly gcnte. manly
Young JerSeyman. lie was forever. as it
accerabie She could not GSp soone that tG hs
but she not only could not resent it: size
scarce could help encouraging him. And yet
when he obtained loayc OF absence ono day in
two weeks he got fnch welcome as made him
=, For two months the Iron Eagle traded to
rihiiadepnia. Then one day young Dan Milf
0nancock. and cleared her Tor a voyage to
MatanZas. in Cuba. That made the grey
ages TO Matanzas meant in the days before tho
nc, such voyage had been made, Would Dan
bring back rum They rather thought, from
what they had seen OF him, that he would.
tR@riilc%l@rly as ne was going out as master:
II peace on the profits which Dan had made in
That was = dandy trip to Matanzas. She
sailed away tho last week in November. and on
Christmas morning when the ChncoteagueS
and drink no and ~ c,5't no, nft ~ t6n inc
tcnt, ,e I'm ~ 0t ~ JEs no+ a. te[ the 1ihc3
TO- NIKE s1re tLey tI o oro @ %
iron Eagle Shs lad rrtnrnnd in hSIIas s ' no
sh o,or,nJ Lt "E NJ "a T',,I"Tt' 40
She Wont I@wn r. III to "n1 1itI9 y u&9 ia.9E
isinni over mint. and tnen came mn a. aoi
loaded oysters in bulk for New York. and could
cargo OF 200 barreis tc III Ghincote e
slammed their hands on their thighs. took fresh
thH Narrow Irnf ', ,rorv mn an SafJo
''Wnit Tor IN" ovstcr ran Il Tyh"n inn Gomez
harE - pun, SnSu,,I.,I RI ~ ,yng ,,,st II
N"ontin', Nra TIi1oiTr,iI iIHTtIy WHO Iivod
next 70 Mr. Nnnr. XXI yiisi"ioj TO I@T dear
est fricnI iLft iii, md -nnn Dan NIilllin going
by hnr hous,, ru,t Icfny. d'uybrcnk on that
Clri.tmis nIoruJnt, nn,I iI~iJ" Of tile day The
whole Town inci'iIlng Iln aud Mrs Mears
Ind h.nr Tho story I.lii ban was WHY feI.
low lie ind been TO 500 Mrs Menrs sure
enuuyI hiIt Inc was moi caushi So badly "a
Mrs iiIrlly.fl0ught Iakirg('apt. Blucom by 4
tLn arm iH ,yulE~J MIN OyoT To- the groeerv ~
Nv, want m 10 the house OF Mrs MeArs atom
pns" iidr' Ms iiirig On tho way Dan re-