The morning call., 1891-03-08
MadG Famous by Dickens in
David C0DpGrfGld.'
THEIHOMB OF POOR LITTLE EMILY.
Where The Yarmouth BlOatRK Are Prepared.
Ols-Half Of the Population Are in Some
Way Seafarilg TOlk-A Quaint Place in
Which The Streets Are Not Over Ten Feet
Wide Singular Carts That Are Used

regular as the night comes, the candle must
be stood in It's old pane Of glass, that II ever
she should see it. it may seem to say, Come
back, my child, come back" Ii ever there's
a knock, Ham (partcar soft knock, arter
dark, at Your aunts door, doen't you 60
nigh it. Let it be her-not you-that sees
my fallen child"
Thus, poor old hroken-hearted Mr.. Peg
gotty 10 Ham Pegsotty aud Mrs. Gum
nudge as he Sc: forth on his weary search
for tile wandering little Emily, after the
pitiful episode Of her departure from the
Yarmouth boat-home with SEeerforth. In
tile whole range of English fiction there IS
nothing to compare with the sweetness and
pathos Of the joys aud woes of this one sea-
faring family, which the master-hand of
Dickens. in david Copperfeld," endur-
ingly placed, as type of lowly loyalty and
love, against the perspective oil humble toll;
just as Millet has fixed two peasant forms
against one Breton evening cleaning, for an
eternal suggestion of prayer.
Without Dickens David Copperfeld"
and this one family-whieh we always as
sociale in our minds with long reaches OF
sand-duneS, bits of wreck, spatcheS of
obesity spume and drift of a rather dreary
and cruel sh ore. with a s;eely measure
less vast beyond and very dauk and
clammy f,heF-t0Wn NEAR at hand-Ga az
mouth would be unknown to-day, save for
the great plum0 smoked Etrfings il sends
all over the world IN isr the name Var
mouth blOaterS.' In our yOuihtite days,
and with the uLcOupromiSjng appetiteS
Of we who were "brown-fac-d tunlcked
country boys" how their Subtle aroma
Mingled with an Oyercame the myteri-
Gus scents II the country grocery-store
Mecca! With their accompaniment Of
crackers they invariably won cur last
eOppers. Then came the royal feast on
the empty barrels and boxes IN the rear of
the st Re" We never got enough. But
we all registered vows that when we got
big" We would 90 to Yarmouth, wherever
that was, and just sit down and eat one box
OF herring without ever leaving off. All
that dear grOcery-Store time | have heard
called very common and vulgar. But we
lads were exactly correct in our undiTeCted
but unerrng tastes Grlled smoked her.
rings are the tid-bitS Of the most refined
cuisines to-day
If as mine thy boyhood's eyes
Rested hrst On country SKIES,
And your first impulse to fad Yarmouth
only had sOyulgar al inception as in hunger
for herring;
ORR first thy childish feet
battered Ger city street,
While you seldom got SO good a thing to eat
as herring. and You never wanted to see
Yarmouth save to come within the framing
Of the picture Dickens has painted. in
either case 90 not make the same blunder
committed some years agO when l first set
out 10 find the lent city. For
ENGLAND HAS TWO YARMoUTHs.
In MY guide book 1 saw one named, and
set out from London to see it. By rail |
came to Lymington, thence across the Soleut
by steamer to the lovely, almost tropical,
Isle Of Wight. There was Yarmouth surely;
a staid, prlm, pretty place, with the breath
of the sea ever in its WnsOma face,
wifi Ha pHaIL QlIfT- nj ENGLAND iusr
across the blue SOlent, and serenely d. tng
in It's little nook Of beauty and comfort, be-
. caue of the GristOcTatic facts that DR..
Robert HooEe, inventor Of the pendulum
spring for watches, was born here, and
that, upon q time, when Sir Robert Holmes
was Governor oil tie island, house was
built by him purpOsely for tile reception Of
Charles II, for which loyal act tile good Sir
Robert, after death, got his figure cut in
TN white marble, with some nice Latin
eIiiaah on tie } ede-tal.
But the real Yarmouth, the heTringnpolis
II e. gland ana the home OF DICkeus' Peg
gNLtys. IS away around on the east coast. IL
stands Ga narrow strip or sand between
the mouth OF the river Yare and the Ger
uaH Ocean. The same river separates the
IN RS of Suffolk and Norfolk, to the latter
or which Yarmouth belongs. 1t houses per-
.air- GuC0J souls. Half OF these are in some
way seatarlng folks, or exist from some w.
cnIOu relevant to Seafaring fishing or ship
"
elnmOst in England, and the first object
England touched by the morning sun
! gkt IS tile tower nf it, old alish chur b I
-. NieuUl@s. Ii hs Dor, mass II ifs ing
Sm-cks ana Coasters, Is The river-mOutl
It,ef and the Yarmouth Roads, always
crested with the foam of scudding, white
ca ped, chOi Ply waves, i the rendezvous of
tnr North Sea British fleet. Steamers 10
and irom h C triSn and English east-coa,t
pOGlS, coasters with sat and coal, and
essAa fro LII. I'll
re-tlV OPP site. ceaselrsSiy lowering about
Eagl b. ports II % their way t. the
5 etland ISIS, 10 the Faroes, to Iceland or
to the Norway coast, tprm Intermnabl4
ghost aNslnE processlUn5, cut cHmeO-like
i.st the dark eastern horizon, 10y day,
ana il rh" Moonlight of peaceful nights
blended into pale intaglios as OF mimic for
esls set III bed of steel aud stars.
But ut hest this is Wild. wsiiing, woeful
coast; ard Yarmouth, which has furnished
1itn and mas,S innumerable as victims to
The fury of al seas, has seemed fated 10 be the
Sc ne OF the oceans satdest tragedies. In
1862, Ia unr nlgnt, Z0J sail and 1000 souls
were lost BY tempest in the Yarmouth
Roads In 1Ji4, betwean 30 and To- sail
ani their crews Htre lost in n sngl. day,
a sill larger number met the same fate in
1850. And only within the decade a similar
horror occurred. 1t is regarded by all sea-
men rs the M ST dangerou coast in Britain
and III re Is only
ONE OTHER SPOT on THE GLOBE
calling 50 many and terrible ocean catas-
trophies. That one is Sable Island 100
miles south Of Nova Scotia, known to
sailors tile world over as 1.-THE graveyard of
the sra" Yarmouth never figured greatly
In history; though there are some curious
records OF its early days. 1t originated in
the early part Of the Anglo-Saxon dyna-
sly. 1t was just little sand bank then,
whore lhs Bure and Nayeny rivers Joined
the Aare and together pushed to the sea.
Fishermen frequenting the coast built a
few rude hutS on the strip of sand between
the mouths OF the rivers and the ocean.
Then the Dutch, who scented trade every
where, began coming with their knick- knacks
and wares and exchanging them for fish,
II NC Henry III granted permission for en-
Vlronng the town with water aud moat
and II vas made Improbable TO missile
engines, then IN use; but it was not de-
Tended by forts until during the Revolu-
tim, when our American privateers were
50 lively in their menace, If not attacks,
upon British potts. When the Cirque ports
If Dover, Hastings, Heylhe. Romney AID
Sandwich, considered the keys Of the king
dom from being nearest France, were il-
stituted by William l in 1918, and their ju-
Tisdiction vested in baron lord -waTdens,
such jurisdiction, but not the title, being
abolished as late as 1855, Yarmouth endeav-
Ored to attain to the same dignity, but only
secured sort OF municipal jurisdiction
through deputed bail ifs OF the CnQue
ports lord-wardens But the city secured
better than a dignity in her great annual
free fairs" which shortly became the
headquarters of hordes OF Dutch traders and
eventually made Yarmouth the greatest
herring mart OF England. Yarmouth fur
nished forty-thrce sail and 1915 marines
for the memorable siege of Calais
and it was here that was fitted
out the beautiful ship sent to Norway 70
bring TO England the Kings daughter for
marriage to Prince Edward. afterward King
Edward Ii. Among the strange customs OF
the old city none were more curious than
the mode of electing the Mayor, High Stew
ard, Recorder, Sub-Steward and other mu-
nicipal officers, which was only changed as
late as the middle Of the present century.
An inquest Of twelve persons was formed by
placing the names of twenty-iour freelnen
into four hats. Then a person called an
Innocent" usually child, drew three
names from each OF the four hats. These
twelve persons formed the inquest; and
they were literally incarcerated in the City
Hall without meat, drink, ire or candle !"
until niue of them agreed upon the munici-
pal officers: and there was no appeal from
mr. eon fest arising mt nf this nFimitiva nrn-