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THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, ArKn 80, 1891.

cheerily. "when began, Washington
street was strand, and the water came
clear up over the present Park clear to
Whitehall street.
"Castle Garden, built as Fort Clinton by
Gov. Clinton, In 1907, was away out on II
rock, and 1t was reached by a wooden
bridge from the foot of Washington street.
The bridge went over the shallow swamp
between. There were about twcnty-four
boatmcn then, but land o. love, when steam
came in and sailing vessels went out OF
fashion, we went out Of fashion, too though
there'd been boatmen to take people OF to
incoming ships and bring people ashore
from 'cm ever since old Cap May landed
his Begians Mt Coenties slip and founded
New Amsterdam.
% In the fortcs there were my brother
Dick Cody, and me. We were born AT
Roosevelt and Banker, now Madison street
There was Billy Wood, who has II gymna.
stun in Williamsburg, and William Morse.
They're all alive yet. Dick is in tho Dock
Departments employ, and Pm the only one
left q. boating.
Before telegraphy was invented we used
to carry the first news from shore to ship
and bring back the first European news
from the ship. We used to help the ships
up to their docks, carry lines ashore and ali
that kind OF work that tho steamtugs dc
nowadays. We used to have ten times the
work that we get now.
"When was hoy Gen. jackson came
here to Castle Garden for u reception after
his second election to the Presidency
There was an awful crowd, and tho bridge
across the marsh broke down, letting the
people into the mud and water. We boat.
men turned to and rescued them.
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torpedo business, blew up the sloop Jocko
of the Battery. Myers's circus was In the
Garden, and 1t made an addition to the
show.
In 1S45 the Chinese junk, 200 days from
Hong Kong, anchored out in the bay, and
we made many dime taking people out
to see her.
Then, in 81, thero was Jenny Lind in
Castle Garden. Barnum had the boatmen
plying all around tho Garden on the look
out for people who might get crowded of
the thirty-foot sidewalk that went all
around the building.
Catherine Hayes and Nine. Fedesco
| followed the Nightingale at the Garden, and
then In '52 or so, Dan Rice had his circus
on the Battery and James Myers had his
inside.
Then came the julien concert and ball,
and they had fountain OF champagne in
the rotunda The 'longshoremen's ball was
about the last big thing ut the Garden be-
fore the Board OF Emigration leased 1t from
| the State in 1865.
"There isn't much excitement any more
not 10 per cent. of the work for us to do
In all my experience have known of bu,
very few accidents, and they were usually
to boats let out to people who thought they
knew all about their management, but really
didn't know anything,
About month ago Tom Bresnihan 20,
capsized, and he's one Of the best boatmer
in the business. He's next to me in year,
Of service. He's only been boatmar
thrty-fivo years though. Tom got upset
below Governors Island and was picked
up by Staten Island ferry That's tn,
only upset know Of in years.
About all we do nowadays is to carry
trades people out to the ships In the bay
and take small jobs as we can get by the
day"
Ed Cody pulled his soft cap down little
over his gray old head, drew himself to-
gether, shifted his quid Of tobacco, arose
and strobe out, six feet OF stalwart, vigor
Gus manhood, despite his nearness to the
three score and ten years allotted to man
for u lifetime, and the younger boatman
looked after his retreating figure with ad
miring eyes and words Of praise.
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boatman will row passenger to Fort
Leo at food tide in an hour and half or
two hours. At ebb tide he will take the
job just the same, trusting to luck in catch
ing tow from steam tugs going Up the
river.
Sunday, July 30, 1871, while the Battery
boatmen were polishing up their trim
craft, there came to their ears the noise of
a terrific report.
The Staten Island ferryboat Northfield
had blown up. Tho debris was coming
down in fearful shower upon the waters
of the bay, and the flying forms of men
and women were deserted against the Sum-
mcr sky.
The bontmen quickly cast off their moor.
ings and rowed to the scene of the disaster
They did great work that day, plucking
scores OF people from out watery graves
and saving many lives that must have been
sacrificed without their help.
The law compols every excursion barge
to have one "live boat" That is, a boat
actually in the water, with man ready to
work her should any one fall overheard or
any other accident happen requiring the
services Of q boatman. Battery boatmen
are usually engaged for this service, the
boats dragging along at the stern of the
excursion or bargcs.
August Struck " and "John F. Struck,
Of the Battery" are the names inscribed on
the sterns of Mike Geary and "Bat "
Nevill's boats. They are named in honor
of father and son, proprietors of the
favorite tap-room in State street, resort
of all the Battery boatmen. Here an EVEN
ING WORLD reporter found I'd Cody, the
ldest of the boatmen.
Ed Cody is siXty-nine years old. He is
all, thin, sinewy and muscular. lie has
harp features, but mild and kindly blue
eye, and side whiskers and mustache of
white bristing hair.
"rve been boatman here at the Bat
terry flfty-one years. III fact, ever since be-
fore there was a Battery" says the veteran,
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CONCERNING CHEWING GUM.

Contains Parafine Wax Which Is
Very Dangerous in the Intestines.
The fine distinctions required by legal
definitions frequently threaten confu-
sion. even when the facts appear to bo
perfectly clear.
There is no room for doubling the iu-
convenience and danger which may arise
from the accumulation of II mass of
parafiine wax in the intestines; and yet
when any legal interference with the
sale of chewing gum, containing so per
cent of this substance, is attempted the
charming uncertainties and quibbles
which arise are more amusing than edi-
flying, says London Lancet.
In recent prosecution at the Hanley
Borough Police Court it was first con-
tended that the fourteenth section Of the
Food and Drugs act, which relates to the
division of the substance in the presence
of the seller at the time of purchase. had
not been complied with.
Then il was submitted that the article
was not one OF food, since it was sold
| simply for chewing.
Then II was suggested, that as sweets
|
| tion, II was impossible to deal with them
as ordinary articles of food. And the cli-
max was reached in the contention that it
was not sold to the prejud ce of the pur-
chaser, as tue complainant said he did not
| intend to eat IT.
This was extremely ingenious, but the
purchaser happened to he the Inspector
of Nuisances. VIII. was merely collecting
evidence. The case ended for the pres
ent with the imposition OF fine. on the
ground that the substance was sold to the
prejudice OF the purchaser, inasmuch as
| 1t was not in the natuIe OF the substance
and quality of the article demanded by
the purchaser, who asked for gum and got
paratiine wax.
If the case is ever taken to n higher
court it is guide possible that 1t may bo
argued that the complainant did not ask
for gum" but for chewing gum"
that he did not get 'paraffine wax" but
only 80 per cent. of "paratfne wax and
the remaining 30 per cent. of unknown
ingredients which sufficiently brings the
substance within the legal meaning of
"chewing gum.
But what is chewing gum p' The
following definition might be suggested:
A substance of very variable composition,
ignorantly employed by children, which.
when containing paraffine wax, may lead
to very grave dangers. and the sale OF
which should be prohibited.
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breach. ley place the extra oars in the
rowlocks. AM ncnd themselves to the ash
with all their ni-'t Thus 1t generally
happens that the runner who has practsed
most with his muscles, and had most ex-
perence in boating, wins the race, reaching
the incoming ship first, clamhering over her
side and from her deck laughing aud shout
ing scornfully at his discounted rival.
In these desperate races, sometimes one
Of the boatmen wins the race and saveu
himself deal of right hard work by catch
ing n tug bound out towards the ship and
boarding her, The tug reached, the race is
over. The boatman and hispassengcr ride
away from their rivals, and far down tho
bay they part company from the tug, TO
row the short distance to the ship.
Most Of the boats have names. Billy
Collins call his the Eel;" his brother
Georges boat is the Game Cock"
The Dave Dillon" is owned by " Hen -"
Darrow, who named the boat after one of
the bravest, and best fellows who ever
pulled an oar.
Poor Dave Dillon lie had been boat
man for thirty five years, and sturdy fel-
low hs. was, too. A steady, stout-heartcd
man, without an enemy In The world q
famous hand at the oars. lie once rowcd
Red Hook man around tho lighthouse at
Robbins Reef and beat him out of sight,
as any one Of the Battery boatmcn will tell
you.
ntllpp lpnatnl nj Station Iglu nd mud
two years ago he took job one day to
row in heavy sea out to steamship that
lay anchored in the roads off the lightship.
The wind blew gale. 1t was a perilous
undertaking. Thoughtful ones urged the
cool and nervy boatmen not to 90. But
Dave Dillon had trusted to his strong arms
and his right little, tight little ship in many
a troubled sea, and he laughed to s?orn the
fears of his friends.
They watched him from the shore. Now
riding on the crest of foam-capped wave,
now hidden, buried in the valley between
pillows almost mountain high. They
watched till the little cockle-shell and its
intrepid skipper passed out beyond the
reach Of human eye-passed out never to
return.
Poor Dave Dillonl He was blown out to
sea, and not till the sea shall give up its
dead will he return. In the restlessness Of
tides Dave Dillons boat came back as If to
tell the awful story of its masters fate. 1t
was washed by the food up through the
bays into the North River and week after
Dave Dillon had gone down the shattered
remnants of his Battery boat were picked
up by one of his lifelong companions on
the shore of the river at the Highlands.
In Summer evenings the Battery boatmen
find profit in rowing pleasure parties on the
bay or up the rivers, each boat carrying
seven passengers without crowding. In
former years one might hire one of the skiffs
from its owner and be his own skipper, but
eight or ten years ago an accident occurred
that stopped that practice. \ gentleman
engaged one of the Whitehall boats for n
pleasure ride with Mary Fitzpatrick, sister
of the man known as Liverpool jack
and another young woman.
The young man was good oarsman,
but the little boat had hardly rounded the
Battery when she was run down by small
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READY FOR ACCIDENTS AT JENNY Lrsrs CONCERT
" In ~ the British frigate Warspit, CON-
manded by Lord John Hay, came in and
anchored off Castle Garden, right in among
the shad-poles of the fishermen. The
fishermen protested, but about that time
England wanted to have another fight with
us, and Lord Hay refused to bulge, so one
dark Saturday night We boatmen--there
was James Harrington, Wash Harrington,
John Connor, William Gayer, John Palmer.
ton, Matt Lowery, Pat Hogan, Thomas
Shadwick, Nat Coon, Dick Cody and me
VIC just stole out to the Warspit with pots
of lime and painted her white from stem tc
stern.
Next day was Sunday, and the whole
town came down to laugh at her.
"In AZ, Colt the revolver man, then in the
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steamer, and before assistance could reach
them, the young ladies' were both drowned
Since then, none of the Battery boatmen
will let his boat TO a stranger to go out with
out q skipper
The work Of the boatmcn is varied. The
other day when that crazcd Italian immi-
grant tried to drown himself by leaping out
Of the Barge ONicc into the river, 1t was
Peter Reilly and Mike Geary who saved the
wrctch's life in Mikes boat, Peter going
along because, despite of his calling, Mike
| can't swim n stroke.
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Two hustling runners of rival dealers in
ships stores arrive at the basin at the
same moment. Each selects his boatman
and makes hurried bargain for quick
trip to the merchant ship that is slowly
coming up through the lower bay.
With lightning movements the painters
are cast off, the runners Chamber into the
boats, and race to finish is begun. The
boatmen are encouraged by their respective
freight with oil sorts of inducements,
but both boatmen have learned their arl
and each is as experienced as the other
There is no advantage to either in the race
Then the anxious runners leap into tht
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sixty year old Ed Cody, he has been navi-
eating the waters of New York Harbor in
his Whitehall boat ever since his hands
were big enough to clasp the handles of the
oars.
How many boatmen are there ?" repeats
Billy Collins, squirting one eye and pinch
ing his knotty muscles refectively. "Well,
to begin With, there's Ed Cody, he's the
Oldest one of us. Then there's Tom Bresni-
han over in the Whitehall basin; George
Collins, that's mo brother; Hen Darrow,
Sailor Dan Mclean, Mike Geary, Bat
Nevill, Pat Burns, William Quigley and
William Collins-that's me. That's ten
of us.
Nav, the business amt what it used to
te. Mostly our freight is runners for the
ships' chambers, ships stores men,
butchers, clothing stores, machinists and
other people who want to do business with
the masters of ships coming in.
"Course, once in while there's ladies
who want to go down to some man-o'-war
and of course we take 'em.
"How far do we go outH Well, down to
the lightship, eight miles outside of Sandy
Hook. There's no trouble out there-not
half the trouble We get in choppy sea on
the bay"
There is only one oarsman to each boat,
but the second pair of oars is for use in a
very common emergency.
There is no competition for business
among the boatmen on shore. The rule is
that the boatman who first bespeaks a GUS
toner or who is hailed by prospective Gus
toner shall not be interfered with by others,
and once passenger has by either Of these
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RACE OF RIVAL "RUNNEBs.
Then the other five, apparently losing all
interest, lazily return to the benches and
their interrupted slumbers.
II you want to go to Brooklyn. to Astoria
or to Yonkers. II you desire to board a
vessel at anchor down the bay, or to go in
your own craft to ship at Quarantine,
here's your man!
Look at him! He may be twenty, or he
|nay be sixty years old. He is sunburned
and freckled. He is compact. There is
strength and suppleness in his every move
fment, and he will bargain to row you up to
Ionkers or down to Sandy Hook, just as
|hough those were the most ordinary jobs
Imaginable.
That's his business, and be he two-and-
wenty year old Billy Collins or nine.and-
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processes become the property Of one of the
boatmen, the others abandon the game and
return to their other work or amusement.
1t frequently happens, though, that a
sharp contest occurs between the Battery
boatmen on the water. A contest Of
muscle and skill, of wind and experience
and grit, and then the second pair of oars
comes into use.
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A Family Tradition.

Dunwalter-why, sir, the DunvalterS for
centuries, without an exception, secuted the
idea OF anything like trade, sir.
Woxby-Didn't believe In giving an equiva-
lent for what they got, ehf
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Only a Few Of the Veterans Left
About the Whitehall Basin.
"reminiscences ofthe Palmy Days
Before the Steam Tug Era.
Precarious Life of the jolly Water
mcn-Sad Story of Dave Dillon.

The Battery boatman is a leftover char.
scter from another era. The tide of prog
ress has swept him and his little boat into
a little eddy by the shore yet he clings to
his boat and his traditions, and every visi-
tor to the Battery Park, every, pedestrian
shifting the bracing cool breezes from the
sea as he PAGES the wall that skirts the
park, loves him.
In basin or dock, built like a niche in
the wall of the Battery just west of the
Barge Office, are always to be found moored
six or eight rowboats, each provided with
two sets OF oars.
These boats are Of the Whitehall" (" pat
tern, 10 feet long, 20 inches deep and AZ
feet wide. Half as many more are to be
found in the Whitehall basin on the other
side of the Barge Office.
Pause to gaze wonderingly down at these
boats, and instantly half dozen men
awaken from their browsing on the park
benches and hurry across the broad. paved
walk to the edge of the wall, and one OF
them, coming within conversational dis.
tance, addresses you:
"Boat, sir ?"
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Frankly Deceptive.

Frankly Deceptive.
tfTom MuRSsy's Wsekiv.l
Dlcky-It was awfully deceptive OF her, ]
think. She LAUGHED at me behind my back.
Geawdge-Mell, how did you know 1t, then7
Dicky-Oh, she told me Of 10 herself.
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Unjust Criticism.

[Iron hs JsWsHsrs Weskiy.l
Manufacturing Jeweller-Your deslgns seem
TO lack point.
Designer-Pointl Great Scottl And this
after have modelled for you more than sew
eniy-nye different kinds Of pinsl
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Didu't Want that Kind.

lFroH hs Jereters WseIHl
j. Jay-1 want a fne lo0kin' watch chain.
Jeweiier-W Would you like one of the new
seamless ca aius?
j. Jay-Seem lessf Not muchl i want one
that1l seem more'n twice as big as II Ia.
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Sad.

Sad.
fFTem Hdrper's Basap.l
Jones-Poor Smith lost his life, though
every one else escaped out Of the burning
building.
Brown-Did they forget to waken himf
Jones-No. lie was one OF tae nrst to re.
ceive the alarm; but the poor fellow was 10
excited that he tried TO get out Of the building
by The 1re-escape,
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A New Title.

lFtom Rdrper's Basdr.
Parrott-Ilow many great titles end In "or"
emperor, leg lslator, editor
Miggings (wno lives In nap-Yes and
janiior.
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A Sad View of It.
[FTom TEXAS Sfftinas
Gilhooly-This world 10 iul OF misery. Tho
happiest man is the one who is never born.
Hostetter McGinnis-Yes, but there isn't one
In . million tnat mas such n streak OF luck.
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A Calumny.

A Cdlumny.
tFrom TeIas Strings
Do the Russians really eat candles?'
asked q Washington lady Of the Russian Am
bassador,
nNo, madam" was the reply; ait 10 o
calumny, O tallOw calumny, SO TO speak"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
SHOW WINDOW BROKEN.
Gerhart & Sons Again The Victim Of a
Petty Thief.

A hole was knocked in one of Ger
hart & Sons show windows last night
and three pairs of shoes were stolen
from it. There is no direct evidence
against any one, bnt Dallas White is
in Jail on suspicion. About 2 o'clock
this morning Chief Stafford was
standing at DAILY, Pearce q Green's
corner when White, who has figured
in police court frequently, passed,
going east on Franklin street. In
about half an hour he returned. Mr..
Stafford's suspicious were aroused
and he put the negro under arrest.
He told the officer that he had been
to negro house in SHUTDOWN. Stat
ford did not believe him, and to
make certain he carried him to the
house. The inmates said positively
that he had not been there. lie was
then taken to The station house and
locked up. Mr.. Stafford did not
know at the time that the show WIN
dow had been broken, He is of the
opinion, however, that White knows
something about it and he will hold
him for Investigation. 1t was rain
ing at the time White was seen on
Franklin street, and he could have
broken the window without attract
ing the attention of the officer.
This is the second time within the
past year that the Gerharis have suf,
fered by some one breaking into
their window. Last spring, it will
be remembered, a window was brok
en- and several ladies' hats were sto-
len
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
The Glorious Rain.

After so long dry spell we have
had a continuous, gentle rain, with
warm atmosphere, since early Mon
day morning, and the ground is now
thoroughly soaked with water. This
will doubtless bring on good tobac,
CO season, causing tobacco to soften
and run, fixing the color. Then
BUYERS will start out and the market
will be active, making money more
plentiful and times easy, and every
body feeling good. Moreover it is a
grand thing for the wheat crop just
seeded, and the grasses aud fall pas.
lures will revive unless very sudden
hard freezes follow. The clover
fields will put out a fresh growth,
keeping stock fat up to the dead OF
winter.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
fRArArnHp onRRr1Nas.
The Blue Wing Hunting Club substan'
tally Remembers Friends.

The first news from the BIne Wing
Hunting Club now at ReefoOt Lake
was received this morning. They
sent to Young & Beach nnety.six
ducks for distribution, Accompany
ing the same was a letter telling the
grocerynen who the game was in
tended for, and giving an account of
their success on the trip. They re-
port more ducks at Reelfoot this year
than at any previous period and ex
press the determination to kill one
thousand on the trip. The ducks
sent this morning were only part of
The first days. hunt and there is no
telling how many they have placed
hors du combat this week. The letter
says they are loaded for blood, even
to Len BlantOn and Ed Pearce.
The former looks through the hole in
his gun barrel and dreams of the
Banner Warehouse fire, while the lat
ter talks about dongola shoes in his
sleep. But both get up early and
kill ducks 10y moonlight. They are
having good time down there and
about to morrow they will send
something like car load of ducks
home.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
WILL SEIZE SHANGHAI.
If China Does Not Make PREPARATION tn
Foreign Fleets win Act.

If China Does Not Make PREPARATION the
Foreign Fleets win Act.
LONDON, Nov. 9.-The foreign Office
awaits a response from Pekin to the
ultimatum demanding the adoption of
adequate measures to punish the leaders
in the recent outrages and to secure a
resumption of trade in the Human pro-
vince. Sir John Waltham, the British
minister to China, has been directed to
give the Chinese government until the
end of the month to reply, when, failing
satisfaction, the combined foreign feet
will seize Shanghai and other treaty
ports on the Yang-tse- Kiang. The
powers will take control of the customs
of each port until the matter is arranged
The British admiral, who is now at
Nagasaki, two days steaming distance
from Shanghai, has been warned to hold
the squadron in readiness.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
Traok-Laying Suspended.

Track laying on the Mineral road
was suspended yesterday and to-day
on account of the rain, or the work
would have been completed this
week to the county line, and also the
spur that runs into Louisa ore banks.
Gracey, Woodward Il Co. have a
force of hands employed building
houses for miners and clearing the
way ready for active operations and
will begin very soon stocking up
ore and other material, ready for
starting the furnace as soon as the
engines can be put in place.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
A farmer near Abba, Iowa, by IL

A farmer near Abba, Iowa. by the
name of J. II. Wolf, has found a sure
cure for Group. He says; "For the
last eight years l have recommended
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy fol
Group. Halt of a fifty cent bottle will
cure the worst case, if taken in
time. On the Goth of this month, my
boy, four years old, had the Group very
bad and three doses cured him.
would not be without it in my fam
ily.n If the remedy is given as soon
rs the child becomes hoarse, it will
invariably prevent the Group. so cent
bottles for sale by Owen & Moore,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-10
Chinese Rehended.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 9.-Several Chinese
have been beheaded at Wuchang, by
order of the yiceroy, forposting placards
melting to violence. Ever since the
captain of the British gunboat Aspic
notified the viceroy that in case of
further attacks upon foreign residents
the gunboat would shell his excellency's
palace comparative order has been main
tanned.