Milford chronicle., 1892-10-07
BEST MADE dloTHINd in PHlHOELpHIH

, We are continually on the Hunt
for good things for our patrons,
t our aim being always to give the
70 best for moderate price,
. ur ~ oadOn't; but you 4 4
a we ilddFif drive him of all the same: :. :
q by destroying ale wife you drive ii
off the sea trout and blue fish. a
These men point to their employ a
ees and say in proof of the healthful
stencil of their factories; "We wish
to deny that the fish factories are
unhealthy; look at the strong 5
healthy men employed by us should II
be sufficient" Indeed, it would be
sufficient for life time,if one had to
90 to the factories to see them; their
robust appearance may be in part
due to choice fresh fish diet, and the
attenuated forms of outsiders to a
lack of the enjoyable healthy luxury
, of fish as an adjunct to the monoto-
nous meat diet. But if living in
nasty, sinking scrap shanties is
healthy, why is it the Alutes oil
! Greenland who live in snow houses
1 where the stencil Ofrotten fish is such
n as to be uncomfortable by civilized
men. are only four feet in stature!
: The releasing of the beach to these
. factory men for four hundred dollars,
q or four thousand dollars, is in no
sense commensurate with the loss OF
n that necessary part of the diet OF
S. 80 600 or 10000 persOns-tresh tsh.
o. Before the epurseseines came, every
Q bodv who wanted a terrapin supper,
ne could enjoy the luxury by simply
rs hauling a seine along the bay shore
ar From Broadkiln river to Mahon S
Ditch diamond back terrapin we're
ly very plenty, bat now, it is seldom
er one Is seem, These selnes have
lp- swept the bay close in shore where
'se the terrapin resort in ummer,in sea
di- son and out ofseason; till it is feared
nd they are utterly exterminated. Ano
lit to tbis pass has the greed OF AeWe'
.ms brought our fisheries, our birthrlgh
lsh oP an abundance of fish and terrapil
The and for what Four hundred dol
US lars to a monopoly of fish scaven
to GERS who have planted on our shore
veritable "Augean stables, where
ler- according to one of their own Cit
me, zens. "seething ,festering,putrid pile
'ac- of fish scrap. pouring vile efilnvla
Of over surrounding land aud water
BOD when the winds so watt themi an
anl- that the water of the bay is pollqte
one with the rotten, Shiny refuse matte
en- elected from the factories, commlns
and ling with and floating upon them'r'
nesi voting to the touch"
5 of Now can Lewes afford to re-leas
the the Legislature permit, or, the pu
ines lie longer tolerate this worse tina
elve nuisance Already her prestige
sold a bayside resort has departed to X
note boboth, and other places along I'll
use shore are starting up. The peop
With do not visit Lewes to see the o
run storm-battered town; If they go, 1t
9me- TO visit the beach, view the haro
and and the public works, and to bath
III to fish or sail. With the wind from t.
# to fish factories they will be driv'
was from the beach; the idea of ba
ome would sicken them; and to sail abo
the harbor when the wind is off sho
the contaminated with effiuvia from t
inc reeking piles of rotting fish wou
sanu disgust them. Few will be inclin
ughV to 90 there, when it is known oy
'omS the State that it is place unfit
CIV decent people to visit.
she The press of the State should un
nkep in one voice to put down the fl
zen factories; and in behalf of humani
Jour suffering for want of fresh fish,
'ne Legislature should be appealed
=" and Congress petitioned to abate
0"i' nuisance. If the impecuniOsity
the people of Lewes is so bad a
con- their taxes so onerous that they ;
|" " compelled to sacrifice fish, heal
n"' patronage and decency,to raise s.
iOO' by releasing for ten years loni
pOu' their beach for fish factory pla
i' Gu then it will be money wisely sp
"anO for the towns up the bay, hav
'N0 large fishing interests involved
r"D,e -, contribute the four hundred doll
vine as a present, and let the fish fact
'1 les go.
u the Hoods SarsaparIlla absolutely cures
N by diseases caused by impure blood, ana
thev builds up the whole system.
ght- She Blushed
,oloro awfully when I told her for those he
pinples With which her face was GOV