Smyrna times., 1892-08-10
For The Smyrna Timer
The TOILERS OF THE SEA.
New SMYRNA, VoLUsIA Co., FLA.

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Sometime you must read for a bet
ter understanding of the forces con-
tanned in the elements NJ. Hugo,s
"TOilers of the Sea-"
With most writers and especially so
with Dickens, subtle delineation of
personal characteristics is apparent
that while wanting in the realization
OF their ideality, yet, draw us on pow-
ertully and raise emotions kindred to
those portrayed.
We would live those creations out if
such were possible The Bleak House
David Copperfeld and Dombey & Son
contain all and more than all the finer
touches human natures are susceptible
OF. They speak above all in other
forms that the saddest words from
lips are those not spoke at all, and bit
terest tears are those that do not fall"
Walter Scott is at home with soldiers
beggars mendicant friars and with
Whatever is unique in characterization.
Dickens swayed hearts in living crea-
tons. Scott rambled among tomb
stones in grave yards and with his deft
chisel gave life again to departed NOR
tality.
With Hugo the masterful handling
of detail description of all that is wild
and startling in observed nature comes
so readily and with so marked effect as
to place the great French writer's head
and shoulders above his contemporar-
les. In the ToiIers ofthe Sea it places
the capabilities, the power of endur
ance, the contempt for heat, cold and
exposure of one man undertaking a
Herculean task alongside the subtle
opposition of the forces in nature. He
reveals in the heat of the tempest the
wild surge of the sea. The deft man
lpulatiOn of ropes and props and break
waters. The cropping about in sea
caverns. The entanglements in the
arms of an Octopus fish, and then in a
hash he throws world of efforts in
summing up the consequences of a
fract*re in the side of a shallop and
how the infowing waters were con.
| trolled.
Gilliat on the rock of the great
Douvres off the island of Gurnesey
In the English channel had set about |
removing the machinery from the |
standard Durande.
Between the great and little Douvres
there was just sufficient space to re-.
ceive the hull of the steamer into
which she had been forced by the sea
during fog. Hugo shows how one
man multiplying his powers can easily
work wonders when dealing with the
forces IN nature, providing one condi-
ton exists, that he be absolutely
alone.
On mangrove island in the Hills
ooro river that makes in through the
Mosquito Inlet, Fla, party is now at
work duplicating Hugo's Toilers of the
Sea. Unlike the Durande, the Caiman
must needs be heightened to suit the
taste of New York's millionaire. Pierre
Lorillard.
The Caiman is like this-you take a
watermelon and divide it lengthwise
and either half represents the model.
Next take the breast bone of chicken
and fasten it to either end, it being no
material difference to a watermelon
which end you take and then you get
skeg for the rudder to hang it. That
is all there is it. Should you hunt
the water over you could not find
better shape for the navigation of the
shOal rivers of Florida, than the one
given above. 8
Away back in the streams tributary t
to the st. John and Indian rivers. in 1
accessible on every side, are to be I
found the large game of Florida in the i
greatest abundance, Bears, deer, alli- '
gators, turkeys, huge rattlesnakes and S
birds of every description. il
The Caiman is a house boat built of a
steel, with triple expansion engines t
and twin screws. Her shape alone en- L
aoles her to penetrate in those primi- o
tive wilds where never had boat been [
before. So enticing has the sport be- il
come that the chase showed fifteen o
feet alligators and four-Aundred- pound Z
bears taken on one trip. Suddenly the n
bottom rises up to meet the boat while b
miles of unexplored country yet re-
main, rivers interlaced with the
branches of trees so dense that literally r,
way had to be sawed through to en- +,
able the boat to pass, A
The Caiman drew too much water. a
Too much means too little water, 1t p
May, perhaps, be only six inches that d
bars the passage. p
You now take your watermelon and n
divide it transversely somewhere near =
The centre. Two sections now remain, %
the Forward and After: move these "
sections apart say the length of one ~
section and you decrease the displace- ~ "
ment, the melon draws less waters and :"
you get over the shoals. Make your y y
melon of steel and you have some idea "
of the task to keep these unstable ends
Of the melon from becoming like Dicks
and hard, as Hugo imposed fr,
! task upon Gilliatt Of removing the tn
of the wrecked Durande to ah
lhtain the hand of the owners daugh- N
er so much harder is it to cut the re
Jaiman in two in the wilds of Florida G,
md move each end bodily and then of
'uild in a section to correspond and nj
makes truth indeed stronger and stran- frC
yer than fiction. JAMES. B. SCoTT. bu
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The person who drinks iced water
his weather with the idea that it will
,eep him cool, has a good bit to learn L.,
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