The sun., 1894-08-19

breakfast, and, about 10 O'Clock, went ont again;
this time FOR splsics We op we1s wnis,cs seOpb Tbere
was Just two basketfuls, and they weighed 800
pounds The big one weighed pouin.d1s i.1 -, Then S9
caught them and the weakash you saw. There
was 800 pounds Of them" "..--, ,,
at times. The lobster pots are left set from the
beginning 70 the end Of the season. They are
ed a. and halted y'y pyst a'E 'hs
gili nets are co fathoms long and about 20 feet
deep with sa-inGh SmsR mssnSs how To use them in
the old days" said Mr.. West. we might have
been miiiionaires now. why the. other day me
snd E9 ana ma. pounds
apiece. They sell for i5 cents pound now, hht
eoTsIn Ssrss MRSR Vest tnsg Boa then
In those days we used 70 spread the net IN @ halI
moon ana try to drive VET ,hem & inyo se II wouldn't yet
the net clear around the school OF fsh. They
st g toFe iss souId SnYE tSo Yust Ike % %bSes6 ~
lyon ought to have been out with us the other
7o5 pounds in one draught OF the net and hauled
them ashore. They weighed from twenty;thTee
through on thS % net and there was another big fe
low that had on the sand twice and he got
away after all. Think he would have gone to
A few men fish all the season for sea bass,
blackflsh, and porgies. Mfr. Brown, one OF the
. day for ten days running at one last season.
They take them on the rough rocks In about
hogs CLAIMS, or soft crabs for bait.
'sone old man fishes altogether foe RorgIes
sTS ana tab nSo 20 ny pS but when they se
& ns lines ne books: ..S Spd :, s ssyeryth3s ,ss
CLAIMS and never wait for = bite. You bait a line
the otheT ana and haul n the
aEst one, and you keep that up right ,,, along; 10
the bottom, but the longer you fish the higher
they will rise, until by and by thSy wili 9e right
sstcs set IN current and az eo0
When TIE fish are caught ssd landed, begin.
ssS c0ff osa dFYSR NE ae the
sG hands ,hs5s G 1T ph G h
wagon to the planks that LEAD from from, hhigh,water
dealers from the surroundfns country tow ms, Y ho
come to the shore every day Tor ssccki ,i They
fishermen the labor and expense Of packing. II
pot they are packed In big 6oIes SLIst mixed with
Each box contains about 400 pounds Of hsh
and 200 pounds Of ioe, The railroad company
and carries many car loads, but The favorte
method Of shipment is by little steamer
George j. sehdt, and Capt. john ". Edwards
who used to be fisherman himself, runs her.
She lies at the river foot or the nsherman's
street and has no regular hour for leaving, but
gets away somewhere between 3 O'Clock In the
Afternoon and at night, according to when the
boats get In with the day's catch. AT 2 o'clock
every morning she goes also TO Mott Haven to
bring the fish from there TO Fulton Market,
which have been shipped by the Down East
fishermen.
Capt, Edwards estimate. tho daily catch at
Seabright at fifty tons of fresh fish. A good
fair daily average is 500 pounds to a man. and
that would mako thirty tons day for the 200
men of Nauvoo. 1t runs a good deal more than
that on busy days.
Bait getting Il another interesting feature Of
the fishing village life. Menhaden or moss |
bunkers are the standby, and supplying them to |
the Nauvoo men ts a regular business which en- |
ploys several small sloops. The sloop Captains |
buy the fish at Princes Bay from the purse-net |
fishermen. They giyo about Sc a thousand for |
them and sell them for IS cents bushel.
When the fish are packed and shipped and |
bait Is bought the days work Is done. Oilskins |
come Off, pipes are LIT, and the men gather In |
idle groups, or dicker with tho peddlers. who |
md here steady market for cooking utensils, |
slop clothse, and gewgaws,
Nobody wears shoes, and full dress In the fish
ing village consists Of q sou'wester hat, shirt,
and blue trousers rolled half way To he knees.
Life In the huts Is rough, and men grow rough
on the outside, battling with wind and weat her;
but let any one be stranded from float ashore
and no kinder hearts or quicker hands will
como TO their relief than those of the Sauyoo
and when they and their village dis
appear, Seabright will have lost one OF its most
charming and substantial features.