Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-14
N HOTEL CORRIDORS

ports frequently read in the papers about
derelicts being boarded at sea and then re-
ported as being in longitude this and lati-
tude that when the skipper who does the
boarding gets to port" Capt. Ernest Clave
is seventy-nir years old, or will be October
2. and up to twelve years ago had followed
the sea for a livelihood ever since he could
remember HIS is on his way to spend his
autumn vacation, as he calls It, with his
daughter, near Staunton, Va, and was at
the st. James. THAT kind Of proceeding
sounds mighty singular to me. / have sailed
on every sea in the world, in all kinds of
vessels, and for thirty years of that time 1
was skipper. Once, when / was very
young, and shipping with my uncle on the
Martha Adams, which ran in the sugar
trade from Boston to Demerara, we ran in
to water-logged wreck AMI pretty nigh
went to the bottom. My uncle knew a doz-
en- vessels had passed that wreck before we
reached 1t, and he cursed their shippers for
all he was worth for not having set 1t afire
or sunk 1t. In all my time L never came
up with an abandoned wreck or what they
call derelicts nowadays, without either Civ
ing II a good dose of oil or running an
anger through the bottom. 1t used to be
Just as much a shippers duty to remove q
wreck from the track of navigation as it
was for farmer to move the rocks and
stumps out of his house road. Nowadays
the derelicts seem to be matter of curl
oslty and seagoing people let 'em alone and
report their whereabouts, so some people
can tell great stories of how far the thing
has foated since 1t was last seem
wouldn't a boat lose time by stoppin O
to sink or burn a derelict?'
NO, not enough to count. 1t Wouldn't
take TWO hours to heave to, attend to a
dereict for all time to come and get under
Iuii neadway again, and the benefits to
navigation would more than make up for
such little delay a million times over I
saw the other day where one of those
wrecks had Travelled around over the At
Something :.
been reported hundreds of times and board
ed ana examined at least twenty Any
skipper who goes on a derelict and exam
Tres and then leaves Ii to threaten every
vessel that comes along that way is guiItv
IN my opinion, of criminal negligence. We
old-timers never failed to sink or burn 'em,
and that's what ought to be done nova.
days"
The recent decision of our supreme court
declaring the divorce laws of the territory
TO be null and void has created great excite
ment out home, and particularly in NV
town. which has been a regular divorce min
ever since the strip was opened, said Theo-
dore Pierce Of Perry, Okla, at the ST
James this morning. Under the laws that
have been annulled by the decision II re-
quired but ninety days residence for a nar-
son to secure divorce under certain rules
and in consequence scores of people of both
sexes to whom the yoke was CALLING f,r
various reasons fairly fiocked to Perry. and
many OF the regular residents of the placa
also took advantage of the liberal laws. and
after being divorced married again Consa
quentiy There must be sixty or seventy peo-
PIE IN Ferry today liable to be called ,ipon
10 answer charges of higamy. There is one
couple VINO VIII not get any sympathy, how
ever; Inc woman VINO is a magnificently
handsome creature, came to Perry first and
as soon as possible filed a suit for divorce
from her husband. on the ground of deser-
ton. "A man who arrived shortly after her
appearance, but who was never seen with
ner and did not appear to know her. asked
Tor separation from his wife for the same
cause. Both divorces We're granted the
same day, and that very evening the plain
tliS came out in their true colors and got
married 1t developed a day or two later
that the precious pair had secured every
cent OF the property owned by their. former
companions before coming to Perry and
that the charges they filed were false and
.He former husband and wife knew nothing
OF the way affairs were going until they re-.
ceiVed notices of the DEGREES granting di-
Vcrces against them. l think the decision
IS the best thing that could have occurred
for the territory