The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-15
GREHBNOOBS OCTOBER.
Low Water at the Interstate
Lake -Indian Relies and
Big Fish.
special to the Jersey CITY Ne,os.

GREENWOOD LAKE,, Oct. IA, 1S9o.--
We have had little sharp weather up
here. Not a enough to bring out the
full glory of the foliage, but enough TO
redden the pepper-dges and sumachs,
gild the NAPLES. turn the oaks to a rus
set brown and open the chestnut burrs,
SO that bushels of nuts hang ready to
drop when the first storm comes or
when the nutpickers jar the trunks with
big stones, as the many fresh scars on
the bark Indicate that they nave been
doing already. There is q great nut
crop this year. and / do not know of a
better place to get them than at Green
wood Lake, where the bearing trees
greatly outnumber the pickers and where
every road is lined with chestnut trees.
Bushels of nuts have been picked at his
place this season and there are count
less bushels more hanging on the trees,
mostly clinging to the open burrs, and
more that are held in refractory, I'M
opened covers which have thus far re-
sisted the action of sun and frost. Then
there are hickory nuts in abundance.
too. but nobody seems to think it worth
while to pick them.
THE LOW WATER.
Another attraction for people addicted
to picking up things is furnished by the
low stage of water in the lake. Reefs
and long stretches of shore which have
been under water for years are now ex-
posed and the seekers for Indian arrow
heads are finding many fine specimens
where they were dropped by the red men
or perhaps by unknown tribes which pre-
ceded them thousands of years ago. Many
kinds of stone are exhibited in the speci-
mans n1,,, ND -; t.
dictate their origin in different epoehs or
at the hands of different tribes. The char
acter of the stone from which they are
in the territory in which they are now
found, but their presence in the bottom
OF the lake gives no clew to the char
acter of the vicinity at the time they fell
there. Perhaps they were shot upon dry
land at the ieeing deer, the shambling
bear or the skulking panther when Long
mensions than at present. Or, on the
other hand, they may have been shot in
a conffct between enemies in their dug
outs IN the days when the great hollow
between the mountains was a lake much
greater than the hand of man has re-
stored by damming the gorge at the glen.
lake may have tempted a risky shot from
a duSky savage on the shore and caused
the loss of one of the interesting relics
which the boys of the lake and occasional
visitors are now finding. This is idle
speculation, however, and it is as nothing
IN interest with, the speculations about
IN causing the low water of which eyerv-
body IS complaining.
THE coMPANY's DRAUGHTs.
line company has drawn the water
down nearly five feet below the normal
height. and IS still making a big daily
dn RAJ to keep the canal supplied and
II is interested by keeping up the sup
ply OF water at Paterson. Everybody
LYING on the shores of the lake is com
owners are frightened by the runlors
that the Morris Canal Company intends
70 draW 1he water from the new por-
that the company has concluded that the
dam needs repairing; that it has a bad
hole in it and the pressure of water be-
be repaired. The weakness of THE dam
is invisible to the naked eye, and as for
, ia h hole: there is a big one, but It is not
and IS supplied with a gate which is
raised, more or less, as necessity de-
mands. to let the water out of the lake
canal feeder. There is a merry stream
dancing and racing among the rocks and
o gld if Of THIS tortuous valley now,
by inch and day by day in spite of the
remonstrances of 1.-The property owners
there, who Thought, when they bought
the land. that they were securing front
age upon ~navigable water. The big
side-wheeler, Montclafr, which is a fat
bolttomed craft designed and built for
navigation on this lake, can no longer
make her landings, and was Withdrawn
weeks ago to a SNUG berth On the |
fats in the west arm of the lake where
She now rests comfortably on tae mud.
VISITORS STILL AT THE LAKE.
The little Anita is still making trips,
will Withdraw in a few days. After
and from the head of the lake will be
made by the mail wagon only. De Graw's
launch is tied up at the wharf at Willow
bottom is exposed between the point and
the Wndermere lawn. Coe Ten Eyck's
boat is in winter quarters far up the east
water enough in that arm to loaf a
round bottom rowboat.
Down in the lower lake islands of roots
where, and a man can easily wade from
Storms Island to the mainland If not
afraid of catching cold. No steam
Island now, and Charley Cooper's
fine boat is hopelessly up the creek until
the water r.ses.
There is naturally a great deal of dis
cussion about the intentions of the canal
and some of the wise ones say
that the talk about drawing the water
excuse OF the company to cover an I'M
usual drain upon the big body of water
which the company created many years
ago and now controls beyond contention. |
Why the company should make any ex-
cuse at all is a puzzle.
There are still many Visitors at the
summer boarding houses have closed for
the winter. Fishing and shooting are
the attractions. Grouse and squirrels
and there are quail and rabbits in the
valley. But it VIII not do to shoot any
game in the New Jersey territory init
October %. In New York State the shoot
ing is now open.
The fishing was never better than it is
at present, and the bass are being caught
in every legitimate way known to Green
wood Lake anglers. They cast, troll.
skitter and still fish with all kinds of
bait. and are making good catches when
ever the weather is mild enough to per-
nit fishing with any comfort.
MARBLE ARTIFICIALLY MADE.
"Nine-tenths of the handicapped tables
and so on-what I might call furniture