The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-22

Il tOuFCe. AItef TeCelNlnA an hChOfnlC tUuCh-
tlon IN .Apaiachicola the boy was sent away for
higher Instruction, and returned In due time 2
&c S%s :! Of %s yofa %se sRGis G dIspSoslti SSisn and few
knew him at all and none Intimately, ex cep
HE was a noblelooking man" the Doctor
says Of him: very much on tho Daniel Web.
stcr order; tall. erect, fine large head. and very
and after TINT Gorrle lived n solitary life, al
ways receiving his remittance regularly
H Ie"i e s xpSsEim a IGrs' FSs local Sf ia idea %G q Elm m IS sR thai
he felt some blight upon his name. and for that
question tH"t pr. hnipSman asked in The course
OF a long conversation may have some bearing
You remember that old President of Mex.
The prTonnuTn1yio;;iSoSn Of HAT nSmc IS wSrray. j.
similarity bctwces Juarez and GorrieY"
1t Ind long been Or. Chnpman's intention
dead friend; hut the people of Apalnchicola
have taken the matter NJ. Tho grave IL In the
such encroaehm"Hts iron NJ This that the bodieS
are In danger of being washed away: and in
the new cemetery a large space has been ret
apart exactly in the centre, where Dr. Gorrie's
bones are to he laid under a monument;
DR.. Chapman Is himself one OF the land
has been engaged In gathering specimens OF the
fora Of the. southern States. and this work
Now, lst 81. he chides himself for his indo.
lcnce IN walking only five or six miles, a day.
S custom sny Of snaii ne n m%'i Ies ssO thn reSe Eight N" or ten ten
miles daily. One OF Or. Chapman's favorlte
walks ia. down the beach toward old st. Joseph,
a city that he was once intimately acquainted
with and that has now utterly Disappeared.
Here ! came almost accidentally" the. noc.
seph, and. here II has been my fate to srend
more than half a century. OF my life. When i
this place from the. North was BY, sailing YES:
sci. Twice | came from Now York. by schoon'
Chen each soIr time on 'piS nto ne only iyyter fS% hG Thc e tSIrdi
time ! came ! remained here. but ] shall not
be here or Anywhere else among the living
old houses built here by wealthy New Workers
half a century. ago. surrounded by grandchil.
among. the proofs Of what he says is certainly
the fora Of the Southern States"
1T Is a rare treat" said a younger resident
Joseph with Dr. Chapman: When you think
OF a city that was abandoned IN 1872. how
member menl me every GSuin nook SGE e AND corner % ero Of Tn i, '" every cry
twist, and turn in the streets, marked now
only by a crnmbled chimney or a fallen founda;
tion pterr But DR.. Chapman can do that. |
made the visit with him once. and IT was an
occasion 70 he remembered always; We went
the landing. A. short distance inland he led
me into, a thick wood of pine trees trees as
large and Tall as any you would find in a days
There, said he; as he stopped down and
Mrs. Ketchum: You would not care for It. as
yon did not know her. will carry 1t home
and Press IT. .s,os .,.,o ,uo, NJ.
Ketchun. and how did she happen to plant a
rose here in the midst of the pine woodsf'
planted the rose Sas =" he Prep Replied. This b is the site sRe
Of old st Joseph. the place we have come to see.
abandoned: and there is nothing strange about
that. for the pine makes q great growth in half
further back. and across the front was, a strong
picket fence. A walk ct crushed shells led
doubt ] could show you some remains Of it even
now, Here. do you see these bits Of Gonch
but still you can trace the parallel lines Of
conch she'll. Those lines marked the edges Of
there were no Ia IN wns' for grass never grew well
here: 1t was too close TO the sea-
.w THAT ,h was only ooIne incident out ao0 Of nifty.
the, eastward OF this fallen chimney. stood So.
1t is II strange thought that parts of this an:
cient and abandoned place are now scattered
can remember when scores Of chimneys and
foundations marked the site OF, this old city.
in a country where the soil is ali sand, and
vessels came here and carried away the ruined
c chI% hr;cp. a Mert eo %ssd ii tSs cd Th9 irsc,io, of D, the The
were bull. into the walls Of the Tampa Bay
lachicola, too. But come lie continued. and
. Iie SnyW Spu lIlS tbll 'fIIltf'INH
lit was a wonsrfui thing" the Apalachi-
his hand tenderly upon the weather beaten
Of those people who vanish ed from earth more
that man lived there; here lay a cotton fac:
instead, of boasting Of his knowledge OF the old
place, he declared that he really knew very
little about 1t. except from hearsay, and many
visits in later years. Dr.. CHAPMAN never was
residents. are proud to have such o grand old
relic of the past days still with us"
cola to the site of St. Joseph. one does not walk
over the sand ira rersed half q century ago by
those people who have turned to dust. Even
sea was eating its way inland every year. And
this process has gone on rapidly. and is still
going on. TIL the old beach is gone entirely and a
the. case not only. with the entire beach. but
with the adjacent islands also. The sea IL eating
It's way in. driving back the shore, and lessen:
i%t Would m make Se' less differences it 'iite we .
not at the same time destroying one of Apala-
chicola's greatest industries. Already the
the has beens." although some Of the large
dealers have hopes OF a revival. A visitor here
can hardly believe that the oyster industry, is
s sesn ON }u eSepS b Iro5' a sne i the eHtre anaiRt' iow
prices at which, they are sold. But this trade
Is now entirely local, whereas n few years ago
1 naInts ws si "n the OF eou sas sFs TSoy oy wsre , shie4in Il
such quantities that the canning factories gave
employment to n great many. people, and al
n tho S an Ssq snd H West in OF tG GSs'e end w Saer sfst fo 6G
immediate consumption. The encroachment
Of the sea has been helped by severe storms
weather that killed oysters by the millions.
For the present: ut least. the oyster industry is
as dead as the historical cotton trade.