The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-10

traps and collects the 1.-Two Holsters. prepares
| them for canning, fills the tins and seals them,
boiis the tins and contents, aud plugs tho hole
e ey wn %Gd d lis p Se Of them to % the en dealer Ra'S whose
boat calls for tho goods. Taught by bitter ex-
| ruin Ills industry, he carefully watches for their
approach. When the, %tclltGlc smoke is seen on
tho horizon ,SEd rnn he lakS os his boat, l0G "nd 1t b, wlta the oS
up some creek or river. where he has "A hiding
place specially provided for such an emer-
gency, and where he remains till the danger IL
over. If he Is caught redhanded a fine Of $500
Cnn be levied against him. but AZ II would be
the refinement OF cruelty 10 attempt TO collect
such n sum from n mar who has never handled
40 much in his life, he Is rarely interfsred with,
though hts nropIrrty IS ae 3 boSSt rN When me
pulls down the luhstcrman's shanty. carries Off
his boiler, and breaks up or cuts adrift his
Resistance is never attempted. for the peo.
pie arc too much isolated and have too great Il
broad of authority to link Of combining,
British settlers, and vice versa. " hen n
French warship wants nn ! Ens ,i,sn removed
ly, IL ever, happens that French subjects arc in
t~crscred with by the ships Of either mutton, for
avoid all friction with France, and consequently
the colonist has TO 30 under every time.
steam away and the lobstcrn,on goes back 10
his home. He must fish or starve, and he i'm.
proyiscs n new boiler out Of sheet iron slowed
Rcncy. He patches up, his traps and rcbuilds
his shanty, and in ten days he Is hard at work
Tho arbitrary proceedings Of the naval Off
GERS have provoked the most intense, indigna-
terestcd, but also throughout the whole island,
for the Observation-Disclosures have been chatting for
years under such Calling exhibitions Of British
indifference to their rights and servile acqui-
escencc in the most prcposterous of French dc.
mands. II the people could put it to the choice
that II vast majority of them would unhesitat-
inglyu vote for annexation to the United States.
colony and an old army:oficer with a career in
India, admitted last year in an Interview with u
L g idsI,v D ., ,hs c&roaic'e Fegor,sr thu, tn, nS vast
annexationists at heart. Nor can this be won
dered at in view OF the facts. Imagine, for in.
Three weeks ago Commodore Bourke, who
commands tho flagship Cordelia and cor.
In the Mediterranean four years ago in col.
lision with the Campcrdown. issued an order to
ali the traders in Bonne Bay. the principal set,
Element on the coast. summoning them on board
his ship. where, in true qnartcr-deck style, no
berated them for supplying the Illicit lobster.
dustry. He forbade them TO soil these people
cans, tin. solder. sheet-iron. canning implements,
he even threatened to conflscate one mans
steam launch because she collected the cases of
prepared Holsters from the Illicit factories.
He also declared he would dcport the trad
ers. to Labrador IL they disobeyed his orders.
and generally talked to them as II tho country
without his host in this case, for when the
traders cot ashore again they subscribed to a
fund and employed a st. Johns lawyer, who at
once served notice, upon the Commodore that if
he interfered with these men in :their legiti.
mate business he would be sued in the Supreme
Court for exemplary damages. This had its
effect. for six, years ago Sir Baldwin Walker.
then Commodore closed up n legal factory
belonging TO u -. Johns merchant named Baird
for a supposititious infraction of the modus
vivendi, and thereby caused the British Gov
eminent a loss of $25,0OO in damages.
Last week the second cruiser, the Pelican.
landed at Bay st. George a large party, who
miles, broke up all the traps and outfits, and
contiscated all the timed Holsters which they
sentations to the Government from the people
injured, but the Colonial Ministry Is powerless
to interfere. the matter being an international
and is carrying out his instructions with a stern
hand, regardless of the misery 10 which he is
booming hundreds Of families. The White.
protests against these proceedings, both to
him and to the Imperial Cabinet, but without
avail; Meanwhile popular irritation is increas
country in a blaze.
Apart from all considerations,
astrous commercial results. The successful
prosecution of the lobster industry is inter-
fered with, and the people, generally are ham,
the cod fishery; The cod catchers are prevent.
ed from using the traps employed in their in;
dustry, and over ninety sail Of Newfoundland
mer because three French craft wanted to fish
there. The local schooners are harried and
chased out of the best locations on the treaty
coast, and the fishermen know not the moment
when a warship will swoop down on them and
destroy their nets and tow their vessels out
into the open sea, 1t Is estimated By compe.
treaty coast will be 5000 cases short this year,
and that the cod fishery will be loo. 900 quin-
ssls behind sI6d oo This ri w, VIII a1 repFeseen nr a total a loss Of
one.tenth of the entire exports of the island.