Evening journal., 1898-08-05
WAYFARER'S S NOTE BOOK
Things, Pleasant and Unpleas-
ant, Caught on the Way.
sKITs ON PERSONS AND THINGS
H YOU READ THEM BEFORE SUP
PER THEY WILL AID YOUR d.
GESTION, BUT THERE Is NOTH-
ING PUT IN THEM TO uUdL YOU
TO SLEEP.
NoRnHWEsTER IN JERgEY.

NORTHWESTERN IN JERSEY.
"A violent windstorm, accompanied
by heavy rain, ravaged the Jersey
coast and bay for several hours last
evening. During adj Of yesterday af-
ternOon there was a fresh breeze
blowing from the south, and the skies
betol1ened something heayi=- later on.
After sunset there was a hull in the
wind, but the clouds continued to pile
up, and their blacbness and threaten
ing aspect were intensified.
shortly after o'clock the wind fresh
.encd again and came from the south
east To the Wayfarer and some
friends who were at Pennsville on q
sloop, the long swells which came in
from the south indicated that some
thing out OF the ordinary was about to
happen. After moorlng the boat with
extraordinary care, refuge was taken
i'm FNrban1s' pavilion. Suddenly, about
AhibhiubHtt tllt 'Mlhu nhAAlNW ~ lll-
northwest, and young tornado, with
a clean sweep across four miles cs
water was beating on the Jersey shore
Fer four hours it ragged with great vio-
lence, a heavy rain prevailing most OF
the time. The waves striking against
the pier and bulkheads were OF such
height that their crests passed clear
over the cap-logs. while the spray was
sent eight or ten feet in the air Small
boats were driven high and dry on the
beach. Acton's pier was damaged by
the waters which piled up on its
weather side. The two masted schooner
Bessie Stuii which had been beached for
repairs, hoated OFF and her crew ex-
perienced the greatest difficulty in
hedging her to a safe anchorage. AT
one time she swung within ten or ff-
teen feet of Furbank's bulkhead and
1t looked as though she would strike
The rapid clank! clank! Of the wind
lass and THE rattle OF the chain cab
demonstrated to the onlookers that the
captain and crew appreciated the gray
ity of thes ituation and were doing an
in their power to avert it. Furbanlx'.
pavilion was flooded at o'clock and
the refugees were forced to seek refuge
In the bowling alley.
Up in town THE wind was doing its
work. Lights could be seen in mos
of the houses, and it was apparen'
that the people were exercised by tn,
unusual strength Of the wind and vol
ume OF water On the main street tw,
large trees were blown down, ard tn,
campers along Shore to the north ar.
the south, spent a most disagreeabl
might, some OF them being flooded ou
Of their tents, and others having thei
canvas habitations blown away. Among
the sufferers were Dr. Philip A. Tray
nor, Robert Morrison and Wil,lan
Lawton Jr., OF the Alva Outing Club
who are encamped just above Penns
Vile for a month. Their tent is unde
the lea Of the trees, but that the.
spent wet and sieepless night goel
without saying. Harry Brown an,
James Carberry, Who expect to jcii
them in a few days, may congratulate
themselves that they were here IL
town and under more substantial shell
ter.
From midnight until nearly o'clocl
this morning the Wayfarer did not Sc
the lights of but one moving craft
That was a tug. her two white light
at the masthead showing that she ha
tow. Her course was up the river
right i'm the teeth Of the storm, an
the siowness of her progress was
clever demonstration of the force q
the elements against which she wa
combating.
BY O'Clock This morning the ga,
had Blown itself out, and by o'cloc
the Delaware had resumed it's wonte
aspect under good sailing breeze.
From Pennsville people the Way
farer learned that the officers and me
Of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Reg
ment at Fort Mott passed a sleeples
might the tents being pitched in a
open fed, with nlcthing but the tree
OF the national cemetery between thei
and the full vigor Of the storm, an
even this protection being too far n
moved to windward to be of muc
avail
From what the Wayfarer knows
-Pennsgrove and the craft which usual