The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-06

finally sold for one thousand dollars
! lie said it was not unusual for families
living near the bog to earn four hun
| bred dollars and more during the pick
ing and screening season, and his own
sons had started in life that way.
But there are many accidents which
may befall the cranberry crop, and as
greater capital Is now required, the
available bog land Is coming under the
! control of few large owners, who are
prepared to put money into the busi-
ness What with combinations of own
ers and labor-aaving machinery the old
settlers see in cranberry picking fad
ing opportunity and believe that the fu-
ture of the Plymouth woods will depend
upon the summer visitor and his de-
mand for milk, eggs, berries, ice and
service.
Yet this summer visitor Is wonderful
ly slow in coming. It Is not because
the distances are so great, but rather
because the roads are so poor, that this
is so. The bicycle is effectually shut
out of the sandy wood roads, and the
automobile has not yet made the at
tempt. A cottager living near the CEN
Ter of the woods says that nine horses
are worked to their full capacity In
keeping his establishment in touch
with the ousside world.
There have been people who have
sought absolute seclusion and a simple
life, who have hidden their cottages IN
thick woods by the side of a pond, but
they have been few. The second sum
mer cottage was built twenty years
ago and there has scarcely been one a
year added since. Meanwhile the big
landed proprietor has stepped In and Is
getting control of large tracts of land
for game preserves.
The most notable Of these are Eben
d. Jordan of Boston and Robert B.
SyninRton, the thread man of Ntwark,
N. J. Their estates are adjoining. run
ming south and west from Chiltonville
md together they have fenced In near
ly five thousand acres Their fences
are about eight feet high, OF strong
steel wire, with meshes small enough
to prevent dogs or foxes from getting
in, or hares or low-fying birds from
getting out.
Both men are great pheasant fam
ciers. while Mr.. Jordan IS also stocking
his estate with deer and Belgian hares
and thoroughbred horses He is fortu-
nate in possessing some of the best
farming land IN the township, as we'll
as the so-called cathedral woods, a
group of lofty, primeval pines, branch
less to their tops, and between whose
trunks a perpetual twilight reigns
Donald s. Mackay, of Newark, Is also
large owner in the same locality.
David l.. Webster, of Boston, has four
hundred acres near Bunks and College
ponds, and Albert s. Hathaway, of
Wareham has about seven hundred
acres near Five-Mile pond and Half
Way river Edward c. Turner has two
thousand acres, but 1t is mostly wood
land and is assessed at less than fifty
cents an acre. Lucy e. Tisdale, of
has fourteen hundred acres,
while James E. Keith. of Chicago, has
five hundred acres near Grassy and
Fearing ponds. Much Of the woodland
IS assessed at only twenty-five cents an
acre, and one parcel of six hundred
and twenty acres Is valued at one hun
dred dollars, or about sixteen cents an
acre.
But figures are chilly things, and to
get warmed up 1t is only necessary to
strap on a knapsack and start on
tramp through the Plymouth woods,
from the northern to the southern ex-
trenity, The writer having recently
acquired sea legs did this at dlsad-
and was In addition handl-
capped by extreme hot weather He
did not make record breaking time, but
he saw the country and became init
mately acquainted with some parts of
it.
A side trip TO Ellington sea was cas-
lily made, for it is only mile and half
from Plymouth post-office by good
roads and parkways. They say that In
1921 Francis Dillingham; being lost in
the woods, climbed a lofty tree and dis
covered this body of water, which he
took for an arm of the sea. one of the
best authorities, however, thinks that
the name sea was used in the German
sense as zuyder Zee. AT the present
lay the banks are steep and thicltly
wooded, and only an occasional roof
shows among the treetops.
Great South pond, which boasts a
colony of summer visitors Is also of
sassy access. Long pond, on the other
hand, is In the center of the wooded
district, so far off any travelled road
hat an unexpected visitor Is almost |
unknown. Leaving Plymouth village
~ the training green, the road leads
by few scattered houses, q farm or
.wo, some bits of pasture and straight |
INTO the woods 1t is second, or twen- |
.y-second, growth oak, which after a. |
ew miles becomes mixed with pine, but |
9lther trees are high enough to furnish |
shade. There Is a deserted house, a |
urn In the road, and then long march |
md Lymington estates There was |
me cranberry bog, one brook two or |
hree houses and four well-dressed |
'carecrows in something like eight |
niles of walking. A young man with a
tick, suspected Of being a pond-lily |
lunter, killed a puff adder said to be a
rery poisonous snake The pond-lily
lunter began by criticisng other pedes-
rians, but after learning that they had
limbed all the Rocky mountains he de-
'eloped into quite a decent chap. who
confessed that beside collecting pink |
,ond lilies he was In the Mayhower
altering business, the cordage work.
ng business and the cranberry picking
BUSINESS at different seasons through
he year. He said that in the chamber
Y season he sometimes walked seven |
niles to the bog and seven miles home |
gain every day, and he still liked |