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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

The only woman in the world In
charge of a lighthouse entirely sur
rounded by the waves lives In New
York bay. She is in the very center
Of a population of e,O00.00 people, yet
she is not a part of 1t and has not
its ways, for when she leaves her sea-
swept home once or twice year 70
shop in New York the rush and con-
fusion OF the great crowds all about
80 MI her with loneliness that, before
she has scarcely begun her purchases
che turns her back on the things dear
70 the feminine heart and fees pre-
cautiously 70 Robbins Reef lighthouse.
There, she says. she has not known a
lonely minute IN the seventeen years
mat she has watched the endless pro-
,rsslon ~ countless craft up and down
we bay on their way % and from the
~. - ~ the New World gQetrop0iis'
lhis woHan u Mrs. katy walker,
~ ne sailors beacon which she has
thefHe rises sheer out q the water
~ niles south - the Battery. u
NeHqs or ne eastern END ~ the reef
nhefs, ~ fhs days ~ fhe Dntch KOFs
NNNfsl 80 boys ~ New Amsterdam
N gpt 81 roNboaia ~ sheet Bifh
As.sA pipnaefesatss ths seals fhat SUM
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

and to succor the men who 20 down
to the deep that has led them to sneak
of Robbins Reef Lighthouse for years
as "Katy's Light"
So conscientious is Mrs. Walker In
taking care of the lighthouse that
every night since her husband died
fourteen years ago, she has not failed
once to look after the lamps. Some
times, when he can persuade her to
let him, her son relieves her a part
or the night, but for the most part
she has kept the light bright with no
outside help. ut is my work." she
says, land so love to do it,"
For weeks in winter Mrs. Walker
never closes her eyes in sleep when
night comes. Then it is that the win
dows enclosing the light can be kept
free from frost only by constant
cleansing. At this time Mrs. Walker
will not let Jake come up into the
little room where the light glows I'M
til dawn. Then he brings her a. cup
of coffee, and, after she has drunk It,
she descends the ladder and goes TO
bed. That is, she generally does, but
II the day is foggy and a blanket of
white hangs over the Bay so that the
ships are lost TO view, she looks after
the fog whistle. or, IL that is out of
order, sets in motion the clock-like
mechanism that rings the fog bell.
After that she stays UP until the fog
lifts entirely or the worst Of II is over.
Twenty-one Years In "A Lighthouse.
With the exception OF one year, Mrs.
Walker has spent all her time In Amer
lea in a lighthouse. Il has been TWEEN
ty-two years since she landed on SAN
dy Hook with her son. whose father
has died IN Germany shortly before she
set sail for this country. She had been
working on the Hook only a few
months when Jacob Walker. the as
aisfanf keeper o. the sandy Hook
Lighthouse. met her and fel IN love
win her. and in less than a year after
her arrival che was taken % the light
house ~ jacob Walkers bride. her boy
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

on either shore. She can see BedIoe's
and Ellis Islands, supporting the
Statue of Liberty and the mosque-like
buildings of the new Castle Garden.
She can see the score or more of
smoky hustling manufacturing towns
along the Jersey promontories. She
can see the hills and beach towns of
Staten Island, with picturesque St.
George two miles away, and the low,
long, rakish buildings of Sailors Snug
Harbor just visible up the Kill Van
kull. And in sweep of the harbor
itself she can see chugging tugs
churning ferry boats, every manner
of sailing craft tankers and tramp
steamers, excursion boats, long
strings OF barges, putting launches
gilded yachts of millionaires, war
ships, ocean liners and rowboats of
the Bay fishermen, dotting the water
on all sides and displaying the flags
Of many nations.
Content in Her Isolated Home.
Mrs. Walker is content to see al,
this and to live isolated from 1t all.
The very noises OF the great marts
about her that sometimes come faint
ly out to the reef make her trernhle
for these almost silent echoes of trade
recall the lonely moments of her CITY
trips. And just as she thinks the
metropolis is the most Collaboration
spot on earth, so she believes that
Robin Reef Lighthouse is the most
blessed. 1t is her home, and there
her son Jake, who Is the assistant
keeper. his wife and three little daugh-
tiers, and her own daughter live with
her.
Mrs. Walker cares for the compan-
ionship 81 no other human beings TO
her the millions OF people within row.
bOet reach are as nothing except when
they can be kept from Ehipwreck BY
her lighf. or saved from drowning or
crushing Ice foes ~ Jake in his small
boat 0F when she can warm with ccfs
fee the half-froxen "eiammerH' who.
in winter. work within calling distance
~ fge reef
Is L. her ever constant Vigil 70 warn
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21
Copyright. 1902, by Henry Allston.

ned themselves on the rock-strewn
sandy stretch that reaches back to the
Jersey flats to the westward and is
exposed in a long, thin line when the
tide is out. And just half mile 10
the east runs the channel that the
majestic liners and other sea-golng
craft follow on their way to the At
lantic.
Marvellous Panorama.
From the lighthouse Mrs. Walker
has a marvellous panorama of natures
works and mans most ambitious eff
forts. The only thing th2t she has TO
do In order TO drink IN a view that
tens Of thousands OF people have trav-
eled across continents and oceans TO
behold Is 20 walk around the little
stone balcony surrounding the light.
She can see the Narrows and the
frowning fort on either side; Brook
Ign, with is two or three tall build
ings and It's wooded suburbs TO the
southeast. and Governors Island and
queer, old, rounded Fort Castle VIII
Ham. She can see the East river with
the Brooklyn bridge hanging aboye
~; New Y0rk'a fkyscrapffs, hiding
the rest 81 Manhattan Island Hnd
looking IKE mammoth sticks, pierced
With many holes, rising sheer ouf ~
che Nafef. and fhe North river Nffh
~ myriad ~ ferry boats and faeEfa
Las % docks SAD TsiAoa4 isfloinaia
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

going along as Walkers adopted son
and taking his name.
There she helped her husband for
four years. At the end of that period
he was transferred to Robbins Reef
Light, where he remained until he died.
Mrs. Walker believes that her hus-
band would be living still II 1t had been
possible to get a doctor to him while
he was Ill. But because the Bay was
choged with floating, grinding ice no
one could reach the lighthouse, and SO
a heavy cold developed into a fever
and pneumonia; and one night, when
a storm ragged and while the wife was
up with the light cleaning the win
dows so that death might not overtake
the ships, that dark form stole into one
of the little circular bedrooms below
while no one watched.
After the funeral Rear Admiral Rog-
ers, who was then a captain and in
spector of the Third Lighthouse Dis
trict, found out that Mrs. Walker
wanted to be appointed keeper OF the
lighthouse. Although II was, and still
is. against government regulations to
put woman in charge OF a lighthouse
out at sea. he interested himself in Mrs.
Walkers behalf. For three years the
government refused to break a rule
that II had made, but, In the meantime,
while 1t hunted for a man willing TO
go 70 the lonely post. Mrs. Walker
was left on Robbins Reef. Twice the
Lighthouse Board thought IL had a
man TO take charge OF the light, but
each one. after he had gone down the
Bay and viewed It's isolated position,
refused the Job. so finally the board,
despairine ~ ever securing a man as
keeper. adopted Capt Rogers sugges-
ton and appointed Mrs. Walker.
She Never Takes a Vacation.
Her son Jake has been assistant
keeper for about ten years, and. al
though she has been entitled 20 ten
days vacation q month since that time,
che hos NOT taken advantage ~ fhe
regulation Tor a single day. She has
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

never been absent from the lighthouse
for more than six or eight hours at a
| stretch.
In all the years that she has been in
charge of the lighthouse Mrs. Walker
has not received reprimand or had
a complaint entered against her, de-
| spite the fact that she has charge of
a light which stands in one of the
worlds busiest harbors. Her light
house has the reputation of being the
cleanest and best kept in the Third
District
| Mrs. Walker is very modest about
her record. In her quaint. broken
English she says to those who COM
| pliment her:
You think IT fine? / am glad. But
/ like to work. II keeps me content
vacation once in a while and let Jake
take care of the light? Achi / wouldn't
know what to do with a whole day on
shore-and then, I love the light"
Two things, however, Mrs. Walker
does leave to her assistant-going
ashore for supplies and rescuing row.
boat fishermen.
Not infrequently young Walker has
to lower his boat from the davits on
the lighthouses sea wall and pull out
to boat caught and being crushed in
the ice, or capsized by sudden squall
or the wash OF a liner. In effecting
several Of these rescues he himself
has narrowly escaped being crushed
by the ice that often piles up eight
and ten feet high about the lighthouse.
PeriIous Trips for Supplies.
He has also had not few perilous
trips 10 S. George for supplies. In
good weather the distance IL covered
IN less than half an hour. but when
the autumnal storms and winter set
IN Jake does well II he can make shore
after two hours OF rowing. Frequent
~ he gets ashore but when he starts
10 return ne n forced 10 put back 20
staten Island and wait Tor the storm
- die down, lie spent three hours
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

the day before last New Years Day
traying to reach the lighthouse with
a turkey and fixings, but at last, and
only when he was half frozen, he gave
up the struggle, with the result that
the people on the Robbins Reef had
no New Years dinner.
This rowboat communication with
the main land. and the only kind that
there is. is much interrupted at this
season of year. Last winter Jake did
not get ashore more than half a dozen
times. But there is always one day
that he makes every effort to get over
to st. George. That is the day before
Christmas, when his wife and their
three children-Emma, the eldest, four
years old Katherine, and Alberta, the
baby-go to New York to see. the
Christmas toys and buy gifts for one
another and the faithful woman left
alone in the lighthouse.
This Is one of the two or three
times a year that these three water
babies get on land, and the sights
that they see make their little eyes
bulge with wonder and furnish food
for childish talk for days to come with
their grandmother. who. until her son
married about FIVE years ago. had her
two children for her only companions
for nearly ten years.
Because they get to see people out
side the lighthouse so seldom, the lit
tie girls are extremely shy when a
stranger once IN a great while clam
beers up the iron ladder reaching down
70 the water along their homes side.
No amount 81 coaxing can Induce the
two younger 20 come from their hid
ms place behind their grandmofhers
skirt, and only after prolonged per-
saasion VIII Emma forget her bashful-
ness enough 20 smile timidly and lisp
sweetly.
CHILD 81 the Sea.
Mary, the daughter. a away 4 eaoa
part of the time now. FOR ahe noss ~
continued % psss Thirsssa
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

lo see good md cnpNhie men elected 10 he council md school hoard They wan, an honest and pconon- icnI administration Of municipal pf;uirs, and ,his can he Ind only by ciecfrg GOT Ie.eut men. Ii is aot | mailer 70 he treated as < josh, but serious business proposition tho; will comuend ..k,.t lo th" curelM attention oi ouy rgn.-,1iuk.og mau Ne ila'' very much uudtrru.ed tbe ,u eli reuoe of the vo.ert of tms city ii they will elect ;o pubic office uu- euilu ble men.
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05
TKE RECIPROCITY TOCSh.

The question oi trUdt reciprocity F one which will enter into the next pres ,ltll erection. A'r.udy h leaders oF the republican, parry urt tutroluciug the question fo' public consideration. I'll, United States SOW leoos all countries in lht importance and extent q Us agrlcuturul and industrial busnrss. But new ma Eets gre u~"d"a und the policy o hlh lr;trctou which las hpea IursutJ fo' years, has been pro uuc,vt in oitt.n up new fields for industrial enter srlse. No exclusive fiscal I'ocv cNl. Protection s without dVuot m ln pal.uut factor in ejimuluIiug home Industries, hUt uI.tf the home market has been fu.iH fulfa~d th- surldu manufactures must ind nlnrkrt ttsrv here The European cout .ries h&rr prol Fl uutmtudIy aud it it now apparent that ,he policy Q. r"cl llrocIty called ty thp coroury of iro-"cpon mast bt adopted iu order to prevent the wldrFpreud financial Impression, which x also the coroIlaiy oi over production.
 Our uNuulocJurug industries nave been sub- l"c'"a 10 | forcing roo"H-: they have been fed and rurtureu Ut the expense o lht whole people and bv have o+cout so great that they threaten to d.-tuil. -ht "quIl or.Um o1 existing eaouOuic roudj djtuu. Su wt aye told that We must have commercial rec proc wth other nntons; thpt i, does not m. uu eucr hr ot one Industry to help another. As Qunst or oi purely phstnrt political economics. tis upy he true; but t Fees 10 us 1hlt in the concrete t is direct step twouurd what + known us free trade Bee proritt ueuts mutual exchange of cuIuuud les under ce- ,,,o trescrI bed conditions.
 Nations thus eh.erng ntn ra"procal trade rt luuons are tne favored nations, ii + true and 0 t, counties. though Qute willing to enler into th, -4Int real0ts are excluded from the benefits thus oerI'-d, oe2"uFt no rrpiPrncly treaty exists. How ever We are heartily in accord with he gov,ruueui'- reciprocity idea, simply t"aause il is step in h. right direction. Ii the X unsou of trade and th- t1tlsluu oi co.u1Irue- | .s The e4t.rrg wyd2 ot whUt may in time hpcorne uurer.u ul rrtiiroctr among the nntious o Ihe .urh; md IL may also ,t- suit m hrlng,ug Ihout 1ar-r system c taxa ion. cirec anu Indirect, than Inch oh, aims l. rnpv prove h beginning o ht decay oi trusts those vas, courrrrc.a! and industrial conthluu ior,s vhIch 8. now exist, feel ! menace to the udu-r.ul and commercial prosperity ot he poll-
 We do not know how the democratic th,~r V il rtilsh he tocsln o rec prorlly vhch iht rtpulcun~ are aIready sounding. They may not take to if kindly, but ii will be small use for them 10 how against it.. l. will prove , shjbbuleth vh.ch most people will readily pronounce
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05
NOrG-E O. FORFEIT IRE.

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The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05
NOTI-E OF FORFEETURE.
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The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

ter has the department shown tha i, + ".rl prompt ana active. Last Friday evening inc Dur"nd and Weir building sUved from tutri destruction by the efficiency of the fire department and its volunteer members, two of whom. Louis L. Lun4 and Paddy O!yun, eavod the life of lLtie girl who h@i iof their unpaid hero.sin, would have qeriahe4 Th, people oi Nue much o the brave sIi-socri ir IF me-, who have voluntarily n4svmrd the task of rra- l"rting lbis tu ,or,hcru town from ht,'s oreou ages. We have duty to perform however aud lt .. tc hetp them in every wuy po-sibie
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

Iurn uf frs; TUD!ic.lioc ui llotice .Iuruur7 b lHu- l-.D.!.v N
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

The NIQcr1 toda' pubshes lhs fu1l text of Judge Wicterfhnnf remarks dtli'er~d lnst Saturday. in The case of the NhI Goose Mining Company vs. French and others. His wordr so plain that no one can uneunderstand or ruisnterpret thttn. They have tht rlght ling, and state pnIuly and un-- qUivucul t possible for word. to state that the court must and shall o- ,eeI,ceI and is mandate. obpyrd and thut tht rights uf ltgants b+ they whom iht1 may shall receive the protection of he court As we have hnd occ"Fion to remark before no tlsou who teIltves m law and order could ask n,ole and none should demand rrs
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

Six pounds of mali, most of it frou Dawson md way po'rt- were received Sunday night. SIX pounds Mark II well, nlnttv-sx ounces, ayuird 1@ie+ And yet every petty understrappr in the postofIot de purtmtnt at Washington doubt tells anxious in- quirers that Nome has slendid rlal service Ii is useless to lro,est, and relief will only bp had when the di-t'ic has duly elected representative in con- gress one V ho knows the country and it. naeds
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

The news received hy the last mail that Judge Moves, District Attorney Wood and Attorney c. A. $ Frost had fiji the punishment of the circuit court oi appeals for the Ninth circuit was not unexpected All day Monday crowds surrounded the NUGGfT's bulletin hoard, and approving mods seen and aI4rovlug remarks heard The judicial and lreal atmos 'ere in the Second utieul division of Alaska has been greatly purified of late, more wuys than prn
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

Nolnes fire department is an institution which Ee public ssens to view matter of course. Th. ocnsfarf vigilance which ii exercises, and of which ihs pubic knows nothing, e1ciles oomrapnt Yet n the engine bouse down On Front street are dozen or more men who are ersr on watch 10 prevent and fight lire, lt should occur. Several times ts win
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

We fail to see he point in joke which has for Itf object inducirg men, who in every way rn- fitted for the position, fpr luhic office of an,
 kind. Nome # incorporated town, tLe only one ln Norih EesIern Alaska many of its citztn n- haae interests Lere, and they naturally desire
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

Complaints have teen made concerning the pres ence of boys in ealouns and dance halIs during the nights. If the complaints made have foundntior in fact there would to h. an apparent need for curfew orainapce. The kids should be at home.
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

SeileAue+s l- uu ul,~bule, not | crime. When u"-rrbug luou'y ge,Iug us seiG-h we simply -Jltt | lact Nt do not rue-~s, ; cou. utMuu4uu.
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

Thu; was a graceful oro0.e paid Dy JAe ur@a,o.'s u 4ue r.r oi Nome lo Judge WIcEyr-ADm in hjs at1uc- uon, aud oue that w.I bs al iIrer .,f..r
The Nome nugget., 1902-03-05

March winds u.ow. Mu~c5 usv- ally r. rude and ao.e. rru- month, unvNav.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-20
Cousin of kinn Alfonso Arrested

Cousin Of King Alfonso Arrested.
Madrid, Dec. 18.-General Bourban
Y Castellvi, cousin of King Alfonso,
was arrested yesterday evening in a
gambling club He was arraigned be.
fore the captain general and subse
quently imprisoned
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-20
K0dOl


This famous remedy puts the stomach and
digestive organs in a healthy condition so
that rich, red blood is sent coursing through
the veins and arteries of every muscle tissue
and fiber throughout every organ of the en-
tire body, and by Nature law of health, full
strength and vigor is soon restored to each.
Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach disorders.
have taken Kodol for nearly two months
after each meal and II is the only remedy
that gave relief from the terrible pains |
endured. After time | would take it but
once day, and now, while keep a bottle
handy seldom need it, as it has cured me.
MRS. J. w. CooLBAUGH, Milo Center N. Y.
KOdol Digests What You Eat.
Bottles only. $i.oo Size holding ~ times the trial
size, which sells for so cents.
Prepared by e. @. DEWITT & CO., CHICAGO
W. a. Rembert. Americas, Ga
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-20
ANTHRACITE COAL srRINeENcx
No Hope For Relief This Winter Say
Readinu Officials.


Philadelphia, Dec. 18.-Ofcials Of
the Reading railroad hold out no hope
for relief in the anthracite coal strin-
gency this winter, despite the eff.
forts of the company to mine and ship
TO its full capacity.
under normal conditions" said one
OF the officials. the anthracite pro.
duction is never equal to the demand
during the winter and the Reading
and other anthracite companies have
been obliged to draw upon the stock
of various stages to help out the de-
is not a pound of coal at any Of these
storage points, and consumers are de
pendent entirely upon the daily output
of the mines. The big dealers in
New England who usually have in
stock at this season OF the year from
10000 to 100000 tons, are bare Of
coal, and dependent entirely upon
what is being shipped to them by the
various coal companies. Practically
all of the Reading companies collier
les are in operation The company
shipped from the mines in the past
two days nearly 1900 cars of coal.
This means a daily production Of near
ly $4,000 tons. It is stated that the
Pennsylvania railroad has 5000 Of the
Reading company'5 coal cars on it's
tracks in the western part Of the state
as we'll as $500 Central Railroad Of
New Jersey, and these are urgently
needed in the anthracite trade. Their
nOn-delivery is causing much delay in
the Shipment of anthracite to points
east of Harrisburg