Evening star., 1903-11-28
sea that Galilee has ever had, and then

sea that Galilee has ever had, and then
pointed a moral.
A Marrow Escape.
Albert Koplin and his partner went out
lobstering in sea skiff one afternoon sew
era1 years ago. They were well on shore
when a storm suddenly struck them They
tried to make for shore, but t'last were
compelled to throw out their anchors and
lie down in the bottom Of the boat Thus
they rode out the night. and in the morning
when the Storm had abated, made the
beach, to the great joy of Galilee. VINO mao
feared that it's record was at last broken
And that" said the Swede. showed
what sober men can do. If they'd had q
bottle along as most fishermen have, they d
not have been cool-headed. and they q nave
kept on trying to make the beach. ano
they'd have been capsized, and thatd have
been the end of them in the gale, ana IL
quord have done it
The Galileans are every bit as diligent
in business they are in enforcing thell
unique ordinances. They do not miss
chance to turn a penny or to save one
They even make their old enemies, the cot
tagers help to line their pockets During
the summer season they send wagons up
and down the coast for miles, selling fresh
fish. and as theirs are the only hsh wagons
that peddle with any regularity, the cot
tagerS give them all their orders, Wmch are
by no means inconsiderable.
The business sagacity of Galilee is further
shown by the manner in which 1t gets lts
ice supply for almost next to nothing.
The noticeable thing about the village
from the beach road is the row of eight OF
ten large conical structures, topping the
sand dune which partly shields the hamie'
from the sea These are the ice houses
and they have a combined capacity of sew
eral thousand tons of ice.
How They Get Ice.
The ice is harvested from the Shrews
bury when the river is frozen to a depth o.
several inches. Seventy-five or 100 mer
work like beavers cutting the ice and send
ing it up. a ton at a time, in cars. on the
wooden slides that lead from the river tt
the ice houses. In this way Galiee get:
enough ice in which to pack and ship lts
fish for q year at IA cents a ton 1t IS th.s
economy that enables Galilee to exist, say
it's incorporatoTs; if they had to pay The
market price for ice the difference betWeeI
it and Ia cents would practically eat up the
profit made on the fish.
1t may be inferred from all this ina
Galiee has no troubles of its own. Tha
would be a mistake. II has one which
by no means small. While the sea has
taken no life in Gailee it has tried hard tt
wipe out the village. 1t nearly succeeded
last spring during a violent three days
storm. 1t probably would have done so hat
not the Inhabitants literally picked up thell
village and moved it back from the beacl
to the banks of the Shrewsbury behind the
sand dune. The hamlet is practically aft
now, but the fisher folk are constantly bat
Ting with the ocean in the effort to keeI
their beach property from being washed
away by treacherous currents.
"And don't you fisher folk say things
asked a visitor, when you see the eat
ing up your property; and didn't you say
things when you had to move the village
back"
Herbert Johnson, the aforementioned
steward in the Methodist Church of Norti
Long Branch, smiled and shook his head
Its against the bylaws" he said.