The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-02-26
): ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND ITS VAST CONCERNS.'

beach from the station mouse, DuC tne
snow was so binding and the wind
so high that it took me Is minutes to
reach the beach.
''Then I headed for the patrol house
about mile to the westward. My
idea was to get there and stay there,
because that's allowable in such
weather.
81 thought I'd never reach that
house. l fought against the wind un-
til l was almost ready to drop, and
the only thing that kept me up at the
end was the thought that I'd freeze if
l didn't hold out.
"The snow kept me from seeing
ahead-I couldn't have seen the cap
tain if he'd been walking alongside
of me. l feared all the time that I'd
go past the box. because [ knew the
lamp light wouldn't be visible.
$50, when I thought I'd almost
reached it, I stuck out my arms in
front as far as / could and walked
that way until they ached, SO 1
| thought I couldn't keep them up any
longer. And then kerplunk! went
| fist against the patrol box.
"Guess how long I'd been covering
the mile" Rudd was fastening his
sou'wester under his chin. "Just two
hours" he said as he slung a Coston
signal over his shoulder and opened
| the door, ''Yes-yes."
James G. Smith, No. 5, to whose lot
fell the replenishing of the wood fire,
spoke up as he clattered the stove lid
back into place:
"Don't know why, but I'm reminded
of yarn that I heard at Cape Cod
station few years back.
"Seems that an English frigate was
| wrecked off the beach, where the sta
ton is, 200 years ago. One day, four
or five years ago, the hull of a YES
sci all at once stuck itself above the
water in full sight of the station,
and musket and pistol butts, like
those used before the revolution, and
old style woodwork was thrown up
on shore.
"It's the hull of the English frigate
thrown up out of the quicksands,' the
ife-savers said; and then they sent
word to the people in the village.
''They came trooping down to the
beach and began putting out to the
wreck, in hopes OF securing the treas
ure that is said to have gone down
with the frigate.
. ''But before the first boat was fair
. ly under way, and just as suddenly
and silently as it had appeared, thu
hull sank back into the quicksands
: And it hasn't been seen since"
, "Yes-yes; and the crew of tha
same station-it's the one closest t.
: Highland light-lost their lives abou
= Is years ago." spoke up George J
, Caffrey, surfman No. 4. "It happened
| in this way:
"An Italian bark was blown owe
| one of the bars and on to the other
, The crew shot out the line and fley
signals and all that, but the Italians
5 it turned out, didn't know the frs
E thing about our work and so the
: didn't know how to answer the signal
: and didn't make fast the rope.
1 'sWhen the captain saw that tn
d Italians didn't know what to do h
and his men launched the surf boa
d and pulled out for the bark. The
e reached her bow and were just NAL
ing ready to take off some of tn
e sailors when the boat got caught i
e the terrible undertow that exist
e around the bar and was sucked unde
: every mothers son of them wa
drowned like rats. And they wen
under so suddenly they didn't hay
|. time to make a single shout for he'll
" 1.-TWO hours later the storm die
l. down enough to allow all of the tia
ians to get ashore with almost dr
3. SKINS
d Capt. Penny has been at tt
Shinnecock station for II years, an
e in all that time hasn't been in Ne
is York, nor seen skyscraper or trolle
9 car.-N. Y. Sun.