The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-15
MADE BIC VOID IN
"QUACKDOM.'
Laden With Spells, the
Duck Hunters Return.
GubernatoriaI Party Come Back From
Their Outing Pleased Beyond
Measure at Their All
Round Success.

day from their hunting trip laden with
game and bubbling over with pleasing
"reminiscences of their week of delightful
outing. Speaking of the, trip and the
hunt Mr.. Arendell said:
THE entire trip was a delightful ore
and furnished every member OF the party
an opportunity Tor week of genuine run
and recreation.
The trip" said Mr.. Arendell was
planned some weeks ago by Judge Frank
winston that prince OF clever Carohnians
and under his direction every possible
arrangement for comfort and pleasure
vas made complete.
I'VE met at Windsor and spent the first
night at the hospitable home of Judge
and Mrs. Winston. we were royalty en-
tertained and on Tuesday morning early
we stepped Off the earth at the wharf at
Windsor, boarded the Maytiower" and
began speeding down the winding Cashie
river, on our way TO the famous Curri-
tuck, home of the suculent duck. At
Edenton Bay we changed from the May
flower to the beautiful and luxuriant new
~ built house boat Miss Perkins, and
the entire party became the guests OF
its owner Captain Horton Corwin, Jr.,
the manager of the vast timber, steam
boat, railroad and other interests of the
estate of the late Joseph w. Branning,
one of the largest estates and industries
in Eastern North Carolina. Capt. Corwin
himself joining the party with his friend,
Judge John w. Wescott of Camden, n. j.
At noon on Tuesday the newly rebuilt
tug boat Arm and Hammer, also rendered
by Capt Corwin took the house boat
with the party all on board, and the fleet
little naptha launch Katrina in tow, and
Captain Spry. the genial thoughtful and
efficient Captain of the Arm and Hammer,
climbed up to the pilot house sounded
the gong and the beautiful little fleet
moved gracefully out OF the bay in front
OF Edenton and began ploughing the
placid waters of Albemarle Sound, while
dozens of the charming people of the
beautiful bay-locked city of Edenton,
stood on the wharf and waved a happy
bon-voyage to the departing fleet and its
little party of hunting statesmen jurists
and civilians.
THE sail down the placid old sound for
fcrty miles seemed more like a sweet
dream than a reality. In the cooking
department of the house boat, Nathan,
Captain Corwins efficient cook was pre-
pairing steaming delicious midday meal
frcm the overloaded boat larders, that
proved to be fit for the gods, luscious
oysters just from the oyster beds served
on the half SHE'LL steaming fish that swan
in the bay the night before, lat quail
with toast to match canvas back duck.
cooked a la Nathan, BERTHE county ham,
old sweet and juicy, other substantias
blended with sweets electra galore, and
this is the way we lived whether sailing
down the beautiful waste of lakes, rivers
and sounds, or whether. at anchor in
canal or in the calm waters around the
Swan Island wharves. All about us lay
that unmatched panorama of inland and
island, which seems more afloat than in
tact.
"A beautiful SUM- unmarried by cloud
or smoke cast golden rays on the blue
waters which were moved into tiny
gltterlng waveletS b. continuous breeZes
which chased each other over the surface
of the little inland sea- more ideal
day could not have been made to order
for a journey down the beautiful sound.
Meanwhile, the jovial, genial party were
ieasting on the wit, humor and glow
OF soul, that came unbidden from each
tn the others. was n charming trip
all the way from Windsor to Coinjock
the little Currituck village nesting or
the banks of the three-mile canal which
connects the two sounds, the Albemarle
and the Currituck, where we spent Tues
day night. Wednesday was a lay day
No shooting under the law-so the day
was spent making final arrangements for
2 farewell march on the duck preserves
under the direction of Mr.. A. NJ
simmons, who came to meet us and spent
tho day planning for our pleasure Thurs
day morning came and with it the guides
In their skiffs and with their little float
ing blinds. Early the Governor, Dr. Dix
On, Judge Wescott, Mr.. Borden and Cap
tain CorWin the crack gunners of the
party donned their hunting garb, should
cred their unerring ield pieces and they
were set adrltt each in a separate float
ing blind to invade the lairs of the coveted
game aud each at different points. while
Judge Winston and myself remained Oh
board to take care of the premises apd
enjoy the cannonadng which we knew
meant q lavish supply OF the feathcred
cavaliers of the clouds. I'VE waited not
in vain. for when the gunners returned
the game came in abundance. a few
rcyititions and the warfare was over
the hunt had ended, the boats wer,
again in line and We were homewert
bound The trip had been so delightful
the entire party so congenial the wealth
er so propitious. the success TO rronoun
eed. the occasion so enjoyable that q,
our return up the sound | suggested thu
each member of the party write briefly
his Impressions for publication and fo
preservation, the suggestion was prompt
ly adopted and the individual expires
sions as handed TO me are as follows
Judge Woscott's impressions:
"Corwin, calm. practical hospltab.e
Ascoek, philosophc, aggressive, sincere
Dixon, rare. thoughtful experienced
Borden, curious, inquisitive. manly; Aren
dell, surprising. inclsive. observing; Win
ston, unsurpasSably versatile. gifted
where In the garden of this world couit
be gathered such a collection of spirit
promise aud encouraging faith? To hav'
learned something, to have acquired
thought, is to have added To one
strength. courage, faith but to have fel
the indefnable quality of real characte
is TO have established unity with til,