The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09


 tive portions upon all and any occasion
 particularly when some bad boy as ne drove by in his hickory springed wagon
 gave the echoing cry of the loon from
 behind some tree or fence. There was
 uncorked one of the seven yials Of
 wrath, the neighbors recalling the
 dreadful prophecy of the Wreck Of
 matter and the clash of worlds" New
 CT was heard such terrible curse, but
 nobody seemed penny the worse"
 The story goes that one foggy night
 during the war of 1872, in running his
 packet through the Sound (that was in
 vested with British war yessels) he
 heard what he supposed to be an order
 to ''Heave to or sink you" Of course
 he had to surrender, calling back
 through his trumpet, Don't shoot; , don't shoot!' I surrender. So he hard
 down his helm. Nosed his boat to the
 wind; let his sails down by the sun and
 tied them up. expecting every minute
 an armed boat would loom up and take
 possession. of sloop and cargo. After l waiting sme time the fog lifted and
 nothing was in sight but some old looms bobbing up and down on the waves.
 This explained the hole matter; 50
 bringing his boat before the wind he scudded for Black Rock Fort (Nathan Hale), leaving a powerful strong auto
 sulphuric odor behind him, for he had Host the cover of the night and took
 great risks of capture sailing by day i light.
 Of course the story being tod good to
 keep, leaked out and the cry of the loon
 rang in his ears to his dying day. l When joked by his friends he gave the ambiguous reply that but for having
 some wives relations on board he
 would have fought the ".Britishers' un-
 til the Su-san's lee scuppers spouted fred with the blood of the brave.
 I One very stormy night when with the grandiloquence of Saul of Tarsus he
 was breathing forth threatening and
 slaughter to his logging sailors, an old ilady passenger came rushing up on
 deck, enquiring where is the prayer
 meeting held? What do you mean?
 Why, I thought from the language. I heard below an old-time revival meet
 ing was surely going on. Ain't you al
 most scared to death. You jump down l to your bunk and hang on good and I strong or you will have to be revived lfrom a salt water souse. Be quick about it, too. Lords sakel If we are
 to be drowned we ought to have some
 kind of religious ceremony going on.'
 Well, pass around the hat. I've no time for any other religious ceremony Iuntil we have bounced the old boat into . port" Queer old chaps these old-time
 Sound comber captains" each had an
 Individuality; each showed the mettle
 of his pasture.
 il Amphibious filk. of the bullfrog order
 jumping from deck to dock and dock to x deck, croaking with landsmen and bel lowing at the crew. A hustler from Huff to Leech,' a sailor he must know tall the calm breezey tide and doldron spots in the Sound night fog or day -j for he had a cabin full of passengers X eating their heads off. '
 :. Sea lawyer to settle all disputes dur ling the trip, mine host at the head oi ! the table gracing the meats with aa < true Doxologieal pail; parson on Sun ,3l day reading the plaintive and dove-coo- } ing passage (to equalize the diabolica ! announcements of the weak day?, i when there was no minister on board to lend a hand; erchant, for he had his ! own ventures; gang plank bully and ] roust-about in general; a successful
 packet master required a man of un.
 common ability, a good judge of hu- an nature, with experience and tact ir every phase of life.
 X He must be able to box the crafts oi ? life all around from crew to caring iron 2 the hhawser pipe to the suavie wei : come man of the ship; then again tht ! people of the town Chis passengers) hat each a very exalted opinion of theil \ own faily respeetability For over ont , hundred years with no foreign elemen the families had inter-married, eacl 2 family openly claiming to be just a: good as any, but in their private opin ion just a whortleberry better; conse' l quently they were very sensitive to any ]. inattention and very tenacious of tl1eil :. born rights. The town-born thos, } born before 17S5 claiming special privi ( ledges which city born didnot possess, | The packet master knowing these con } ditions, was obliged to be as wise as { l serpent and as harmless as a dove, ol l his inflated and infammable cargo l might go off spon- shus bust-tus. New Haven was noted for it's general leve iof social life; there was no very rich ol livery poor. Labor was honorable ant the man in the green bafze jacket, st } long as he was honest and respectable
 received the same courtesy as his be II ruffied and buckled relation. Int watch-word was learn a trade; thel -5lyou are independent. Worth made the man, the want of it the fellow In 1S4S a party of gentlemen rated tn, 2 so-called wealthy people of the town Z After careful investigation the, l claimed there were but three whose es tate would cash one hundred thousand ]. dollars, showing how little wealth wa l in this town less than sixty years ago ? We were not a rich people, but uncom 3 monly religious, sober, proud and com fortable. Tn some of the walks of life 5 "Godly, sober and steady religious 7 was our inheritance. Proud there wa : no blot upon our colonial escutcheon 7 comfortable, for they saved their sl1ek ] els; sober, their back starch and hear