The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-07-13
Copyright, 1907, b Thomas H. Mckee.

Copyright 1907, b. Thomas H. MeKs.
1THE church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
as old as the little village OF French
fishermen, Gallilee, which knet rever-
emily around it among the sand dunes
of the Jersey coast. Time, twenty-five
years. had brought changes, to the little
Roman church It's name, originally Notre Dame
Etoile de la Mer had been changed when the
Frenchmen had been joined by other fisher
The:, out of the side of the little village toward
the south. colony OF summer cottagers, and
later of Italian and French and Spanish villas
spraug. twenty-five years saw great changes at
Gallilee but still the sturdy little church. with its
spre and belfry looked out gravely across the
black and its white-crested inrolling pillows
through the lonely winters, and smiled cheerily at
the smart traps and motor cars in summer, as
they whrled by through the village to the station
and then back to the gorgeous villas toward the
south
Only few changes materially affected Our
Lady Star of the Sea. Once, after a schooner had
stranded in foul weather on the sand-bar directly
of shore. and went to pieces on the white beach.
the good fishermen Of the congregation appro-
priated funds to install beacon-light In the bel
fry, under the gold cross, which lighted and
tended by volunteers when the weather was thick
Again, since the Catholics of the summer colony
had joined the congregation and occasionally at
tended services, changes found their way within
the walls Of Our Lady Star of the Sea. Red-cush-
toned pews took the place Of the old bare wood
benches The altar was draped in red plush.
wrought with gill; Long brass chandeliers with
porcelain candles were hung from the high-gabed
ceiling. Two solid silver reading-lamps on the
pulpit had been given in memory Of young man
who had been drowned in the surf.
But the most homogeneous of all to Our Lady,
Star of the Sea the modest little public house
across tho way, just down the road. A thrifty
Jerseyman, who had amassed little money ped
ding vegetables, set it up road house."
There was no through traffic to support one; but
the bar copspicuously labeled Cafe" warranted
the enterprise. AS matter of form, there were
ten or a dozen seeping-rooms upstairs, always
scrupulously clean and always unoccupied, except
ing those used by Croxon himself and his wife and
children. Summer and winter, tho poor little
"road house" looked up respectfully at the church
across tho way and Our Lady Star of the Sea al
ways had a smile for her homogeneous neighbor.
She smiled across tho short stretch of her grave
yard with its straight little white tombstones.
many Of which told the swift tragedy of the sea-
And on the rare occasions when one of the guest
rooms of the road house. was occupied, it was
usually tho genial neighbor church which sent
them, a couple from the hsher-villaee whom she
had Just made man and wife; and this was their
honeymoon.
Most prominent among tho summer congrega-
ton of Our Lady Star of the Sea was French
capitalist OF the social set, Gaiard, the banker.
He had been one Of the first to build villa at
Gallilee. Fashion had followed him. There he
had lived his proudly successful, prominent life,
until summer the gods envied him. Then 1t
that his wife, a vivacious French-woman,
whom no had brought from over seas, ran off with
impressonable 1rishman, himself the head of
family and the owner of q villa next door to the
Gaillards
The Frenchman had left him single child,
Eugene, girl of seventeen Just growing from the
ugly age into most beautiful early womanhood.
Eugene resembed her mother strikingly even now.
She had the full, solid build-the length OF
limb and breadth of back so rare in Frenchwomen;
the same very black, rich hair, abundant and coiled
low on the white neck; the same purity of white
skin, and the same gorgeous golden eyes that went
straight to your soul and told frankly whether she
loved or hated you.