Evening journal., 1909-10-01
MUCH INTEREST
IN OYSTER BEDS
Delaware Official Party Pleas
ed With Trip on Delaware
Bay

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. oct. las a result OF
the inspection OF the states oyster
beds in Delaware Bay by Governor
Pennewili and an official party on
Wednesday, II Is expected that the
fifty square miles of oyster grounds
belonging to the State, will be made TO
yield more and more Of the great Del
aware Bay salts-probably the finest
prime oysters IN the world, and which
can be eaten without seasoning, SO
richly has nature endowed this
estimable food product 20 suit the
palate OF discriminating mankind.
As for Delaware's new boat, the S.
S. Pennewil, it was unanimously
agreed by the oyster boat owners and
sailors aboard the boat, that she would
live I'm any sea in the Delaware Bay,
and that she would effectually patrol
and guard from pirates or from en-
croachments from among their own
ranks the beds and natural rocks Of
the nfty square miles.
4 trim craft, painted and polished.
spicls and span from her keel over all
10 tho cabin sleoping compartments
4 the light and airy dining room under
/ the after-deck. and the cook room
and pantry under the forecaatle.
Two -o'-mutton sails of massiv
size and height. and "A tail jib furnls
the free transportation for the crai
!, when the breozes blow, and when
/ is calm, no pirate need feel safe. 70
, the Pennewill simply let's her power
boat down from her davies and crank
up the little yawl, and then serie
Of explosions begin which sends thu
..~f. I... =
steamer.
The Pennewill is probably larger
I than any Of the oystering craft and
/ could carry ninety tons Of coal or
other hefty cargoes AS she only
/ carries policemen, she is simply
weighted down With ballast Of twelve
tons OF bricks. Policemen usually
need something travelling faster than
bricks in their business, but the Pen
newill needs these bricks in her busi-
ness
The sight was revelation even TO
Asseniblyman A. L. Ainscow. who has
been interested IN the oyster industry
all his life. Colonel Ainscow admitted
that he had not seen and never be-
lieved that an ht-horse-power motor
yawl boat could be launched behind a
big oyster schooner and made TO push
her all over the bay. These little
putting power-bOats were, indeed,
pressing their noses against vessels
which had heavy oyster dredges hang
ing from their sides and dragging OF
the ground getting heavier every min
ute, and yet both boats were goinl
I through the water 80 rapidly tha'
their prows were lashing the waves
into foam.
The Philadelphia schooner Annie NJ
Frome, owned by Captain William
Shillingsburg. was passed by the Del
aware official party when she had jus
finished loading 100000 prime oysters
and the visitors had opportunity {
verify the reports that this boat ha
caught 100000 oysters week durin
the first month Of the oyster seasoi
ending to-day.
Captain shilliugsburg's boats. it wa
also ascertained, have planted 5000
bushels of shells IN the grounds whicl
he leases from the state, this year.
Shells form about as important
part of the oyster industry as di
pemmican and alcohol to the Arcti
explorers.
oyster exports agree that an oyste
{ drops 1,0O0. 600 young or offspring ever
year. They further agree that onl'
1000 of this spawn live, because the
. can find no rough surface, no abidinl
place on which 10 fasten and gro"
Tho rough shells and other substance
thrown upon rho clear. sandy bottom
, of the bay, form tho nurseries for IN
young of this. the worlds finest ZOO
product. The man who VIII lhNeh
a. better way to try to save tho otne
! 100000 young oysters will make MIN
self rich indeed.