The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1909-09-30

SuISLCu lIOIl GiCH OlllcI.
Past this island and up this channel
came Winthrop and his fleet to settle
Salem. Here for two centuries the
ships of Salem. on which the town
built its wealth. counted themselves
home from sea when Bakers was
abeam.
Bowditch's Beacon.
Southwark Of Bakers is a mass of
cruel lodges. The ship that missed the
light in thick weather was in grave
danger from them. and long is the list
of wrecks they boast, down even to
recent years.
Up the channel toward Salem-the
channel through which the East India
ships took their rich cargoes of spices
and SilkS-one sees a stone monument
rising from the water, a tall. truncated
cone.
This is Bowditch's beacon, named
thaniel Bowditch, whose home was in
Salem and who made. more than a
century ago. a chart of these waters
that has not been eXcelled to this day.
Ledge of Satan.
Seward from this point is another
ledge. which the old sailors of Salem
and Marblehead, out of the wisdom be-
got of experience. named Satan.
1t is marked by a spindle. At low
tide its brown length lies on the sea
like a sleeping whale or other marine
monster. Sea birds alight on it. and
the wash of the waves about it is like
the purring of a cat.
Let heavy weather come and Satan
changes guise. The surf roars and
cookies foaming white across it, and
woe betide the man who picks it up
in a fog under his bowsprit end.
The Newspaper Men.
The coming Of the president to Bev-
erIy has been a great thing for the lit
tie north shore city. Its beauties and
advantages as a summer resort are
now known all over the world, thanks
to the ceaseless activity of the press.
With the president came a score or
more of newspaper correspondents.
representing a number of the leading
papers of the country. most of them
trained Washington correspondents,
regarded as the cream of their profess
sion. men who follow public events.
who are capable of writing intelligent
ly and en~tertainingly on almost any
topic, but who keep more especially
we'll Informed on Washington and for
eign topics.
Telegraph Facilities.
To accommodate these men both the
Postal and Western Union Telegraph
companies have set up fine new offices
at Beverly. A corps of expert tele-
graph operators have been assigned to
the Beverly offices by these companies.
and either company a easily handle
$4,000 words of press matter a night
without overworking their Spa
cious quarters have been provided by
both companies for the correspondents,
with typevriters and everything for
their comfort and convenience.
Town Meeting Days.
The presidents rule is to see the
Washington correspondents Monday
and Wednesday afternoons and all of
the newspaper men on Saturday after
noon. But this rule is not rigidly en-
forced, and correspondents who deem
It necessary to see the president often
er have little difficulty in getting at
him.
These receptions to the newspaper
men. or. as they are termed by some,
''town meetings." are usually good ma
tured talks on the part Of the presi-
dent and the newspaper men. during
the president and some OF the
correspondents chaff one another.
Sometimes there is considerable hilar-
ity at these town meetings, and the
president usually has a story or two to
relate that evokes the heartiest sort of
laughter. CARL SCHOFIELD.