The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-18

and paIEcftOeS 1oound IN VHnat CtAiA
svtamps; DIRT they declare there Is notI
a swamp i11sthe town limits. and per-
s!st N the. idea that such spots nrei
I'll II" land, and the most productive
places ON the plat. Well, / let 1t go at
that. and really promised would tell
our people up North the I'll ti'' was
left about the city for ornamental
purposes.
The company IS still selling lots
very fast, and the ..bcomers'' are very
ANXIOUS that move down there and
help boom the town, but at present Il
am content with looking on from the
North and watch the town grow.
am now going to mention an Incl
dent which hope each reader willl
keep a profound secret. for it is gem
orally known that have always siren
uousIy opposed Sunday excursions,
but was one OF a party Of forty ex-
cursionists in small motor launch to
the gulf last sunday. And (like all
sunday excursionists). the little craft
was we'll supplied with bottles, but
unlike the northern excursions. the
bottles contained pop instead OF beer.
And 1 note here incidentally that
Coco cola IS the leading beverage of
the south. 1t is sold by newsboys on
all trains, and Of warm days 1t is a
large part of the train service. The
pop was placed in the ice chest and
three cases of 1t were consumed by
our party during the day. I am not
very fond of large waters, but had a
strong desire OF seeing the broad eS-
panse of the big pond" Our boat
was chartered for Hurricane Island.
huge hAr of white sand lying a little
out from the day. but when we arrived
there about one o'clock, the majority
of our crowd persisted in going on to
Crooked Island, some ten miles far-
there out in the gulf, while the bal.
ance of us were as persistent against
yenturing further out into the rough
open sea in so small a craft; and the
crew hesitated, saying it was risky
and they seldom ventured out of the
waters of the bay. But we went, ana
though the little boat was tossed
about as a skiff riding the waves of a
passing steam boat. we reached the is
land In one hour and ten minutes
without mishap and beached our boat
at the end of the bar; for here again
we were on a narrow bar of sand
semi-circle in shape and three miles
long. with not as much as post to
party to be on board in one hour. we
all scattered over the island in search
of shells and other curios. Before
the hour was up the most of us we're
back on board, but four young men
and two women were missing. After
another half hour the two women
we're sighted across the circle some
two miles away still going from us.
The boat had no whistle, but one OF
the crew blew the horn with no Ell
feet, as the women could not hear
them. They then took white shirt
and tied it to fishing pole and stood
on the hurricane deck, waving II
franticalIy to attract their attention,
but they paid no heed. The captain
then got out OF patience-said ty-
phoon was liable to strike us at any
time. Presently dark clouds began
10 gather, and thunder and lightning
issued from the heavens. The cap
tain got nervous and mad. He said
the smallest gale would carry his boat
ont into the sea and we would be
left helpless on the island. But for
tunately for us, the threatening storm
soon turned the women back toward
US, and the -four men who had gone
in bathing were run out of the
waters by q twenty foot SharF anu AL
were driven to the boat. Again we
we're fortunate that the force of the
storm passed to the south of us, and
the waters were not seriously dis
turhed but much rougher than when
VIC went over. Upon the whole. aside
from the short run between the two
islands, our trip was very pleasant as
wei as instructive and amusing. To
rolling
over and over upon the surface of the
waters; the great sharks darting along
the clear waters IN the hope that one
OF us might fall overheard for his!
dinner; and the many other inhabt-
tants of the waters that floated about,
was pleasing and Instructive.
At a point near the n9rrows in the
bay at it's entrance into the gulf. the
captain pointed out to US the exact
spot whereon the previous sunday
while he was carrying another party
to Hurricane Island, one man fell
overheard and in less than two min
lItes u large shark had him in his
laws and the mans body was cut In
two and devoured right before their
eyes, Before dark we were we'll out
from the gulf into the clear. placid
waters of the bay, and arrived at the
Lynn Haven piers about s o'clock
feeling slightly conscious stricken for
the violation of the Sabbath laws;
ranain