The Arvada enterprise., 1912-11-28

Superstition has it that the appearance of the
phantom ship leads to certain and swift misfor-
tune
Old sailors will tell of the ship of the Flying
Dutchman bowling along in the very teeth of
the wind and of her overtakng their own ship
which was beating TO windward. Some of them
say they have her sail clean through their
ship, the swirlinE films of her sails and rigging
leaving "A cold clammy feeling like the touch or
death.
Cornwall in the old days was remarkable for
It's wreckers and its rock.bound coast the
of many evil deeds The Priests Cove
wrecker during his evil life lured many vessels
to their doom upon the cruel shore by means OF
n false light hung round the neck of hobbled
horse. TO this day the good Cornish folk will
tell you of the phantom OF the wreCker seen when
the winds howl and the rage high, carried
clingnE to a log of wood upon the crests OF the
breaking seas and how it is sent crashing upon
the rocks, where in the seething foam it disap.
pears from sight
The wide stretching sand-choked estuary OF
the Solway has many ghost story and more
than one phantom ship.
The Spectral Shallop' is the ghost OF ferry
boat which was wrecked by rival ferryman while
carrying bridal party across the bay. The
Ehosty boat is rowei by the skeleton OF the
cruel fcrryman, and such ships as are un.
lucky to encounter this ghastly pilot
usually doomed to be wrecked upon the sands
No money would tempt the Solway fishermen
to 20 out to meet the two Danish searovers
whose ships, upon clear nights, gliding
up OF the narrow c'annels which thread the
dricd-out sands, the hgh-curved prows and rows
OF shields along the Eunwale glltering in the
moonlight These two piratical ships, It seems,
into the Solway and dropped anchor there,
when sudden furious storm came up and the
ships. which heavily laden with plunder
sank at their moorngs with all the villains
which composed their crews
Among the rocks upon the rugged coast OF
Kerry found Writer morning early in
the eighteenth century. large Ealleon. mastless
and deserted The Kerry wreckers crowded
aboard, and wild their Joy for the ship was
laden with InEots Of silver from the Spanish
Main. They gradually filled their boats until the
rmwales were almost down to the waters edge
and hastily they pulled to the shore in order that
they might return for further ngots before the
shore a huge tidal wave broke over boats and
ship and when the way0 had passed. the horri-
fed women watching on shore saw no sign re-
naming OF boats men or ship.
Wild horses would not get a Kerry fisherman
TO visit the Of this disaster upon the ami.
versary OF the day the grim tragedy took place
for only bad luck has to those who have
seen the re,cnactmont OF the affair which Kerry
folk believe takes place upon that day
The Ncwhaven ghost ship siEuined her own
doom. ship built at Nowhaven In January,
1Gi7, having sailed away upon her maiden voy.
age. was thought to have been lost at sea when
evening in June, during n furious thunder.
storm. the well-known ship was sighted sailing
into the river mouth-but straight into the eve
OF the Windmill she neared the town, when
slowly she faded from tho sight Of the people
who crowded on shore to watch her. The ap