Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-12-11

mist across the deck in a way thai
BODIES no good for the future Of the
day. The whistle is sounded at regu'
lar intervals. The notes of other whis
ties and bells come through the foa
blanket from different vessels. THO
former indicate moving vessels; thS
latter vessels at anchor. There is ths
dull clang of bell buoy sagging bacH
and forth in the gentle swell. The eng
CINE room telegraph indicates that thS
engines are going at ''slow." On onS
side of the pilot house the captain ID
peering through the murky cloud wita
mouth partly open and ears oblivious
to all except the sounds which come I'd
him from every point of the compass
This is Saturday morning. and arriYa
ing and departing steamships arr
likely to be far more numerous THAI
on any other day of the week On tho
other side is the mate, as alert and
watchful as the master They coml
pare notes from time to time
We'll, I've got plenty of time" ths
captain remarks dit last, and it il
safer at anchor than trying to moys
through this fog"
Business Is Business.
The lead is heaved and finally thJ
anchor is ordered dropped The whis
tie is replaced by the bell. There il
no breeze now. Over at the right 4
bell that reminds one of a cowbell Il
sounding. That must be a freighter
A sidewheeler bound for the fishing
grounds, and carrying a party Of fish
ermen, goes dashing past with foamS
ing paddles. The fog does not delay
the load of human freight. 1t is going
somewhere. Another, carrying com
muters from the shore of New Jersey
splashes north at a similar speed
Business is business, A steamship
with deep-lhroated voice slowly makes
her way up from the Ambrose channel
and drops anchor somewhere in th9
impenetrable cloud only few hunl
dred feet away. Soon the blast OF
fugle communicates the informatl0is
that a steamship company must, re-.
CARELESS of any reluctance it may feel
provide its passengers with anotheA
meal, and that it is about to D9
served. Curiously, owing to the tnl1a
ness of the blanket of mist, it is pos
sible to see the sun overhead, bu
nothing beyond 200 feet on any sld9
A lookout on a mast a hundred rev
above the deck would be above tag
cloud, and able to guide the move
ments of a vessel. Gradually the SUI
burns up the fog, there being no WIN
to blow it away. AS it thins, the an
Choir is raised again, and, leaving IN
group of anchored steamships Wnlc
gradually have been unveiled, the yen
der makes for the Ambrose channel u
its way out to the Ambrose channe
lightship, three or four miles at sea
She is going" again, much to the Sa'
isfaction of everyone.
Returning to the deck after dinner
it is discovered that the GREATNESS II
mosphere and oily sea have OeeL
transformed. A breeze is Dlo"In7
freshly and the waves are
crested. The great Gedney channe
gas and whistling buoy, which mafAI
the point of divergence of the Geone
and Ambrose channels-one OF the ID
gest buoys in the worlds groahln5
like an expiring bull as it says AVA
in the seaway and then rises slo"i
to shake off in foam the water VIM.
has monentarily submerged It's hus
can body. Fog-bound steamships a
passing IN and out in proceSSi'o.-
fountains at their bows, curling WIZ.
cans along their high black sides a.
daghing spray under their COUNT
suggesting the breaking Of waves lpT
a rocky shore. They form plosu
that Quickens the pulses as US
sweep along across the cres'eu