Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-12-06

mist across the deck In 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 fos
blanket from different vessels The
former indicate moving vessels; the
latter vessels at anchor. There is the
duh clang of bell buoy sagging bach
and forth in the gentle swell The en-
glne room telegraph indicates that the
engines are going at slow" On one
side of the pilot house the captain Is
peering through the murky cloud with
mouth partly open and ears oblivious
to all except the sounds which come tc
him from every point of the compass
This is Saturday morning, and arriv
ing and departing steamships are
likely to be far more numerous thar
on any other day of the week On the
other side is the mate, as alert anc
watchful as the master. They com
pare notes from time to time
Well, I've got plenty of time" the
captain remarks at last, and ii IL
safer at anchor than trying to move
through this fog"
Business Is Business.
The lead is heayed and finally tn,
anchor is ordered dropped The wills
tie is replaced by the bell There Is
no breeze now. Over at the right
bell that reminds one of cowbell is
sounding, That must be a freighter
A sidewheeler bound for the fishins
grounds, and carrying a party of feb
ermen. goes dashing past with foam
Ing paddles. The fog does not delay
the load OF human freight, II is going
somewhere. Another. carrying com
muters from the shore of New Jersey
splashes north at a similar speed
Business is buslnessi A steamship
with deep .hroated voice slowly makes
her way up from the Ambrose channel
and drops anchor somewhere in the
impenetrable cloud only few hun
bred feet away. Soon the blast of
bugle communicates the information
that steamship company must, re
CARELESS OF any reluctance 1t may feel
provide its passengers with another
meal, aud that 1t Is about to be
served. Obviously, owing to the thin
ness of the blanket of mist, 1t is pos
sible to see the sun overhead. but
nothing beyond 200 feet on any side
A lookout on mast a hundred feet
ABOVE the deck would be above the
cloud, and able to guide the move
ments of vessel. Gradually the sur
burns up the fog. there being no wind
80 H.ss, A. 1t
! Choir is raised again. and, leaving the
| group of anchored steamships which
| gradually have been unveiled, the ten
| der makes for the Ambrose channel or
| its way out TO the Ambrose channel
lghtship. three or four miles at sea
She is going" again, much to the sat
isfaction of everyone.
/ Returning to the deck after dinner
| It Is discovered that the GREATNESS at
mosphere and oily sea have beer
/ transformed. A breeze is blowing
freshly and the waves are white
/ crested. The great Gedney channel
gas and whistllng buoy, which marks
the point of divergence of the Gedney
| and Ambrose channels-one of the lar
gest buoys in the worlds grooming
like an expiring bull az 1t says away
in the seaway and then rises slowly
to shake off in foam the water which
has momentarily submerged its huge
can body. Fog.bound steamships are
passing in and out in procession
fountains at their bows. curling white
caps along their high black sides and
dashing spray under their counters
suggesting the breaking of waves upor
rocky shore. They form a picture
that Cuickens the pulses as they
sweep along across the crested seas