Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-06


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 fog
blanket from different vessels. The
former indicate moving vessels; the
latter vessels at anchor. There is the
dull clang of a bell buoy sagging back
and forth in the gentle swell. The en-
CINE 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 tt
him from every point of the compass
This is Saturday morning, and arriv
ing and departing steamships ars
likely to be far more numerous thar
on any other day of the week. On the
other side is the mate, as alert ant
watchful as the master. They com
pare notes from time to time
We'll, I've got plenty of time" tbs
captain remarks at last, "and it is
safer at anchor than trying to move
through this fog"
Business Is Business.
The lead is heaved and finally tn.
anchor is ordered dropped. The whis
tie is replaced by the bell. There is
no breeze now. Over at the right 8
bell that reminds one of a cowbell is
sounding. That must be freighter
A sidewheeler bound for the fishing
grounds, and carrying party of fish
ermen, goes dashing past with foam
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 similar speed
Business is business! A steamship
with deep-throated voice slowly makes
her way up from the Ambrose channel
and drops anchor somewhere in the
impenetrable cloud only a few hun
dred feet away. Soon the blast of {
bugle communicates the information
that a steamship company must, re
CARELESS of any reluctance it may feel
provide it's passengers with another
meal, and that 1t is about to be
served. Curiously, owing to the thin
ness of the blanket of mist, it is pos
sible to see the sun overhead, bui
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 a vessel. Gradually the sun
burns up the fog, there being no wind
to blow. it away. AS it thins, the an
Choir is raised again. and, leaving the
group of anchored steamships which
gradually have been unveiled, the ten
der makes for the Ambrose channel OF
it's way out to the Ambrose channel
lightship, 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 breathless 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 whistling 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 it 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 a procession
fountains at their bows, curling white
caps along their high black sides anc
dashing spray under their counters
suggesting the breaking of waves upor
rocky shore. They form picture
that cuickens the pulses as they
sweep along across the crested seas