Evening journal., 1913-05-23

The West Chester Local News says
You save money by buying shad
in New Castle. Del. Yesterday
quartet of West Chester men made
the Journey and we're satisfied they
saved fifteen cents a FISH. not count
Ing. of course, the gasoline they
burned and the tires they ruined IN
making the trip. and then, too, there
was twenty cents in tolls over the
Hamorton pike.
When you are really thrifty you
must be willing to make some sacri-
fees for the sake OF economy, and
so. when the Colonel expressed
wish to burn his gasoline and risk
his tires. his friends, Mr.. Chippen-
dale. Mr. Landau and third who
went along for ballast, we're not slow
to accept his offer.
The Colonel had recently returned
from a visit to South America, rath-
eT disappointed. il must be confessed
because no monkeys or boa constric-
tors were noticed swinging by their
tails and doing other acrobatic stunts
IN the trees along the Orinoco. He
was not disappointed, however, when
he turned into the dupont road at
the old Anvil and "cut her loose to
let the machine purr past the old
Yeatman place and down into Della
ware.
Like a hardwood floor is the pike
through Fairville and Centreville and
Greenville. until one comes to an
s'ivy mantled tower" four-square
building of brick-in reality a water
tank. on the right hand of the way.
There a turn TO the right Is in or
der, and on for three or four miles,
across the trolley track and to the
aeft. into ancient Newport, Del.
whence the road leads straight into
New Castle. a distance of about
twenty-five miles from home, or an
hour and a quarter by easy running.
Most of the way is like motoring
Through dreamland, with not a night
lmare In sight.
lScenes on the Wharf.
AT this season the wharf where
fish are landed is an interesting
and busy place, with the motor boats
scudding through the waves. or an
chored on the lee side, and sales in
progress in couple of small wooden
shacks on the land, and the big ocean
sAliiaeFs and the Baltimore boats and
the coastwise freighters all moving
iserenely up and down in the broad
lchannel beyond the ancient stone
pier In the near ground.
The fishing boats are in these days
gasoline driven, each being about
fifteen or twenty feet IN length and
carrying two men. They come chuf.
chuning I'm across the muddy water
pull up az the wharf and make fast
while a man on the landing lets
down a basket for their fish. Into
the basket they toss their catch, nine
or dozen or fifteen or more, which
are hauled up and taken to the sell.
ing shack, while the men make ready
10 go out again.
Got any herrin'?" asks we'll.
dressed old negro with a basket
"One. Here you go retorts 9
fisherman, tossing smaller fisi
scornfully to the negro, who catches
Il In his basket and waits patiently
for the next incoming boat.
Every few minutes the boats arrive
and the West Chester party, wanting
a dozen OF the best. must wait while
these are sorted from the inferior
ones. AT sixty-hve cents apiece The
largest arc bought fine. fat roe sha,
of the double breasted type. wrapped
In newspapers and prepared for the
journey VI into Pennsylvania. Mean
while the Cora, the Geneva, the Ivan
hoe, the Helen, the Neptune and tbs
others are arriving at the wharf anc
unloading their small but precious
cargoes
Apparently the men who catch th'
shad have nothing whatever 10 dc
with the sale of them, but every boai
conveys its product to one or the
other of two dealers on the wharf
who are constantly receiving anc
shipping. Credit is given for the FISH
delivered there, clerk keeping
careful accounts, which must tally
with those Of the men who do the
catching. Every boat contains III
net, with the large tub-like buoys OF