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Salt Water Ice
WEARS ago. when shad fishing

" EARS ago. when shad fishing was
i good there" said an old fisherman,
"there were plenty of fishermen
living along the shores of Gravcsend
Bay who sent their fish up to Fulton
Market iced with fresh water ice that
they had collected out of the bays salt
waters. this being ice that had come
down from the upper Hudson and drfted
in there, just as II does to-day.
when the wind is strong from the
west or northwest Gravescnd Bay fills
with ice from Fort Hamilton to Coney
Island Point, and II the wind holds
and the tides run high ice is some
times crowded up along the shore to
height of four or five feet, There
have been times when people had to
cut paths through this ice barrier to
get to the beach. When the Hudson
River Ice breaks up late in the
winter or early in the spring the fresh
ice comes down to mingle here with
the salt water Ice OF the local waters.
and then when the condt ions are
right this Ice IL blown into Gravesend
Bay mixed In with the salt. The
fresh water Ice IL much harder than
that Of salt water and more lasting.
and 1t is OF a different color. 80 that
1t Is easily distinguished. 1t was the
upper Hudson fresh water Ice that
drifted into the bay that the Graves
end fisherman collected for their uses.
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he likened her to q goddess, he said:
TO drop figures. my lovely girl. you
become dearer to me every moment"
The night before be led the assault at
Yorktown he wrote telling her that he
expected to win immortal fame on the
morrow. and he closed his letter with
this sentence: Think Of me, dream OF
me. and love me. my Betsy, as ] do YOU"
When the war closed and Hamilton
was able to rejoin his wife he said II
was impossible for him to be unhappy.
Perhaps he was right. He had taken
rank as one Of the great men of the new
nation. The world was before him. He
had been blessed with one Of the tender.
est, best and most patient Of wives; and
she had given son to him who was the
apple Of his eye. The future was full
OF promise.
They went to New York to live and
there she was more than a wife to him.
She, a woman Of but moderate educat ton.
had such rare good SENSE that Hamilton
deferred to her opinion in many matters.
Nearly everything he wrote he SUBJ
mitted to her for approval or disa pprovai
She sat by his side while he worked
When he finished writing he would read
to her and ask for her opinion.
You must be to me. Betsy" he said
what Mollere's 'old nurse was to him"
These two married 'lovers had some
queer experiences. 1t was Hamilton
who wrote Washington's farewell ad-
dress to the army. Hamilton and his
wife were walking In Broadway a few
days after the delivery Of the address
when an old soldier. who was selling the
address to the people, asked Hamilton
to buy copy. When Hamilton had
handed coin to the soldier Betsy smiled
and said:
III he only knew that ne has sold &c
you copy Of your own work. wns,
would he Think"
Busy as Hamilton had been during the
war ne had more active days In the ter
years that followed. and he did q greater
work. The winning OF independence was
no less a task than the fashioning Of a
government such as the world never had
known before. Few persons realize how
great was Hamilton's labor In this un.
dertaking. And then. when the new
Government was launched II devolved
upon him. as the first Secretary Of the
Treasury. to bring order out Of the dis.
order OF finance. a less able man nigh,
have wrecked the nation then and there
From 1890 to 1875 ne practically lived
in Philadelphia and Mrs Hamilton In
New York AS often as he could he was
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Mrs Alexander Hamilton From original picture painted 7S
by R. Ear.

The years between 1875 and the end OF
1901 were the happiest In Betsy Hamil-
tons life. She had one experience about
this time that would have wrecked some
homes, but not hers. Hamilton became
involved In an affair with vulgar.
coarse. almost illterate woman named
Mrs. Reynolds. There was a great scan
DIAL as result. Although Mrs Hamil-
toms heart may have blcd. she acted like
a stole. Never did she permit the sub
ject to be mentioned in her presence.
Whatever of happiness she had in the
eighteenth century was more than coun-
tcrbalanced by the sorrow that came to
her in the nineteenth A silly boys quar-
rel robbed her of son.
Philip, her first born. criticised q
schoolmate who had made a speech in
favor of Burr. The boys went to Wee
hawkcn, fought a duel and on Novem-
her 23, 1901. the day after the duel
Philip Hamilton, who was only 10 years
old, died in her arms Less than three
years later. on the same field at Wee
hawken. Aaron Burr shot her husban nd
in a duel, and the following day she
was a widow.
OF all the duels fought In America
none has received more attention than
this one. Hamilton was largely to blame.
He and Burr had been enemies for some
years. A few months before the duel he
had written OF Burr as profilgate. a
voluptuary and little short OF a thief.
The person to whom the letter was sent
was imprudent enough to show 1t ia
others and reference was made to II In
a newspaper. Burr called upon Hamil-
ton to avow or disavOw Its authorship
Hamilton refused ami the challenge that
led to the duel followed,
Betsy Hamilton was great as the wife
OF Alexander Hamilton, hut she was
greater as his widow. Within a few
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three times before a bear can reach you.
but with a bow and arrow you have to
approach very close To- your bear. and If
you miss him You are fortunate II YOU
escape as you have no time to 1T an
other arrow 10 your bow string, draw it
back. take aim and shoot. old Otoko
probably knew nothing about the solar
pleXus, but he knew there was a tender
spot just below the bears ribs and So
when the bear approached he ducked
his head and butted him in the pit of the
stomach. Before the bear could recover
he had killed him with knife.
The natives say Otoko must have
uses traps as we'll as bow and arrow.
These traps are arranged with "A strong
bow hidden in the underbrush and
string so arranged that when a bear
hits 1t he Will be directly in the path Of
the arrow and hitting the string will re.
lease the arrow These arrows are
poisoned.
When Mr.. Arnell and Ma or Wigmore
visited old Otoko they met his wife and
daughter. These women were very
fashionably dressed for that part Of the
country because Otoko had made for
tune at killing bears. Otoko besides his
bow and arrow had long swordlkc
knife in his belt. The cluaks the women
wore We're made Of very fine birch
bark put through SOM" process which
makes it pliahlc.
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where she and Hamilton dwelt were
those at 81 Wan street, Sc Pine, IS Par
| tition tnow Fulton street,, Liberty near
Broadway. &c Broadway tnow the site
OF the Standard oil buildins). and later
| Hamilton Grange, where Hamilton
planted the thirteen trees, symbolical
OF She thirteen original States. She
dwclt also. Dor a short time. at 60 Stone
street. while Hamilton was absent in
Philadelphia.
There is a story that once she was
travelling on a boat on the Hudson,
when she stepped on the deck saw
Aaron Burr and demanded to be put off
at the next landing, Even il We did
not have the authority Of her grandson.
DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton. for pro-
rDuncing the story untrue. il would ring
false She was not the sort of woman
to scream. 1t would have been Burr
WHO would have sought flight from
the boat.
An insight into her character is bet
ter given by her interview with James
Monroe years after he had been Presi-
dent OF the United States. He was lone
Of those who had been instrumental in
exposing Hamiltons relations with the
Reynolds woman. He was very old
|
her.
1t was visit Of friendship. he told
her, and he wished to be friends with
her once more. for they would not long
remain on earth. She looked at him
calmly and then told him that unless
he came to beg forgiveness for the great
wrong he had done no lapse OF time.
no nearness to the grave. could make
any difference in her feelings toward
him.
A remarkable woman was Betsy
Hamilton. For fifty years after Burr
shot Alexander Hamilton to death she
lived. She was 81 when she died, and
the greatest honor she could show to
any visitor at her home in II street in
Washington, was to let him touch the
sword her husband wore at Yorktown.
and to drink from the punch bowl OF
George Washington.
(copyri9ht. 1914. by the Wheeler SIM
| dictate. McD
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with her. His letters to her breathed
love and devotion. BY an odd trick Of
fate Aaron Burr was the messenger who
Carried some Of these letters to her.
Burr was Hamiton's friend and trav-
elled much between Philadelphia and
New York-no cloud was on their
friendship in those days. Mrs. Hamll-
tons home at this time was at 81 Wall
street. Her husband at this period Of
his career was proving himself an able
financler. but he made a sorry mess at
various times of his personal finances.
been a bankrupt. 1t was Washington
who said of her to Hamilton:
"She has as much merit as your treas
urer as you have as Treasurer of the
United States"
She was generous, but she had the
Dutch thrift and the Dutch tenacity of
her ancestors. She had the blood Of
Killlan Van Rensselaer, In her veins.
Hamilton. with his big ideas and his
wonderful grasp OF affairs, planned well
for the nation. but was something of n
spendthrift when 1t came to his own per-
sonal matters. She. with loving care,
saved him from his weaknesses and
watched over everything Ike the pru-
dent wife that she was.
In every way she was just the wife for
him. He had a rare faculty for provok-
ing strife. At times no was absolutely
tactless. He was bold. fearless. forceful
and a bit arrogant. He got into hot
water frequently. but always was ready
for a new experience OF the same kind.
She was his good genius. tender. amiable.
soothing. In her presence he forgot
his cares.
Many children had been born to them
and she was very happy when. In Feb
ruary. 1875. Hamilton retired from pub
lie life and returned to New York to
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is in Japan a man who is
popularity believed to have killed
800 bears with "A bow and arrow

THERE is in Japan a man who is
popularity believed to have killed
500 bears with bow and arrow.
y short time ago some Americans
visited him in his wild mountain home
on. the island of IIokkaido.
This island belongs to the group
north of Japan. Otoko Yama Is the
name of the bear hunter. He prefers
his bow TO modern weapons. Recently
he tried an old muZzle loading gun. and
while he had some success with it he
liked his bow and arrow better.
ptoko Yama is an Aino. a member
Of one of the aboriginal tribes Of Japan
Some years ago when the japanese be-
gan to pay more attention to the gov
eminent Of Hokkaido and its other
island possessions in the north they
started to register or make census of
'the inhabitants. This was by no means
easy because these long bearded and
half wild people had no names, and so
the japanese authorities had to name
every man as best they could,
High up In the mountains they came
across a man who seemed to be leader
among the people in that vicinity. He
was great hunter and much admired
by the natives because of his prove SIS.
When the japanese officials learned that
he had killed many bears with small
bow and arrow they could scarcely be-
lIeve 1t. but he took them into the
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Some men would dig a hole in the
sand above high water. put in two
or three tons OF that fresh water ice
and cover 1t over with sand. In some
cases they dug bigger pits. that
would hold maybe ten. fifteen. twenty
tons, and lined these pits with hay
and then. when they had got the pits
filled, covered the ice with hay and
covered that with sand. In such a pit
the ice would last longer
In those days one man on the beach
built inshore IA regular ice house with
double walls. a house with a capacity
of fifty or sixty tons. which he filled
with fresh water ice. He would go
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around and pick out a cake or
block or chunk of fresh ice here and
there and put hooks on it. and
then with n line leading to a pulley
block have horse pull it to the ice
house. He could keep ice till June or as
late as he wanted it,
They don't collect the fresh water
ice in that fashion nowadays around
Gravesend Bay. but in winter. when
the conditions are right for ii. the bay
fills up with ice. just as it has always
done. Some of it is buried in the sand.
cake weighing maybe two or three
hundred pounds might be thrown by
O. high tide Wen up on the beach. to
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settle down there finally Oh the sand.
The wind would blow sand over 1t
until it was completely covered.
Chunks of ice weighing fifty or sixty
pounds have been dug up on Graves
end beach as late as the middle Of
April
This fresh water ice is known not
to fishermen alone; every ferryboat pilot
in these waters knows it on sight.
pilot might buck an acre piece OF soft.
porous. spongy salt water ice and ex-
pect to split it and so through. but an
acre piece of hard fresh water ice
from up river he would turn out for and
go around"
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