The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-02

Ticklish Task of Loading Frame Structures on ScoW
and Floating Them to New Locations---Sandy Strip
Along the Shrewsbury Rapidly Changing

cuts down the speed OF advance b, ais,
reduces the amount OF effort needed
at the windlasses. It may look some.
what primitive, but it is efrcctlyo
flexible and the likclicst apparatus tor
the work. might also say the cheap
est.
"But have not yet finished telling
you how | got that house ashore after
reached the further side OF the
meadow and came to the creek.
THAT little waterway was too twist
ing for mo to take the scows up there
in the first place. and too shallow for
the loaded barges. Nevertheless
, was able TO get "A smaller float up he
creek. where | anchored IT 80 that i
served as a pontoon bridge for tina,
stage of the houses journey Tho
cottage was finally landed after many
anxious moments, and while tho rise
OF the shore has made hard pulling FOR
the horses and slow travel for thN
building, still the rest OF the work II
comparatively easy.
"Of course the expense is consider
able. and this depends upon tn" dis
lance TO be travelled, the c'rCum-
stances Of the route and the time n
volved. But broadly speaking lf =
house Il in good condition and worth
anywhere from $1,000 upward j. IA
cheaper to move 1t than It Is to Gup'.-
cate II anew.
The most interesting ioh ! have 80
hand, and the one that WI utno ,,
record in distanc covered, is tac COZ.
tage have just shown luU nur.h ~
the station at Monmouth Boaca ami
now alongside the railroad tracks
am waiting only for night and 'hr
passing Of the last train TO slide =
across the rails. That big cottag"
also weighs quite 300 tons, which IS
not surprising, because It covers
good deal of ground and Ia three
stories high.
"Originally il stood close 20 N.
beach "A mile away, and II has come
his far in three weeks. You Nigh
consider that a snairs pace. hut IL Is
really a pretty good gait. especially
when ! tell you that We have had -
make several turns. and 1t is IN
swinging housa around that great
are has u hc taken
There is only short way 20 z
q row before the river is reached. and
I tlere will be nothing novel abou;
getting & aboard the supporting
! scows, but once afloat | have grt .
move Il three miles by water up tha'
arm Of the Shrewsbury. Then ! mus,
land II and draw It 300 yards over
| land TO It's new site close by the Rum.
! son Country Club house.
THAT means a total journey II
more than four miles for that cot
B tage, and I am hoping for Favorable
weather when once | get the struc
ture waterhorne. No a big tug would
not be necessary: an Is horse-power
motor launch will suffice.
Moving time along the shore now
has a very different meaning from thai
ordinarily understood by the average
home dweller. Il is not case O,
bundling bag and baggage into a var
and shifting to another house. but IN
stead Il means here. because OF the
inroads OF the sea, taking the cottage
along. Our rate ur progress is not BE-
wildering. for like the snails we carry
our habitations with us.
An OF those five cottages there -
a row have been moved this spr!rc
from the beach. and shifted none 10.
soon, az the crumpled bulkheads show
Another heavy storm and the house
would have been undermined and pos
sioly 80 wracked that they would
have been worth the transfer.
Fortunately for them the perinsg
al this point Is comparatively wldo
but those that have gone beyond 3.
Shrewsbury are certainly safer b.
cause II Is probably a matter OF ONLY
few years before these houses nv
high and dry and hundreds OF fcs
away from the surf may have -
breakers Rnawing away At their We
doors"