Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-07-21
ANCLESEA

John Bethel, a colored native of
Jamaica, West Indies, attacked Capt.
Winters with q drawn razor aboard
the Florence. w. Friday morning last.
Bethel was arrested by Officer Lever
ing and locked up. Later Capt. Win
tiers appeared against the belligerent
Jamaican, but did not prefer a charge
against him on the condition that he
leave the island and not return. Beth
Ell agreed to this and Capt. Winters
placed the amount of his fare to Phila-
delphia IN the hands of the police who
put him aboard a train Saturday
morning. Bethel was brought from
Miami, Florida, by Capt. Winters and
has been in his employ for about three
years, proving himself q trustworthy
man until. John Barleycorn got con-
troll of him. Bethel, for three weeks
preceding the attack upon the captain,
has been drinking heavily, staying out
until early morning which had inca
pacitated him for his duties aboard the
boat. On the morning of the assault,
Bethel returned after a nights debauch,
to his sleeping quarters aboard the
Florence w. about 5 o'clock. Capt.
Winters states that his patience had
been exhausted; consequently he
demonstrated with him; then the man
in his ugly mood produced the razor
and attempted to cut him. The cap
tain struggled with the frenzied negro
and subdued him by forcing him
against the boat rail. 1t is said that
Bethel's troubles are all due to thought
less treating of the man to rum by his
white associates. Capt. Winters and
his wife keenly feel Bethel's disgrace,
as they, had a great interest in him
but the good of their patrons Influenced
them to part with the man.
The party boats have been making
good catches Of sea bass, porgies and
founders.
Miss Myrtle Pavitt, the %aquaplane
artist, has been thrilling thousands of
visitors and residents Of the beach by
her daring exhibitions this year as
usual. She is not spending the sum-
mer in Anglesea, on account of holding
Q good position with q prominent law
firm Of Philadelphia. However, she
spends her week ends here and fully
makes up for the time missed while in
the city. Miss Payitt was the first girl
to ride the a~quaplane in these waters.
She has become quite an expert at it
and it is almost impossible to throw
her from the board. On account of the
scarcity Of speed boats she rides behind
the Stone Harbor boats almost every
Sunday afternoon and only those who
are on the boat can really appreciate
the daring Of this mermaid. Every
aquaplane trick imagina able is perform
ed by her and she il. always ready for
new stunts. Miss :Pavitt lie always
operto suggestions as, to- new stunts
which may be performed on the board.
This girl is also an expert swimmer and
is now In training for the five mile
marathon on the Schuylkill river this
summer. She has won four or five
medals In speed contests this past win
ter in Philadelphia and expects to train
for speed at the Turngemeinde the COM
ing fall. Miss Pavitt and her sister
Hazel, who is also an aquaplane ar
tist, are we'll known on the island and
have many friends who are interested
in their progress in swimming and
aquaplaning. 1t will be remembered
that these two girls swan from
Anglesea to Stone Harbor last summer,
one making 1t in two hours and ten
minutes and the other In two hours
and forty minutes.
Get the habit; follow the crowd to
Wirth's Cafe.
Curtis Mathis, of Second avenue, one
of the best known shippers In these
parts, has so far this season caught
with his hook and line 223 tons of sea-
fish and at that, there are a number of
Anglesea bank shippers who are ahead
of him. If any of our enthusiastic one
day-fishermen can realize what it
means to pull hand yer hand 223 tons
of fish with 80 to 40 feet of water in all
kind Of weather, their love for fishing
ened after catching a few tons this way.
Captain Mathis, while up on the bay
two weeks ago making a set for moss
-bunkers, immeshed a twelve foot sand
shark, which weighed 400 or 500
pounds. 1t was as gentle as a lamb
and it was said that it was almost en-
tirely Indifferent to the caresses of a
butcher knife, which landed under its
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