The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-04-25

whose behalf the editor is very active
The reception will be held in Mr.. Fol
wells home.
j ashore And Near Shore"
The North American, of Philadelphia
} has an editor whose delight seems to b.
In looking up the old history Of New
Jersey towns. In Mondays edition o
the North american he had an article
with the above heading and we repro
duce some parts of it:
"Soms of the quaintest old towns are
located along the north Jersey coast, anC
from these were drawn the sea captains
of many of the old sailing vessels thai
traversed the ocean before they were
finally displaced by .steam craft. Some
of these old captains are yet living, and
are always worth story of the days of 6
half century ago. But the history o.
Long Beach extends back many years
before the life Of the oldest of the pre-
sent inhabitants. The first deed grant
ed was in 1890 for lands at what is now
known as Harvey Cedars. Here whaler:
and their families settled and named
the town Harvey Whaling Quarters.
At that time Barnegat inlet was not
open through to the sea, and the whalsrs
would enter through Cranberry inlet.
"In 1877 the whaling industry had
practically come to its close and had left
on the shore many daring spirits, the de-
scendants of the early whalers, and
these finding their sources of livelihood
very limited, began career not alto
gether reputable. One of the favorite
stories Of those days is the means by
which vessels were lured to their de-
struction after legitimate wrecks be-
come too few. The pirates would hang a
lantern to a mules neck, and the ami =
NAL you'd move along the beach in the
darkness. Marines would think the
slowly moving light was that Of ship,
and would, therefore. deem it safe to
venture nearer to shore. The result
would be a wreck, and more loot for the
pirates.
Another pirate tale is that of these
men of Long Beach rowing out to the
wreck of the sloop Adelaide, which had
overturned. When the pirates reached
the hull they heard noise within and.
cutting hole through the bottom, res
cued the captains little daughter. She
had been caught in partition in the
cabin and hung there with her head
barely above the water, the drowned
bodies of all the rest OF the crow floating
near her.
ut is estimated that more than 400
boats have gone down near Long Branch
since. its early days. Notable among
these was the Powhatan, an emigrant
ship, which was wrecked about two
miles above Little Egg Harbor inlet,
carrying 1855 souls to watery grave A
heavy sea was running when she struck,
and she broke up rapidly beneath the
terrific pounding of the waves. On the
same day, and wrecked by the same
storm, the Manhattan went down, and
only one man was saved. He foated
through the surf on piece Of wreckage.
During the war of the rebellion an
English vessel came ashore at Barnegat,
and the only survivor of this wreck was
cat with short front legs and long hind
legs and no tail. = The old keeper of the
Barnegat Light found the cat clinging
to some wreckage and took it home. A
few days later he found himself the pos
SCISSOR of family OF cats. all with short
front legs, long hind legs and no tails
These cats were considered freaks of
nature for long time, until an English
man, visiting the island, explained they
were distinct breed of cats from the
Isle OF Man, off the English coast. AL
though frequently crossed with the COM
mon species OF cats, these felines with a
gait like rabbit are still to be found on
Long Beach.
1.-The wreck of the Francis is one which
the inhabitants never did quite forget.
Old salts and ancient mariners still
wrinkle their faces in smiles and smack
their lips involuntarily when they hear
the name of Francis. When the boat
began to break up and the casks of rare
wines began to wash ashore, everybody
on Long Beach began to drink to the
health of everybody else, and this ex-
tended to the women folks, who became
as blithesome and gay as the men. In
cluded in these were couple OF the
charming daughters of sea captain,
who slipped enough sherry to make them
feel like walking on air. Then they
tried some claret and little champagne,
and when their mother had tucked
them in bed for the night these maidens
were SO scandalized over their own mis-
conduct that they formed the first w. C.
T. U. club of Long Beach, only they
called it the anti-Francis Society. II
was not very popular organization SC
long as the cargo of the good shiT
Francis remained on Long Beach"
Four articles given away absolutely
free. See Boyee's window, adv.