New Britain herald., 1917-03-02
DAME: PROSPERITY , }
 GOOD TO FALMOUTH
Peninsula Port Crowded With All
 Sorts of Graft

Sorts of Craft
 FalmouAh. England. March D. These gre stirring days in this remote shipping outpost. The harbor is crowded with American, Dutch. and Scandinavian craft of all kind. great Ansrs of some of the transatlantic companies. freighter4 tankers and lFamps in all rigs and hass. It Is the 1usiest chipping time Falmouth has 3een since the old packet days. ale dhost hundred years ago. when,
 filings fourished and then died down until the port was considered pretty A4Ad from . shipping standpoint. Just now the declaration of the Ger man war sones has sent more ships, eesfrying into tho harbor. for the to the German note 1vsn specihsd Falmouth by name as < offering some possible exemption. From the scourge.
 A&&e4xSNES&A 4A1V10 N48eAkS 0AAy V&AAO4 VO4 Y 1T witnessing how the war ls changing ,kioaalarly along the channel whore the closed the old ports for transatlantic ttavsl. notably at Cherbourg. Hayre' and Boulogne on the French side, i, and Southampton and Dover on the z English. And even Bordeaux has xAtlen In the danger sone under the s now menace. So that Falmouth, while having no actual exemption. has none the less reaped the advantage |of its Eeoxraphical position in ab- sorhang the shipping closed out from many other ports.
 The port b at the very tip of south- .west England. just abreast of the rocky headland of LAndAeud and about the first land sighted In coming A0ro1s the Atlantic. It is just east of tho Lisard. from which point the ar- rival of liners is first reported. tho sAlne n from Sandy Hook. IL 1s ad-s Jacent, too, to the P0ldau wireless ,ata- ton which from this outpost 6ende its wireless across tho Atlanelc and to 1hips It s1a. Neaf6ys n Pouxauce, Wiere ths pirates lived and further em n the house of DrAles s
 Thus locatsd 4t tho Necy jumping olk point of England An4 the wsetern- naost harbor of the oh4nnsL Falnoath AAs . uainirnanl of sul rho dinger AnA It the same 4im1 T something like Nontank Point; Long lsland, in. rsachiA9s far out U ssA ant ds4hns psr- mitain9 quick on Gtgency I'll donnec- tions Mikh tho metr6polls 1ying 1upI thss lnlAnd v2erlous aqva4tases Aave eai Fl llill back < E.as naotath fo IT old thu Skipping S1ES and to crowd the hlrbor with the Eahips of all notions save those Of the: f1neny.
 s Don't Llke American on.
 One Of these lAew-comers, an Amer S lOAn tankefs hos jaast gone ashore in tho outer hArbor and is slowly goins 4b DdeceA before the heavy surf. TAlre Aae been no loss of life, but 1Nlnouth = deeply reused. for . scum ~ American oil has spread over the sutfAce Of tue water. z
 'ft's one of the worst things ever ; Happened to us." eatd m old author tfy of the port. The oil has got into oar oyster beds among the best In England. Asad rrobably killed them for 's6eed. It has also killed or all the dSh, and oven the hsh that ere living can't be eaton. they taste 50 of oil. stsfvs had . big boom from the war. but thu oil on tho water has set 1t a11 back. It's | serious danger. too. for It some points 1t has caught on Are and spread sheet Of name far s1ver the water. ' ss6TTss s9 Essf q.
 This. however, is only one of the passing incidents of the strenuous sea lifs fll times of war. But the lasting thing for Falmouth is the great im- pstus to skipping and the crowd of ships from an over the world now heading 1t In and out of the port. Tho rush has been so great that tho port authorities have put on very rigid 1u1eS AeAin1t crowds Of strangere in- < vAdinE the town &4 night. Only the X nnaster of the merchant craft come E ashore at any ume: Ill tho crews ere 2 HnnArooned aboard. day and night. No small boat from the visiting stips can Dc afioat after o'clock in the alter noon. Any master or other person from the ships in town after that is sub3ect to arrest.
 Nelsonss F1agslaip There.
 About the stransest ships in this Crowded harbor are two which loom mp high on either side of a liner as It comes in from the trip over tho Att : 1antic. These two enormous hulks look like water fortresses. with double and triple lighting decks aud triple lines of portholes for heavy guns. The
 British ensign h snappinG from the peak of both these craft, and yet, clearly. they cannot possibly bs war craft of the present generation. as in-
 Quiry proves. for they ara two of the