The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19


Frank c. Raynor and Albert @. Olches
OF Brooklyn, and DR.. Charles q. Sanford
! of New Haven have just returned from
| New Inlet, N. j., the home of the chan.
mel bass, bluefish croaker and weakf1sh
| While the ambition of all the anglers
I was to feel the thrill of having a channel
i BASS hanging on the line (the luck In
other years not having fallen upon any
except AL Olches). they did get blues
croakers and weakflsh of the yellow fin
variety that have a fight in every fin,
| particularly in these fall days.
New Inlet Is on a narrow strip Of the
! Barnegat sand dunes that are an outer
| bar protection to the mainland The
sea breaking through almost a century
ago gave 1t its name. Recently be-
tween New Inlet and Beach Haven the
sea has broken through In another place,
and New Inlet is now an island. reached
only by boat The only buildings on
the island are those of the life guards.
DR.. Sanford drove from New Haven in
his auto and picked up the various
members of the party. two of the men
riding in Ford truck in which was the
fishing and camping outfit.
Route Historically Interesting.
The auto trip was made by moonlight
through the romantic and historically
interesting Jersey shore country, the
route being by way Of Jersey City, New
ark. Elizabeth. Railway, Woodbridge,
Perth Amboy. South Amboy, Keyport,
Matawan. where boy was killed by q
shark while bathing; Marlboro. Free
hold, Adelphia. Lakewood, Toms River
Forked River. the home of the State
side of Elizabeth, once the home of the
leases game birds and animals for the
benefit of the sportsmen of the State !;
Waretown, Barnegat. Manahawkin, Surf
City, Brant Beach and Beach Haven, the
latter place. noted for its splendid fish
ing and water fowl cunning.
Passing through Jersey City. once the
scene of a brilliant action by Light
Horse Harry Lee: through Newark,
whose founder was Robert Treat, hun
ger called the party to n halt Just out
side of Elizabeth. once the home of the
great rivals Alexander Hamilton and
Aaron Burr.
Here at one of those inns on wheels
rolled into an empty lot alongside the
curb a can of coffee was purchased
and passersby standing alongside the
cars were amused by the men having
supper of corned beef and veal loaf
sandwiches, crullers and apple pie, part
Of the supplies they carried with them.
Here steering rod of the Ford needed
men in their rough toys presented the
usual road appearance of tinkering with
the machine and getting so soiled up
that gasolene is an essential before
washing.
The steering rod finally adjusted yRah-
way (the scene of the encampment dur
ing the Revolution of Gen. William Max
wells brlgade) was quickly passed and
eood time was Smade through the bad
roads of the Amboys, where in 1857
King James II. attempted to annex East
and West Jerseys to New York, Sir
Edmond Andres being appointed Gov
ernor- General.
AS the moon lighted the way the at
tractive country of the coast counties
gave pleasure. the journey being leis-
urely made through the former country
OF the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware In
dams who made their famous treaty
with William Penn. and who We're COM
PEELED to keep 1t through what in those
days would be called a gentleman's
agreement between the founder of Phila-
deipha and the Iroquois, who dominated
the Delawares, to whom they referred as
women taking away from the tribe
the right to make war.
The Lenni-Lenapes, it might be re-
marked in passing, were members Of
the Algonquin Indians, who added
thirty-three words to the English lam
guage. among them such familiar ones
as Tammany, sachcm, caribou, chip
munk, hickory, hominy. menhaden,
tuxedo, totem and others now in daily
use by their conquerors.
Many of these towns that the fisher !
men campers passed through are his
interesting, for in early days
they were raided by British and Tories, |
and Freehold will always be remembered !
for the work that Molly Pitcher did ,
at the battle of Monmouth in serving
the cannon after her husband had been
killed. Washington appointed her a
sergeant for her work that day.
Long after midnight the last stretch !
Of road, the causeway across Manahaw-
kin Bay, was passed and only few
miles lay between the bridge and the
ind Of the road-Beach Haven,
Gypsy Campers on Beach.
Turn down the first street to the
beach," yelled DR.. Droogan to the men
irving the camping outfit. 1t so hap 4
pened that the first street was the main
street of Brant Beach. In front of the
,each houses, within a stones throw of
he rolling Atlantic the machines were
,arked and each man, without any pre-
iminarics, took two blankets, curled
'imSet up in them and went to sleep on
he sand in front of the houses on the
,cean front. If the occupants of these
houses had been early risers they might
lave thought that a gypsy encampment
lad rolled in, for at daybreak the men
we're sleeping comfortably under ban-
tets, although the outside was wet with
eavy dew that covers everything along
hore
Luck must have beckoned the party to
he main street of Brant Beach, for upon
rising they found pump in the front
ard, which every, one congregatcd
bout Soon fire was started on the
each, the bacon warmed in a pan, the
Office hot, as needs be in the early ,
norning when men have slept outdoors,
nd with bread and butter and rasp-
erry jam and crullers for n breakfast
he meal was sufficient until n per-
lament camp was made
At Beach Haven, as tho truck was be-
ne empted and placed on Capt. Jerry
ipragues boat other anglers were met,
II % them Rod and Gun contributors,
II shopping Information about the pros
eCts and joshing one another as to who
'as hiding behind the nom de plume
Grape Juice" "Tamarack," "Oswegat-
ME-" Switch Reel" Bill Crockett"
saltwater" and Long Beach" insisted
ley had an alibi.
An hours run through the bay of
little Egg Harbor. entertained in the .
lean time by flights of black ducks and
coters passing overhead, brought the
arty to the shore of New Inlet, where