Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-05
ANGLESEA FISHERMEN LIKE
THOSE KLPLLNG WROTE ABOUT
Bishops Hotel, Where Gang Hangs Out Resembles Fuhdh
Fishers Boarding Houe-Tragedy Casts Shodow OF Gloom

"Tpas Fultah Fishcr's boarding.
house
Where sailor men reside
And there rere meu from nH the
ports
Only in this case It is Bishops, "
in Anglesca. n. j.. but the men are the
same type that Kipling wrote about,
As strange and weird are their ad-
venture, as rough the sea. and az hard
the life they live in sight Of the car
rouscls and band stands Of summer
resort. as in any epic written Of the
fshcrman's life' on the Grand Banks, or
on the freezing fords Of Norway.
Most Of the men are az familiar. in
fact. with the mist hidden liners that
bring n crashing death on the Grand
Banks and the licking combers of the
Irish Coast, MS they are with the
trencherous Hereford bar, which
brought death to eleven Of their mum :
Der last Monday.
Scandnavians for the most part
their cnlm blue eyes have scanned weary
horizons since they were born, the lure
Of the sen II In their blood, and they
can no more leave their hard lives than
their Viking ancestors could help sailing
over onward toward the reccding sky
line.
And they travel the world to fish.
The first Of this month the Hegira
started to the South and within n few
weeks the same men who have dragged
the Topping bass and fighting blue fish
from the lashing green opaqucness OF
the Northern Atlantic all summer will
be watching their lines and nets through
thc blue transparency that is the ocean
of the Florida coast.
Spring Plans
When the season changes again IN
the spring the same men will start to
the northward. perhaps to Boston or
Quebec for the Grand Banks fishing, or
perhaps the call of the homeland will
sound and they will hunt their tinny
livelihood off the shores of Norway or
Sweden.
Some, too. will return to Anglesea
and Bishops Some will not even leave
there. II the summer has been good
nne they will stay quietly In port for
the winter. II the summer has been
n very bad one. they may not have the
corforp for the trip South and be forced
70 ply their trade off the treacherous
Jersey coast all winter.
The interesting part Of it is Tho, little
realization that the summer visitors
have Of the romance that is going on
under their eyes. It is not until some
tragedy like last Mondays brings home
the fact. that the more sheltered of us
realize the savage rcnorseless strength
Of the breakers. the hathers dance in
during the summer.
Not until one Of the strong craft is
tossed. shattered and stripped of its
human freight on the hard beach. do we
know that the bobbing pound boats that
dot the summer horizon are manned by
crews that daily face death-and like
il.
The reward is small and uncertain,
the work is unbelicvably hard and the
life a constant risk. but these mon will
never give it up. Perhaps they can t
give 1t up. The lure of the sea has them
lust as strong as 1t has the hands on
the seagoing ships and if you have Il
chance to talk with some Of them in
BshopS you will realize IT,
When the statement is made that the
reward is small, perhaps it should b"
qualified to read 1.-THE financial reward.
These hardy Norscmen get a bigger