Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

When Templeton Jones was down at
the wharf buying a watermelon he got
to looking at the SchoonerS and think
ing what great sport it would be to
sail one Of them around to the Chesa-
peake Bay.
River sailing would net do at all for
him, he thought Nothing less than
the bay would do. He was like the man
making q comparatively small salary
who nevertheless never said that he de-
sired a competence of $4,000 a year,
but always made it $4,000.
Jones aspired not for the ocean, but
he would not rest content with the
| river. The Potomac is a fine stream
and the astounding claim is made for
it that it is the widest river in America.
Nevertheless it is a river and there
fore fresh. Templeton Jones longed for
the tang Of salt air. Now Chesapeake
Bay is Just as salt as the ocean. When
you get out on some of its broadcast
reaches your noStrils are filled with the
peculiar mixture of salt and fresh fish
which makes up what we know as
salt air"
And the way it blowSl
No other breeze comes slanting at
you like the salt wind, fresh from the
mysterious depths, rolled over and over
by it. etenally kept clean.
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The ocean is wide, and lonely, and
sad 1t is inhuman, in a sense.
But the Chesapeake Bay is a chummy
sort of place, where almost always you
can see the shore or never be far out
of sight of other boats.
1t had the advantage, to Templeton
Jones Of being the only bay he had
ever known. When he thought of
bay" since a child, he had thought Of
the Chesapeake
Surely no place is there better
finer body of land-locked water, called
bay, than this one bearing the so
familiar name
Why, there even is dog named after
it, and a fine dog, too! The Chesa-
peake Bay dog is one OF the best, a
homely, kindly sort If critter, good
friend on land or water
You can always tell the man or wom-
an from the Eastern Sho' by tanned
complexion through which the blood
shows red. 1t is not so much a sun
burn (old-faShionedD or sun-tan new
fashioned) as it is a complexion all
its own.
Even fisher folk from the sea itself
often fail TO have this peculiar blend,
the red showing through the tan
which is so prevalent among the peo-
pie who live around the shores of the
Chesapeake Bay.
Naturally enough, many of them mi
CRATE to Baltimore and Washington,
and live in these cities the rest of their
lives, but no matter how long they stay
away, they still retain this Chesapeake
Bay look this red blood showing
through tanned skin.
Even where it tends to fade out.
under the influence OF office work. in
the face itself it remains IN almost
its pristine state in the neck, especially
of men, You can tell a man from the
Eastern Sho no matter where you find
him.
The bay can become as rough upon
occasion. as the sea itself. of which, Of
course it is veritable part. Steamers
and smaller sailboats can work up a
great tossing and pitching.
Yet. for the landlubber, this motion
is still something short of the ocean.
and therefore just that much better.
Not that Chesapeake Bay storms can
not be severe. They can. and often
are. Still, they do not reach the sheer
fury of the ocean storm.
Bell and other sorts of buoys mark
the various channels. even where out
of sight of land The low-iying shores
present a pretty spectacle from yes
sell usually fringed with trees and car
rying the impression of life behind
them
There Is no more pleasing melan-
choly sound in the world than the moan
of bell buoy. In its cage tossing up
and down on the waves, its bell sends
forth over the waters a mournful tone