Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-12
TWO LURES FOUND
. IN NORTH CAROLINA
Pleasant Motoring and Good
Fishing Reported
on Trip.
BY ERNEST N. SMITH,

BY ERNEST N. SMITH,
Executive Vice President. American Auto
mobile Association
For those who would fish In waters
that sparkle with sport and who would
| at the caTe time revel in an historical
paradise but little known and seldom
visited, unhesitatingly draw attention
to Roanoke Island, Oregon Inlet, N. c.,
and the ocean waters thereanouts.
One does not go fishing in this re-
mote country without arranging for
guides, unless perchance there are
friends who belong to the hunting and
fishing clubs which are to be found
along the inlets from here to Cape
Hatteras, about 60 miles further south.
So, well advised in this respect,
wrote to Sam Tillett and after several
days wait received an unsigned PEN
cilled communication:
L will fish you Sunday morning
myself or have some one else to-"
This seemed sufficient and proved to
be SO.
Easily Reached.
This district. lavish with historical
anecdote and teenling with fishing op-
p0rtunities NAV be reached easily in
a day ana. a half'S motor Journey from
Washington or put your auto and your
self on a steamer at 6 80, sail down the
Potomac, dcbark at Norfolk at 8 next
morning. spin down paved highway
TO Sligo, swing left to Point Harbor
there cross the 2-mile Wright Memorial
Bridge across Currituck Sound (the
toll will he 81 for a car and two pas
senRersp, thence run l8 miles along a
paved beach highway past Kill Devil
Hills. KittyhaWk and Mays Head
thence the road turns across a soc toll
bridge to Roanoke Island where one
turns north to Manteo or south to
Wanchese, depending upon which of
the two towns will be used as head
quarters
Arriving at Wanchese shortly after
dark, we saw store sign labelled TIL
let's and inquired where Sam lived
There were less than twenty houses in
the village. but my informer pondered
long and finally called to a boxsittcr
Bill, what house Sem liven into now?"
It proved 70 BE- the nth house away
Sam hadn't returned from the DAYS
fShin', but we were directed to his sis
ter's, where we were given a spick and
span room for 81 apiece and a dinner
consisting OF 81 friend oysters each.
corn bread. prcScrve5 ard large slice
CT Crusty lemon pie fC. so cents.
Two hiphlv polished barctoctci small
boys eyed US appraisinGlv and silently
during the meal. Their tongues loosnned
onlv after l invited them to ride down
TO Manteo in the cleaning with pros
poets OF candy. So We departed and
in the customary manner Of bartering
either for material or mental wares.
cEchanged the gossip Of distant world
for local color
1 wa puzzled at the absence Of a
crowd in from; of TIC single movie on
Saturday night Tommy solved the
mystery It's too oerlv Everybody
home takin' their baths"
And 50 I Cleaned boys evevicw
OF the historical fettirg in which thes1
young and Sturdr Americans were grow
ing up A brief knowledge Of the facts
is worth carrying in the memory.
History of Island
Thirty wears before the Pilgrims
stepped ashore at Plymouth Roc. and
20 years before the Puritans founded
jamestown. Va band CT approxi-
mate!y 100 English settlers with thpir
wives and children landed al Roanoke
Island IN what wa then thu TERRITORY
Of Virginia. Here. ere month later the
FIRST white child was born on this con-
tinent and named Virginia Dare Later
their ship was sen. back u England
fer provisions and stores. The return
was unfortunately delayed three years
because England was having trouble
with Spain. When it finally arrived
the colony had completely disappeared
Carved into the trunk of a tree stand
ing near the abandoned ard r0tting
settlement was the one word "Croa-
tOan'-the name Of an Indian tribe on
. mo IN Ian n 70
john Smith settled in jamestown. Va
in 1906 he sent an expedition to Eeei;
Sir Walter Ralcigh's lost colony. No
authentic trace vas found of them and
no one since has ever been able to trace
tie group or piece together an authentic
story OF their fate.
But today you may wander over the
grounds of Fort Raleigh where this
colony first l!ve1 and enjoy talking
with simple. honest fisher folk who
have lived lonely existence and inter-
married during all the years Of isola-
ton In their quaint speech che finds
a London cockney tWGng rather than
the expected accent Of our South.
Until few years ago the mail of the
inhabitants was brought occasionally in
sailboats from the mainland Now an
excellent highway and two toll bridges
connect it with tie paved highways OF
North Carolina and Virginia
These remote islands first came tC
modern public notice in 1908. when two
supposedly cracEedb Drained mechanic
put together among the Lonesome sand
hills strange contraption, launched il
into the air and thus changed in that
moment methods of transportation and
the technique of warfare and gave tc
the names CT Orville and Wilbur Wright
an enduring fome The exact spot from
which they launched their craft is
marked and easily visited.
Sam was sitting en- the steps awaiting
cur return and proceeded to business
without delay Take near an hour to
get to the fishin' grounds" he said
crisply, want to get out first when the
fishin's best?"
Such challenge we could not ignore
Certainly" we said, start any time"
He turned to his sister-inlaW. Give
EN- breakfast at o'clock Ill be down
at the boat" And he stalked away into
the night
Daylight Rising.
Getting up before daylight to go fish
ing gives a thrill that is only matched
by arising at the same hour in your
youth to examine a Christmas stocking
Anyway, full Of fried eggs and Wiz
ginia ham, hot coEea and cornbread
we stepped iauntilv through the night