Milford chronicle., 1934-10-19
LEWES

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Raj Joseph is confined to hi
= home on Fourth street due 10 i'll
!. ness.
Captain Thomas ]. Virden is il
} command of the pilot boat "Phila
: delphia" for this week.
The Lynch property on STATE
street is being thoroughly renovated
and painted. 1t will be for sale ol
rent by the Sussex Trust Company
Mrs. VIM. Suthards is confined tC
the Beebe Hospital with a broken
, hip, which she received from a fall
during the past week.
Mrs. Abbie Joseph and daughter
Ada are spending the winter III
Philadelphia.
Edwin c. Marshall has sold cor
ner lot and One-half Of the adjourn
ing lot in DeVries Circle, facing on
State street, to Glenwood Harring-
ton
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Kepner and
son spent the weekend in West
Chester, Pa. with Mrs. Kepner's
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wilson are
spending some time i'm Philadelphia
visiting friends and relatives.
The Home Missionary Society met
at the home of Mrs. Harry Cham
bers on Monday evening. Everyone
took their sewing and had an en-
joyable evening.
Rev. and Mrs. w. r. Mowbray
have returned home after spending
| sometime in South Carolina with
relatives.
DR.. and Mrs. James 3eebe are on
two weeks trip through the New
England States. While away Dr.
Beebe will attend a session Of the
American College OF Surgeons in
Boston, Mass.
f. W. Ingram is having a new
shingle front put on his Front street
house. which is occupied by his son,
ElversOn Ingram.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Millman and
Mrs. James Prettyman have re-
turned home from Camden, N. j., af-
ter attending their sisters funeral.
John 4. Aull, who has been at the
Aull cottage on the beach SINCE
July, ha1 returned to his home at
Port Indian, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Ingram and
Mrs. Hannah Morris motOred to
Philadelphia during the week.
Quite a number of the young peo-
pie attended the nurses dance on
Friday evening at the Firemen's
Hall. Vic Vickers Orchestra furnish
4 60 ha
The Forestry Camp of CCC work
ers is ready to go near Redden. In
lust about three weeks the barracks
were erected and the camp organic
ed and ready to go on refOrestatiOn
projects.
The recent death of Captain John
Penrose Virden. first president OF
the Pilots Association Of the Della
ware Bay and River. elevated TO the
head of the ranks of river pilots, in
point of age and continued service. !
Captain Arthur West Marshall, ST., |
of Lewes, who was 73 years old last /
June.
On November ., Captain Marshall |
will add another renewal date TO his /
worn sheep-skin license when the I
board of pilot commissioners in Will
mingtOn, designates him as licen-
sed pilot still in the service which
he chose So years ago as an appren-
tice. He learned the pilots trade OH
the ill-fated sailing vessel, EnOch
Turley, which later went down dur
ing a raging gale in September,
1889, off Cape Henry. Va, with ev-
cry member of her crew.
Captain Marshall remembers the
famous blizzard of March, 1888,
when twenty-seven vessels were
wrecked on the beach at Lewes, in
Guiding the pilot ship, ERe W. Tun-
nell, named for u former Delaware
Governor. The Tunnel was later
salvaged and put back into service.
The following September of 1889.
when Captain Marshall was serving
as captain of the Ebe w. Tunnel,
the vessel was driven out to sea in
another fierce storm and the crew
spent five narrowing days in the
turbulent waters before they were
rescued. The hazards of the sea for
river pilots are now greatly lessen
ed since the modern steamboats,,
Philadelphia and Delaware, were
for the sailing vessels.
though it is still rigorous life for
even the younger pilots when, dur
ing zero weather, they sometimes
spend from 30 to 60 hours on an OPP
en- bridge. Each apprentice must
make 80 trips up the river before he
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Because of an accident aboard
ship a few years ago, Captain Mar
shall has become some enfeebled.
There has been much inter-mar-
rying among pilot families of LeweS
md nearly every pilot has at least |
one son following in his footsteps.
The first in the Marshall family was
.he late Captain James West Mar
shall, father of the Lewes vereran,
who was one of the earliest pilots.
Captain Marshall is married tc
laughter of the late Captain John
Penrose Virden, and his son, Ar
hur w. Marshall, Jr.. is perpetuating
he calling through the third eener-
ltion.
Howard NJ. Long and family Of
spent the weekend at
heir cottage on the Lewes Beach.
William P. Tammany of Philadcl-
,hia spent the weekend here with
lis mother, Mrs. Lena NJ. Tammany.
Miss Jessie H. Morris who is at
ending Beacon Business College in
spent Sunday here with
Ter mother, Mrs. Hannah II. Nor