t. “It blew up like this.
'ith one 0' them prize fightin’
2 board an' sign ler th’ vige.
shore leave in Melbourne once when he got in a irien'ly argyment
1 ’us enough t‘ show anybody ’ith ’alf an eye ’at he ’us th' one we
i was arter t' trim ol' Walrus, an' we made him an otter t' come on
W ocean
Dre vim can as:
A QREENMRH
Me and Bill, my mate, 'us taken
toilets. The way that chap lit in
8 Beam
th' Capt' makes sailor out 0'
around had got monotonous t' th'
easel-moans vs
mommy”
s. “We told th' 01’ man 'at be, his a likely greenhorn, wot
we’d picked up, 'at wanted to work his way to Lunnon, an' wanted
time startin' in t’ take th' conceit onto' that prize fighter.
Motion-101100.01" N. Y. 179
m\
him. Knockin' me and Bill
skipper, an’ he didn’t waste no
3. “Then tb' fun commenced. That feller's shore name ‘us
‘ Kangaroo Kid, ’ an’ th’ skipper hadn't hardly got underway afore
up an' down like a rubber ball,
th’ kid commenced bouncin’
comin’ down every time ith his two
till it looked like a game 0' leap frog
hands in th' ol’ man’ s lace
1/558 L) 5%sh
4311115: he'd rammed th" ol’
shoulders, out near out o' sight. he changed his tack an‘ com-
menced t' boost th' Capt'n from underneath with wot tb' teller
called his uppercuts.
man's head down atwiat his
bad t’ keep hisssll in condition
course dorin‘ th' vige. '
5. "its let ol’ Walrus down arm a time 'tth a jar 'at shook
th' weasel, an' said as how that ended th' inst lesson, but as he
he‘d give th' 01‘ man th‘ whole
icwro‘
EAT AWHAIF
6 ' In order t' git out o' takin' any more lessons th’ 01’ man
made a dicker t' do all th‘ swabbin’
bunk' in th’ to' csle. Th‘ kid took th’ ol’ man’s cabin an’ let me
an' Bill in as guests, an' it was only yesterday 'at I heard ’at th’
peen of th’ world.
months‘ salary t‘ pay “1' kid, but we never spent a more irritable
kid had become chant
cruise. “
an' heavy work hisself an’
It cost me an’ Bill two
OYSTERS OF CONNECTICUT WA-
TERS MATURE ELSEWHERE
FOR NATION'S CONSUMPTION.
.lndustry of Local Growers ls Based
Largely Upon Success That At-
tends Transplanting of Bi-
valves to New Grounds.
Whenever one meets an oyster,
whether in California, Oklahoma or
Maine, it is a pretty safe bet to greet
it as a former resident of Norwalk
or the chances are ten to one that it
has spent the first two or three years
at least, of its existence, in the wa-
ters about this system. Oysters are
perhaps the only strictly native pro-
“duct‘ion of the town and curiously
enough, although they are sent. broad-
cast throughout the country, they are
almost the only production which
does not bear the ‘illlade in Norwalk”
slogan. This section of Connecticut
which“ includes New Haven and
Bridgeport divides honors with Ches-
apeake. Bay and parts of Virginia as
the propagating places of the country
I
for that much sought article of toodai
' R I Nevertheless, while the oysters of
Narragansett Bay, of Barnegat Bay,
of Blue Point, of South Bay and of a
hundred other places as well are fa‘
mous,
port oysl'ers," or “Stiuth Norwalk” or
"New Haven oy sters" for there are no
such. I
‘ in spite ’of the fact that
places some as oyster nurseries for
the entire country, residents of this
section mlist obtain their grown oys
tors from other sections as this queer
production of nature is never matured
in these waters because of the. pollu
, .. .5” tion of the rivers and harbos about
here. '1 I
. 'Grovver a Gambler.
' An oys'i’er, be it known, must be at
_. least Your {wars of age before it is
a marketable sizé.’1‘hese four years
'represent
. gambler with a lot of patience;
The oyster business of this sec
deals particularly with 150 l‘set,"
.. it is called and the gory young 9st
- tea The foot that there is no “eet'fi
‘ one year it first: handicap as well
as aft incaicnlabie loss ‘to the dealers
is the?
, man shell covered speck which not
tach‘és itself to almost {anything wkh
«about Nomik. ‘l‘hesflt sot'!
‘ which it 'co
' which at the end I Klfour or five years four years without zoning a “pet” and
under riverside condlblbna is; a kid“. ' ‘
Iggro'wu oysterm , “g;
“-100:th
. omen-vein one
these
long months of careful
watching for the oyster business. aci 01' m pots, 01d baskets“ “d all
cording to ‘orie who is well versed in [2% M “39°“ that the spawn has
it, is at best_ a big/gamble, and an
oyster grower must be "A first class ‘
5 to ‘get‘ eafletactory res‘ults' it.” is quite
syn-tarantula same 111"}.
tug of the oysters which occurs as a
rule, during the early part of August.
ii‘rom live to seven Ida'.ys the fertilized
spawn floats about on the water andJ
then Settles, attaching itself to w-hat
over it can, which in the case of these
private beds are the shells that have
been put down for this purpose. thus
(forming the set.
Storm Krills Set.
Everything seemed favorable tho
Jlirst few days of last August and oys‘
tor growers were hopeful of a good
”set" when, about the sixth of the
lIn‘onth, there came a te1rliit' sfoim
:ivhich raged about the Sound for sev-
!eral days, tielng up shipping in gen-
eral and doing considerable damage
of which the greatest, was to doubt,
the destruction of the “set."
What it represents in money may
be judged from the fact that upwards‘
of 3001000 bushels of shells at a costl
‘at eight cents pei bushel, exclusive
of the expense of labor for getting
the grounds ready and for placing the
shells, were planted about this part of
Ithe state in expectation of this set.
To this also, must be added the cost
of removing these shells and cleaning
up the grounds,‘for it a. curious
thing that a shellwnich has been in
_“the water any length of time becomes
foul and no silny that the "set" will
not adhere to it.
There is what is known as the “se-
cond set” into in September but it ls
so small and conditions are’then so
unfavorable to it that growers do not
rely upon it but place all their hopes
in the “first set ” The "second set"
this year has not eased the situation
in the least.
Cross Breed Oysters. , _
As proof oi, tho fact that the feet"
Will adhere to almost anything hard,
toystermen often find good sized oys-
1'er clinging to. the most unusual ob-
ljects, pipes whicibhavs been lost by
erboard, pieces of hose, old pans, lids
opened Ill ”alumn-
Many growers have, discovered thiii
unnecessary to «irons bread their oys-
asters many svorymprtng, these grow
ope buy several schooner loads iii! Yin;
ginia oysters for incoming pilijiosés‘
Imay; They even knoyr that their; vii-II
g‘ihia- oysters villi die the nexti‘wlntor
it: they tel:
rm to“)
oysters...
Sometimes powers 239 as: three or
chances on getting the.
With that of that! Own
shells each season in the hopes of
securing this rather capricious neces-
sity of their business.
‘ No “Set" on Pacifis.
The handicap to their business
caused by no "set" is overcome to a
certain degree by the growers by the
liod'mg of a portion of the previous
year's “set" and placing it upon safe!
but slow growing grounds so that at?
the expiration of two or three yeays
they are about the size Wit the mar
ket demands. ‘1
Oysters are not offered to the mdr-f
hot. for planting ptirposes‘untii theyi
are three or four and even fivq years?
of age. All oysters raised in this low:
Icality are for planting purposes only;
111 the spring ships come here from:
Princess Buy, Rockaway. Barnegut,I
'I‘uckertown, Blue Point, South Bay.’
Narragansett Bay and Atlantic City
and hundreds of other places, load
with these seed oysters and take them
to their respective ports where they
are replantcd and sold the next sea-
son under the name of oysters 'of that
particular place.
There is no “set” in the Pacific
coast, consequently dealers from that
section of the country come to’New
York every season andbuy up thous-
ands 01’ bushels of the smallest seed
oysters that’they can find. These are
shipped West and planted along‘the
Washington. Oregon and Californian
coasts ‘With‘ the I'modern sanitary
ways of shipping
these are now sent' practically all
over the United States from the east.
Hard Bottom Beet.
Oysters thrive best on a hard, oven
bottom where they can lie undisturir
ed year after year, feeding on the dia‘
toms gathered from the gallons of wu-.I
ter which pass through their 51116. It
often happens, however, that the most
risky grounds are the best setting
grounds. in this case, the grower is
compelled to have“
réadygto which“ the "set" 15- shifted
just'as soon as‘ it is large enough toI
' be moved. They must often take the
chances of moving 111913919 early,
knowing that if it is left on the risky
mums they are likejlf to lose the
entire bed with the firiit'. meme Grow,
ere carry on their" businoss in con-
stant rest .‘of storms for not only are
the set and the very young oysters
menaced 1.1} than but oftenleeii'tii-o
beds of four year old oysters are lost.
during a bad storm. Such a loss can
only be estimated Nathan it is consld~
bred that oysters are planted 500 bu-
shale to the acre and thiit the .nva
age bed contains [tour 25.000 WM
000 bushels of these dalnties ot’ the
deep.
[.1 inept!» door-t"- .,
‘mme his:
roll about" on the bottom like a large
opened oysters,an .
away that the grower can get rid of
safer groundsfvhore the drills will 11¢;
later "amt M. swordsman It
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Everything first class.
-. .
tor. taping lite bill and therework-
ing on the flat shell until they can
break off a good sized piece and suck
away his life. At times in the your
star tish form themselves into
bunches s11 cioseiy‘ knit together, and
stone. When suchamim'pt star nsn‘
strike a bed'ot oysters they immedi-
ately separate, get busy and in many
cases have been known to out. thou
sands of bushels in two or three days.
It is possible by keeping strict watch
over the beds, to bead/oil the star fish
and‘to gather them in to: the boats
with mops. ..
Drills are small and contest in
shape and their method of attacking
the oyster is to bore a tiny but effect-
We hole through his shell. ;The only
dIriilt when one of his beds. in men.-
need by them is to clean it up ori-
tirely. even to the. hue shells and
small stones which are there and.“
throw them upon the shore or dock
Natural “Oyster Bede.
Besides the beds owned ivy-tho oys-
teIr companies of this section, there
are a number of natural beds where
many oystermen work. The season Oh
the- natural beds opened on Mondw.
September all, and according to a
newts law passed by the last Gen-
eral Assembly, every man who works
on the natural beds must take out a
nicotine iin‘d pay '9‘. ice of 315.111 pro»
vio'us years,- the oysterman’ a boil. has
been licensed wedding to its, top; ‘
page and this has boon retained Inlong
with the fee. Tile 0 ermon ar§ sat-
.igtled with the added too however. asI
they 13111111115 it will keep transients,
of! the grounds.
these oyetormon of this section who
have given th tr lives to this business I .
about Moots daily "
Mina the season motion-em «bode'
Roomi by day or week at reasonable prices.
Suits and Dresses
There ans many of '5
where they load with the best oystersi
and then take them to market.
Best, as they "are with many dan
gers during their entire existence,
oysters will always continue to be a .--—--
favorite article of food throughout
the country and the waters about this
section of Connecticut must still be
one of the two greatest cradles of the
whole United ,States "tor infanboye—
ters.. ‘ o ‘
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' East Norwalk
Opens May 1.
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decay is going on all the time and
the condition of your mouth is
made worse by putting off for to
marrow what should be done to-
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siioce’irs 9 a m. to 8 o. m. Sundays
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beauty. Moderate prices. Prompt:
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South Norwalk Florist
2 So. Main St. So. NomakCt.
Phone 364.
Face Soaps, Bath soaps, either plain
or perfumed.
Surgical and Medicinal Soaps, tit.
best makes obtainable
So. to 50¢. per cake.
Imported Castlle Soap, fresh out
51:. and 101:. per cake special
price by pound.
Ask for free sample.
The Norwalk Drug Co.
H. A. MEAD, Mgr
a No. Main St. So. Nos-walk.
we AREFER You
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In it not beautiful in its glistening
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