Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1920 — OCEAN CASTS UP OLD SHIP [ARTICLE]

OCEAN CASTS UP OLD SHIP

R9CkaW Bc crate.' 1 ob“2ra and clams, the great tide recently dug an ancient oceanic relle out of the saads Mnd4eft It to bleach In » winteria sun, Hk® vtome skeleton of a departed dinosaur. According to Capt. Joseph Meade of the* Rockaway coast guard station, it is an old sloop o’ war,. Nobody knows its history, r From ail appearances this washed oat corpse in an ocean graveyard was'once a saucy war vessel, mounting nine guns; Including the old time bow chaser that used to bark with ferocity at pursuing vengeance, t The ship is bluff-bowed, .her.spikes are handwrought, her ribs are of stout oak and her bowsprit, broken* short at the cap. i» a mighty headstone on a sandy grave. Z The old salts who are experts on such matters say the buried-’hull Is an pjd British sloot>. During, the war of 4812 privateers manned by advefi-, turous Yankees frequently hung about Jones’ inlet, -towing in their prizes for anchorage and running to- Reiter when British men-obwar, out for revenge, bore down upon them. —- Another tradition unearthed from the old Skippers of clipper ships, now come to -anchor on the Rockaway ahopjs, has tt that Capt Jones, for whom Jones’, inlet was named, at one time just prior to the Revolutionary war, pursued a profitable trade in conthe British customs. The hand wrought spikes and the general shape of the rotting wreck plainly indicate that she wy an oldtimer, very likely of Revolutionary times.

Village Within Exjlflct Volcano,. “Bottom” is .the paradoxical name of a little village perched on tte peulr 1 of mountain which comprises the island of Saba, in the Caribbean sea. No other spot in the world is quite like Saba; of all the inlands of the tropical seas, it is the strangest, the most forbidding. Sheer conical, frowning, this island‘rises .from the waves, its topmost pinnacle veiled-in drifting clouds 3’,000 feet above the sea, fßr coast rock-bound*and precipitous. It is seldom sighted by ships, but those who do pass it would never dream' that it was inhabited. The mountain is an extinct volcano and the town of Bottom rests In its erater. No harbor breaks Saba’*, coast; there is no safe landing place or anchorage, and if one would visit the town one must step ashore from a kmall boat and climb a steep stairway of hundreds of stone steps or toil up fl narrow, difficult trail. Every article brought to Saba from the outside world must be carried up the heights. The inhabitant** are sailors, gs they have been since the earliest times, and though they" sail the seven seas they always return to their island home.