Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Natural Question. [ARTICLE]

Natural Question.

Parts of the southern coast of New* Jonndland near Cape Race and of tbs Southwestern coast near Cape Ray have San unenviable reputation as the scene •f many disasters. While the native «f Newfoundland is keen about getting aaaterial benefit from wrecks, he is also {distinguished for gallantry In saving jilfe and for care of the dead. So says a writer in the Newfoundland Magosine. , Near Cape Ray, about 1830, an old Man, a young girl and a boy of 12 saved {■lift he crew a'ml passengers of a Cana* jdlan packet ship. So common are wrecks that when «i(»n engage for fishery It Is part of the agreement that the servant shall get •Ills share of tbe “wrack.” Houses In Jthese neighborhoods are all furnished and ornamented from lost ships. ■When the Rev. J. J. Curling first came to the colony he was holding r service in one of these places. An 0... tfisherman kept looking at his fine coat. “That be a fine piew of doth," said •the old man, at Inst, laying his band ®n the minister’s arm. “Never seed a {better piece of doth in my life. Oet ’• out of a wrack, sir?”