Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 83

BT e s The recent typhoid scare regarding Northern oysters has played havoc with the sea food industry of Maryland and Virginia, although the oysters from the Chesapeake, the Potomac and tributaries have been found absolutely pure. This photograph shows the unloading of an oyster boat at Hampton, Va. Waiting for the tide to turn. On account of a ban put upon oysters by the Middle West, these men have been idle for several weeks. Gov. Trinkle of Virginia is aiding the fight to lift the ban. Gathering oysters in Hampton Roads by means of huge tongs. The latter are dragged along the underwater beds until filled with choice bivalves. The health officer of Chicago visited the Maryland and Virginia oyster beds and packing plants last week and placed his stamp of approval on the salt water products. GRAVURE SUPPLEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C.-FEBRUARY 8, 1925. Virginia and Maryland Oysters Get Clean Bill of Health All photes © by International Seth Ward, one of the veteran oystermen of the lower Potomac. Thousands of oystermen and shuck- ers are out of work as a result of the typhoid scare E. C. Evans, an oyster tonger, ready to start out for a day’s work. A in New York. The State of Virginia supplies six few weeks ago Virginia oystermen were bringing in thousands of bushels of million bushels of oysters a year. oysters a day. Now they are bringing in about 140 bushels. Belt line employed to carry oysters from boats to the packing houses of the lower Potomac. The oysters are dumped into the bins of the shuckers. The latter earn from $3 to $8 a day by their work. Shuckers at work in one of the large oyster packing Youses of Hampton, Va. Several hundred men are employed when the plant is working full time. From this plant alone 1,400 gallons of oysters were shipped each day before the typhoid scare. Now the workers are idle. A loaded oyster boat returning to Hampton, Va., after a day over the beds. Hundreds of these oyster boats are tied up at the wharves of the lower . How shucked oysters are packed for shipment from the Vir- Potomac on account of t¥|e recent scare. Many of the rivermen and oystermen ginia and Maryland packing plants. The bivalves are placed in live in the cabins of these little boats during the entire year. They have had no work for several weeks. air-tight containers, the latter placed in wooden tubs containing crushed ice. Thorough examinations by health authorities have found no cause for complaint regarding the Maryland and Vir- ginia sea food.