Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1926, Page 77

i e MAGAZINE SECTION e | The Sundy Stae [ i Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1926. - Tangier Islanders Scorning Moderns, Live by Ancient Code MAIN STREET of TANGIER I[SLAND, where qravestones: veveal burial Custom. WHARVES which seyve the busyTangier fishermev. > S + | glermen explain, was that nobody|self. This consisted largely of the 2 Community of 2,000 Again in Public |&id%hmer on ine sirect or sit on s | ounger men and women - . front porch while church services It was a hard dose for Tangier to W\' ] . Eye Because of Bitter Crab War, Is Pre— | e it proresss. comrrion tricred | st ‘it et et ' Vo , ere the children of the island attencl school. 5 young Parks to get inside, and fired | to enlarge this liberal movement, He | . T e e T . only when the vouth resisted him in| began to talk e ball. lle started | conferen ch & R pared for Further Hostilities, but Prefers the performance of his' duty His Hentc mioinb ity o g e e s | S s feedson aver tie dut | oove In theim Banbdtiiclathien: for (he “Tangier had all sorts of laws—and |anybody wanted to open a theater, ‘ - BHE present rast e Stelcic | itk okt o MOREOW, e Gl 5 % sie s e y e en a_theater. . e present pastor, Rev. R. Strick. [ month, next vear, the oysters and | As it reople outside would havi ! peaceful Met]wds Of Founders—Motlon sl has them. Bt some of them | And, ‘most ,\:]\;I.‘|u]|];:n;‘.‘n‘_\” of all, he) ‘ land. = a man of hl;;fld,_];:-;:n'sfll\'v R e UG v fea e v e e odne L kcn Hndde pie outside would have 5 o i 5 | 5 s ands ¢ w d fits in well with the new | ed up by anyhody with 1 : i he T % stance, it now is possible to hold a!built a jail. It stands on the beach— st SHTEiaE over Ll St ing 1i- { laughed T is no plcture ng Become Openmg Wedge 0{ | tug of war in the street—illegally, of | a big. wooden box like a small garage I e s ',',"'q‘,,'.‘,','X S T | B Is it onder course. Not many vears a nd with one steel cell inside. Hither Rettes @i btTiHE A Bomu | . < 16 Sxithout stuEeles it e s notoganTie . s sdmbo ol - | cres: & new hymn I Kot ans obrosibis. tomoriay TH it Bl ety & fore 3 st ac customary merit and an enthusiastic fishernan, | corn the Tangierman Is de f : 5 they were properl fined | form of punishment. Very serious of- ek nth ern the Tangierman Is death. He | isknd dos object 1o being photo . _and st d £ p v serious o goes out every now and then for | wonders how anyhod endiire life 3 : a Base Ball Team to Furmsh Unaccus- :'\r‘)‘:l:h h ug;lgn;(lv::unn.q?fl _\m;‘rlhfil: fenders were taken Lo Accomac, across x U a little chat with the salvage crews mm:l;'v. “.”h ;;1 “..‘{\m nuil ll‘l'l‘ Ix:" ;1...;.”11 '\f representatives were . S ftunc ity el Bt Chtiict| e e || g working on the wreck of the battle- | ence on the favor of other Pt PR et . e tome nsement —Rlow. B2 ISInTle | e e i ot e olhtre piise & ship Alabama in Tengler Sound, : ity of datvaiion Wostdn't Weshington be taad if C]"l 1 H B 5 o now has a base ball team in which| carceration in his new Nt oacal ‘ef chufony I6 bus l‘)‘e';';]“;'” i e heiises are small, but sniz and | photoprapher showed one of its dingi urch as ecome Center O{ Soc1al and m\;{(‘ivu:u;&;:;n&;;u :m;:‘;. D w"r’::::‘::, be, 'l'h‘p:\-) \’\".,,(h,‘.’1|”:;‘:.'“\(\lv‘.’\’,'cp,-x,.('1 a4, of the Revolution, when one Josiah starved garde \"m’: 'Ly‘x:lml L.l . :m\"ull '.[r"h:- l" y ”:v, i R o . L‘f C 11 . years ago this game was consilered | warnings that the jail would be| oS s o The patches of are| After all, the difference hetween eligious 1ite—Uollections, . ade W | by the elders as a ruse of the devil | burned to notices that he would fol CHei Do nts and attaim o e Sl wemn Tang wd the rest of the world 18 U . M ] d I d 1 11 ‘lulll\l‘x:::l'uh never actually prohibited 1-3—;1,,w Connorton. Threatening letters | = small reputation a pr:!pl;ov (L; 1;1;””:" 'll”;‘ n'v:xllmflw uv:\)":l in I!y ‘ wm’:v( viewpoint. Its people are clean statute. | ave 4 DopUIAEpoEE o e e 12 u as a | 3 « ld cos s—although of late [of hodv and mind. prospero e nique Method. an Index to Wealth. ce (SR TR | S T e P R ] e e 4 | IER'S fall from the paths of | then. There is no handwritingexpert | |houses T e I e Beltmore (et NotfolCRa lon ve hospitable and generous R e ‘i "o on the Island. ~Formerly they were | . e e b s Ll he symmetry of the ¥ own eivilization has made them P ——— sl mer s b Lt i o refer —may b | Tiuch more frequent—before Chiet | nected. it fs likely, than the church|ihe next Sabbath and there Is a rather L W el “Ilas any other civilization on : G {=o essive as it was a few years | con 40 o< Yine. divect outcome of [ Redman's jail, curious monument to | ever expected or desired. Liberal and | stern rivalr to who Mot E gl s FUB @Wine s muelier s pedpte ANGIER TSLANDERS ave keep- The virus of modernism is in its | ;o™ church shooting. 2 mew liberalism, stood on the beach, | highly educated clergymen have been | g, e I con- | feet wide. There is no occasion Where else is there abso DI keep | th irch s g. X tribute most. Wealth on Tangier is | a good roads mov 5 suns oiled. e '"""’)dfl‘ it may have a mo-| = Conporton fought conscientious s g by the Methodiat con | not measured in fine houses. fine au ek itrsnta s i ol IstneriapRihe ud com. | 10N picture theater | B ConEIY Sty 6 ¢ " | terence, only to find that the ileas o : ; e . 0 vehicles on the island. The peo- | happily it lent Virginia com| “Tnat is, the town council, after a e s t‘ul.e,q;% o | REPMAN came to Tangier a | the islanders on morality went beyond 10 e Creven nne pie trael in motou Bats o theiin | e 200 souls fselated ¢ | long, bitter fight, has so amended the | 500 1o "batled without compromise || Stranger. but duriug the year 15 |/ thats oo ol tarai st conbeyiera . mumw | oo = L UE [ aRureiRintcon: | CRANSHEocersiony wHent s eces f oy e 3 i e iy “0f | blaws that one will be permitted 10 | the dragon of the new day whose has spent there he has grown to love | the ministers sometime¢ have been | 3 S L N e 4 Wonderful Track I.aving. i ater ! t open there—if some daring promoter | g : e S vhose | the islander laced in the peculiar predicament of | e curlous custom prevails of J Chesap 3 red ot e slimy feet were set on Tangier's| Pl | burying the f meets the approval of the citizenship. | peache: “They are the finest people in the | fighting for a 1 irorous moral code ANGIER is not without its domi- ing the dead of the island in th A record was established in lay ; True enough. the owner will have | "Xt ‘Roland Parks was lar.| world,”" he says. “They are becom-|than that of their parishionencn e i tiny front vards. Family lovalty is | oo, NGV shadow of | to watch his step. It was not without | o o ROl N P s Dowertal and | ing educated to proper enforcement of | code which would allow, more of the | nant vice—a vice so prevalent that | a fetich among the people. Thus | (1 il e S Atiantic_coast | praverful deliberation that the council | optable family with many connec: | 1aWs by constituted officials and courts | oy and color of life. There was one | the visitors wonder how the people they live’ in constant contact with|Syracuse, when it hecame necessary Bo A\-gn folk | took the momentous vote to permit|ijons. By the way, nearly everybody | rather than the old way of enforcing | clergyman who made the fatal mis-| survive its degenerating effects. There ‘h‘l‘f:'Li'[’“'f‘N,"l-\ And there i big | to replace about a mile of “36-pound” sland has | the life of this wicked world to be | o/ o, % S [ minor statutes without authority.” | take of buying new hymn books for | are eight stor 5 * | younger generation. ready fo con b i it v iEHATE o) ki ¢ is a 1 a ( ki > 3 are eight stores of one sort o) nothe 1 N 5 ith 0 pound alls withou Aimilicicy | whitn | @epleted Sonithie toreen libatore LS | hpi Skt oL i Ankas Locel o8| ey itions ehurch and state on | the church- not new texts, but the| scattered down tr or another | tiyya this devotion to the memory of | | bl b L ithau > + Pruitt—sturdy old fisher folks who the long, narrow J CHE sEib Aalerh ot | we with the running time century” ago. | voune poole. Exen the hurest st |for more than a_cenuurs’ have ket | cicr have been more closely con- official gospel hymns approved by the | that serves for the main street. (Hetomb, of todny. Of the ety i e et gestion of a rosy tinge placed on vice | hejr hlood undefiled. In fact, some |~ s s et e — | principal stock in trad il tedman estimates, | B 5 7 It is an | would be attended by consequences|eine cav that the whole affair wa all these stores is * from 700 to SO0 arve ch 1. There | hree-quarters of a mile of t i n t o i o 0ce s TH -] ” & 3 i : S € a gra school for the F ¢ und rails ere no’ E community, liv. | not easy to predict |Gue to a family row, the roots of | THRILLS IN THE SHIP'S TOP. | cheap, distasteful kind of “pop.” fi1= aper e achialter thew i EGw il N it s heavtar strangely defiantly N this | 7Tha fact remains that Tangier will [which were deep in the history of the | When the wild young bloods of the | They wanid e fonllarde. e rther. | FOIE sHocEC pekloa 2 th century of prosress and dis | pepmit the showing of pictures—if |island. There were hold murmurs of VETERAN mariner tells of a time | nation. In ordinary circumstances | village return from crabbing, they | people hellove. ever 1o rebel agamic | utes and 2 seconds. A thex mre perfectly proper pictures, |protest at the rigor of Tangier law. | when he was a stowaway and|the young fellow should no doubt | start at the top of the street and work | {he rare free life of the iah. nst | ™ pefore starting ¢ wirt of it is that | with no tendency to make the young| connorton died lke a soldler in the |’ sent aloft to unfurl the main | have availed himself of that privilege)| thelr way down, drinking two or i of the craly fisher st e 7 % | | 3 . new rails were laid ; s tts antiquity. 1t | aomie ot this quatnt fishing village | midat of his long battle for law and | roval sail. He was just about to cast | but, seeing the mate 3o painfully | thres bottles of ‘pop’ i each stor . i ones already bonded toget Lves the life o discontentgd with their ancestral Iot. | virtue. A vear ago last April. while|off the gaskets, or lasl ings, that se- | moved, he resolved—especially, since | By the time they are through they ANGIER is extretely suspicious. It | with the spikes dist ed is the kind fe o live. | It {s the dpening wedge of the twen-| he was enjoying a meal of steamed |cured the furled ¢ fo the vard | no one else had witnessed the incident {have consumed at least a dozen bot- is not easy for th . [ intervals so t the st amount of &nd not to attmut sity seekers. | tloth century, hammered laboriously | oysters in a Tangier restaurant, he|when the royal 1 suddenly | —to say nothing about it. Sliding |tles. Two or three dozen in an eve-| . ot easy for the stranger to | o 20 e be required to do the Few g0 to Tansier to absorb the at- | into the hard grain of the eighteenth | fell beside the table. mortally wound- ' let go from the deck. the vard | down the stay. he reached the deck | ning would not be unusual. The Tan. | in the confidence of these fishermen. | york ; i 2 wosphere of the seventeenth century., century, and may mean the gradual|ed from a bullet fired through the|swung from under him, and he was |and resumed the work he had been | glerman never consumes less than Tha reason, they is that most ! The ¢ 4 _— g gt i : ! 1 mos The was accomplished in much It wouldn't be heaithy for the twen- | dissipation of one of the most pic- | window. The slayers of Connorton|thrown off. employed In. two bottles at a sitting. This is Tan- | outsiders come there to make fun of | 1658 time than wes thought possible, tioth century artist o antiqarian to | turesuue. com nities in the United | never have been apprehended. al:| Instinctively he threw out his arms. | When the watch was relieved the gier's ldea of 4 wild, rotous, dissa. | (o %% 0T e 0% | and the cars were enabled t malutany Sl pted wou century Punkiertias madettta et everybody on Tangier has his| 1y left hand came in contact with | Mate sent, for B e Lo e TR his “pop* | the fundament e e o | Schedule time. The removal of a mile persor X : b A For a 3 1 as ma S |'suspicions. | the roval stay, and he was brought | taining that he could read and write, g/ W 0 state this “pop-’ | b5y o0 "0 ous cust ‘. TR '* | of trackage did not interfere with the pne who 18 himse ‘r’.. child of the past. ' own I;\ws It l;‘a.\‘ xecuted them in| There followed three months in| . \ith a fer Making a desperate | told him that he was to come to him | is TbSOlulelf‘" convincingly non-intoxi- | & AT LR “”-“ ’»“;"“‘ he ; 'lil“"' » road in the slightest The recent crab fefer | accordance with its own code of | which Tangier was without a police- | of L e a des Lold him that e Was L O ink the | cating—as frea from alcohol, ft would | Va0t to be considered eccentric folks 0ad in the slighte 5 i | clutch with the other hand, i} CYETVAGATE W 5 5 | | nor are they 4 t | Eound with the It has stuck fast to the old. | man, None of the Islanders w ariten’] SICCHE o hoit o I =ty Wil tor be: wishiediiio, teach Bifnl| SSibs SRiCTe aaIC e ter DasiC pie ) TR ISR e e duttiok | [\ beadlines. t |something heroic in the legend of | Mayor Willie T. Crockett took the| ‘o i - | v Meached Buenos Aires .he |sands and thousands of cases of “pop” | Side have been unfortunate. At the i vprayer. * $hat there wi 0 TRl TeilisiiteiRgle iohineh i | 1en lmp of hiting a professional po-| TO et his legs around the stay was :\x:"p ;;5‘12’ o take sights and keep a |are consumed in Tangier. | time of the unfortunate Parks shoot It was a Swiss inventor who de that they wi o thke a | multitudes of children, its frontiawn | liceman from outside. T. C. Redman, |an easv matter, and then he was able | geaq reckoning. | * ok owo* ting newspapers all over the United | ;q (ne remarkable process of fand. s famdx sun-bonneted | b mémber of the Balttmore force, was | Lo maintain his position in compara- | “When they had been in port about | FAEW ever leave the island. There| Ates seemed to. be pofnting: black| . b A L Here 1= women. 1o i Sinoihaalleavneninis e | tveISeCUTIty s He niate left the: skip, bit - re | fingers of merriment at Tangier and 'DIving o coating of metal not o s jwor a 10 _ha 2 s t , |a week the mate left the ship, D are occasional Tangierians who ! erying “Shame.” Is aroused the fight- | 1o another 1 s . " wvoid The communit o ite mews. | inder Maj. Syivester, former Wash.| Wondering who could have been S0 | before going he presented the lad | pay, % : he fig ther metal surface but to ar- The community sprang into new s | | before going he pi have broken away to Baltimore or|ing blood of the islanders. If {ticles of wood, plaster. There & paper headlnes e whew | ington superintendent of police, at the mad as to let go the rope without | with a sextant and his nautical books | Norfolk, but tHey ustally drift’ hack | conaitions of 1ie e the |ticles of wood, plaster. cement, telagraph Roland Parks, 18 vears old. was shot | du_Pont powder works | Warning, he looked down. There, |and, telling him he took a strong in- | in time. Forty men, for instance L G L T MGt bl b Ll G S i Sace i o bnnneton. EHIBE oteranite oo Redman-s ideas of law and | close to the belaying pin, with the |terest in his future welfare, begged | served in the World War from the is. changs ShelionanicR] s el Ilee) vav cam I CutEehe dIGERen T O (0 people who caught the youth out of church | order were not at all those which he|end of the brace still in one hand. | the youth to continue his studies. | |and. They saw the great degesie-| ctistorsy BE patIect] \"'v';"'h".'"'l Shefe | on o al-coating processes in most faithful to patre one Sabbath morning. rebelliously | found in Tangier. At first he was a |stood the chief mate looking up at | Then, shaking hands, the mate walked | rate cities of America and Europe.| The laae f“\m'w ‘,";{ ,‘f““h“‘ 8. | “‘ ":’* ve use—electraplating and B s Mothodist cvanealist | pamng on a clgaretie n front of nis | very lonely man. ie was the only |him His face was as pale as & fover the side. That was the last the | Out of this 40, four were lured by me | et newerarer pictorraptien on|| Aipping; | & HHin fwice compaseiot b, e . used | father's store while the music of |individual on the island w | heet, and there was herror and con- | boy saw of him. IO & v il deittny M ara ! scund ans hio Tekes DIEE into e [ HEUDSANCE WHIHR CoRing & 0 1e 50 abc e | e et oo the iaiand, | & Methodist. He was a Presbyierian | rition stamped on every feature He | ' On thelr return, the cook asked the | have migrated from Tangier. The { D cae e e e e e fiameyof o {slands i e B s ot e wae that | He served notice at once that he | wns too much agitated to speak, but | boy whether he knew why the mate | others returned and settled down as | thig did not i s e e el : 3 : i o Lo b aoks comlrcer i s | ny lack of bospi- | stant of melting is subjected to gospel sh i imped | Tangler had a law compeliing every- 't going o shoot anybody for | his looks convinced the vouns fellow | had been %o kind to him. “Ves, T |craband ovster fishers—disgusted and | talfy to the poor fellow, dslanders | » Kottt o on Tangier ! e | Do v g fo chureh. Tt wasn't quite | not going to church, that an innocent | that the act that had almost doomed | do,” was the answer. but the lad| sickened he i lity | etaitin the poor fellow, dslanders | powerful blast of compressed air. The on Tancir i | God to o to chureh.” 1t wasn't quice| mot going Lo church. that an infocent | hat the sct that Jol Rinont Soomed | 1o, wag Joe, 2 swer. but the iad| sickened by the immorality of the | claim. He himseif broke their code | article to be coated is held in this air Jegend has T] is, the pastor didn’t call the roli | cause to arrest a man. law or no law, | inspired by any evil motive. the matter.” A 1t 18 tiot diMeuit to understand | of thelr out -»mi “'["'d ”:, ol "‘v ‘:'r:"' i '; st a f’-“ inches aws 3 from the exactly wi Of the community eve: nday marn. and that he would devote his efforts| Now, on board a merchant vessel| “Ah.,” said the cook, “you think it | the lure of this extremely pastoral|children in overalls. | groups of | flame, and the minute particles of oF th O o liceman | 10 what he considered the proper |in those days, it was considered jus. | was because he threw you off the |community. There are few & | o staD {ihe Hara “‘,d"",'"',,""”"’: ':"-f,,”,' Sl e 'h‘";‘,”""’ be ap 10 didn't 3 ctions o policeman—protec fiable for any ma s | e ¥ P o i i S or | plied to such inflammable materials who didn’t answer | functions of a policeman—protection | tifia or any man whose life had | main royal vard, and you said nothing | The Tangier fisherman is little con- |some of the better-looking houses. It [as paper, cloth and even cel nlx:::;, wanted | r0 shoot everyho ey to England | to his or her name. That wonid have with bim_ wh 14 he expioited | been a denial of the right of free wor- J < a prophet ship and unconstitutional | P village of Tanglar fsnt) What the law really wn'. ths Tan- ham e s property. Furthermore. | heen endangered by the clumsiness or | about it? But that was not all. Last | cerned over the mounting cost of |was all vight to phote & fayor Crockett backed hini up. Fol.| the neglect of another. no matter |voyage he threw a bov off in the | living. The sound is CO e B B e [Zhe spsmyine apparatas veseaties A Jowing the shooting of Connotton. & |how high his rank might be, to give |same way, and the poor Md was | is litrle concern for the future. He |shouid have notified their mothers | reservoirs that i liberal element had been asserting it-! full expression tg his anger and indig- | dashed to pieces! 18 not 1ky' farmer must worry | who would have dressed the little dgggen and meu.‘;g.jvu:” gen, hy- the ol