Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 7

DOVER VISITIN * OLD-TIME FLORIDA -Section Untouched by Boom and Tourists Is Base of Fishing Expedition. BY MARK SULLIVAN. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February 1.— ‘The scene of Herbert Hoover's present fishing is off one of the remoter parts lorida, where the boom didn't reach. Approlchmt it by motor, one sees the Florida of 20 years ago or more. ‘There is nothing of the pink and buff Spanish and Italian architecture which marks the Florida that the tourist sees. The scattered little vlllngfl are small and few and mainly of the “cross-roads store” type that once provided much of the material for the American stage and novel. After passing several of these one comes to the southern end of the Florida mainland. From this point a long string of little islets, locally called “keys,” stretches some hundred miles southward and westward to Key West. From key to key passes the Flor- ida East Coast Railroad. Here is one of the best fishing grounds in America. If the tarpon season were here, Mr. Hoover's boat would be many hours close by one of the trestles over which occasional trains pass. The tarpon, Thowev ill not be here until March 1 or Iaf For the present the better fishing is about 8 miles out toward the open sea, just over the edge of the Gulf Stream. Water Colors Change. Passing from shore water to Gulf Stream, one passes from pale green to deep blue. The edge of the stream is marked by a line of reefs. Where the reefs rise close to the surface, at points about 30 miles apart, are lighthouses. The lighthouse where Mr. Hoover in past years has had much good fishing is called Alligator. Anywhere around the lighthouses or along the reefs is good fishing for amberjack, barracuda, mackerel and groupers. If sailfish are desired, however, the fishermen leave the reefs and go a mile or-so out into the deep waters of the Gulf Stream. One may sometimes search for sev- eral hours before finding the place the sailfish have chl for their day’s feeding. They reveal their presence by occasional leaps above the surface, either in play or in flight from a #hark, or in pursuit of their. own:prey, or to shake from their gills an annoying parasite fish called the' pilot. © Once th> sailfish reveal their presence -the fisherman aims to drive his bmt among them and the day's fishing is on. « Move About Frequently. ‘The sailfish change - their location from half hour to half hour, - Always the fisherman and his boat aim to follow them and keep in the midst of em. mmmuummmm either alone or with not more two fishermen in the boat. He hepc about 30 yards of line trailing in the ‘water to the rear. bites which 1 good Tor "‘mmfl”"“’ ;o wi al whatever may be on your mi ‘waits between bites are sometimes q:lx long. There are almost no other Buy on ‘the éudgct Plan. BYRD FLAGSHIP COMMANDER LAUDED FOR HIS SEAMANSHIP Clinton Dowling Was Once Castaway Three Months With Capt. Brown. Relates Their Experience To-| gether on Blazing Tropi- cal Shore. The senmlnsth and courage of Capt. Gustav L. Brown, who is commanding Byrd's flagship in the perilous Antarctic, is well known to a native wuhlnz- tonian, Clinton Dowling, 31-year-old in- surance man of 713 Nineteenth street, for three months a castaway with Capt. Brown on a blazing tropical shore. Dowling, who retired four years ago from the adventurous calling of the sea, has been reading newspaper accounts of the Byrd polar expedition, but it was only recently, he said, that he learned the “Capt. Brown” mentioned so fre- quently in radio flashes from remote polar seas is the same “Brownie” he shipped with for more than three years aboard the steamship Garfield, a freighter. “Brownie” Then Chief Officer. “ ‘Brownie’ was chief officer in those | by days,” reminisced the insurance man, “and I was first engineer. Late in February of '22 we were going down- coast from Panama to Porto Columbia. We nosed into one of those tropical hurricanes, and for three days it was too thick to get our bearings. About midnight the Garfield hit a coral reef. By morning the seas had haramered us to within a quaster of a mile of the northeast coast of South America, the hull thrust into the sand. “When day broke ‘Brownie’ went overboard with a life line to swim ashore. The sea was rough snd there was.a high current running. It swept him almost a ‘mile downshore, and we had to tug him back with the line. Then, several hours Jater, ‘Brownie’ and I tried it in a' lifeboat, which over- turned in the surf. We were all anxious get ashore. not .knowing when the Gnrfleld would founder under us, but had to wait till the seas quit running. Explore the Coast Together. “Several days later we managed to rig a line to the beach. ‘Brownie’ and I explored. the coast. The jungle crowded right down to the water line, indented along the coast with innu- merable lagoons, each chock-full.of al- ligators. “The food was getting low aboard, and as days went by we were forced to live more and more on the eountry climbing for eo?ln . catching fis] oul o!:.he Jjungle and inni- dmh.l.lym::nkw he iter ' water out of the Garfleld’s *boilers. That wasn't much of a drink, but we flavored the mflwmzmmfleonutotmewm and man: &'m,mmmmmmn the in the water where sailfish are. It momerkmdnlfihdnumwhels .ut.her unweleome. It sailfish or .Whenthemueomesmnts action of . m satisfying to:a fisher- man'’s soul. Pay as you get. paid. No intercst or. xtra charges. Lozwest cash prices. HELLO FOLKS Here's a novel chance to “pick up” afine Overcoat “dirt cheap at 1005 Penna. Avenue only. 133 *50 to ‘65. OVERCOATS Broken lots—only one or two of a kind—per- {ectly marvelous values and styles. Others $23.75 to $46.75 $35 and $40 32 3-75 SUITS EXTRA PANTS Five Dollars CLINTON DOWLING. —Star_Staff Photo. Garfleld was listed as ‘lost with all hands’ It was a month before we managed to send word out of there to one of the little coastal towns. One of the natives of the San Blas /Indian country carrled it gut and thence it was reldayed by radio to Panama and Bar- ados. Ship Inched Out of Shallows. “Then a tug put out from ‘each of these points, but they hit the sand and couldn’t get in for weeks. When they did, we rigged a cable and inched the Garfield out of the shallows—the most grueling' job you can imagine. “Without ‘Brownie’ on that job, I doubt if it ever could have been man- aged. I made several voyages to Europe with him, knocking about the globe aboard the Garfield—and always he was the same, a good shipmate, one with a clear head and steady hand in_time of danger. Of Swedish birth, ‘Brownie’ was, I think, and they don’t make any better sailors anywhere!” . 33 STUDENTS COMPLETE INITIAL NURSE COURSE Privilege of Wearing White Head- dress Is Awarded Walter Reed Class. Privilege of wearing the crisp white headdress of the profession was granted last night to 33 students at the Army School of Nursing at a “c;{)p!nx party” which marked completion of their first four months of training in Walter Reed Hogpital and. their official enroll- ment in the nursing school. ‘That the occasion was lmport.lnt one for the students was shown in the lzundnnu of their ' relatives and erends, many of whom came from diitant States. Maj. Julia C. Stimson, superintendent of ithe Army Nursing Corps and dean of the school, delivered a short address, as: did Lieut. Mary C. 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