1895
Boys in church, as is well known, are not infrequently the cause of great annoyance to clergymen. Some years ago a Methodist minister was delivering a sermon with a good deal of earnestness when his attention was attracted to a boy in the gallery. The youngster was leaning over the rail and apparently lowering something attached to a cord, which he occasionally pulled up, when he would throw it over again with more gusto than ever. Do what he would the preacher could not keep his eyes off that boy.
Shifting his position in the pulpit slightly, he had a better opportunity to see what was going on and observed that an old gentleman in a pew under the gallery had fallen asleep and was sitting with his head back and his mouth wide open. Seeing this, the boy had attached a cork to a string and was endeavoring to lower it into the old man's mouth. He came near succeeding several times, and as the cork gently swayed to and fro it occasionally tickled the sleeper's nose. At such times he would stir a little uneasily and brush it away with his hand, to the evident delight of the grinning youngster. The whole scene was so exceedingly comical that the minister came near laughing outright. At length he was obliged to beckon to the sexton and request him to put an end to the boy's fishing for the day or else send him somewhere else to do it.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Noah's Ark as Model for Boat
1920
Lake Erie Fisherman Had Faith Enough in Idea to Build One
Saudusky, Ohio — Ed Lampe, a fisherman at Vermilion, a Lake Erie port town twenty-two miles east of this city, was reading a story about Noah's ark to his children one night several months ago, when it occurred to him that were the craft of Noah's time resurrected and modernized a little it might have a tendency to lessen the toll that storms take annually in the Great Lakes section.
Lampe is a gillnetter of many years' experience, and in the picture of Noah's ark that embellished the story he was reading, he recognized wonderful possibilities. The storms of the Great Lakes section rage furiously in spring, following the opening of the navigation season, and again in fall, just before the season closes. Many men lose their lives and much valuable property is destroyed.
The gillnetters, as those fishermen who fish with gill nets are known, are oftener the victims than are the members of any other body of men engaged in fishing; their work is more hazardous. When disaster comes it is usually the gillnetters' boat, or "tug," that is destroyed.
A Real Success
Lampe designed a boat on the plan of Noah's ark. With the aid of several fishermen friends he brought his design to materialization. He tried the craft out and it met every expectation. It ploughed the most vicious billows, going out and returning when other boats had to be kept in port.
Lampe's craft attracted the attention, of the commercial fishing interests of the Lake Erie section and investigators were sent to Vermilion. If it were true that a Vermilion fisherman had invented a boat patterned after Noah's ark that would lessen the risk of spring and fall season fishing they wanted to give the fishermen the benefit of the discovery, they said.
The Vermilion gillnetter would not listen to a proposition to sell his idea, nor would he talk of royalty.
"If you can save some poor devil's life by using my style of boat, go ahead and use it," he said.
The United Fisheries company of this city, one of the largest organizations of its kind operating on Lake Erie, recently completed the first of six gillnet tugs of the type designed by Lampe, at a shipbuilding plant in this city. The other five are to be ready to be commissioned at the beginning of the spring fishing season of 1920.
Lampe christened his boat Victory, for the reason that she is believed to have triumphed over the storm. With a bow like that of a battleship, and a body otherwise that resembles the conventional pictures of Noah's ark, she has been successfully combating the roughest seas that the Lake Erie nor'easter has been able thus far to kick up.
Victory is fifty-five feet long, with a fifteen foot beam. She is equipped with two power plants, so that if one should happen to "go bad," the other will be available. Her upper works are so constructed that they can be made almost water tight and her hull bears the weight required to right her immediately if she should happen to turnover.
"I would as lief be sitting in the cabin of Victory as in my office or my home, no matter how severe the storm," said Charles F. Mischler, president of the United Fisheries company, discussing the new gillnetting craft.
Fishermen say that boats of this kind will, in the near future, replace the old-time gillnetting tugs now in use, and that a big saving in life and property will result.
Lake Erie Fisherman Had Faith Enough in Idea to Build One
Saudusky, Ohio — Ed Lampe, a fisherman at Vermilion, a Lake Erie port town twenty-two miles east of this city, was reading a story about Noah's ark to his children one night several months ago, when it occurred to him that were the craft of Noah's time resurrected and modernized a little it might have a tendency to lessen the toll that storms take annually in the Great Lakes section.
Lampe is a gillnetter of many years' experience, and in the picture of Noah's ark that embellished the story he was reading, he recognized wonderful possibilities. The storms of the Great Lakes section rage furiously in spring, following the opening of the navigation season, and again in fall, just before the season closes. Many men lose their lives and much valuable property is destroyed.
The gillnetters, as those fishermen who fish with gill nets are known, are oftener the victims than are the members of any other body of men engaged in fishing; their work is more hazardous. When disaster comes it is usually the gillnetters' boat, or "tug," that is destroyed.
A Real Success
Lampe designed a boat on the plan of Noah's ark. With the aid of several fishermen friends he brought his design to materialization. He tried the craft out and it met every expectation. It ploughed the most vicious billows, going out and returning when other boats had to be kept in port.
Lampe's craft attracted the attention, of the commercial fishing interests of the Lake Erie section and investigators were sent to Vermilion. If it were true that a Vermilion fisherman had invented a boat patterned after Noah's ark that would lessen the risk of spring and fall season fishing they wanted to give the fishermen the benefit of the discovery, they said.
The Vermilion gillnetter would not listen to a proposition to sell his idea, nor would he talk of royalty.
"If you can save some poor devil's life by using my style of boat, go ahead and use it," he said.
The United Fisheries company of this city, one of the largest organizations of its kind operating on Lake Erie, recently completed the first of six gillnet tugs of the type designed by Lampe, at a shipbuilding plant in this city. The other five are to be ready to be commissioned at the beginning of the spring fishing season of 1920.
Lampe christened his boat Victory, for the reason that she is believed to have triumphed over the storm. With a bow like that of a battleship, and a body otherwise that resembles the conventional pictures of Noah's ark, she has been successfully combating the roughest seas that the Lake Erie nor'easter has been able thus far to kick up.
Victory is fifty-five feet long, with a fifteen foot beam. She is equipped with two power plants, so that if one should happen to "go bad," the other will be available. Her upper works are so constructed that they can be made almost water tight and her hull bears the weight required to right her immediately if she should happen to turnover.
"I would as lief be sitting in the cabin of Victory as in my office or my home, no matter how severe the storm," said Charles F. Mischler, president of the United Fisheries company, discussing the new gillnetting craft.
Fishermen say that boats of this kind will, in the near future, replace the old-time gillnetting tugs now in use, and that a big saving in life and property will result.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
All Right To Fish Sunday, Says Pastor
1920
But Go to Church First, Preacher Qualifies Advice
SALINA, Kan. — Salina has a preacher whom every fisherman in Kansas can praise. He is Rev. Arthur Dillinger, pastor of the First Christian church — and he believes it is all right for a man to go fishing on Sunday if he first goes to church.
"I fail to see where we get the idea that the man or boy who goes fishing on Sunday is going straight to perdition," he says. "It doesn't say it in the Bible, and for my part I think there is not as much harm sitting on the bank of some quiet stream fishing as there is rushing over the road at a furious rate of speed in an automobile and burning up good money for gasoline.
"We have worked up a lot of useless theories about the observance of Sunday and this idea about never going fishing or indulging in any other legitimate enjoyment on Sunday afternoon, after church worship in the morning, is one of them."
But Go to Church First, Preacher Qualifies Advice
SALINA, Kan. — Salina has a preacher whom every fisherman in Kansas can praise. He is Rev. Arthur Dillinger, pastor of the First Christian church — and he believes it is all right for a man to go fishing on Sunday if he first goes to church.
"I fail to see where we get the idea that the man or boy who goes fishing on Sunday is going straight to perdition," he says. "It doesn't say it in the Bible, and for my part I think there is not as much harm sitting on the bank of some quiet stream fishing as there is rushing over the road at a furious rate of speed in an automobile and burning up good money for gasoline.
"We have worked up a lot of useless theories about the observance of Sunday and this idea about never going fishing or indulging in any other legitimate enjoyment on Sunday afternoon, after church worship in the morning, is one of them."
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