Eureka Reporter | 1905-12-15 | Page 3 | Lighthouse as Bird Trap

lighthouse as bird trap the night watch of the cape may lighthouse was chatting with a vs aitor when something struck hard against the netting around the light the watch went out upon the tiny circular balcony and returned with a dead bird in his hand A mud hen said he sometimes we get five or six in a night often we find robins and ducks dead on the balcony its a fine life you lead here remarked the visitor yes it it for the oil the six gallons of oil that the light burns nightly the government won t give us any machinery to hoist it up with consequently every day I 1 must carry the whole six gallons up these steps hard on the heart it must be agreed the visitor it would be so easy to rig up a rope and pulley too and draw the oil up that way it ain t allowed said the watch in every oil burning lighthouse the attendants must carry up the oil by hand it does seem plop he slipped out to get another mud hen