Show II Lights of New York LyL II Fishing Is I. far from being sport for forthe forthe forthe the men of ot the beam trawlers trawler that operate In the vicinity of ot New York Some of the stout tout craft that tow the great nets a nets a beam keeps them open hence the name name have have power operated equipment which lightens the labors labor of the fishermen somewhat Out But on many the only power Is I. that of human human hu hu- man muscles Once every hour the thenet thenet thenet net Is i. pulled aboard a long and toilsome toilsome toil toil- some job and one requiring skill since Ince there is I. the possibility of 01 losing a portion If Dot all of the catch As A. the thenet thenet thenet net rises It It la is clamped shut carefully carefully care care- fully lully and as much rubbish as 81 possible scraped off Finally when It has risen Its Us length above the deck with cascades cascade of salt InU water pouring over the fishermen shermen a string Is pulled and the catch pours out Not until then do the fishermen know what luck they have had e 0 As quickly as possible the net goes I back Into the ocean orean and the boat steams ahead another hour The crew does not oaf loaf however The catch has hasto hasto hasto to be sorted Varied Is the take from the sea There are looking evil-looking skates and blowfish along with other trash There are green turtles which eventually eventually event event- will rl make hake ake soup along Brood Broad way In tact fact there are all sorts of marine life Much of It Is worthless and goes back overboard along with the rubbish scraped up by the net The marketable fish are then cleaned and placed on Ice When that Is done It Is time to haul In the net again And so so It goes hour after hour 0 Beam Deam trawlers are accustomed to finding many strange things In their nets In the days of prohibition bottles bottles bot bot- Ues were often otten part of ot the catch Sometimes trinkets of various kinds are salvaged from the sea Dut But the crew of a trawler operating oft off the recently had a real sur sur- prise The came In la slowly and the captain reckoned that they had something more than a ton of fish sh The catch wasn't fish however It was an airplane motor with a attached the whole weighing pounds The motor had been lost from froma a plane which had crashed crushed while being tested for the government While beam trawling Is ts extremely hard work at all times Umes of ot the year In winter It Is even more than that Gales may blow blo bloIce Ice may cover lines decks and even en men but fishing still goes on Asked Capt Charles who commanded a beam trawler trawl trawler the the r-the the captain works work right along with the crew crew for for many years enough years year In fact tact to send a son on through college college col col- lege why mt men n chose chole such uch an arduous occupation lie He replied that he didn't I know unless know unless It was waa because the they liked It Itt ILL t S New York Is I. noted for lor Its Iti chiselers The They seem to be everywhere NothIng Nothing Noth Noth- ing lag escapes their attention But Dut to my mind the meanest of them all were those who crashed the lines line where cent 8 milk was being sold to those too poor to pay the regular retail price Because of the chiselers several several sev sev- eral thousand of ot the poor were unable to obtain milk badly needed neede for lor chil chil- dren And a check also showed several several sev sev- eral thousand chiselers elera on the welfare welfare wel wel- fare lare rolls There should be some ome special special special cial kind of punishment devised devilled for such alleged human beings For Instance instance In in- stance they might be he made to take the place of those they chiseled out of ot food 0 0 For no reason at all there comes Into my mind nt at the moment the tale of ot the gentleman who attended one of those pent house parties partie Wandering Wander lug ing out onto the terrace he glanced down at adjacent apartments and what he saw Interested him so that ho he borrowed a pair pale of field glasses from his bis host bolt Handing the leather case to toa toa toa a friend he started a slow circuit of ot the terrace the friend following with the case dangling from his hi neck What are you doing anyway demanded demonde demanded de de- monde another member of ot the party Oh replied the case carrier Im acting as caddy for tor a peeping Tom C. C nell syndic |