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SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 30, 1927 mm BIBIIIITICIE How John Minto Came to Be Oregon Pioneer, Not Penn sylvania Miner r . ' fThe followlnr article in the Portland Journal. of Friday 1 the ': famous department of Fred Lock ley in that paper, will be of much Interest to the people of the north ern end of Marion county, and to all other people in this section;) I : Mrs.7 William 1 Monroe Hender shott. who lives at No. 583 East J2UB street; was born September 125,' 1850, at! the home of her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. j Reese-, on French Prairie. When I I Interviewed her, recently. she I was christened Elizabeth af ter my father mother but they always called "me '-' tlbbyv- M father,. .WUIard Hall, Bees was born at Ddverr DeL, September 17, 1819. His people came from Wales. My mother's maiden name was Amanda M.r- HalL My; father crossed thef plains ' In 1844, and thereby hangs a tale. John Minto came from England to Pennsylva nia to work in the coal mines. He arrived in St. Louis early In April, IS 44,-thinking to find, work in-the load mines np the river.' My fath er saw him, on board Jthe boat, on which he was a passenger. Iass- j ing !; father saw, that he laintnr nrainBtome bales of cotton, reading a book. . Stopping to speak to him, he told my father Z that his name was John .Minto, f . ti ha wft coal miner, and mat he was 'going to' try' to find work in the lead mines around Galena, and If he. could .'not. do so he was going backi to Pennsylvania to fol low his trade as a coal miner. My father told, him that he himself was planning to go to Oregon. .He Uld Mr. Minto what he knew of the 'Oregon country, and John Minto immediately declared that e would like to go there himself, but ' he lacked the money. He rent with! father to St. Joe, and they went; out to talk to the emi grants who had assembled at the rendezvous near St. Joe. They i.f " directed to captain uorneuus ,-rm,who saia ne wouia em ploy oner-of the; two young men, and, the other could get werk driving a' team for: Robert W. Morrison,! My father told lilm-that a friend of his, O. S. Thomas, who later settled in Tillamook county, would be -glad to get, the. job &rir lag Captain Gilliam's team, and i h irmr-Mr.' Minto went out to Mr. Vunlnil'l. nloM V In - th TMfttt ypnrchasej 10 miles north of St. ) 1 Joseph. Mr. Morrison" hired' my t give them j their fTboarcr in ex- change for driving - -a team and helping witK the stock. So that ( Continued om pax 6.) ! i FIEBCBE picturesque Fishing Wheels : on Columbia Go Into Dis card After May t - ' PORTLAND. Ore.aPli.BT legislating out of ' existence the picturesque fish wheels ,- which have for forty odd "years dotted the banks of the Columbiarlver, Oregon is giving the game salmon a fighting chance "for life." ,, outlawed on 'the Oreron side of the river after May 1 next. There 'V - P & wneeis in operation 'i WVn ihm turn V.. m V. .1.,.' only those on its own side of the ; river it; affects about 78 per, cent of f the 'quantity taken annually. One wheel -alone had a record of taking 24,000 pounds of fish in 2i hours. ' jln ; the nearly two , generations me waeels have been turning they have ; made millionaires' of manv men but they have exterminated an average of .2,000,000, to : 3 000,000 Bounds of Ush rlv. Th salmoni swimmlne near hnr tn avoid the swift currents, would o caught in the traps erected at TUltirn rirttnta' iHnnns .... t.. necisf and -deposited in troughs ir icapiure was on , stich a i leale scalo not enough would e apS to reach-th? hvadwatenr to , I deposit thei eEES and maintain il -.Ntho supply Hatchery propagation rs iresorieo to proved inadequate. i' I ,:Oiltdlnir nf 'lk : ill j, Jbrlng J joy to those Indians wh stiff ? Use the i nrimif ivo ntvi. o of : fishing. In spring nd aWnmh they fan bteon at tMUto Falls which ; . is virtually the U k:lln71 'owning their annual sup - ; 'or fi-!h.,When, the wheels are I j -v. uvie wiu (HMuoro 'plucvs to Willamette it Salem folk, who wait Impatient ly each year to hear the local con cert of I the Willamette University Glee clnb, late In the spring,, may steal a? march .on them this yeaf7 if: they' possess Hradio receiving sets ; or friends .- who do possess such equipment, by. listening in this aftefnoon, when the college musicians broadcast : a program over KG W, the Morning ,Oregon ian. Portland, from,, 3 to-3:30 o'clock, ' I ... : Those who wish . to make the concert a little more realistic, may prop the accompanying picture up against the loud speaker, and see the singers as well as hear them. The club members are r Top row: WJlliam Wright, Claire Geddes, Oliver Gill, Lester SCOUTS TO OBSERVE 17TH i; Week for Celebration Set for February 6-12; Many;, ; Things Accomplished ' ; Seventeen years of steady pro gress from , smallest beginnings will be celebrated by . the - Boy Scouts of America when Its birth day exercises are held ' throughout the United States in "Anniversary Week, Febrnary ? 6th to 12th; The seventeenth birthday falls on? FebJ ruary 8th." On that, date, In 19 10j William D. j Boyce, ! Chicago pub lisher, filed in Washington the inf corporation papers of - the .Boy Scouts of America. . irJ; v; j The first Scout troops under the new1' organization were ; formed la few' days later. ; Now there; are more v than- 20,000 - troops- with 800,000 boys and volunteer lead ers identified with the movement. They have been described as con Stltutlng the greatest group ever unltedin the. interest of boyoodT Every Boy Scoot Council in the United' StateB there are 'now more than 600 of them will hold birthday exercises during - the week. - . Many are organizing fea turea, of elaborate pageantry suit able to commemorate ', the event and Illustrate i; not only what Scouting has done for ' boyhood but what It mya accomplish in raising higher Ideals of cltlten shlp. ' K . ; ; .: The program for Scout annlver (Continued n pi; 6.) ' ' ' '-! J i . i MM Japan Looms as National - - Nation; Learning Rapidly In view of the remarkable ' ad vance made by the Japanese -In swimming, America may - have a difficult time of it retaining hr laurels at the 1927 Olymplcin the optmon oj w JDeB. Handley, coach t,t the Women's Swimming' asso ciation of New York. . ' h Mf- Handley commenting on the record, smashing: year of 1926 in thp first issge of '"The Sportsman" writes, "If the Japanese keep on improving at the pace they lave since 1924, It may be .taken for granted .that thev --ni rpnnira good deal of beating atAmster- danv twoyeers 'heneei-J :5-''- ; 'Some of the' latest' achieve mcntsspeak for 'themselves., nota tly.'an 80-meter relay swim in the world's record time of ; 938 1-10 b Sata . Noda. ; Aral! and Takaishi;, 100 'and 200 -meters free style in 1:00 and 2:16 4-5 by Takaishl 400 meters In 5:16 2-5 Aral; 100 meters back stroke. tn 1:14 1-5 by'Kimura, and 200 me ters breast stroke io 2:57 1-5 by Tauruta. "Th sturdy litHc pons of N!p Hon,", the warning in "The Sport man' continues; Vwade close stu dy of onr methods nV the Olympl ad of.jl924. eentt experts .to j thi; country cm educational 'timra iiA laediately after, then proceeded to tsiko full auvautasu t'f- all the 1 Glee. Club to Smith, Herbert, rnartley,'. TJeiand Sprecker, Earl' Wilkinson Walter iuir..-! ,,!: i ,;,v : : Middle,; row:' -.'.Arnold. .Taylor, Wendell . Ioblnson, -Paul: True bipod; , Elwin v Church: Walter Kaufman, Lloyd;-, Thompson, t Al bert. Herman: J,r k: Bottom rowT." Ilohald' Craven, Paul Geddes, Hugh Roberts.Laar ance Schreiber ThomaaMaynardi Earl Pemberton Willis Hathaway, Hobart Kelly. ' . , .J , . As only those who . have! heard it In concerts at nearby cities, in stitutions or In a few numbers at the .university, v chapel exercises last week can testify, the club, directed by Professor E. W. Hob son head, of: the school of music, is if anything just a little better Number of Women Soon : to Equal Men at Ui of 0. ' , UNIVERSITY OF. OREGON. Eugene, Ore.- (Special) . The battle, of thq sexes is on. . : Indicative of the growing eman cipation of women, perhaps, is the fact. that gradually the number of women in the , university is ap- trojichlng that of men and it will probably be, but a short time un ti? iitsme resultS;in:Vjtij.' Total registration ; of women including additions made -in the winter term; amounts to 13 56, Virginia Judy Esterly, dean of .women, an no inced today. This 13 only 16b less -than the number, of men en ro'.ledv , s v - "Once there was but a few wom en in. the university,'- while today 242 live in the four dormitories, 481 in sororities, 301 in boarding and lodging houses, 326 at their homesIn;Eugenev iiV;;: TRA6ES0F SftlE BIRDS l( FOSSILS Footprints of, 19. Different Kinds of Animals Found by. Professor , t! Mcpherson, Kan.-f-(AP) a heretofore' unknown bed "of . fossil tracks, clearly revealing traces of strange birds and animals which (.talked the southwestern part : of the United States " thousands "of years ago. has been located by Prof. Hz H. Niniger,. head of the ticHogy department of McPherson college. v ' ; Footprints of 19 different kinds of animals and birds -foand in the l-ed have v. been segregated1 and identified by their .tracks and some of them, Professor Nlnlnget declares, are new" to modern sci- rncc - i 5 j t . 6 v' Reading of the Kansas biolo gist's work, in unearthing , fossils of a giant prehistoric animal of the cat family in central Ariiona fast: April, 'Lee Means, a rancher living near Valentine, Texas, v-ble to Ihim saying - there- were some, unusual imprints . 'in hard flint-like rock 'on his" farm.: V;); ; Professor Nlninger went to the Means ranch, cot far from the Mexican border, and investigated the imorints. He believes that country was. in prehistoric dayc a largo shallow lake, the bottom of which was covered with a stia m'ntk. 'On this muck the animals and birds walked, . leavingi icclr tracks firmly imprinted. Then came a time when the land was-submerged with-a sedi men t known as anhydrite, closely related to gypsum. : All of this was . again beneath other rudi ments to a depth of from 150 to i'0 feet Unci on top of this a 150 foot layer of basaltic lava flowed. Purints: the, Pisistocene period, psibly from 50,000 to 100,000 yoars ages a great upheaval broke up the formations and a srtrcara has since brought to view the fossilize;! tracts, . embcilrlod ii Iho Sing Oyer KGW Today trained and better 7atancea;' this year than ever before. ' . - :"" Despite their youthful appear ance', the basses hold up their end to j perfection. Looking them over, the critic' promises himself that here he can, find a weakness, bat he is pleasantly disappointed. That, probably, is the reason why their excellence is so noticeable. The quartet, too. Is a credit to Professor Hobson's uniformly Ef fective directlhg. . There are those who say it is the best; Willamette quartet' to take the road since the days' when : "Gloomy Gus" Ander son held; up'; one end and "Baldy" Bowers' held down the other. The members' of the quartet are Ron ald Craven, first lenor; William Knicker Fashions Prevail in Yosemite Park Now YOSEM1TE -(Special) Skirt- less women are now an accepted custom here. This is the season when knicker fashions prevail. with thanks offered by the fair sex1 for the privilege. As explain ed by a young lady visitor: "In this snow-covered winter sports-land, women can derive double pleasure from skiing,- to bogganing and snowshoeing If not hampered by a dress,-Give me st bright colored stocking cap, warm white : sweater, woolly gloves, tweed, knickers, knitted socks, and heavy boots also a powder puff, and a handful of snow. Then watch me swing into action!" , Most women visitors appear to relish the chance to wear knick ers, with the trip" to Yosemite in winter affording the opportunities. Now, ladies,, make your choice! ;. FIE GOLD TUBER Others Preach, Shock Wheat Plow and Do? Variety of Manual' Labor ; INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) Pteling; preaching and harvesting tteir way through school, three Simpson college women are diplo ma-bound." ' A gold potato will be givea to Garney Holman of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, with her diploma when she steija out of college in June.; to remind her that she pared her way thru 1.500 bushels of tubers in dormi tory kitchens to an education. . ' The pulpit f will be abandoned for the schoolroom by Marie Cas- scll of , Fairmount, Ind., who - has preached two "sermons a Sunday in-the Friends church of Indian ola, to earn her 'way 4 to junior standing. " ' ' 'V - f ; "Shocking . wheat, , plowing and picking potatoes have yielded rev enue for an education to . Carol Sandy of Indianola, who each ya-r cation treks;' to; the North Dakota prairies itowinS money, enough in the harvest; field to carry her thru another year "at Simpson. " . The gold potato will be given to MiES Holman hy the school. , "If I had. it all to do over again rshe avows, ' "I'd rather rniel potatoes than earn my way in i-nyotherifashlon.' . e. ; , . She mrst mean . it,.' for the school "offered her a "wh ite collar job' and she turned it down. She la the daughter of a retired farm er.; ' . . "The dreams I've had while the r&rings fell. - and the questions I ve settled about life while con ducting an excursion through, a pa n of potatoes, aro worth about aH -ui tu h 'as the education I've ro ciived. she says. It's foolish to sty that" a -studcot who earns his way docsnV enjoy K his college j cars.", -v v'o ;;.'- : : : ; Preaching Isn't all that Marie Cassell does to earn her way. She leads the weekly prayer mcctin.c:-, EN DW1S Wright, : second . tenor; Willis Hathaway, baritone, ' and . Walter Kaufman, .-basso.;' ' ':; ;p Miss Margaret Lewis is the ac companist this year. , Saturday night the club sang itfej first concert of the present, two weeks' tour at Rose . City Park church in Portland. ' It will sing there again; tonight: Unless the program -is Changed' the following will 'be Its? itinerary: Jan. 31, Beaverton; Feb. 1, La Grande; Feb. 2, Baker; Feb. 3 Vale; Feb. 4. Payette; Feb. 5-6, Boise; Feb. 6 Caldwell; Feb. 7, Mountain Home; Feb. 8, Emmett; Feb. 9, Elgin; Feb.' 10, Pendleton; Feb; 11 Hood River; Feb. 12, Sellwood church in Portland ' TIME OF MI Sad TO BE m OF BEST Many Other Book Seiectiprts ri Made by Various Univer- sity Professors -i UNIVERSITY OF, OREGON, Eugene, . - Ore. : Special )t-'v7hat is. the best American novel pub llshed durlngi1926? , :. That question may be answered in various ways, according l-to' in terviews with University; of Ore gon professors of literature who were asked Itp maketheuj nomina tion f of: the,Pulitzer "priatet in lit pi ature; but there , was an , agree ment on a, few novels, . r;. "Romantic Comedians," by El len Glasgow "Time otr Manf'v by Elizabeth Udox . Roberts, and "The . American; Tragedy,' by Theodore Dreiser seemed' to have teen outstanding 4 : . i ' " : : ' Declaring. ;,thatr he was unfitted : to make.. a; selection of the best r.ovel of the year, Dr,. C. V. Boyer, head bt, th$ English literature de partment, believed .Time of, Man" is one of the Jiest, . . . "It, is a Realistic story, but lack ing in the.sordidness)f the' ordin ary realism,. Dr. Boyer . said.. "It has a naturalness which does not depress. Yoa see into; the souls of the charactf irand find, that,' after all: they. arey. rea .4 persons like yourself, i JThat, I. think, is the beautyof i th f book its - extraor dinary subtlety f of i characteriza tion.! . . - ' ; "1 think Ellen Glascow'a 'Ro mantic Comedians,' will be award ed that prize," declared. S. Stephf Vinson Smith r assistant, prof essor English; , "Thel novel represents depar- - t- I e ti a t ci piiiisH ;te!33 iyui:cfiFicE!is Mr. . Cotton Tells Assembled - Students ofrHome, School. ; - and Church Work: '1. David Kjto ' ' , -. '.Although there; were only thro days of school, last week, probab ly more events; fopk. place in those 18 hours than! any other time. The first .was an- assembly heldv in the gym Monday afternoon. - The prin cipal speakerwas Mr. Cotton,- sec retary f of the United - States YMCA bureau. His talk pertain ed . to students happiness in the home, school, and church, and was Doth interesting an,d brief, , ) I Tuesday during "fourth." period the song' and yell leader and class representatives, met. with three teachers for the purpose or nom inating'1 candidates for, student body off icers from. February 'until June. This" was, completed within an' hour but' the; nominees'; names were not made public until Wed nesday morning... . - ' ; Tnesday ; evening Parrish bas ketball quintet met the Monmouth five on; the home floor and defeat ed them to the tune of 17-7. This Was the last basketball game of the first semester. - J During secon'd, period. Wednes day, v nomination - speeches were made by all candidates at. an as sembly called, just for that'pur-r pose. The election took place third period immediately fallow ing the assembly and when, Wed nesday evening the votes were bal anced up; they; showed that for the folio wins semester the A. S. B. officers. Will f be: President,-; Roy Maier ; vice president,' Lore? Bar ham r secretary, Velma-May; Trea'surer, Raymond, Grabejr; . ser-geant-at-arfms, Stanley; Priced edi-f tor of the. Teriscope, David Eyre; publication v manager Frank Childs; yell leader, Byron LiUie; Bong leader,june Fltxpatrlck:: J These students wUl take office tbmorrow morning at 9 a. m. ' Nearly 50b Parrish Periscopes. i-v cud- Classes vi uriug BIXIA periOQ, WednesdayThiS; was . thftj last number . of the" paper In; Volume ; 4. , To finish school, in justs the rightjway Mr. Durham, principal, secured Mr. McCravy. well known Southern? entertainer, to give "thel last' assembly a real clever pro gram. ; Mr. McCravy, who stated that often" time's people ' got "his name . confused and - called him "Mr. Gravy" or "Mr; Crazy," gave a- forty-minute entertainment con sisting, of ; negro spiritual! Bongs, negro - stories and . jokes and? was called .back again and. again by the. Parrish Jstu dent body' ' ; Tomorrow- morning "begins ; a new semester with " all; clean rec ords" Parrish. bids farewell to not quite 9-As.and. welcomes over 100 new 7-B's, or ."Freshles." ' COLLEGES WO. America's. 900rHducational Institutions Too . Crowded for GoodWork , NEW. YOUR '(Special) Amer ica's 900, colleges are' too crowded to, do, effectlvework; Midlers and MISFITS Lions" Yanked From Park by Lariats, of Cowboys : GLACIER PARK Mon-(Spe-cfaU Jini 'Whilf of!" Eureka." Montana, 'jrvernment hunter of Glacier,' National.-' park;, ropes Rocky Mountain Hons ' out of trees ; with h - lariat. i Uricte Sam wants this -ravaging -specie .elim inted from the park so othergjl mala may thrivd. WhiltilBobT Bak ker of, Libby, Montana, and other government hunters are allowed to sell, to clrcusea and, menageries all. these lions which they capture alive with .an ordfnary cowboy's lariat. , . " ,V . . . . "A Hon-; recently.: captured, by Whilt. weighed 203 pounds. ' It new is housed In a Canadian gov ernment, zbo. - last year Whilt caught , a )ion weighing :. 2 IS- lbs.1 He sold- It td a circus 'in Forth Worth Texas, but the. animal got noose, and" Was shot by theFort Worth police after it bad caused a thousand shudders, to run through the' negro .-f district of Fort Worth." - Whilt and: Bakker cleaned up the mountain- lions of Glacier Park so well that last year they' both, sold their, prized - blood hounds which they used in' treeing the animals, a there belng hardily a track of the "king of prey," - left on the great' Rocky Mountain tour ist, mecca in Montana. '- The deer, sheep' and ra6untain' goat are multiplying as a result; Bakkef's famous bloodhounds were sold to the Roosevelt expeditlomand were used in hunting lions in the'moun tains of Asia." '. , -s Wiiiii coyisE C. , M. J Keefer' to Conduct Special Classes atfYMCA ; ; uuring February -i; t.v'KeferVibf?rei-iiow an instructor atWillametter uni versity andt Kimball . School - of Theologyr.' and who lias just re cently returned . from two vyears study?lathei,BoatopilUnlversity will give, a talk on -" vocational M. KEEFER; guidance for young 1 men at the YMCA on Tuesday evening, Fet ruary. l.i x " v -.. ' '- . Mr. Kceter's .-talk wll mark tho opening of 4a. program consisting of a series of vocational guidance, which will be conducted during February . as a part of the Young Men's program. ' . This is. part of tho educationa pro gram of the - Young Men's Divis ion. " . ; " Mr. Keefer worked, with. Prof es sor . .Charles -'A. , Cpbourn, . of Bos ton, who was - In charge of voca tion- guidance forall youag-.men C, that city, who graduated ; from he high schools. , Professor Ce- ournstood between -the employ r and tho young men and. applied cientific' methods to- determine he capacity of young men for var- tous vocations. Mr. Keefer did pecif ically outstanding work in he : Department 'of Mental Diag osis. The experiment which the ity -of Boston is trying In solving his eterrperplexing problem' of Jttlng the square 4 peg' in the j'luare,' hole and '"not ; the , round eg:,in the square ; hole is unique sr the ; United- States, v-; I Any young ineh J)f the city, in 'rested in this subject, whether le i3arniiated. wif h, the ; YMCl or I of,' la ;pfiyilegedtr wjiheto the Inner meeting; on TueRdaynight, I'ebr d ary ' 1 b yphon ing "fo'rres'eir atlons not later Hhan londay' IOXG LIFK I'RKDICTKIX EveryCchild : born in J-'n gland as an expectation of twel ve years snger -life than ; its.' grandfath&r, ty JSir - (Icorgo Newman, chief cdlcal officer of Eritaia. ' , 'uxci: JAii i:s utcKUiRDii- The Prince of "Wales performances of "i ' uricHn- nrgro revue. f nrjr ; "' - - , 1 inn . . I'OID WKW3 Familiar. Things; Arqund" the-" Old Homestead- KefJt Eddy ; !" at' His Home' " ' - Her. Ernest II, Shanks , , There is. , an old poeni' that: everybody knows. 'Sometimes we : lng it. It Is just ltkevmusic even5 when you read it. for It is a won- derful bit of word-picture thatt finds . an echoing chord in' every heart. It goes like this : How. dear to. my heart are the scenes oj.my.' childhood" ' - -r.ru a . . ..... uwu tuna recollection nresnt .. them to yiew" " The. orchard," the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,1 And every loved spot which iny infancy knew; ".-: ; - The cot of . my fajthef, the-dairy- house nigh It; : ' '. ' The bHdge by the rock where., - the cataract fell; The, wide spreading, pond and the ; mill that stood ill j,!' - T - And 'e'en the rude bucket' that - : : hung in the well. : w - , The old oaken bucketThe Iron r . bound bucket, ' The' moss-covered bucket that - hung in the well.- : j " .. How,, that describes the old borne. away back there. There was the cot. (cottage) of ; the bid homestead nestling among tho trees. pine and ' mountain ash. There was the great double-decked barn with the threshing-floors above and the stables below.. The well-kept; garden- for -flowers and vegetables, between the libluse and the barn. Theresas the creek running across the; lane that' led1 from the highway, with, the bridM and the chestnut trees Bak there behind the house the larse orchard with, almost every Varie t y of apple, peach, pear ahd;cherry. Back of the orchr.rd was the pond, and- then still further back beyond the fields the woods. In the centre of one of the large fields was tho old cotton-wood where we used to Shoot the chicken 'hawks.' At the edge of, the woods the blackberry thicket, .tho . deep-tangled w-ild- killed blue racers - and red-belly snakes, and r once in : & while a copperhead. It all comes back ai we read the little noem, or asat evenlngtime sitting by the fire -w lng the old song, "The Old Oaken Bucket:? ' . : ' - There- was a boy in our ' neigh. borhood,;we win call him Eddy jonnson, though ot course that wasnot "his real name. Eddy was atine chap all right, but he had a roving disposition. He was not afraid to work' but he wanted to see the .world.. , One day when ha was : about', twelve years of age. Eddy decided he would run away from home and go, out. Into the wide world .and make Ills fortune, orati least. see, what lay beyond the western horizon. . That day Eddy's father had put on a little extra heavy burden of work and , while Eddy was a big boy for hia age, he : decided .the job was too (Continued on pg 6.) . I! S autos on noneES Streets, Only Ten Feet-Widej Town Within .100 Miles of - Washington. ; TANGIER,' Va.. (AP) Tangier has no. traffic cops and the proba bilfitles are it. never' will! j ' ,,Why?v-;-, v ; Because no automobile has ever5 been; seen here and a horse is just as much of a novelty. This despite the fact the town has a population of 1,400 and is within a hundred miles of 'jthe nation's capitol. t Tangier is! ou. Tangier Island, Chesapeake Bay, and was discov ered about 300 years ago by. Cap tain John Smith., who also named it.. The: Cornish fishermen who settled here have keptithir race s6 pure that they still speak with ah accent peculiar to Its first in - Motorcars would have littla habitants. space 1n Which to.operale. even if they should come, for the streets are only i 19 feet Vido, -There Is scant vegetation. Hence the ab sene off horse?. 'The bay sur ronndingthe, island .continues one of jl'he best fishing grounds in east ern 'United States and the fctnrdy Cornishmcn havo ncvur -givrn up t!j ir first calliog ' .Tangier's younpsters are traiT 1 tci the water aad hers nay to - a pitting' '; their .ski'l; aaiz- t tl:- wavps.. . - ! r.akish. mast;: 1 - fiahir. I ort conrppe .a .ver!:.ibh rrr- - ' - an I t only other tran -porta : ion v-- i' ul -i ere roni'il.-ia mrU ttr I I'tw'i vt irtt j-i- ,-.t. 1,1. t-. i j. , t