July 8, 1914 - Addendum to Postcards at Sea

Everything, it appears, was newsworthy in those days. I have come upon an article when Joe and his friends arrived home safely from their trip to Block Island. This is an addendum to the previous two postcards that Joe sent Helen from his exciting summer excursion. As you will see from the newspaper clip it was actually that exciting.

  

HAD GOOD SAIL.

Prosecuting Attorney Shapiro Off with a Party Cruising to Block

Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Shapiro has returned from a cruise along Long Island sound extending beyond Block Island. Prosecutor Shapiro accompanies Judge Wilder of the Bridgeport city court and other friends including Capt. William Howell, who is a lieutenant in the U. S. navy and was on the monitor Montaug during the Spanish war, and Louis Boetger who is engineer in the plant of the Wheeler & Wilson Company of Bridgeport.

The outing which was made in the motor cruiser "Peggy," was filled with happenings. The run to Block Island from Bridgeport was made in nineteen hours. The party ran into a school of sardines which were so thick that they almost stopped the progress of the boat. The party was especially fortunate in running into this school at night as the fish only run into certain places about once a month in season. The party saw lots of sword fish, porpoises, mackerel and blue fish

The men had a wild night last Wednesday night when they tried to negotiate the eastern end of Block Island during a gale. To round the point is quite an accomplishment even in ordinary weather being quite a test of seamanship. The gale was so severe that the cruiser was driven out to sea and all efforts to get back to port were futile until the next day. It was a wild night on the coast for the land
lubbers but the fact that Capt. Howell was at the wheel was reassuring.

The return home was made along the Long Island shore where the principal points of interest were taken in. At Greenpoint on July 4th the party ran into the fleet of millionaires' yachts which was an interesting sight as there are an unusual number of these floating palaces anchored there.


I thought this was fun to add into the archive because Joe did not give all of the details of this excursion most likely due to the lack of space on the postcards.


There will be another article posted on July 17.