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PAGE 8 — SECTION THREE THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL-LEDGER SPRING EDITION — 1977
'Robbers' most
Buccaneers aided
Revolution cause
The popular concept of a
pirate is a "Warded villain
with cutlass in hand and blood
in his eye: In the early days of
our 'Pepublic pirating was a
respected business.
Historians choose to identify
the business pirates in a more
respectable role as pirvateers
or buccaneers. ;
The sandy beaches • and
marshbound bays of South
Jersey flourished as a haven
for privateers during the era
of the Revolutionary War.
Prom Great Egg Harbor
Bay here in Ocean City and
from several other inlets
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• preyed on the merchant fleet
and the British Navy sailing
New Jersey \vaters.
In those times, privateering
was a legitimate business.
Companies formed especially
for the venture purchased a
fast sloop, armed it, manned
it .with a crew and officers,'
then obtained a "Letter of
Marque" from the Continental
Congress.
Using the bays and inlets as
havens, the privateers would
dash out. attack a merchantman
or a British frigate,
loot it and return to their
protected harbors. The loot
was divided on the percentage
basis. ~
• The pirate, boats were,
literally, private - owned
commissioned men-of-war.
The practice was common to
all civilized nations until the
late 1800's when it was
outlawed by international
law.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
Southern New Jersey
governmental officials and
residents become irritated
with the so-called "storm
warnings" along the coast.
Since the first Indian paddled
his way to the surf in search of
seafood, this area has been a
storm center.. What "alarmists"
call hurricane warnings
these days were to our
old timers, just another
"nor'easter." It might be
noted that in the history of
Ocean City only one
hurricane, in 1964, found its
way into the Southern New
Jersey beachfront.
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70 years ago
Shipwrecks were quite
common along the Southern
New Jersey shore in the early
days of shipping, and one of
the more famous reported
was that of the Sindia, a 3,060ton
cargo ship which on
December 15, 1907....more
than 75 years ago...ran
aground on Ocean City's 16th
st. beach.
The Sindia was making her
way from Kobe, Japaa to
New York City with a $500,000
cargo of matting, manganese,
ore, curios, fine china, wax,
camphor oil anf camphor. She
had been underway on the
10,000-mile ' around-the-Horn
trip since July. •
She was under the command
of Captain McKenzie
and she sailed with a crew of
26 seamen.
Asi she- came near New
York, a Severe storm
developed and on Sunday
morning, December 15, she
ran aground off Ocean City.
By word-of-mouth the
message spread and people
came from all around to see
the four-masted ship, on the
beach about 150 yards off
shore at 16th st. The strong
westerly winds whistled
through her sails and made
her hull careen back and
forth. With each roll it
burrowed deeper into the
sand.
At 2:30 a.m. the distress
signals were sighted by Harry
Young and Edward Boyd of
the Ocean City and Middle
Lifeboats approach grounded Sindia.
Sindia shipwrecked on beach
Lifesaving Stations. They
collected two crews and,
using a breeches buoy and
surf boat, they started out to
help. Three attempts were
made but the storm was so
severe they had to give up.
Finally about daybreak
Capt. J. Mackey Corson, of
the Ocean City station, and
A.C. Townsend, of the Middle
Station, together with their
crews manned a surf boat and
headed for the stranded ship.
Fighting the wind, waves and
sprav and foam of the angry
sea, the boat progressed a few
feet at a time until it finally
reached the Sindia. The crew
of 26 was taken ashore in value of the cargo had been
groups of seven, but due to the set at $1,200,000. Mr. Evanson,
raging, sea and the cold, of the Evanson Naptha Borax
rescue operations were then Soap Company of Camden,
abandoned.
was the next owner, paying
Representatives of New $10,000. He hired divers to
York underwriters took take out the cargo, which WAS
charge of the vessel and its sold at a Sindia store on the
cargo. A wrecking company boardwalk. This proved too
was hired to unload the cargo costly, so the project was
and several loads of water- abandoned anjd much of the
soaked matting were sent to ' valuable freight is reportedly
New York: These were still undisturbed.
auctioned and brought a very A full exhibit of the saga of
small price.
the Sindia can be seen at the
Later the Sindia Company Ocean City Historical
bought the ship and Museum, 409 Wesley av. The
remaining cargo for $5,500, museum is open to visitors,
even though the estimated free of charge.
Sindia mauled by angry sea.
Knew value of education
Founders set up first school
The school system in Ocean
City had its beginning 96.
years ago when in October of
1881 the Ocean City Tabernacle
Association set up the
first school room in the resort.
The classroom'facilities
were located in the original
office of the Association, a
corporation formed by the
founding fathers to administer
the activities of the
new city.
The following year, a school
building was 'erected on the
east side of Central av. between
8th st. and 9th st.
FIRST SETTLER
Cape May is named in honor
of Captain Cornelius Jacobsen
Mey, first director of the New
Netherlands who in ;ii93 made
the first attempt to settle the
eastern shore of the Delaware
River He built a fort on a
stream now known as Timber
Creek which empties into the
Delaware River a few miles
below Camden.
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Classes were graduated from
this school building until 1906,
when the building was torn
down and replaced by a larger.
school structure.
The Central av. school
building was the elementary
and secondary school in
Ocean City until 1913 when a
second elementary school was
built on Wesley av. and 1924
when the Ocean City High
School building was erected
on Atlantic av.
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Several years ago a new
primary school building and a
new secondary school
building were erected by the
Board of Education. The
Central av. school building
has been renovated into a
Police Headquarters and the
Wesley av. school structure
now houses the Ocean City
Cultural Arts Center. The
Atlantic av. building still
accommodates the city's high
school students.
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events of the early season at
Ocean City is the annual Art
Show and Fair staged by the
PTA on the Boardwalk Music
Pier. The date is May 21.
Mark the date on your
calendar of things to do and
see and visit this interesting
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Sentinel-Ledger is
resort's newspaper 9
Ocean City's "hometown"
newspaper is the Ocean City
Sentinel-Ledger. No other
publication produces the
"news" of Ocean City to the
depth that the S-L does.
The' • Sentinel-Ledger is
published weekly every
Thursday from September
through to early June. From
about the second week in June
until Labor Day the Sentinel-
Ledger is issued twice
weekly, Tuesdays and
Fridays.
The Sentinel-Ledger is
printed with the "offset"
method, in one of the most
modern and sophisticated
processes to be found
anywhere among weekly
newspapers in the Southern
New Jersey area. The "offset"
method of printing is the
latest in the trade,
reproducing type and
photographs without flaw.
The Sentinel was the first
newspaper in Ocean City,
started in 1881, only three
years after the founding of
Ocean City. The Ledger came
on the scene 16 years later, in
1897. The two newspapers
merged into the Sentinel-
Ledger in 1924.
Sentinel-Ledger circulation
averages 10,000 copies bought
and paid for by subscribers or
newsstand customers each
week. The figures are certified
by the Audit Bureau of
Circulation, nationally
recognized agency serving
advertisers and publishers.
The desire to give the best
possible service to readers
and advertisers prompted the
switch to twice-a-week
publication in the. summer
some years ago. Combined
readership of the two papers
exceeded 13,000 per week
during August.
Producing this newspaper
requires a staff of 15 full-time
employees the year around.
with a couple of extra hands
employed in the summer
months when the tempo of
activity is faster.
Unlike- -most weekly
newspapers, the Sentinel-
Ledger does- not do commercial
printing. The entire
staff ' of office 'people and
printers concentrate on the
newspaper production.
In October, v 1960, the
progressive history of the
Sentinel-Ledger took another
turn A new modern building,
done in attractive .Colonial
style,' was opened by the
management on 8th st. across
from the old Red Men's Hall,
which had been the home of
the newspaper since the days
of the Great Depression.
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SPRING EDITION — 1977
Area men made American history
Like most places with any
sort of a history, the Ocean
City area has its heroes. One
was a Somers Point man who
made naval history and the
other a Cape May captain in
the war between the states.
Somers' Point's hero was
Commandant Richard
Somers. tie" was commander
of the 12 gun Nautilus, part of
the -American Navy fleet
outside the harbor of Tripoli
in the Mediterranean in
August 1804. The' fleet was
there to destroy the Bashaw of
Tripoli and bring to an end the
pirating which was thriving
from that harbor.
Commandant Somers and
his crew of 13 men loaded the
ketch Intrepid with 1,500
pounds of gunpowder and
under the cover of night sailed
the huge floating bomb under
the protecting guns of the
harbor.
Naval history has never
been able to find out just what
happened in the harbor of
Tripoli that night. The Navy
reports only that there was a
tremendous explosion and the
entire harbor was destroyed
by fire.
Commandant Somers and
his crew never returned from
that fateful mission. A
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THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL-LEDGER PAGE 9 — SECTION THREE
Intrepid's commander and
crew now stands'at the 1,'S
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
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*• Captain Henry Sawyer., a
Cape May County
businessman, figured quite
, prominently in thenews in the
latter days of the American
Civil War. ,
Captain Sawyer' was
wounded and taken prisoner
at Brandy Station on June 3.
1863. He was incarcerated in
Libby Prison.
While Captain Sawyer was
in prison, two Confederate
officers were captured while
recruiting behind the Federal
lines. They were executed.
In retaliation, the Confederate
Army officials
condemned Captain Sawyer,
along with another Union
Army captain named Flynn,
to death before a firing squad.
President Lincoln intervened
and advised the
Confederates that if Sawyer
and Flynn were executed, two
Southern officers imprisoned
in Washington would be shot.
One of the prisoners was' the
son of Robert C. Lee.
All four condemned men
were spared their lives, and
Sawyer returned to Cape May
City to operate a hotel there
Revolution touched beach
While Peck's Beach, the
sand island on which Ocean
City is located, is not as
famous in Revolutionary War
history as Philadelphia,
Jersey was vital
to Revolution
To the vacationing tourist.
New Jersey is a treasure land
of historic shrines, for history
has been made in this state
since early Colonial days.
As the "Pathway of the
Revolution" nearly 100 battles
were fought on its soil. Where
Washington crossed .the
Delaware is now marked by a
state park. At Rocky -Hill,
near Princeton, still stands
the Berrien Mansion where
Washington wrote and
delivered his farewell address
to the Continental Army. At
Morristown,
national
The list of interesting
landmarks and historic places
all over the state is endless.
The atmosphere traditionally
associated with New Jersey is
good Americanism.
The wreck of the Sindia at
17th st. and the beach here in
Ocean City was added to the
list of New Jersey historical
sites several yeats ago and a
marker is on the location.
Trenton and Boston, its sandy
beaches, nonetheless, were an
occasional battleground for
militia and the Red Coats.
In July of 1777 the Peck's
Beach militia under the
command of Colonel Nicholas
StiUwcll engaged in a firefight
with a British frigate of
32 guns on the South Ocean
City beach.
In May of 1779, a British
brig ran aground on Peck's
Beach in a fog. While ths
Englishmen were feverishly
throwing guns and cargo
overboard to lighten the ship
in the hope of floating her off
the sand, Col. StillweU's
militia came trooping down
the beach. '
The Englishmen gave up
without a fight, and the Peck's
Beach Militia confiscated the
brig and her cargo. Nineteen
English sailors were taken
and the cargo was
GOOD SINGING
The Ocean City Male
Chorus is rated as one of the
best singing groups in
Southern New Jersey. The
Chorus will be on stage at the
Boardwalk Music Pier on
May 27. If good vocal music is
your choice this is the time
and place for you.
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