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He didn't rest
on the oars
The death last Friday of T John Carey was a
loss not only to his family and loved ones, but for
the entire community as well. And John Carey's
community extended beyond the borders of
Ocean City.
As a promoter of a common sense approach to
beach preservation, for example, Mr Carey
championed the use of jetty winp — wooden
piling extended perpendicular to existing stone
groins — to trap ocean borne sand with each
breaking wave. Examples of these winp exist
literally from one end of Cape May County to the
other.
Sand piling techniques using sand scooped up
at the water's edge and deposited in small
mounds higher up on the beach were Mr. Carey's
latest technique to help build beaches at a cost
every resort can afford
"T. John," as his countless friends knew him,
was a member of county and state beach preservation
groups. His many years of hands-on experience
and first-hand knowledge of the surf
and beaches will not be lost, as others, hopefully,
continue the cause which he so earnestly and
sincerely championed.
It is, however, the innumerable plaques, handcrafted
over the years, which will probably serve
as the most lasting memorial to Mr. Carey for
many, for there are many people whom he so
honored for their efforts at making Ocean City
the place to be.
His plaques, which commended the deeds of
presidents, princesses and common men, were
unique — each showing the loving care with
which they were created, each In their style as
unique as the former lifeguard, teacher, coach,
real estate businessman, loving husband and
dedicated citizen was unique in his lifetime of
concern for his community and fellow man.
Friday, September 6,1985
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Suggestions to save
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TheSentinel-I.edger
features
Friday. September fi, 1985 Page Five Seetiaii Two
five men in a shop
Under sail for Ocean City from Bermuda
JOSBPH R.GILiEBT
T. John* is remembered by one of his friends
Last Friday evening,
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1 human beings I have ever that the angel chorus was his talent and "•«*•» We should give our country a
hen privileged to call dear muted Just a bit and, perhaps affection to the dty he called loyal ettben. We should give
because God, la Mend,
not accidentally, the entire home.
our world a Hft toward that
H» infinite fUn, saw fit to When T. John Carey passed day was somber and gray, In brawling through one far-off divine event
21 bOM one of Ma nice* away, I Jmst can't help feel In my almost 20 years in Peterson's The Art o/ Living, toward jjbich all creation
this wonderful town. T. John I mme across a perfect moves.' The finest gift a man
as I used to call htm, was, capsule description of my late can give to Us age and time Is
Ocean lost one
early on, a dear friend and a Wend:
the gift of a constructive and
nun whom I respected and
creative life."
of its greatest supporters
admired. I would be hard put "We should give of our- Fellow clamdlggers, there
to name any living person of selves with the radiant you have T. Jobs Carey.
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger:
our native population who has
reputation for many years,
warmth of sunshine and the Every word of that quote to
ThU Is a memorial tribute to
done more for this town or, for
Hs office is unique and mere
gjow of the open fin, We John Carey. He gave so very
John Carey who passed away were always bowls of candy
mat matter, loved it as much. should give our community a much and. In the doing, never
hut Friday.
•applied for everyone's en- Oh, how he did. Indeed, love pod man. We should give our lost Oat famous Carer smut,
Be was one of the greatest joyment
Ocean city. He gave of Ms home a devoted huspand... I guess the following
aupporters of Ocean City and As a personal Mend and
was always present when associate, I will sorely miss
there were problems or John Carey, and, on behalf of
questions to be settled. the Chamber of Commerce, Cape beaches a public health hazard
There will be no more the business community has
beautiful placques presented suffered a gnat loss. Editor, Sentinel-Ledger: i- Their ion, age 17, — 1 am a 41 year old nurse may be a long whQe before we
by Jobs Carey.
Elsie Glllesple Having spent the first two developed a foot Infection who swam In the ocean every vacation there again.
Be operated a fine real President, Ocean City weeks of August on vacation when he apparently stepped day, but escaped Infection. Unffl the sewage disposal
estate office of good Chamber of Commerce to Ocean City with frequent on a shell on the beach, This may be due In part to the problem Is properly ad-
Invasions of the green tide, I -My husband, age42, left fact that I received an Indressed, It appears that the
feel compelled to list a few Ocean City with • cold and jection of Gamma Gtoubuun beaches of Cape May County
disturbing facts:
sinusitis, after swimming in approximately three months are a public health hazard.
Be 'ultimately
— A friend from Penn- the ocean.
ago for exposure to a com-
Carol A. Ferguson
sylvania, age 42, developed a - Our daughter, age IB, municable disease on the job, l NewHaven.Com.
cold, after swimming In the developed conjunctivitis, thus boosting my Immune
ocean.
after swimming In the ocean, statas.
Editor's note; The
concerned* with - His wife, age 41, — Her friend, also age 19, We repreaent two families original of MB letter
developed a skin rash as well developed a cold and who have been long-time fans Went to Louis
at an earache that lasted for laryngitis upon her return of Ocean City and Its great Lamarma, Cape May
the Arts Center
several days, after swimming from Ocean City, She also beaches, dating back to our Oourty Public Health
in the ocean.
swam In the ocean.
childhoods. Unfortunately It coordinator.
Editor. Sentinel-Ledger: As stimulates the curiosity of all
a professional artist-teacher
and a friend of the Ocean City
Arts Center, I was shocked to I am not sun what the
hear that the building when ramifications would be on the Blue laws should take back seat to parking
the Center Is currently housed effectiveness of all this should
Somen Point, Sea Isle, etc.
might be in danger of being the Center be torn down and Editor, Sentinel-Ledger:
tt can begin to solve the really
Ocean City Is no more or no
torn down.
Its programs farmed out. One Well, the first summer
big problem In Ocean City—
ftere should be dty parking
less the family resort that It
should consider this very without the blue laws has
farting) $
lots In all areas of town.
has always claimed to be,
I am relatively new to the carefully and Just how much ended.
Parking to horrendous In
Ocean City to •resort and
I would recommend that the
area, but ever since moving to the Center could mean to the Business people expanded
Ocean Ctiy, Building con-
retorts depend on visitors. B
referendum add a third choice
New Jersey In 1963, I have Hfe of the community. their hours and hired more
tinues at a rapid pace. Soon
the parking situation does not
for the voters: "None of the
been Involved with the Cen-
people, and residents and
there will be huge condo-
improve substantially, tot
ter: they .have exhibited my The vitality and Inspiration
above," The Council should
visitors were able to spend
duplexw on all of the lots in
visitors are going to stay
work, invited me to give a
lawmakers to consider I. Beef up our police force^ j
carefully, and to devtoe H necessary increase taxes bjfH^
sooiUoBf to, the following: passing a new or Increasing.^
an existing transient renter.
1. Enforce this rule of no tax; after all, the renters „
Ukes on the entire boardwalk cause most of the problems.'•
after the prescribed time. Ban we encounter In season. '
all bikes from me sidewalks.
People who don't ride bikes As residents and nop^
have to nave some right to resident taxpayers we mus
all poll together for our,*;
1 Enforce trash and litter common good. I
laws. Put a monetary penalty everyone to petition Counca]q
os the books sufficient to mq^(jgf Immediate action on
deter Uttering. Make each these matters. V
property owner liable for their
property, rwHynt or absents
We've got to bite the bullet
This city is heading for.':
trouble, and if we don't ddjj
3. Arrest speeders and have mnethlng now we may be too,",
some nrpthffd of fining mem late, '„•'.
right away. I suspect many
out-of-towners never appear
The blue law Issue to ln>X
In court and thereby pay no
portant, certainly, but wej
fine at alL More enforcement
can't blind ourselves to j
Is especially required on me
other problems by casting
9th St causeway to Somen oar efforts In one direct!"
Point
Charles E. Corf
4. Declare an
Ocean
Fire safety code
shortsighted
Setter's note: This
describes T, John,
"The question to not now
ttttie can I give or how much
Is the most I have to give. The
question Is how much dan 1
keep and Uve like a
Christian."
John gave and gave and, m
the doing, returned to God,
God's blessings on him.
Sleep well, John; you have
earned it —as a man, as a
Christian, as a husband, aa i
inagnificenf hnf 1118 School in July whin
pyf
member of the Division that > t'
Oiorft MIHer, formulated these regulations i
assUtant chief, spoke. >4
Bureau of Fire Safiiy If you wonder why we didn't}?
State Department of travel to Trenton for the July-v
CommunUy Affdn 17 public bearing, ask bow"'
Ttiii 09625.
and when we msjkjs onr
MBES tJBP SflQ^ ^^^6S^u
Dear Mr. HOer,
•small (sht rental rooms>,^
In the Aug. 27 edition of the dean and already outfitted
Sentinel-Ledger, you were with a hard-wired fire alarmi
quoted as saying that no one system, smoke detectors, fiMnaw
from Ocean aty bid written extinguishers and a fireto
complain about the escape. We also require:/
proposed retrofit fin code. guests to smoke outdoors. • ii?
Apparently when it comes to Isn't there a point where WSA>
Trenton, the right hand become over-regulated? ' M
" being.
i't communicate with the South Jersey's tourist
i for not only did I, per-
- writs to the address
Bsted en the second page of
the retrofit fire code booklet
(a Mr. Michael L.Ticktin) but
also so did a number of
members of the Guest and
Apartment House 1
Jomes,
deal to New Jeney?ie
economy. These onto
regulations will be so costly^
mat a number of houses wliri A
htve to dose, . • •',*.
If safety to truly your«;
Association.
concern, why not investigated
Many Ocean City the large number of plueasF
hTMLnwspg have been actively that are not licensed, pay ao9
protesting this latest set of sales tax, and have no current*
regulations as witnessed by fln safety equipment .*i 3*.
tie heavy turnout at the
Patricia A.
Ocean City Intermediate
Questions of
on the causeway
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger:
Dear Mayor Bltmer:
A month has passed since
the tragic automobile accident
on the Oth Street
causeway which claimed the
Hfe of 19-year-old Jeannine
Broussard, a youngster for
whom I have provided
educational guidance for
many yean and whom I
loved.
As I creased mat roadway
yet another time yesterday, I
found myself questioning:
m»n wUi th| speed limit be
reduced to » mph and enforced
with conscientious
police patrols?
Mien will wen be signs
patted disallowing passing
and cautioning motorists to
stay in their chosen lane of
traffic* • "•
/.Whtn will slim be posted
indicating that a hazardous
roadway exists? >' ,'"'•'
/When wULthe roadway be,
widened' 1 in' appropriate ,
Wretches to allow for the",
placement «' • • niJuH*! 1 By ILS. BENDER
(Ltst ol a One-part lerta)
After Indulging In an
•Epicurean lifestyle for man
"fean a week, it came time for
Mermaid and crew to hid
adieu to Bermuda.
On Sunday morning (June
30) Capt. Merritt Moffltt, BUI
Moffltt, Brian Kotener, Daniel
Ptlster and I performed the
necessary ebons to ready
Mtrmofd for her long voyage
through "purgatory,"
and domes wen
irefuUy wrapped In
waterproof hap and safely
stowed Food and supplies
wen meticulously Inventoried;
water tanks and
• fuel tanks wen filled to the
rim.
Around 1300 hours (Sunday)
Mermaid sailed from the The author at the helm of the Mermaid.
peaceful haven of St. George.
While she passed through the extra food, navigation would man the helm, for he
town cut and Into the sea
maid Into the wind, where she
equipment, dirty laundry and was our best helmsman, I
fMaanel, we scampered about
bucked relentlessly. Then as
shoes, were usually deposited would tend the halyard, Brian
her decks readying halyards
quickly as the system ap-
here. Anyone desiring t° «leep would gather the saU, and
and sheetUnes. Overhead
peared, it was gone. A dead
or rest hen simply replaced Merritt and Danny would
some longtaUs Hew,
calm existed. No wind, no
the ••cargo" with himself. control the sheets. Nervously
silhouetted by a blailng
rain, no streaking bolts of
Many times a person sleeping Brian and I, wearing safety
Bermuda sun. All local
lightning. We faced each
here was referred to as harnesses, crept along the
weather forecasts were
other shaking our beads In
"cargo" by his fellow crew leeward deck, grasping and
favorable. But to the west
disbelief. Just when we
members. As It turned out this glutchlng grabralls, stan-
loomed ominous black clouds.
sensed the fury was over, all
was a good spot to read. chions and anything else
As we hoisted MmnaU'i
bell brake loose!
The bunks up In the bow baited down. More than once
mainsail, we sincerely hoped
earned the title "washing our progress was stopped by Wt had merely gone
weren't a portentous
machine." Then one would ocean water gushing over the through the eye of an
ralnldepression. Again
wasn't long before the
Mermaid was swept across
clouds sailed over us. We had
choppy seas. We could only
Just passed Kitchen Shoal 'Forty-knot gusts of wind gripped wonder what we had done to
Beacon and bad plotted a
deserve such punishment.
course for home when a nasty Mermaid's sails, spinning her
After what seemed an In-
squaw snafued our sail.
terminable amount of time,
Fortunately the blustery around 90 degrees. Within seconds the thundering system
winds and driving rains wen
pused, but only to reverse its
brief and the seas never bad a we wen flying over the sea...
direction and come at us
chance to build Nevertheless.
again. In desperation we
mtermaid did not escape There was not a thing we could gazed at one another. Our
Unscathed. She lost a full tank
only alternative was to come
do but hold on!*
of water when a nose came
•bout and attempt to elude its
loose from a fitting. Thoughts
path. Nearer and nearer the
of showering wen laterally
system came and when it was
feel an the bouncing and all
washed away; conservation
bow. I positioned myself by on the verge of swallowing us,
the pounding. It was the
would be the order.
the mast, wrapping my legs tt again altered Its course.
notoest place aboard Mer- •round the metal spar. Brian
By 180Q hours Burmuda waa
After uttering a number of
maid. No matter what the Inched his way to Mermaid's
barely visible from astern.
expletives, m fiqJjAettijeJs
weather, Incessant slapping bow where he dung spiderand
sloshing of water against Ike to pulpit and forestay.
an afternoon sun emerged
Small tKunrieftfad systems
the hull bombarded one's At a signal from Billy,
store making its final
continued during the night
ears, Seep hen was virtually Mermaid eased up Into the but, luckily, we wen able to
Impossible, unless you wen wind. Within minutes the
crowded into the cockpit to
evade them. The skies finally
overwhelmed with fatigue. thrashing canvas was down
dry out. Mermaid forged
cleared sometime before
However, with headphones and gathered. Mermaid came
ahead, making B-7 knots
dawn and we felt much safer.
tad a generous supply of nearly to a complete stand-
under a full main and working
As morning eventually
volume from the tope deck, It still. It seemed to take forever
Jib. The helmsman steered a
dawned, we found ourselves
was a gnat place to listen to but the storm Jib was finally
compass course of 315-320
ta peaceful ambience. Glit-
music.
raised. Aa the little canvas
degrees. All was well. Our
tering sunlight danced over a
That night we enjoyed trapped the wind, Mermaid
spirits wen high and our
calm ocean. A light breeze
another peaceful sail under a came back to life.
tastebuds ware later
gently filled Mermaids sails.
nearly full moon. Around
enUveMd when Brian broke
Sailing alone on this A few of us, tired and
midnight we mned in a New
out j can of snapper soup
vastness, we truly felt for- ahausted, lipped coffee and
York radio station and
Pencil be had been saving.
saken. Mountainous seas Kahlua. From astern a big
listened attentively to news moving from two different green hoochle lure trolled far
Nighttime was pleasantly and weather. We wen now directions peaked and closed behind. All wts quiet except
serene. A full moon oe- almost halfway home. ta on little Mermaid. Mean- for the mesmerizing sound of
caiienally obscured by Such Ideal sailing through dering streams of windblown the ocean passing Mermaid's
was not to last.
foam lined the waves'faces. hull.
those on deck. Calm seas and At 0800 Wednesday, Brian AS wondered what we would
warm breezes made our shifts and Many bad to reef Mer- do if conditions worsened. Suddenly our taciturn mood
at the helm enjoyable. maid's sails while the others Neptune, it seemed, was was interrupted by a
Sunny weather and slept below. Although a testing our mettle. But by 1800 •creaming zing from the
relatively calm seas con- radiant sun was rising in a hours men wen signs of fishing reel. Something had
tinued throughout the next cloudless •mre iky, the wind abatement; the wind velocity taken the bait, Befon anyone
Shifts wen regularly howled from the northwest at fell and the seas appeared less could set the hook, line and
Matted for helm, watch 30 knots. The seas were soon a menacing. Two hours later rod went limp. An 80-lbs. test
andgalley duty. We were all. sloppy six or seven feet the blow ceased* Un- line hid been snapped.
once again becoming ac- We altered Mermaid's believably, the seas became Whatever it was, it had to
climated to life aboard a course slightly to ease the lake-like calm; Mermaid's have been of monstrous
small sailboat. At noon mounting tension on her sails flapped dejectedly as she proportions!
Merritt get a good shot of me rigging and to reduce spray barely made 4 knots. The
sun with bis sextant and
By mid-day we were able to
When will I be ablest
into the cockpit By noon there Atlantic's fickle mood to truly
figured we had already sailed
sail with the No. 2 genotf
an entire summer jri
was a ttoticable change In phenomenal.
some 150 miles. Tentatively
(larger gall) for the tint time.
having to watch the red 1
swell slie and direction. Hours passed and we ex-
we planned to make an Ocean
AU of us sprawled atop
of an ambulance and, p<
Swells from the northwest and perienced Innumerable, wind
diy landfall on Friday, July
Mermaid's deck soaking up
cars, so visible from,
toe southwest wen at odds shifts. An errie, foreboding sunshine, free from a
home's deck which <
with each other causing a 4dr filled the surrounding vexatious spray.
the bay to the causeway, j
the fickle confused and scary sea. The darkness. Around 2300 hours
they remove the
sun still beamed overhead but glimpses of lightning ap- As it turned out, this was a
twisted metal, and
fy^ wind freshened with a barometer readings were peared far In the northwest. It, very eventful day,
glass from the road?
bouncy beam sea. One falling. Rough weather was was almost midnight when a In the morning hours
unannounced wave struck dosing in but Just how rough rising moon Illuminated the friendly porpoises frolicked
Mermaid's bull awvltng coffee 'and for bow long It would be,
I have been waiting,
clouds of a mounting thuu- around us. Surprisingly, too,
and'com beef hash all over we did not know. We won-
use this most recent
derhead. Befon long the we saw a pod of whales In the
ttMr'gauey. Later we tried to dered from which direction
to save future lives from*
system was on top of us. far distance. What a
sunbathe in the cockpit, but a the trouble would arrive. With
same fate. For the sake of
Warm and cold streams of' remarkable sight to see such
erlng spray soon drove all each pwwlTig minute miiing
own 19-year-old daughter,
turbulent air simultaneously magnificent creatures! They
.the helmsman below., became Increasingly difficult
will continue to, wait .-
wrapped about our, bodies., would spout streams of water
i whiled away the boars There were so many steep
hope tor some action.'
Then came the torrential and then sound, waving
his next shift either peaks and 'valleys, and
nine's parents wUl continue
rains and the howling winds. goodbye with their enormous
sleeping, reading, or listening Mermaid shook tram stem to
wait
.•> t-V
Forty knot guests of wind tails. ' -; " '
to music. >,
stem as she crashed through
JoanM.I
gripped, Mermaid's sails, Again that afternoon we
• The berths and the eow> them. . *
spinning her around 90. witnessed more whales. This
tertpa.ee beside the coh> At mldafternoon Neptune degrees. Within seconds we time they wen only SO feet
.nta^nway were how,aptly, tashed out > with, unbridled were flying over the sea, the ' from Mermaid Undisturbed
lacknamed for their uses. The fary^T&i Iky, no longer, an needle on the knotmeter by.our presence, they lolled in
,, -/ we bid to replace the. wti could: do but bold on.
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