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1883 NEW JERSEY Crab Crabbing FAIR HAVEN Oceanic
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ORIGINAL 10-Page ARTICLE (not a copy) - from vintage magazine - 1883 AMONG THE JERSEY CRABBERS - by William Willard Howard Very interesting early article - filled with historic facts, details and locations - and accompanied by beautiful early engraved illustrations - as well as the flavor of 'local characters' - making this a rare and valuable piece of history - great tool for doing research on this topic - The illustrations include: The OLD WHARF CRABBING by Jack-Light Drawing the SEINE TOTAL OF TWELVE ".....the stockades are scattered along shore from tidewater to Oceanic....an industrious crabber, who owns several boats and buys crabs fors shipment, will have a stockade forty feet square, while a crabber who owns but one boat, or who provided with a small dip net, wades on the grassy bottoms with a basket slung over his shoulder will content himself with a modest little pen built of loose driftwood......" ".....when the moon has dipped below the horizon and when the sky above gives out no light, jackfishing is at its best...the crabber's boat becomes a cruiser of the night - the sleeping crab awakes to find his secret hiding place invaded by a baleful glare upon the water......" "..during nine months of the year the little hotel under the bluff at the Fair Haven landing is the only public house from Red Bank to the sea......" ".....in the city markets the crabs are handled with iron tongs, but in the crab country they are treated with no more respect than is shown an ordinary fish....to the novice in crab-catching the most natural way in which to get rid of a pinching crab is to cut off the offending claw......" "..inferior breeds of crabs (notably the horsefoot) are used as fertilizers, eel bait and chicken feed....the hermit crabs, known as winkles, which are sometimes eaten, live in empty conch shells....they are found in large numbers near Sandy Hook and along the coast....." "...in the city market prices for crabs fluctuate from nothing to two dollars per dozen...the average price throughout the season is seventy-five cents......." ".......nearly one hundred and seventy-five boats, employing two hundred men, are engaged in crab-catching along the river from Oceanic, one and a half miles from Fair Haven, to tidewater, a short distance above Red Bank...." Buyer pays $2.50 shipping and handling - SEE MY AUCTIONS more early articles - SAVE ON COMBINED SHIPPING.
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