Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . n the Chesa-peake and its tributaries, and in the Atlanticwaters of Accomack and Northampton, espe-cially in th^ shallows about Cliincoteague in the Maryland waters lost some-thing of its picturesque, not to say its heroic,aspect when Thomas Conte Bowie Howard gaveup liis place and rank as Commodore of theOyster Navy to administer a Chesapeake ferryand develop an Eastern Shore farm. CaptainHoward, as the Commodore was commonlycalled, loomed large and authoritative on the There was a time wh
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . n the Chesa-peake and its tributaries, and in the Atlanticwaters of Accomack and Northampton, espe-cially in th^ shallows about Cliincoteague in the Maryland waters lost some-thing of its picturesque, not to say its heroic,aspect when Thomas Conte Bowie Howard gaveup liis place and rank as Commodore of theOyster Navy to administer a Chesapeake ferryand develop an Eastern Shore farm. CaptainHoward, as the Commodore was commonlycalled, loomed large and authoritative on the There was a time when the relatively high wages inthe tidal basin of the Chesapeake caused by the freedomof access to the natural opportunities of the waters led tothe shanghaing of men in Baltimore to recruit the crewsof the larger oystering vessels. At the worst this systemapproached a sort of winter-long slavery for the men thusrecruited in lieu of local laborers, who could not be had atlower wages than their earnings as self-employed law and changing conditions ended the abuse. 238. FARM lUJUSE, WHITE CLAY CREEK VALLEY
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