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40 BOATS FROZEN UP [Continued From Page 1] rescue craft. They said there would be no danger of becoming marooned over the oyster beds. The vessels usually carry but scant fuel and provisions.

Bugey Frozen In The Coast Guard station at Norfolk reported that it had been asked to cut loose the bugey C. F. Miles, frozen in about three miles north of Turkey Point. The owner of the craft, used as an oyster boat, is C. F. Miles, the station said, and they received the request from the man's wife. She said her husband and another man were aboard the boat. Thus far the Coast Guard, United States Army Engineers' office at Chesapeake City, Baltimore city craft and other vessels ploying channels for big ships have been unable to locate the Miles. Mr. Kipp said the Annapolis had spent the night anchored in the ice on the Sassafras river near Betterton. This morning, when she came out, it took her three hours to go five miles because of the heavy ice.

Large Ice Packs Form Ice packs six to eight feet high are piled up on the west side of the Sassafras, Mr. Kipp declared. This was caused by floes from the Elk and Susquehanna rivers which had been driven into the pack by northwesterly winds. The main channel at Betterton, however, remains open, he said, as do the main channels over the bay. Mr. Kipp said the city, State and Coast Guard iceboats are concentrating on this work rather than attempting to work the small streams and use lighter craft because the ice knits right behind the icebreakers. The Annapolis is moving toward Baltimore and will take on fresh water. Tomorrow she will go to the coal dock at Canton.

Army Tug On Duty The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is being kept open by the tugboat Deland, the Army Engineers' office at Chesapeake City reported. The tug is working twenty-four hours a day, with three shifts of men. The office said it expected the Coast Guard tug Calumet to come and help with the approaches. Much ice is floating about from Seven Foot Knoll to Baltimore Light and in the upper bay. As a consequence all small craft have been told not to go into those areas. Tugboats were also told to stay out. The Russell, jammed on the ice at Belvedere Shoal, had been due here yesterday afternoon but Mr. Kipp said it will probably be refloated early tonight at high tide.

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New Mariners' Museum Volume Deals With Chesapeake Bugeyes

Representing the eighth publica- tion of monographs by the Mariners' museum, the volume entitled Chesa- peake Bay Bugeyes by M. V. Brew- ington came off the press yesterday. The volume is published by the Dietz Press of Richmond.

The foreword, by the author, cites that the monograph Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes was instituted by the Mariners museum as one of a series of publications and logical se- quel to that volume is one concerned with Chesapeake Bay Bugeyes, "the ultimate development of the Ameri- can Aboriginal dugout canoe."

The book just off the press is pro- fusely illustrated. And also included are accurate descriptions of the hull, the rigging, the various fittings and the specialized equipment used by the bugeye. The various details of rigging, ironwork, hull and equip- ment are shown either in photo- graphic plates, or in measured draw- ings of actual pieces. From these a bugeye, either full sized or in minia- ture, could be built with accuracy today or a hundred years from now.

In his foreword the author ex- presses appreciation to Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Mariners' museum, and Alexander Crosby Brown, corresponding secretary, for their encouragement and help.

The volume points out that there were forerunners to the bugeye type and stresses that the source of the name is not completely cleared up and in part ridicules certain so- lutions for naming the craft "bugeye."

It is forcefully brought out that the development of the Chesapeake bugeye is closely allied with the de- velopment of the oyster industry in Virginia and Maryland; so much so that to study the oyster industry one must by force come contact with the history of the bugeye.

There are a total of 49 illustrations in the volume, which aside from the text includes 117 pages. The eight chapters are: The Chesapeake Bugeye, Bugeye Sanxton Hubbard, Bugeye C. F. Miles, Bugeye Cynthia, Bugeye Hattie Allinson, Bugeye Hat- tie Lloyd Bugeye A. von Nyvenheim and Bugeye John T. Ford.

ILLUSTRATION IN NEW MUSEUM PUBLICATION This is the Bugeye Gypsy, ex-Maggie E. Smith, formerly a familiar sight on Hampton Roads, and now owned by Edward F. H. Wins in 1938. The volume, Chesapeake Bay Bugeyes, by M. V. Brewington, includes the Gypsy as one of its many illustrations. The publication is now available at the museum. The picture of the Gypsy was made by H. S. Sniffen of the museum staff.

The Bug-Eye C. F. Miles was re- ported frozen in off Turkey Point, where heavy ice packs have formed, but coast guard and other vessels said they had been unable to locate the ship.

VIRGINIAN-PILOT AND THE NORFOLK LANDMARK, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1914.

VESSELS STRIKE WRECK IN BAY Steamer And Schooner Collide With Submerged Obstruc- tion In Chesapeake Bay

News of the shipwreck of some un- identified vessel in the lower Chesa- peake Bay was brought to light yes- terday when Captain Roops of the schooner C. F. Miles of Cape Charles reported to the Branch Hydrographic Office that the schooner's anchor ran afoul of the wreck last Friday night. Captain Roops reported that the Miles' anchor got caught in the sunken ves- sel's mast, bringing it to the surface. The position of the vessel as given by Captain Roops is Wolf Trap light bearing 150 deg. (true) distance 3.5 miles. The wreck is located in three fathoms of water.

ROBBED SCHOONER.

The police last night received a re- port to the effect that someone had gone aboard the schooner C. F. Miles, off Avenue B, Atlantic City flats, in the absence of the captain, and made away with a pair of boots, two razors, articles of wearing apparel and $1 in cash, taken out of the grip of one of the members of the crew of the schooner. The report was made to J. H. Miles, and Police detectives have been detailed on the case.

Tug And Schooner In Collision. While inward bound from Smithfield with lumber on board, the schooner C. F. Miles, Capt. E. T. Rook, and the tug Sarah, of the Maryland Transportation Company, were in collision yesterday inside Laza- retto Point. The schooner filled, but was kept afloat by her cargo and with the assistance of the Sarah, which took her to a safe berth. Captain Rook was accom- panied by Mrs. Rook, who, with others on board, was rescued. The Miles is a vessel of 22 tons, built at Oriole, Md., in 1909, and hails from Cape Charles City, Va., but is owned in Norfolk.