The schooner Scotia, now sunk in the Elizabeth City harbor, and a serious menace to navigation, is to be moved, if a number of local citizens who are working on the project can accomplish it. Their efforts haven’t accomplished but little so far, because they have found that red tape holds up things. Tom Owens and George Tiddy want to tow it down the river, sink it, and build a fish camp on it, and they applied in the War Department for permission to remove this menace to the ?? craft. Instead of telling the boys to go ahead, get the schooner out of the way and save money for the Government, the War Department officials had to reply in words to this effect:
“Under the law, the vessel will have to be moved under Government supervision, and we will have to send a man down to tell how and when to do the work and see it done. His service will cost $150 a month, and you will have to put up a certified check for that amount, and if he doesn’t take a month for the job, you get the unused portion of this salary back.”
And that’s what these men got for their kind offer to remove the dangerous craft from the harbor. It was only a few nights also that a fisherman ran his vessel into the side of the schooner, and damaged the little boat seriously.
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, April 9, 1926
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