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COMPASS ROSE OFF BATTERY PARKThis Genteel Lady'Hides A Lurid PastBy BILI, BARRYRegister Staff WriterShe sits there quiet—not sleek, but comfortable and serenq now. after her purple past.She's been mixed up in a lot of things: rum running, gambling, prostitution. At least one man almost went to prison for her. but her alabaster features don't show it.SHEILA J. is respectable now. It cost 35.001) to make her so.Eight years ago. she was falling apart like •ny woman who has been mis-used. maltreated.Now her name is changed.Her 60 tons have been worked over inside and out. Every inch of her 75 feet has been renovatedShe’s beautiful again and her name is Compass RoseJUST PAST DAWN, 11-year-old Allene James creeps out on deck and looks over the deserted docks at Battery Park.was the biggest I could find arid it took me closest to the sea again.Every- year we did a little more work on her. Ruby James says. All new paneling, mahogany. We put formica tops on all the tables and replaced the old crew- quarters with a dining area. The engines, electricity, everything got a working over. Now it's our summer home.Last year we had her docked at Put-In-Bav and the kids went to school by airplane. They love it and so do we.EVERYTHING CAME big in the ’20s-bank accounts, houses, boats. An east coast industrialist built the Compass Rose at Annapolis. Md.. in those flush, plush days, no expense spared. Christened the Frances III. she sailed head-on into the '29 crash.A gambler salvaged the Frances III from financial straits. Indulging an exotic quirk, he named her Phwecn II and introduced her to rum-running.tt'IIFN Till’ 41 \ MR I I'D
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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 13, 1962
Page 15
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