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THE PALM BEACH POST WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1987 7D Survey making a 3-D star chart Yuppie-turned-galley cooli gets a taste of life at sea i (- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR NEWS SERVICE schooner Marcantile. the job wearing a designer sweat shirt. Ha! The first thing the captain had me do was painting and carpentry in the galley," she said with a laugh.

Little cooking experience The only previous cooking experience Attridge had was informally for friends and roommates while living in Boston. "Actually all you have to do is to be able to generate energy, take pride in what you do, and get along with people in a close situation," she says. It takes that and a lot more to feed a crew of five, plus 26 passengers. There may be waves out here, but no microwaves in the galley. No gas stove with self-cleaning oven, or fingerprint-proof, double-door refrigerator-freezer.

Fortunately for Attridge there is a large dishwasher a young college student, Nathan Spectre. Too tall to stand up in the galley, he performs his menial chore cheerfully, seated on a stool. Attridge does all the cooking and baking on an ancient, cast-iron wood-burning stove. The old relic radiates an especially welcome warmth on this cold, foggy day, a magnet that lures unsuspecting passengers to the galley. Attridge quickly puts them to work kneading bread, or shelling peas.

Dry goods and pots and pans are hidden away beneath hinged wooden benches that also serve as seats for the hungry passengers, and as beds for Attridge and some of the crew. Capt. Ray Williamson promises his passengers three hot meals a day plus ship-made rolls and breads. It's Attridge's job to deliver. That means rising at 4 a.m.

to fire up the big, black, behemoth to get it hot enough for baking breakfast bread. "That's not so bad," the cook insists, stirring a large pot of stew By JOHN EDWARD YOUNG Christian Science Monitor News Service Gail Attridge, cook aboard the schooner Mercantile, was on her knees. Pleading. Begging. Not for mercy for butter.

She had climbed aboard the sister-ship Maiden, tied alongside the Mercantile, in the middle of Penobscot Bay. Her mission was to finagle a pound of the precious spread from Maiden's cook. "Just one pound four little sticks," she wailed, shedding crocodile tears at the feet of Maiden's crew. Attridge had used the last of her butter at breakfast. The nearest supermarket was a chilly two-hour swim away.

"Maybe if you bake us a pie," Maiden's cook teased, clutching the treasure and twisting his red beard nefariously. "A French Chocolate Chiffon pie," he demanded. Attridge groaned in assent, snatched the butter, and returned to the Mer-cantile's wild applause. "You'll get a canned pumpkin pie and like it," she retorted victoriously. Fed up with office job Begging for butter was not a prerequisite in Attridge's previous upscale job as an economist with Data Research outside Boston.

"But I had had it," she said, snapping the tops from a mountainous pile of green beans down below in ship's cozy galley. "I got my master's, and worked for three years. Finally I realized that I wasn't running my life, my job was." On May 19, she quit her job and her high-style urban living. On May 20 she boarded the 115-foot Mercantile, a schooner built in 1916 to carry wood and salt fish up and down the Maine coast. These massive seahorses are now being restored to carry passengertourists on three- and six-day summer cruises.

Undisputedly the best way to see this rugged coast. "I came up here and applied for CRYPTOQUOTE cooks in the galley of the 1 "People are so sweet. They come down here for dinner, cold, or wet, or sunburned and exhausted, and just devour everything you put in front of them." Recalling last night's spread, she adds, "It's funny everyone's so impressed with a turkey dinner. It's so easy to cook a turkey in one of these stoves. It's a lot harder to bake cornbread.

There's no temperature control, no timer, and you have to keep checking and turning everything," she said "The captain wants to know what time lunch is," one of the crew shouted down to the cook. "Twelve-thirty, if I can get some more help with these beans," she yelled back. At 1:30 Attridge rang the lunch bell and 26 hungry semi-salts tumbled down and crowded elbow-to-elbow around the galley tables. For lunch, along with the green name? Lots AXYDLBAAXR isLONGFELLOW One letter stands for another. In this sample A is used for the three L's, for the two O's, etc.

Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each day the code letters are different. NLG SBVMKIGVNKT MG- SGJN HS SKNLGEC UC NLKN NLGF RKVN NLG JLUTMEGV NH WG JEGMUN NH 1 WGENEKVM EBCCGTT Yesterday's Cryptoquote: FINANCIAL SENSE IS KNOWING THAT CERTAIN MEN WILL PROMISE TO IK) CERTAIN THINGS AND FAIL ED HOWE The Associated Press Astronomers at California's Pal-omar Mountain Observatory, are conducting a sky survey that will result in a three-dimensional movie mapping the motion of hundreds oi stars. -r From now until 1992, according to an article in the current issufe ol Popular Mechanics, the Palortari Sky Survey will be photographing stars and galaxies several miljion times fainter than the dimtnes stars visible to the unaided eye. The Palomar observatory -near San Diego, using a recently upgridi ed telescopic camera capable; of, photographing words in a freeway interchange sign 20 miles away! is being used to record more of he; night sky than ever before.

When the new sky map is com-i pleted with similar telescopes the Southern Hemisphere, the; re suiting sky atlas will contain; the images of nearly a billion individ-i ual stars in our galaxy as weD-as millions of other galaxies beyond. Astronomers will be using the! sky survey as a cosmic road map and research tool well into the 21st century. I In the 1990s, it will provide guide-star positions for pointing the most powerful astronomical ini struments on and off Earth, These are the shuttle-launched Hubble Space Telescope and the 400-inch Keck reflector telescope, now under construction on Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest mountain. Palomar is using an instrument called the Palomar Schmidt Telescope, which has no eyepiece and has never been used visually. It is, in effect, a telephoto lens used exclusively for photographing faint celestial objects on huge 14-inch square glass photographic plates.

Closeup examination of one of these plates after a one-hour sky exposure reveals an ocean of stars, here and there wreathed in misty clouds of cosmic gas. it's a town's the waterfront, Mayor Betty Jean Stewart said. She said the ridge is still there and her house is on it. Glen Ridge: Efforts to incorporate the small town near Palm Beach International Airport had already begun when Helen Mosler a town official for 26 years, including stints as council member and mayor settled there in 1947. During one organizational meeting, attendees were asked to suggest a name, Mosler said.

She submitted "Glen Ridge," because one canal bank formed a ridge and the main street was surrounded by trees that made it look like a wooded glen. She said there was no prize for submitting the winning name. Cloud Lake: The name for this town of about 150 near Palm Beach International Airport incorporated in 1949 stemmed from a local Indian description of the area, said town clerk Dorothy Gravelin Haverhill: It is named for Haverhill, near Boston, which was the original home of some of its first settlers, said Robert McK. Foster, who has been the city's attorney since it was incorporated in 1958. It is pronounced HAV-er-hill, unlike its New England namesake.

There, said Clerk Dorothy Aimaro, it's pronounced HAYV-ril. Golfview: When the town was incorporated in 1937, it stood at the entrance to the West Palm Beach Golf Course, said Bob Elliott, a former city council member who has lived there for 35 years. The course became part of Morrison Field, he said, and is now; the present site of Palm Beach, International Airport. Golf: The small village west of Boynton Beach was settled by former residents of Golf, IlLj home of the Western Golf Association, according to the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. Palm Springs: The town probably was named for the resort town of Palm Springs, town officials said.

But most said it already had the name when they arrived in the late 1950s, and the original developers have all died. Pahokee: It is a Seminole Indian word meaning "grassy waters," City Clerk Betty McCoy said. She said the settlement already had the name when it was incorporated in 1922. South Bay: The name is believed to stem from the town's position on the south end of Lake Okeechobee, said City Clerk Virginia Walker, who settled in the area in 1935. Belle Glade: The town, settled in 1917 along the Hillsboro Canal, was a central location for smaller settlements along Lake Okeechobee, said city clerk June Boglioli.

She said it was originally called Hillsboro; later a blackboard was set up in the town's only hotel, and guests and permanent residents were encouraged to suggest a new name. The winner was a derivation of "Belle of the Glades Boglioli said the person who submitted it has been lost to history r.f 1 VljJV IV- -i" 7 Gail Attridge, once an economist, simmering on the stove. "What's hard is remembering where everything is stored. And the worst thing is running out of butter," she quips, rolling her dark eyes. "It's hard work, and long hours, but every little thing you do is really appreciated." On deck a little elderly woman from New York with flip-up sunglasses and yellow slicker agrees.

"Faaaabulous," she says in a nasal monotone. "Just fabulous. I don't know how she does it, reaaally. Last night she spread out a complete turkey dinner. It was fabulous.

You know what I mean? Faaaaabulous." Cookbook her guide Later, below deck, Attridge thumbs through a Palate Cookbook a dogeared remnant from her yuppie days in Boston. She's looking for perfect crust for a growing order of pumpkin pies. What's in a TOWN NAMESfrom ID explanation is that the sharp rocks lining the entrance to the inlet sent many Spanish ships to the bottom of the ocean, and sailors likened them to jagged teeth, calling the area boca de ratones "mouth of the rats." Enter Peggy McCall of the Boca Raton Historical Society, who quotes a 1975 article in Tequesta, a publication of the Historical Association of Southern Florida. It says the original Boca Raton was an inlet in northern Biscayne Bay, near what is now the Indian Creek section of Miami Beach. Then, in the early 1800s, another inlet farther south was given the same name.

The confusion reigned until later in the century, when cartographers erroneously gave the name to another inlet much further north the one that carries the name today. McCall said that inlet wasn't even there when the Spaniards first explored the area, and thus its shape could not have been the source of the name. And she said it contained no sharp rocks. Atlantis: The town was named in 1958 for the lost continent of mythology, said Jim Kintz, president of the firm that has developed the community over the past 30 years. He said his father, Paul Kintz, and partner Nathan Hunt bought th land from the father of former Florida Senate President Phil Lewis, and decided that an exotic name would attract settlers.

They also wanted one starting with an so it would be high on alphabetical lists of area towns. Hypoluxo: This area's first white families came in 1873, when Lake Worth was still closed off from the sea (the South Palm Beach inlet was built in the 1920s) said Mary Linehan, a South Palm Beach County historian and an author of local history books and articles. She said local indians reportedly had called the area hypoluxo, which roughly translated to "Water all around, no get out." Lantana: It was named for the lantana wildflower, Linehan said. The settlement originally had been called Lyman's Point for M.B. Lyman, who opened the third business along Lake Worth in the early 1890s and was the first postmaster.

He spotted the lantana flowers growing locally and applied for the first post office to bear that name. The flowers which are in the mint family but are poisonous still grow in front of Town Hall, Linehan said. Boynton Beach: It was named for Nathan S. Boynton, Linehan said. She said Boynton and Col.

William Linton, both from the Saginaw, area, had come in the 1890s to buy land and establish settlements. Delray Beach: It was first named for Linton, Linehan said. Residents who had settled at the end of the 19th century accused him of overstating the area's worth after crops were wiped out by a freeze, and decided to change the name, she said. One story says it came from the Spanish words del rey, meaning "of the king." But Linton said the more accepted ori- beans, was a somewhat watery but satisfying beef stew, a rather undercooked, lopsided corn bread, with recently acquired butter, and a fresh, perfectly baked new batch of homemade oatmeal cookies. "Faaaaabulous, just fabulous.

We just don't know how you do it, Gail," the little woman from New York said. Everyone nodded in agreement. Attridge just stood there proud and tall, glowing brighter than a Maine lighthouse. "I don't know what I'll do come fall," she said later, while rolling out apple cider crusts for her pumpkin pies. "And I can't believe what a great feeling that is," she adds.

"I can go back to school, or work in Japan with my father. And I just heard the Maiden's captain is looking for a chef down in Key West for the winter. Hmmmmmmm." of history if ly named Kelsey City for its original settler, Harry Kelsey. In 1939, he sold out and left the area, and residents decided to name it for nearby Lake Worth and the adjacent park, rather than an individual, Knott said. Riviera Beach: It was named for the famed European coastal vacation area to make it appealing to tourists, Knott said.

Loxahatchee: The town was named for the nearby river, which came from the Seminole for turtle, lowchow, and river, hatchee, Knott said. Ocean Ridge: The coastal south county town split from the town of Boynton in 1931, and called itself "Boynton Beach," said longtime City Commissioner Vera Klein. She said the name was later changed to Ocean Ridge probably for a high ridge that runs through it to avoid confusion with its neighbor. She said the original Boynton then added the "Beach." Briny Breezes: The coastal town was originally a housing subdivision built in the 1920s, said Mayor Hugh David. Developers came up with the exotic name to play up the adjacent ocean, and it was kept when the town was incorporated in March 1963, David said.

Gulfstream: The town is on a stretch of coastline that bulges into the Atlantic Ocean, and is considered the closest land area to the Gulf Stream the offshore current said town clerk Barbara Gwinn. She said the name already was there when the town was incorporated in 1925. Highland Beach: The small town, incorporated in 1949, was named for a 20- to 25-foot high ridge of land that ran a mile along Unsuccessful attempts have been made to change the name of Greenacres City because of its association with the TV series 'Green Acres, starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor. CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Lawsuit 5 Runner's problem 10 Poor for tilling 1 1 For jubilee singing 12 Tennis great 13 Mussolini's son 14 Word of welcome 16 Give the O.K. 17 Mineo or Maglie 19 Sailing hazard 21 Quadruped 23 Jay of comedy 27 Pester 28 Aphorism 29 Old dance 30 Skirmish 31 Pitcher 33 Bard's adverb 34 Used the rocker 37 Showy flower 39 Achieve stardom 41 Freshly 44 Rhode Island's flower 45 Shopper stopper 46 Presbyter 47 Zest for life DOWN 1 Crow's cry 2 Macaw 3 Avocation 4 British statesman 5 Task 6 Gypsy 7 Soviet inland sea 8 Dobbin's tresses 9 Scheme 11 Fisherman's need G1EARD Yesterday's Answer 15 Salver 17 European river 18 Meara of comedy 20 Supine 22 Birthmark 24 For all to see 25 African river 26 Augur 28 Shopping place 30 Assail 32 Vacillate 34 Hoard 35 Seed coating 36 Walked 38 Assuage 40 O'Neill play 42 Guido's note 43 Skin problem 916 RABjjJl NT" I ATETjlTE RfTf FlEON AG eJJo CJRO meDl SNOB0P A 6 ONjjSASH A TfTS IJ OfUf I LPT AMOR ALTTIoI MO BlkD AB A Ajg gin is that it was named for the Detroit suburb of Delray, Mich.

Lake Worth: The settlement was established in 1912, and originally was known as Lucerne. But there was another city of that name in Florida, so the city was named for the lake which in turn had been named for early settler William Worth, who had explored the area during the Seminole Wars of the early and mid-19th century. Manalapan: It was named by a group of settlers from Manalapan, N.J., who established a settlement on the north side of Boynton Inlet, Linehan said. One of those original settlers was John Collins, who later became one of the key figures in Miami Beach history and for whom Collins Avenue then; is named. Mangonia Park: The original settlement of Mangonia was incorporated in 1894 along Lake Worth, and was named for a mango tree farm developed there in 1885 by a Kansas horticulturalist, said James R.

Knott, a retired circuit judge and president emeritus of the Historical Society of Palm Beach. He said it was later annexed by the city of West Palm Beach and is now part of the Northwood neighborhood. The present town of Mangonia Park, about two miles to the northwest, was incorporated in 1947, town officials said. Lake Clarke Shores: In the late 19th century, the area where the city is now was under water, and was overlooked by a fishing lodge owned by the C.J. Clarke family from Pittsburgh.

The waters receded over the years and became concentrated into a single body of water that was named Lake Clarke, Knott said. Lake Park: It was original lllj 75 jjj 21 29 lPil! 37 3 39 Hp Tl U2 45.