The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-28
ALONE AT SEA.
A Little Boy Four Days n Schooner in
the Open Ocean.

the Open Ocean.
From the Philadelphia Times
The 1escue of the lad, Adolphus
Parker, who was carried to sea on the
23d inst. III the schooner Twilight. which
broke her moorings at the inlet at At
lantic City and drifted out, mas already
been reported. A Times reporter yes
terday secured the following statement
of Parker's adventurous trip. He said ::
" When she first parted her moorings [
thought would run her ashore, but she
struck the wharf and sheered off into the
stream. I then threw over small kedge
anchor, which dragged to the first buoy
and there parted the cable. Noticing
she was fast being driven on the bar, I
hoisted sail to keep her off. The surf
boat put out to help me, but turned
back. Meanwhile I tried to haul her
close to the wind, after clearing the bar,
IN the hope of receiving assistance,
which did not come. I now found my
self fast being driven to sea, and did
not think the schooner would be able to
stand the terrible waves which struck
her. The rigging was poor, sails torn,
and the prospect of her weathering the
gale not very promising. On Wednes-
day night heavy sea broke over the
wheel. The rigging and deck were COW
cred with ice, and it was with difficulty
kept myself from freezing. On
Thursday / suppose I was near the Gulf
Stream. There was about foot and a
half of water in the hold, and heavy
sea rolling. The pumps gave out, and
l was forced to bail her out with buck
ct. About o'clock on Thursday after
noon the wind sprung up fresh from the
southeast. [ then headed west, and
about 10 o'clock at night was hailed by
bark, which cleared the schooner by
only ten feet. The schooner's lights
went out, and I took down the starboard
light, reht it, and hung the signal light
in the main rigging en- the port side. On
Friday morning I sighted land near
Beach Haven, and, after beating about
all day, headed up abreast of Absecom
hight. The sea was very rough, and,
failing to bring the vessel into the inlet,
and as the water was up to the cabin
floor, 1 beached her on Little Brigan-
tine shoals, where I was taken off, after
having been without sleep for four days
and three nights"
Extraordinary Surgical Operation.
James Houston, cloth-worker. %
a. NtehS VI 49, Il VI UlEStd. near
Glasgow, had a malignant sarcomatous
tumor in his larynx which obstructed
respiration. It had twice been removed
by opening the larynx and taking it out,
but 1t had REQUIRED, and from its maiie-
nant character would have produced
death if the operation which DR.. Fouls
described had not been performed. The
larynx has been entirely taken out and
q n art. tHn1ol cr,l,c
tent was produced at the meeting of the
Medical Society. Re conversed with the
members, and read to the meeting a
passage from the prayer-book.
This is the first time the operation has
been performed in England. 1t has
been ten times tried on the continent.
with varying success. The present is
the most successful case, the patient be-
ing in better health than he had expert
enced for many months. The deliberate
and careful manner in which the opera
ton was performed in this case probably
accounts for the successful result. Care
was taken to Introduce a tube into the
w1ndpipe as soon as it was cut across.
and below the seat OF the disease. SO that
no blood could get into the lungs during
the further steps of tine operation. DIR,
FOULS thus had ample time to thorough
ly accomplish the removal of the larvnx.
The whole operation occupied two and a
half hours, the patient being under tt Q
influence of chloroform. Kecov
been uninterrupted, and there i. zap
pearance whatever of recurrence. The
man is quite fit for light office-work.
The larynx supplied to him consists OF
two tubes, one of which goes downward
to the trachea and the other upward to
the mouth.
The patient can talk in whisper
| without these tubes, but. when reed
plate IS slipped into a groove in the
lower tube resonant sound is produced,
which is modulated into letters and
words by the mouth The articulation
with or without reeds is perfect. The
reeds are made of metal, vulcanite. ivory.
horn, etc, and the patient himself is
fond of making reeds which give his
voice new and surprising tones. The
voice is monotone. varying in timbre ac-
cordlng to the reed used.-Lo1,don
Times.