The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-04-12
The Ship Brown Brothers.

Two years ago yesterday the shil
Brown Brothers OF this port sailed fron
Boston for San Francisco, and yesterla,
she returned here with cargo such a.
was never before brought to the city
wharves. Not only was tho freigh
brought by her on her home voyage
J OF al unusual character. but the recorC
OF her sailings since she left Bostor
! light behind her gives evidence Of tn,
most careful management on the par
of Capt. Goodell, her commander, who
has made for hims9lf al enviable record
for so young a man.
Upon leaving Boston three years ago
thesship sailed direct for San Francisco
She was off Cape Horn at the close OF
the winter season of the Southern Hem
isphere. when the weather there is al
its toughest. During q gale through
which she passed while in that locality
one of her crew fell overheard. He
was clad in oil clothing with pair of
heavy boots upon his feet, and although
he seized the end of rope that was
thrown to him, it was evident that he
could not long maintain his hold upon
it, for the water was icy cold, AMI a
very heavy sea was running. Seeing
the danger to which the man was ex-
posed. Capt. Goodell leaped overheard,
by his assistance enabling his unlucky
subordinate to retain his hold until
both were drawn upon the deck Of the
co Capt. Goodell said nothing of his
adventure, but the mate told the story
so that it got into the newspapers there,
and thence 1t was transmitted TO his
friends in the East. The Massachusetts
Humane Society voted him u medal,
and so did the Boston Marine Society.
Both of these were sent TO his home at
Seaport, Me, where they await his
arrival. Capt. Goodell. for obvious
reasons, has never seen them. but those
who have say they are beautiful testi-
moniaIs Uf tiIr hono. aar 90 I.~.~ -
deed Upon leaving San Francisco the
ship took a load of grain to Havre;
from Havre she went to Cardiff for a
cargo; from Cardiff to Hong Kong;
from Hong Kong to Puget Sound. and
from Puget Sound TO Boston, having
sailed in just two years completely
around the world. and TO and from the
exteme northwestern limits of the
United States
The cargo that she brought home Is
a remarkable one. in that it is the first
of its kind ever brought from Washing.
ton Territory to Massachusetts. 1t is
composed of spars, deck planking and
other shipbuilding timber of Oregon
pine, which is said to be very much
like Norway in appearance and in eel
lular structure. The spars on board
her rumber l59. The longest of these
is 100 feet in length, and it measures
80 inches across its end. Then follows
one l04 feet long of the same diameter;
another 100 feet in length and 80 inches
through; another So feet in length and
81 inches through; another 90 feet IN
length and 36 inches through; another
9s feet in length and 35 inches through,
and from these dimensions down
to 81 feet in length and l6 inches
in diameter. All of these spars are
clear of knots and free from sap.
Some of the deck plank that forms
part of the cargo is remarkably long
aud fine, $500 pieces measuring l59,-
GIG feet. The remainder of the cargo
consists of 2ll krees, s bowsprits, 4
breast hoops and : cords OF tirewood.
The entire shipment was consigned to
McQuestion & Fogg, aud the work OF
unloading it will commence at Lom-
bards wharf today. Ii was shipped
at Port Madison, w. T., and is the
second of the kind ever sent from that
part of the country to New England.
The first arrived in Bath few months
| ago. and il was sold there at profit.
Whether the first shipment of such
/ merchandise TO Boston will prove "a
/ have been remunerative venture time
alone will tell as the market just now
| is very dull, but little building being
done at present. Capt. Goodell says
that these spars were cut near Olympia
at the head of Puget Sound, and then
RATED down 10 Port Madison. some
thirty miles away. There they were
hois,ed on ship board by means OF
steam derrricks. so that there is no de-
| lay in getting the cargo On board.
Such q cargo makes ship very lively
and consequently hard TO manage
His vessel was so crank that he was
obliged. on the s,h day of November,
in latitude - degrees. longitude lei
degrees i2 minutes, 10 throw over his
deck load. He passed Cape Horn in
the midsummer Of that part of the
world, meeting with very pleasant
weather during the long days that were
separated from each other by scarcely
an hour of darkness. His homeward
VOYAGE was made in l2s days. and II
would tave been somewhat shorter but
for battling winds. for during the last
FIVE days his ship has been within
three hundred miles of Boston. The
ship Brown Brothers. OF which Capt
Goodell is Justly proud, was built at
Newbu,yport little more than two
years ago, and the transportation OF
spsrs from the Pacific 10 tue Atlantic
cs>as ,yas nra nf the objects for which