Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-26

years afterwards, when the death OF |
his opponent, whose name he even then |
concealed, removed all scruple as TO the
fact itself.
The Sandy Hook Pilots.
Hammer. the pilot who brought the
ship Hope into New York recently,
gave the following account Of it to a re- |
porter: "No. thank you, sir; / never
drinka nything. Well, if you insist, L
will take glass of cider. You know |
I'm sort OF tired out. Sixty hours with !
out rest makes one feel like turning in,
and anything strong might make him
too nervous TO sleep. It's No. i you
want TO know about is it? Well, she's
safe and sound in the anchorage at
Staten Island. / brought her i'll this
morning. and when l left her few
hours ago she was as trim a craft as
you'd want 10 see. That was a tough |
gale-I'd better say hurricane-she's
just ridden through, but it is not the
first, aud you bet it won't be the last.
You see we left for the Hook on Mon |
day week last. Beside the regular
crew there were five of us pilots aboard
Morley, Hobbs, Tenure, Redden and
myself. As we rounded the Hook the
wind set in fresh from the nor'west. !
As il increased in force We came 10 an
chor under the Highlands. Ii was Bit
ter cold, and everything on deck was
frozen hard and fast. Shortly alter 4
O'Clock on Tuesday morning, when we
were just getting nnder way and steer
ing sou-sou'east. the bark Bremen
came in sight and signaled for pilot.
Hobbs was put aboard, and a few hours
after Redden was sent aboard of anoth-
er vessel. During the night the wind
hauled to the northeast. Wednesday
passed without sighting any vessel.
The cold was becoming more intense
| every minute, and we kept working to
the north ard. just before daylight on
| Thursday the wind freshened TO gale,
| and snow. mixed with hail, swept the
deck fore and aft. About o'clock the
Highlands, about thirty miles distant.
were bearing west-nor'west. The boat
was hove TO under the reefed foresail
and stormtrysail on the main. Laid
under that canvas from $ O'Clock +. VI.
Thursday, until s o'clock \. VI. Friday.
The sea was running mountains high
and the wind blowing a hurricane.
For years ] have been going 10 sea and
have weathered many a storm, but i
never saw boat nestle down further
into a boisterous sea under so short
sail as the Hope did that night. On
Friday morning we put Tenure aboard
British bark, and on the way home
put Morley on Norwegian bark. But
this is a long story, and I'm dry enough
to take another glass of that cider. Go
over and look at the beat, and you'll
find her in good condition, as trim and
taut craft as floats. BY the way did
you hear about the No. 6-the Mary
Catharine: That's boat we all had
some fears about. You know she's the
old style of boat with the bulging in
stead of the sharp bow of the newer pi-
lot boats. She's old, too. 1t is fully
twenty-nine years since she first spread
sail outside of Sandy Hook. BY the
way, there's Hawkins over there. He
went ont in the No. 6, and has just
brought the bark Rocket in. He can
tell you all about the Mary Catharine,
but in listening TO his story make some
allowance for the affection of an old
salt for his craft
The pilot pointed out to the reporter
was sturdy-built open-faced man.
As he leaned against the counter in Av-
ver's store and calmly puffed his cigar,
10 one but those who know the mod
estv of sailors would have imagined
that he was the man who only a few
hours before had tied safely 10 pier IL
the bark Rocket, which he had rescued
from the very jaws of destruction. Pi-
lot Hawkins believes in the soundness
of the Mary Cathar;ne, and says that
with her tonnage, 40.67, next to the
lowest of all the pilot boats, she is as
safe as cradle. She passed the Hook
going out on the 25th of January, hay
ing on board pilots Johnson, Jewell,
Yonker and Hawkins; had fine wealth
er until Thursday last, when the gale
from the east set in. At that time they
,, were eighteen miles southeast of Bar,
negat. Here they laid to for sixteen
hours. The wind was steady east by
north, and the drifting snow and pelt'
ling hail shut out all objects from view
. Thursday night the red, " hite and rec
p signal for pilot could occasionally b'
: seen. The clear, white flash-light o.
: the pilot boat streamed out in answer
{ but the heavy pillows kept the vessels
1 apart for hours. At last johnson
! brought in the Europa, Hawkins thu
e bark Rocket, Yonker the bark Germa
f mia, and Jewell brig. The pilot BOA
n was brought home by the crew and an
: chored at Staten Island. Hawkins say
: that the only gale which he knows o
= bv personal experience that compared
f with this in violence was that of De
S cember 8, 1876.
= Perhaps one of the narrOwest escape
; was that of the bark Rocket which wa
e brought into port by pilot Hawkins
J. The vessel left Puerto Cabello, Januar.
Is, with a cargo of coffee. hides etc., U