New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-17
The Captains Story.

WELL, it's purity hot" answered .
lake Captain In one Of the ferry dock
saloons yesterday, ''but it isn't nothing
to the summer of 1886. We had it at
least twenty degrees hotter than this
right along for six weeks. was rum
ming the Mary Jane between Chicago
and Buffalo then, and I've seen the
Thermometer stand at one hundred and
thirty degrees in the middle OF Lake
Huron
"That was awful" sighed one Of the
sitters.
b. .'Weil, it was fairish. but we didn't
call it very hot till we got into the st.
Clair River and the mercury won't up
to one hundred and fifty degrees when
hanging against the water-butt. The
boys used up seven hundred and twen-
ty-eight palm-leaf fans on one trip that
year. On one of our trips down We
were becalmed for three days on Lake
Huron. We got it there. aud no nis.
take" M.s'
'Purty hot. ehp' --..s K.
''Well, I'm an old man, and don't
care to 60 to lying at this day, but ri
ten you few solemn facts. Every
sail on that schooner smoked and
smoldered till they fell to pieces on
deck and left US under bare poles!
Yes, sir, We hadn't . rag aloft as big
% your hand. That was Just at sun
rise in the morning, and within an
hour we had to vet down decks to pre-
vent them burning. went down stairs
to consult the thermometer, and it lay
on the floor, all melted into chunk Of
glass and tin! Then I began to realize
how hot it was. and got frightened"
"What could you dop''
''Well, not much. We had begun
to rig lines over the lee side, 80 that
all could take to the water, when the
top-sail yard came down and killed the
cook. The links in the chains had
melted right out! I never knewa case
like it since, but then the weather has
cooled off greatly since 1886"
"And about the cookP'' Z.
''Nothing about him. When W
picked the body up to heave it over
board it had spread out in . mass about
four feet square, and We had to use
shovels before We got through. He
was good young man and perfect
gentleman, and his mother never
blamed me in the least for scoop-shovel-
ing his remains over the rail. We
finally rugged our lines and got over
"And it was much coolerp''
"Ah! young man, how little you re-
porters know of the great lakes spread
out before your gaze on the maps!
Cooler! Why, the minute we struck
the water we begun squirming like so
many eels. The lake was red hot. The
water would have cooked an egg in
four minutes. I was blistered from
head to heel in no time. Some dav
will take off my coat and vest and show
you my back. The flesh was actually
cooked to q depth of two inches, and
for over two years the dogs used to
scent cooked meat when i walked out,
and follow me by dozens. Five surgeons
tainted away in heap at the sight of
my left shoulder, and the only man
could get to dress my back was .
butcher under sentence of DEATH"
lit must have been terrible. How
did you come out of the calmp''
"Well, while l was squirming in the
water white squall struck the schoon-
or and down she went. 1t was all over
In minute, and air and water were
hotter than ever. struck out for tho
Canada shore, over hundred miles
away, knowing that it was sink or
swim, but in half an hour was safe"
"Picked upp'
swell, no." replied the Captain, a.
he scratched his leg, II struck an ice
berg and climbed up into q cave near
the top! 1 tell you it was . grateful
change to me, and that's one reason
why l can never see hunk of ice and
. lemon without feeling grateful to the
man who invented both-with q very
little gin in mine, h you please."-
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