Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-18

hold was full of casks. She had no
forebateh but I think her forehold
must have been full Of casks also. [
fancy that she has been loaded with
rum and moiasses, the rum being
stored in both ends, keeping the vessel
afiOat." She was full of water, cOnse-
! guently the rum was not to be come at,
and so all that poor Jack of the Ocean
Swell could do was to look yearningly
down at the casks and then, with wa
tering mouth, tumble reluctantly into
his boat and row aboard his ship again.
| A more romantic derelict was the
American brig Celeste, the story of
| which I read with interest in an Ameri-
can paper few days ago. She was
( found in the Mediterranean and boarded.
All sail was on her, but not a living
! creature was to he seen. There was a
/ fire burning in the galley; dinner was
! set out untasted and not yet cold; there
was some child toys in the cabin, s.and
piece of a Woman's dress was st IL
under the needle of the sewing
machine" What had become of the
! people? Had they committed suicide
! by jumping overheard? If so, why was
/ their dinner cooked and served, only to
/ be left untouched? The easiest way
perhaps to solve the riddle is to disbe-
lieve the story. But if it be true it is
/ eXtraord nary, and should commend it
self as marine problem very well
worth the notice of magazine-writer
on the lookout for subject.
Now and again, however, derelict
/ is encountered that proves a wonder
fully rich prize. Such was the Falls of
| Alton. At about 280 miles from Ma
! deira a French vessel fell in with a
! large iron English ship, abandoned, and
/ she was conveyed to the island by
French squadron of inspection. She
| proved to be the Falls of Alton, new
! iron ship, loaded with $500 tons of rail
way sleepers, $50 tons of pig iron, 80
! tons of smithy coal, and 2U0tons of coke
"a nice little haul for Monsieur, as the
/ salvage a(terward proved. 1t was
! charged against the Captain that he en-
! deavored to sink the ship by cutting
| the suctiOn-pipe and opening the sea-
cock in the after-peak; but t lis he de-
MED. and whether it was proved OF not
and what became of the case [ can not
recOllect. Encoun ering and bringing
/ to port few such Gerelicts as the Falls
/ of Alton would soon make a mans fort
une, and if they were numerous we
might hear of public companies being
/ III lA1CNl III lilC StIiF III VI SUM dDdII-
doned craft, with underwriters for
/ chairmen. Bu0 they are not numerous,
and this age of iron makes them rarer
every day. Even when a vessel that
/ looks worth preserving is met, life is
often ieopardized in sailing her; or if
she is to be lowed, then, after deal of
man9uvring and many hours of deten-
ton and the carrying away Of haWsers,
the derelict has frequently to be
/ dropped. with Il sea-blc5sing on her
head and hearty regret on the skipper S
part that he ever sighted her. The
struggle is sometimes a desperate one.
The abandoned craft, like an Irishman's
pig, refuses to 90 ahead. She barely
answers her helm. The tOw-rOpe parts
in a gale of wind the wreck drives
away to leeward end is lost in the
thickness, and the little company of
men who have been put aboard of her
find themselves pretty much in the
same dangerous situation the vessel $
! first crew occupied before they were
succOred. If ever money is meritoricuS-
ly earned, it is by the men who receive
rewards for bringing wrecked vessel
TO port
1t IS not very long since three men
were picked up in an open boat in the
North Sea by a fore ON bark. The
story told was this: They belonged to
an English fishing cutter, and, while
cruising Il derelict vessel was sighted,
drifting. The cutter sent a boat with
three men to board the vessel, and
when they arrived they found her to be
brig. The wind was breeZing up at
the me; it freshened into a gale; the
tOw-rOpe by which the smack was en-
deavoring to drag the brig parted, and
the cutter was blown out OF sight. 1t
was impossible to stop aboard the water
logged hull, so the three men got into
their boat and they had been drifting
about for fOrty-five hours when the for
cign bark came across them. Out of
such stuff is the romance of the derelict
to be woven; and material for many q
wild and wonderful yarn may haply be
found at this moment among wrecked
abandoned and drifting fabrics, over
whose deep sides the green seas are
rolling in foam, or whose bulls, with
the CLEAN of the black water in the hold
visible through the open matches, lean
YEARLY with the oil-smooth swell, like
drowned seamen, whose bodies have
escaped from the hammOcks in which
they were sewn, and have risen to the
surface to look blindly up to Heaven
till decay scatterS their dust through
ten thousand miles of ocean. London
Telegraph.
The poor Indian must have fire-w;.-
ter. Skumka, Chief of the Umatilla