Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-26
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day, and each Of as Was little aston
isied at the changes which the old MAJ |
NTH the scythe and hour-glass had
vrouoht ia rs. He called me By name /
"A he entered nov Office, and ! rose 70
crasp him by the hand. for il vas oy his |
voice alone that recognized him. "hen
/ last had ssen him be vas svarthy and |
DARK with a face that would have ciassed |
him AMONG the Latin races rather than |
. native Of Worcester, Mass. Nov ne |
had become thin and his face vas FUR
rowel With lines Of care, while his how
inc beard was white ~ Snow and his nsir
q dulI iron graz. As for me, / Dad
Changed from a % and iathg figure to
the proprietor Of an ample bay window
almost entirely bald ard my beard ss
frosty as a November morning. After
few preliminaries he asked:
do YOU know any steamboat news
ANYTHING about the old-tIm srsE
lrrplied in the negative, but asked II
be had heard Of the death OF
CAPT. THos J. STUMP,
Who died at the wheel Of the spokane.
On Snake river, nearly txo y~ars ago:
Hadn't heard word ABOUT II. lie had
been for the past SIX wears mining ON q
TRIBUTARY of Parsnip river, IN British 20
Iun,bta. this waters of which empty
through tho Mackenzie into tue Arctic
ocean. In the last four years h1 had
seon less than ten newspapers, tue iast
of which contained a telegram about tue
eaaasainatiJn Of President Garfield,
which nobody IN this digginGs believed
20 be- true until they heard OF Arthur's
jnauouration AZ President. What IL gold
worth, that men should so exile thsIn-
selves for III
10 We sat down and talked along for
an hour. Finally he rose. and, as he did
80, invited him up TO dine with me Oh
the following day.
"Cant't do 1t, Tom; much Obliged all
the same, but am going TO Frisco TINS
afternoon overland. have a sister iiy-
inc in Albany whom have not seen Ia
sixteen years, AMI will stay at her house
tonight and tomorrow go on To Roseburg.
Glad 10 have met you and sorry 10 hear
about poor old Toms death. He was
the DADDY of all tho pilots, you hear me.
And YOU don't hear anything of the rest
OF the boys, eli? Well, 10 long
ho uad not gone ten minutes when the
telegraph editor came into my room and
said:
"Oid man, il there steamboat in
California called the
YosEMrTgl"
There is" l replied, without taking
the pipe out Of my mouth.
"h0w old il shcf" be asked.
"Twenty years, almost to day. was
Idid not know" replied the telegraph
repofter, whether that was mistake.
THIS dispatch, which says she was built
In 1863. also states that she has been
purchased by Capt. John Irving for the
Canadian Pacific Steamboat Company
Of Victoria, and will hereafter run be-
tween Victoria and Now Westminster"
PermiG me then to congratulate Cap
tain Irving on obtaining possession of
the most economical bvat tor her capa-
CITY that ever was built on the Pacific
coast" was my answer. "She can carry
1000 tons measurement ON eight feet OF
Cater, and with u consumption of less
less than ton Of Wellington coal to tho
hour. And with ESQ tons she can reel
of seventeen miles per hour in good
weather."
.bus il 10 old boat safe to come
from Ban Francisco to Victoria" he
asked.
"Grarting she has good weather, abe
ought TO-" replied; :" for consider her
a better boat than abe was on the day
she was launched, which In saying good
deal for n boat"
What makes you advance that opin-
icn?" he asked.
"Tecause she was built Mt a cost of
nearly x2OO, 600 and had in her the worst
pair OF boilers that ever were put into a
steamboat. She was built during the
var, when the government took all the
GOOD iron for the Federal gunboats and
left il almost impossible for private par
ties to get any that was worth having,
10 the California Steam Navigation Co.
we're compelled to build the Yosemite's
boilers Of English iron. II was wretched
stuff, and how she ever stood cold wa
ter test shall never know. AT all events
she blew up at Rio Vista dock before she
waa three years old"
"That was long time before I came
TO this part Of the world" said Mr.. Dur
han; "and IL you have time please tell
me all about It."
.Well." began, "this boat was the
third low-pressure passenger boat built
ON the Pacific coast; the Eliza Anderson
being the first and the Chrysopolis the
ssC0nd. She WAS built by John u. North
At The potrerO, under the superintendent
Ana from designs by Richard NJ. Jessup,
Woe president Of the company.
LuprcRous INCIDENT
Occurred on tho day she WAS launched
at the Potrero. Captain Whitney, the
president Of the company, was the soul
Of hospitality. and got up select excur-
sion 10 witness the launch. He took his
guests out on the little steamer Paul Pry,
. Stockton boat about the size and style
Of the old Idaho, that used 10 run be-
tween the Cascades and Tho Dalies.
After tho launch there was q collation.
on board tho Paul Pry. and Capt. Whit
ney took his guests around the harbor 10
look At the forts and tho defenses. Run
ming In Close TO Alcatraz tiderip caught
tho little boat. She got acurrent In one
wheel and an eddy in the other, and away
she went on Little Arch rock. The tide
was ebbing. and there was nothing 10 do
bat to disembaSk tho passengers aud
land them on Alcatrax island until an.
other boat could be procured 10 take
them back 10 tho city. Capt. Whitney
cleared the stern Rangway and lowered
boat, into which ne had handed several
ladies' when great gawk OF dude
undertook to jump into the boat from
over the steamers rail. He struck on
the Runwale OF the boat aud upset her.
throwing the ladies into the water. None
Of them were the worse for the duckinc
and the dude was completely laughed
out Of town for his ridiculous cscapade.
This was the farce, aud two and a half
year later came
THE TRAGEDY.
The boats boilers began to ACT badly
before she was eighteen months old, and
the engineer Robert Baurhydt) used Ia
spend every Sunday in patching them
up. Just 80 long a. he patched below
the water line re was all right; but "a
soon as he began to patch above the line.
where steam had to bear upon the patch
- instead Of water. Ia took his lite into
his Own hands. All through the spring
OF 1865 Il was Just all abe could do 10
mako tho upstream trip TO Sacrainsnsp
In eleven hours, while the Chryscpolis |
would do Il in nine or less. When The |
tou water came, in tho fall Of the year. |
thoy had TO put on the old Antelope as /
= freight boat In order 10 take bali thu |
loeemite's freight and enable her 70 run |
light, In order 10 avoid Carrying heavy |
steam. And Il ia nv firm belsaf thar aha