Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-01-10
A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
The Fate Which Overlook the City of
Boston, ".--Oaptain Murray's
Ideas and Experiences.

A few years ago. tho city of Bos ton
sailed from harbor, crowded with an
expectant throng passengers, bound
for foreign shore.
She never entered port.
The mystery of her untimely end
grows deeper as the years increase, and
the Atlantic voyager, when the fierce
winds howl around, and danger is inn
mnient on every hand, shudders as the
nam G and ysteriouS fate OF this mag.
nifcent vessel are alluded to.
Our reporter, on recent visit TO New
York, took lunch with Captain George
Siddons Murray, on board the alaska
of the Guion line. Captain Murray is
a man of stalwart build, wel[knit frame
and cherry, genial disposition He has
been q constant voyager for 81 quarter
of century, over half of that time hav-
ing been in the transatlantic service.
In the course of tie conversation oyer
the Widespread table, the mystery of
the city of Boston was alluded to.
EYES," remarked the Captain, II
shall never forget the last night we saw
that Inflated vessel. / was chief officer
of the city of Ant,cerp. On the day we
sighted the City of Boston n furious
southeast hurricane set in. Both YES
sells labored hard. The sea seemed de-
termiDed to sweep away every vestige
of life. When day ended the gale did
not abate, and everything was dashed
for night of unusual fury. Our good
ship was turned to the south To avoid
the possibility of ice-bergs. The city OF
Boston, however, undoubtedly went to
the north. Her boats, life preservers
and rafts were all securely dashed; and
when she went down. everything went
W tn her, never to re-appear until the
sea gives up its dead"
| What, in your opinion, Captain, was
the cause of the loss of the city OF Bos-
ton?"
1.-The city Of Limerick in almost the
! same latitude, q few DAYS later, found
the sea full of floating ice; and / have
no doubt the City of Boston collided with
the ice, and sunk Immediately"
Capt. Murray has been in command
of the alaska ever since she was put Ia
commission and feels Justly proud of
| his noble ship. She carries thousands
Of passengers every year. and has
greatly popularized the Williams &
Guion line. Remarking upon the
bronzed and healthy appearance of the
captain, the reporter said that sea life
did not seem to be very great physical
! trial.
] mo? But persons appearance is
not always Trustworthy indication of
his physical condition. For seven
years have been in many respects very
much out of sorts with myself. AT GER
tain times | was so lame that it was diff
ficult for me to move around. could
scarcely straighten up. l did not know
what the trouble was, and though per-
formed all of my duties regularly and
satisfactorily, yet | felt that | might
some day be oyertaken with some seri.
Gus prostrating disorder. These troub-
les Increased. felt dull, and then,
again, hooting pains through my arms
| and Lin. bs. Possibly the next day
would feel flushed and unaccountably
uneasy and the day following chilly
and dependent. This continued until
last ID cember, when | was pros
trare6 soon after leaving Queens
town. I'd for the remainder of the
voyage was a helpless. pitiful suffecer.
| In January last, friend who made
|
| urging me to try new course of
treatment. l gladly accepted his coun-
sci, and for the last seven months have
given thorough and business-like atten-
ton to the recovery of my natural
health; and to-day, have the proud
satisfaction of saying 10 you that the
lame back, the strange feelings, the sci
attic rheumatism which have so long
pursued me, have entirely disappeared
through the blood purifying influence
| of Warner Safe Rheumatic Cure which
| entirely eradicated all rheumatic poi
son from my system. Indeed, to me,
it seems that it has worked wonders,
and Therefore most cordially commend
| it."
"And you have no trouble now in
exposing yourself to the winds of the
Atlanticp"
mot The least. | am as sound as
bullet and feel specially thankful
over the fact, because l believe rheu
matte and kidney disease is in the blood
of my family. was dreadfully shock
cd on my last arrival in Liverpool. TO
learn that my brother. who is n wealthy
| China tea merchant, had suddenly died
Of Bright's disease of the kidneys. and
consider mysely extremely fortunate in
having taken my trouble in time and
before any more serious effects were
possible"
The conversation drifted to other top
| les, and as the writer watched the face
before him, so strong in all its outlines
and yet so genial, and thought of the
innumerable exposures and hardships
TO which its owner had been exposed,
he instinctively wished all who are sui
fering from the terrible rheumatic
troubles now so common, might know
of Captain Murray's experience aud the
means by which he had been restored.
Pain is common thing in this world,
but far too many endure it when they
might just as well avoid it. 1t is false
philosophy which teaches us to endure
when we can just as readily avoid. SO
thought the hearty captain of the Alaska,
so thinks the writer and so should all
others think, who desire happiness and
a long life.
COOP NIGHT.-H How very commonplace
is this expression, and yet what volumes 1t
may speak for all future time! We nevel
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