Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-30
a 1AO,N 60 L..!G.

SweU, in Goloien Days.
a .1AUV'iGD L..!G.
A Singular Phenomenon on Board Yes
sci in Philadelphia fiarbor.
The brig Frances. a West India trade.
of Machias. Me, lay at the foot of Prim,
street wharf few days ago, waiting 70
the arrival of a crew to enable her t.
put to sea. Captain HAL III. Thomas
the commander. bluf, hearty ol,
sailor, who has. in his time. navigatcG
nearly every ocean on the globe. sa
under the bit of awning stretched across
the quarterback of the brig and told OF
the predicament which has kept his YES
sci here for several days. The Frances
finished taking her cargo on board on
Thursday last. She is $50 tons register
and laden with hoops, slaves and head
ing. consigned to Il sugar exporting
house at Ma'anzas. Cuba.
Captain Thomas said: TO begin.
none of my old crew staid by the vessel
when we arrived here. so | shipped Il
new lot, five seamcn, and sent them Oh
board last Thursday afternoon.
at never has been my plan TO put !,
crew on board until WAS ready TO tow
out to sea. but there was new spanker
to bend. lot of forrrig@ing to set up
and so listened to tho advice of the
mate and told the shipping master to
bring the crew down. That's where
made my miStak" to put a crew on
board alongside of :: dock.
"Wcll. they turned to and cleared
things up pretty fair that afternoon.
got my new spankcr bent and some of
the rigging tautencd up. and rs the
men worked pretty well knocked EN-
OF early. so as to give EN- a chance to
clean the forccaStle bit and STOW away
their chests.
IL liked the appearance of the men.
There was biz Rtssian-Finn. two
Danes, and two Liverpool cockneys. |
told the steward to feed EN- up pretty
wei until we dropped down the river.
"Ahout eight o'clock Thursday nj yht
l looked in the fo'castle to call one of
'em TO take in the slack of dock line
They were smoking and spinning warns.
and turned in soon after. thinking
that had got a good. quiet set of men
ut must have been about two o clock
in the morning when WAS reused by
a noise and the >cullling of feet on deck
ran Out and found the men throwing
water on the big kuSsian-Finn H.
leaned against the forrcastle house. pale
as ghost. went up and looked at
him. The man wa; trembling Ike leaf
WHAT'S ar III. -
"'That ere fo castle is 'armtcd;' saws
one of the En"liShman.
by this time the Russian Finn wa.
able to talk. He rested on the hatch
combing and says:
81 sat up talking with nv mates
here until after nine o'clock. Then. a
they all turned in filled my pipe and
took n turn on deck TO get my smoke
out. expect was on deck nearly an
hour. for when | went in the forccaStlc
everything VA, quiet. | had taken OF
my dudS and was just gong 10 turn in
my bunk when | felt cold breeze
blowing over me. turned to look at
the hatch. thinking had left it open.
but it was closed. Then looked up to
the further end of the forccastle and
saw that the sldin, door leading into
the chain 10, kerS was wide open. l shut
it. supposinG one OF my mates had been
in there and forgot to close it. turned
In and fell asleep very soon.
''l must have been sleeping about AZ
hour and II half. whca | woke up with
my hair on end. felt drops of sweat
on my face. \ chilly draught still car1c
from the direction of tle chain lockers.
| looked. The door was wide open. 4 .
put my legs Out Of the bunk 10 90 and
close it ! saw n arm. 4 woman | Will
swear, stretched out of The gloom of tho
chainlockrr. 1t seemed to touch tn
door. which closed without II S,jueak
My hair stood up Oh my head lik,.
bristlcS. rubbed my eyes and Jumped
out of the bunk. took down the swing
ing lamp and trimmed il, then exam
ined the locker door. 1t was fastened.
the bolt was shot into the socket.
Il lit my pipe and sat o, chest
thinking about the matter. decided
that had been having Il dream. so i
turned iii again and soon dohed Oh.
81 couldn' { Il, ep sound. 1t seemed
to ME that couli hear woman p
screams; then heard laughter and Sob-
alternately: thcn nanawTul Shrirk ,ro,, .rd
me Evn,vIhi,.r wa. ,.u:.t i, tn, fnr.,
castle and the ships bell struck MD.
nipht. IdozeI oil a"oin. linen The
first THING knew felt mys,lf rosnin =,
In nv sleep. wok. M and Hut ont
nv hands. | coull,'t sneak. some
body had both their haY., on m, rbroa
and knew | Was chol;n~. f.lt the
fingers. but couldn't ton,h any,,ody. I
was pnralyzrd. | fclt w,s su;i:,catinp
when manapcd TO sine ont for hell
and the fellows iumpcd on, of ,hci,
Lunk, ard droroccJ me- on drck
of t,a y" ~ I'' - '' '"' II = "a, /,
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