Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-17
CAPT. BODEN.

| London Mercantile Marine Magazine.
slip Of red ribbon serves as book mari
in 1t. 1t is not customary for merchants
to keep old magazines among their pa
pers, and friend Of the merchant asked
him yesterday If there was any special
reason for doing so.
"Yes," said the merchant, sit contains
a reference to my first voyage to ses. Be
sides, like to show 1t to Capt. Bodeu
when he comes In to see me. Capt. Boden
Is prosperous Long Island farmer now,
living near Northport. but twenty years
ago he was the master of the New Haven
| schooner Pandora was lad Of l6 then,
and made my first sea voyage in the Pan
dora. So the captain and are old friends. II
By this time the merchant had got rid
of the dust ON the outside Of the maya
zine, and had opened it at the book mark.
On one page, in black faced type, was the
heading, Rewards and Testimonials, y
| beneath which was the statement that
her British majestry and the board of
trade had awarded various articles IS
prizes to sailor men fos humanity and
bravery, as stated in the paragraphG
following. One of these paragraphs haa
black pencil mark around it. 1t was -
follows;
"To CAN'T. Isaac Boden, of the schooner
Pandora of New Haven, o. s., gold
chronometer in acknowledgment of his
humanity to the master and crew Of the
brig Fannie Douglas, of Nassau. N. p,
whom he rescued from their vessel on
June 81"
1.-THE entire crew of the Pandora" con-
tinued the merchant, were Northport
citizens, neighbors and friends, you may
say, at home and at sea as well. The
mate, Ezekiel Norton, was the captains
brother-in-law; both men owned shares In
the schooner, and both were good seamen.
The second mate, Daniel Clement, who
was about fifteen years older than either,
was acknowledged to be the best sailor
man hailing from Northport. That he was
q second mate instead of q captain was
due solely to his taste for liquor.
With such q crew rs this it is not sur
prising that discipline was somewhat lax
Man O. war discipline never yet got over
the rail Of coasting schooner SO far as
know, but l rather think that we had
more slack rope to ours than is generally
found even in the coasting trade. In
spite of this, however, the men had q
sailor pride In the craft, and it was not
too much to say that the Pandora was
handled and cared for as well Is any vessel
in the trade.
1--WE were on the return trip from New
Orleans for Fall River with cotton, and
had Just brought Hatteras abeam when
there came piping gale out of the north
west that liked to have ended us then and
there. The wind came In squall, and
we lost the maintopmast while taking In
the flying jib and foretopsail. Then we
hauled down the jib and lowered the fore
sail on deck in hurry, after which, find
ing the wind increasing constantly, we
close reefed the foresaI and furled the
rest of the canvas, and SO lay to and let
her drift. OF course we got the wreckage
cleared away as soon Us We had snugged
her.
well, the Pandora was good sea
boat, and after drifting for three davs
and losing nearly 100 miles the storm
blew itself out and settled into westerly
WIND that promised to make up partly for
what we had lost. We were all anima-
tion In getting the canvas on her again to
take advantage of the breeze, the more so
as she had had much slower passage up to
the time the storm came on than usual,
on account of light winds. As soon as we
got the sails set Mr.. Clement and one of
the men began blocking out new top
mast from spruce log that we had car
ried for such an emergency. Clement was
good ships carpenter, and had saved the
Pandora a great many dollars for minor
repairs.
while at work at this, and somewhere
about 10 O'Clock in the morning, the man
at the wheel saw wreck long way off
to leewerd. 1t was plainly brig, for,
although both topmasts and the bowsprit
were gone, the lower masts remained.
When the wreck was reported Capt. Boden
came on deck and took long look at her
through the glass.
She's British, he said, pretty soon.
See anybody on herr asked Mr..
Mot soul. Take look at her
yourself.
I'm mighty glad of that said Mr..
Norton, taking the glasses. Wed lose
half day of this wind il we had to run
down there
with that Mr.. Clement got rid Of Q
large chew Of tobacco, and said with
emphasis:
"'If We had to run down to herl Amt
ye going to run down anyhow Mr.
Clement had been twice picked off Of
floating wrecks like the one we were look
ing at, and each time it was after seeing
a number of vessels pass very close to
windward without paying any attention
to the wreck. He was sensitive on the
subject. naturally. No one made any re-
ply to his question. After looking the
wreck over Mr.. Norton said:
british she Is for sure. The sauall
must have caught her all standing. 1t
blowed the canvas clean out Of her
can't see enough tapping about her for
dishrag except that piece Of the spanker
ut the end of the gaff. There's nobody
aboard of her. for there isn't any sort Of
a signal to be seen fore nor aft
Mr.. Clement snorted rather than said:
Give me the glasses
..One glance was enough for him.
There's nothing like shares in the
vessel to blind tine eyes of skipper he
said. Piece of the spanker, chr At
the end of the gaff, eh9 Can't see
no signals, eh? Don't know no
difference between tarpaulins and the
end of gaff for signals and q |
piece OF spanKer. enr Don't want 10
seel any signals. do yef Some folks ar,
mean enough to leave their own motherr
on wreck rather than lose q capful o.
wind
1.-The more Mr. Clement said the mors
excited he got, and from what have re-
peated lie went on to worse until the car |
tain got so rolled over the taunts of the |
man that he hauled off and knocked him |
down But he didn't stay down; he was
OF his feet again in an instant and grab
bed for pump brake in rack at the |
A pump brake is mighty |
handy weapon. 1t is usually made Of ash |
and is about thirty inches long and two
inches thick at the biggest end. Capt.
Boden grabbed brake at the same time.
Unfortunately Mr.. Clement tried to pull |
It out the wrong way and the captain got
ahead of him, whereupon Mr.. Clement
lxnactinG . blow. iumDed ha0k and dxaH