Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-03
CAPT. B0DEN.

In tIe Office of u South street merchant,
with n lot of letter and bill files, etc, on
each side of it, is bound volume or Inc
London Mercantile Marine Magazine. a
slip of red ribbon serves as book marx
in It. Ii 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.
Eyes. said the merchant, lit contains
a reference to my first voyage to sea Be'
sides, | like to show it to Capt. Boden
when he comes in to sec me. Capt. Boden
is A prosperous Long Island farmer now,
living near Northport, but twenty years
noo he was the master of the New Haven
schooner Pandora was lad of IL then,
and made my FIRST sea voyage in the Pan.
dora. SO the captain and are old friends:
By this time the merchant had got rid
of the dust on the outside of tho maya
zine, and had opened it at the book mark
On one page, in black faced type, was the
heading. ''Rewards and Testimonials
beneath which was the statement that
her British majestry and the board of
trade had awarded various articles as
prizes to sailor men for humanity and
bravery as stated in the paragraphs
following One of these paragraphs had
black pencil mark around it. 1t was as
follows:
"To Capt. Isaac Boden, of the schooner
Pandora of New Haven, U. s., gold
chronometer in acknowledgment OF his
humanity to the master and crew OF the
brig Fannie Douglas, of Nassau, N. T.,
whom he rescued from their vessel on
June q"
"l'he entire crew of the Pandora" con
tinued the merchant, were Northport
citizens, neighbors and friends, you may
say, at home and at sea as we'll The
mate, Ezekiel Norton was the captains
brot in law both men owned shares III
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 mailing from Northport That he was
| a second mate instead of II captain was
due solely to his taste for liquor
with such crew as this it is not sur
prising that discipline was somewhat lax.
| Man O war discipline never yet got over
tho rail of coasting schooner SO far as |
know, but rather think that we had
more slack rope TO ours than is generally
found even in the coastiug trade. In
spite of this, however, the men had a
sailor pride in the craft, and it was not
too much to say that the Pandora was
handled and cared for as well as any vessel
IN the trade
"Wc were on the return trip from New
Orleans for Fall River with cotton. and
had Just brought Hatteras abeam when
there camc 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 lib and foretopsail, Then we
hauled down the jib and lowered the fore
sail on deck in Il hurry, after which, find
ing the wind increasing constantly, We
close reefed the foresail and furled the
rest of the canvas, and so lay to and let
her drift OF course we got the wrecllage
cleared away as soon as we had snugget
her
well, the Pandora was a good Sc;
boat, and after drifting for three day:
and losing nearly 100 miles the storm
blew itself out and settled into westerl,
wind that promised to mako up partly fo
what we had lost We wero all ANNA
ton in getting the canvas on her again t.
take advantage of the breeze the more S,
as she had had a much slower passage up t.
the time tho storm came on than usual
On account of light winds AS soon as W
got the sails set Mr.. Clement and one O
the men began blocking out a new top
mast from a spruce log that we had Car
ried for such an emergency. Clement wa
, good ships carpenter, and had saved tn
Pandora great many dollars for mino
) repairs.
} "While at work at this, and somewher
about 10 o'clock in the morning, the ma
at the wheel saw wreck long way o
to leeward. 1t was plainly a brig, fol-
although both topmasts and tho bowspri
were gone, the lower masts remained
When the wreck was reported Capt. Bode
came on deck and took long look at he
through the glass.
"'She's British, he said, pretty soon
" See anybody on herr asked Nj
, Norton.
. Mot soul. Take look at he
/ yourself
" I'm mighty glad of that, said NJ
c Norton, taking the glasses. Wed los
5 half day of this wind if we had to ru
| down there.
with that Mr.. Clement got rid of
/, large chew of tobacco, and said wit
a ! emphasis:
c "'lf we had to run down to herl Ain
/ | ye going to run down anyhow Nj
y Clement had been twice picked off {
I floating wrecks like the one we were lool
s ing at and each time it was after seem
e Il number of vessels pass very close t
windward without paying any attentio
. to the wreck He was sensitive on IL
= subject, naturally No one made any IT
ply to his question After looking IL
wreck over Mr. Norton said:
"'Brltish sho is for sure. The soua
must have caught her all standing.
blowed the canvas clean out of her.
. can't see enough tapping about her for
dishrag except that piece of the spank,
}. at the end Of the gaif There's nobod
:. aboard of her, for there isn't any sort ,
a signal to be seen fore nor aft
i, Mr. Clement snorted rather than sal,
= Give me the glasses,
"One glance was enough for him.
here's nothing like shares in IL
y vessel to blind the eyes Of skipper, |
" said Piece of the spanller, Ell?
the end of the gait, eh2 Can't s.
e no signals, eh2 Don't know 7
v difference between tarpaulins and II
end of gait for signals and
Il hece of a spanker. ehf Don't want
i ee any signals. do YET Some folks n
mean enough to leave their own mothe
d On a wreck rather than lose a capful
n wind
Tho more Mr. Clement said the mo
h excited he got, and from what have I
10 peated he went ON to worse until the en-
tain got SO rolled over the taunts of &
IN man that he hauled off and knocked hi
y down But he didn't stay down; he W
on his feet again in an instant and gra
bed for Il pump brake in a rack nj +