The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-08
4 STRANDED SEA COLOSSUS.
Tho Yankee Four-Mnster Benjamin r.
Poole Fast In Virginia sands.

Tho Yankee Four-MnsIcr BENJAMIN r,
Poole Fast In Virginia Sands.
NORFOLK. Va June 4-If Mr.. Frank Stockton
would like to know where Kudder Grange Is
Just now THE SuN is able to inform him. 1t Is
on tho lonely sands Of Virginia Beach. tho
fashionable southern watering place eighteen
miles east Of this city and few miles south Of
Cape Henry 1t Is the oldest wreck that ever
was seen. 1t is the huge iour-ma-t tor schooner
benjamin +. Poole OF Providencc. that went
ashore moro than year nSo. III trying TO ride
out furious storm tho vessel drifted
toward tho cape: anchors were thrown out,
but thcy did not hold in tho yielding sand:
finally tho hawsors were snapped and the big
boat went on tho sands. Later the ocean
swells drove the Poole slowly down the coast
10 me stianI ha!l u mile north OF Virginia
pests tho Errnt white;cr@sted surf pillows
pushed tho hunk far NJ III" beach AMI planted
from the margin # the laundering ocean:
There she sits today bolt upright. high and
her builders had constructed her IN Virginia
meadow 90 miles from tho coast.
As ono walks toward her along tho ocean
beach from the hOtel she looms ike vast sea
monster the ocean III iacetouS mood has re-
her funny posture. SO dec9rous!y stin and
straight is it, the four black stumpy masts
har Sntn p the nS ves.
sci has been on tho beach 50 long. shr has set
Sd little G the s%9 SO t1i w ho {es whole ni
keel and contiguous parts. and II
she !, wor. on the stocks n inspector
oughly. There was little cargo on board when
She struck and that las since been removed.
winds moan through dsma!ly. IN whose
empty compartments the distant roar of the
surf rever1eratos at night As the GhostIy mur-
muir OF the ocean seems TO haunt tho cavities
OF II sea shell that is he'll to ones ear.
y quaklng ladder OF panks and iopes, lashed
TO tho vessel side, conducts tho visitor from
the teach to ,, the lofty denk which Is clean
Southern sun. The visitor "aces the spacious.
echoing floor to tho opcn hntchways. and
looks Straight down tho du,ky twtt shaft
through deck alter deck almost to tho keel.
There is no sound or sign.o human life APP
parently, curious sense Of the loneliness; de-
should DO teeminE with lte and activity,
affects one: but wait q bit. Far at stroak Of
stJvepipe that ia thrust through tho cabin
roof, and presently u fat, luhberly picKaninny
the companIomway and then with a twinkle Of
fat. black naked legs and arms rolls suddenly
Evidently the shin is not deserted.
Hello, pirknninny' How's things and
where the iOlkscs Z cHlls ont n visitor.
sailor, with II flourish OF rcd board. matted
hair no rt ma not murh o OF GI"tH,r o comes
good humorcdly:
Thernupon another sailor pops up through
another part OF tho 10 X stOu! coored man.
black as sable, with Juvai taco ana n polite
and aNabe rs dancing mnsor. hen still
another sall.r arrears ana llnHiy a., wom on an
Cariain Of tn" craft, tho nun with the led
beard AMI mon o.. hGIr. Hero - yet ono
s !. bo HS w N@PFy fSmy c" oe eGS
and tat also but sho Is busy NJ tho
other omd OF the streak o.; mn G!n% sm"kG get
er7 ami has no timo fHr rnny sErh irlliln,.
La. IA, !
her week WHShin outcr dc line, nhoNo decks.
nm io!hs = am Eh'y .nnGry ,ngats ter me.
Tho Cartain and tho ppI'o roiorrd man talk
freely about The stranded vessel thcr llfo on
nCna Of them rNrr.t to stay thcro forever,
Still. they N" In no hurry; tA"roo plenty OF
In iWct' the probability Of getting away from
Virginia 'Sac4' crow ,hip, ana AL i as % ear as
pareptiy, is eX,romHIy bright, Just now, Tie
way In which the BENJAMIN /. Poe le Is TO DO
boosted on tho wido SANDY beach and sent
terestlnE and original ono ForSl6vUJ CONF
pany If Ingenious Northorn wreckers have
how arc hey going 10 DO il For to
Gndsm"n ,ur sHGh feat seems
sumo 0. tho mArrligus performances res
counted Of Ilercplcs and other hg fellows be-
lyn Bridge architect. lu' to iit and slide tho
ana not dthIrult unde, taking - tho opinion y
sailor "All dey is to do" explained
the latter, is list ter dig, u biz ditch
around the schooner" plank mp tho side
TOWARD the ocean and when the ditch lcachoS
to tho vessel atd the hawsers to tugs in tho
onug and thon ON some day OF high rolling
surf taxi away tho combing OF plank-, lot tho
tugs whip m with stoHm and bG on dragging
I'll" stranded mun-lOr down a canal already
pro hrod thrOUEu the sun aud away scAwari.
some Of III" hawSor- arr already on the
loor. and arc worth looking at. so big they
arc; for tn - seem III t. be Il Eirdo TO 20
around small SO roHd-class planet. In exact
$40 they arr about as IL IN Eirth rs tina calf
oil a mans lee, When the stsamtuGs Juggling
away beyond tho sun hi lows Strengthen those
massive hawsrrs some hing will have t. give
way; either the shin will let 70 the beach aud
the POoo - rocking down into tho ocean or
OF the HlH a OF \lrElnla Will cl"ubo on rom
I 80 schooner, or tho hhW-"rS may ~nlp -
the crack q doom, or rrrLHUSlhc lug VIII JH-S
ErUnt and wh""2", and Jump haI " ""-"@
limos and give M IN" OBJ
At any IA q, WhHt"NrI hhpp"nS II vi hp All
tho same to tho nanny l"IaniS -. I,uuunr
Grange who evidently had lust a. ici abide IN
the hollow y,anel on virginia Beach Win HiuO
and clothes mot murn IHIWcu' buins needed
" found. to them IS tho uc! owners o. me
Poole. The big schooner certainty VII larry
on tho sands all summer. aud ~" plopr'et OrS
OF tho swell NirEinlait hea'h llu'"I arc E.hl OF
who - Iust u luI" "a wT"'g.. "a i"hdunrE on
tho lonesome strand which tn. "i1 stroll OUT
10 IN lao cUiurol fn. ~ or 0" 'u' "'," HnilnG
moonlight. Tho IrrIa" ON o.. l.."." i1hkoa
lIItlu money out 10. lhr up#l'lt NN't. guests,
TOO, almost every o. 90 OF Wh"Hlru ,ist to the
wreck drops u quartz or two INTO the lands OF
the CAplHin or the uckHninny aud 10 some of
them GOloTed sailor soils u sea shell or two from
his pile each one Of which he has painted with
q Wide blue oT crimson glEdles