Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-01-17
CAPT. B0DEN.

London Mercantile Marine Magazine.
slip OF red ribbon serves as a book mark
IN IT, 1t is not customary for merchants
TO Keep old magazines among their ma
pers, and friend Of the merchant asked
him yesterday if there was any special
reason for doing so
Yes, said the merchant. 'it contains
reference to my first voyage to sea. Be-
sides, like to show it to Can't. Boden
when he comes in to see me. Capt. Boden
Is a prosperous Long Island farmer now.
living near Northport, but twenty wears
nSo he was the master of the New Haven
schooner Pandora. was lad of 16 then.
and made my first sea voyage in the Pan
dora SO the captain and are old friends. "
by TINS time the merchant had got rid
OF the dust on the outside of the mara-
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:
ITO Capt. Isaac Boden, of the schooner
Pandora of New Haven, u s., a gold
chronometer in acknowledgement of his
humanity to The master and crew of the
brig Fannie DoG.,I-s, of Nassau, n. p.
whom he rescued from their vessel on
June 81"
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 we'll The
mate, Ezekiel Merton, was the captains
brother 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 mailing from Northport. That he was
second mate instead of a 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
the rail of a coaSting schooner so far as
know, but | 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 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.
1--WE were on the return trip from New
Orleans for Fall River with cotton, and
had just brought Hatteras abeam when
there came a 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 iib 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
closa$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 snugged
her
well, the Pandora was a good sea
boat, and after drifting for three DAYS
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 ANNA
ton 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 u spruce log that we had car
ried for such an emergency. Clement was
a 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 a wreck long way of
to leeward. 1t was plainly a 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 a long look at he1
through the glass.
shes British, he said, pretty soon.
See anybody ON herr asked Mr.
Norton.
Mot soul. Take a look at hel
yourself.
I'm mighty glad of that, said Mr.
Norton, taking the glasses. Wed lose
half day of this wind if we had to rur
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 her! Amt
We going to run down anyhow? Mr.
Clement had been twice picked oil Of
floating wrecks like the one we were look
L,
a number of vessels pass very close /
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 tht
wreck over Mr.. Norton said:
British she is for sure. The squat
must have caught her all standing. i
bIowed the canvas clean out of her.
can't see enough tapping about her for {
dishrag except that piece of the spankcl
at the end of the gait. There's nobody
aboard of her, for there isn't any sort OF
a SIGNAL to be seen fore nor aft.
Mfr 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 the eyes of skipper, ht
lid Piece of the spanker, ell? Al
+ba end of the gait, ell? Can't SEE
no signals, chi Don't know ne
difference between tarpaulins and th'
end of a gait for signals and
niece of spanker. eh? Don't want t.
See, anv signals, do We? Some folks are
moan enough to leave their own mothers
IN . wreck rather than lose a capful OF
wind :,
The more Mr. Clement said the more
oxcited he got, and from what | have re
,,eotad he went on to worse until the cap
foin cot so rolled over the taunts OF the
ta.n 3bo, he bauled off and knocked him
I LA Rnt he didn't stay down; he was
uoT Va foot AGAIN in an instant and grab
bed for pump brake In a rack al Inc
oinn,ast pump brake is mighty
mail mann nssonon II is usually made of ash
ha1Gs MI TeH thirty inches long and two
ana Is aoou' H. biggest end Capt.