The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-03
CRUISE OF "THETIS."
Lieutenant Amy Tells of Sea-
son in Bering Sea.
GIVING WARNING TO sEAlERs.
How q Dog Found q Gold Mine In Okla
nogan-About Knots in Tim
ber-ArrivaIs.

Lieutenant A c. Amy, of the United States
navy, is spending a few days in the city as the
guest OF Major James r. Hayden. After bis
graduation from Annapolis Mr. Amy took his
ness cruise to the eastern coast of Asia. and he
was on the Richmond when she carried General
ana Mrs Grant, Colonel and Mrs. Fred Grant
ana John Russell Young from one Chinese port
TO another and finally TO Japan in their trip
around the world. Two or three years ago ne
was attached 10 the coast survey vessel Ernest,
then engaged in work in Puget sound During
that perod he spent some time in Seattle and
made many warm friends here.
MI. Amy has been the Thetis for the season
JUST closed, cruising ia BenTing sea to warn the
seaiers Several months ago parts of an inter-
esting letter which he sent TO Major Hayden
were printed in the PosT-lNTELIdG ENcER and
widely copied. Mr. Alrny's service with the
lhets Is now ended, aud he is on waiting
orders, with a three months leave OF absence.
In speaking of the summers cruise he said
Yesterday: "We left San Francisco June II 10
carry TO the sealers copies of the presidents
PROCLAMATION warning them to stop sealing.
The Ihetls was the first vessel TO get out with
the proclamation, and ten or twelve days after
starting We overhauled two sehooners off Sand
po mt, on the shumagin island. The rest of the
summer was passed in such work. When We
boarded a schooner we would count the skins
she already had on board, and enter the number
state that she had received copy OF
the presidents proclamation, and give the date,
the latitude and the longitude where the
notice was served. II such schooner were
overhauled again, IL could be seen at once
whether she had violated the law after receiv-
ing the warning
''Most of the schooners started back because
they had too much at stake TO run the risk of
violating the law. The chance OF escape was
small because so many government vessels were
there the Thetis, MOhicsn, Marion and Alert of
our navy, the revenue cutters Corwin and
Rush, and the British men-of-war Nymphe,
Pheasant and Porpoise.
several sehooners upon getting the notice
Immediately sailed over into Russian waters on
the western side. One OF these, the James
Hamilton Lewis, which was one OF the very first
to get warning, was captured by one OF the ves-
sells OF the Russian government, and / am told
that the crew were taken ashore TO Siberia.
What has since happened to them l do not
know.
-Four sehooners which disregarded the proc
lamation were taken IN Boring seattle Ethel,
La Nina, Otto and Marvin, the latter Canad-
ian craft The masters of the vessels took the
warning in good part, though OF course they
were indignant 10 think that their operations
were 10 be interfered with. Still, the previous
action of the government could lead them to ex-
pect nothing else.
"No raids we're made upon the rookeries this
wear, Tor there were too many government YES
sells around. A telephone wire encircles the
islands now. and when any schooner is seen
lowering near, word is sent TO the village, and
the force of guards AT the exposed points is In
creased. Raids of the rookeries have been quite
frequent in times past You see heavy fog
hangs over ST. George and St Paul islands a
good deal of the time, so that poachers do not
find it very difficult task to come quite near
without being detected. This season the region
was very completely patrolled. The sea was
divided into districts about l5O miles square and
uan-of-w war assigned to each district"