Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-30
BY TELEGRAPH.
A SEA CAPTAINS WIFE.
Mrs. Murphy is Mistress Of the Greatest
Sailing Craft Afleat.

The New York Recorder hiss the follow
ir about Bath ship, and her captains
wife:
A towering hisek hall is The Shenandoah.
,hs biggest and ess. ssislng vessel sflsst,
excepting, in point Of sbsolute tonnsgs, the
srs Al ship France. As you lcok from the
BroaRiya Bridge over the fringe OF shipping
stre,ehiag sions the rivers ecgs, the nasis
Of tha Shenandoah reach high ever all the
lsli top. that are there.
Toe Saansniesh IL $ Maine ship, her
captain, james Marpsy, Is = Msiae man,
III the esptaiL's ~ife is Maine womAn-
She sal in he CT ~ esbin md talked about
shipping, American and foreisc, sad about
tore, main aud mizzsp, sud Tiger mssss
Ana hsesstxyF, sad vessels "ho7e to ia
Storms, hse q lifelong mariner. Mrs.
Murphy 10 pleasant faced, gray barred
woman, and is Yspkee from stay back.
she is % proud as can be Of the Shansn-
doAh, ard prouder yet Of the sturdy. .qasrs-
shculder;d, kee' yed. frmjAsei man.
her husband, who IS captain and part owner
Of that 4 esl vessel # oak.
II have hzea Is times around Care
Horr,T said Mrs.. murphy, '.snd have made
other voy sges without rumhsr. Every
port you 60 into--evsu those of San Fran
cisco and New York-ycu see the Eagish
Il pred mioaies ovtr evsry thing. In
Hsvra gu, vessel was admired by every
body ard that pleased me. shinS great
deal Of her because the is my husbands
o. and because abe is the fuest vessel Il
the world aud because she is an American
snd / e espse she ma; Ks 4 progfess in Am =
lean shipping. want 70 see the Anne J.
can dag oftener. l Am glad we broke Il e
record when we came around the Hosn
from Frisco 10 los dsys because it may
SOP people rh1 want TO send osrgoes from
taking those Eng :h iron strips instead OF
| q wooden one
Mrs Murphy vas setitg enthusiastic.
why she said, Ill there's hole in an
iron ship ice she's gone.
s'And do vou like tie sesfaring life,
Mrs. MUIR ~
The lacy uisd to look Yes" She
| coGldf.'t Not especially we'll" she said
but dol't see Why sea captains wife
| shouldn't be rs devoted a. q lspdsmsn's
wife. If there's any man who deserves de-
votion, it's 8 sailor "
"How long has Mr. Murphy been cap
tain 2
why eve, tince he WAS 20. That's
81 yesrs."
"Ard have you lived a. sea so long as
hv?"
"Yes, nearly. l ftsyed at home for q
while TO take charge of the ebildren'-
| schooling But now We have them On
board ship"
| skud governess for ihrn -
NO" said the little Isdy. niushing al
am the teacher myseltn There were son e
sry advanced schooibooks on III, CABIN
table, ST very pretty girl win black
eyes present who called Mrs. Murphy man
M.
"What do you do in stormy times?" the
reporter asked.
Il hsve great cor fiderce in my husband
and in the ship, but GU never can tell " hat
will give wsy on shipbCsrd Now, in that
big Storm We g t into--,hsr cyclone of the
coast of Scotisnd-I do not hesitate to say
that Mrs. Murphy vas lying in sisteroom
with cotton stuffed in her ears 10 keep GU,
that hSful roaring of the 1t I'm 1t tls
me will fear thsJ | cane deseribs at all.
You see. b sides ourselves, ihe ships crew
comprises thirty EIGHT psrsons in all, AID
,h-re 10 olwsys the sense Of responsibility
resting upon captain. And his wife
shares that. Now, coming sfound the Csps
on this lsst voyage we met q gale, and ore
poor fellow was snapped If into the ses.
He wasn't far sloft. He had jast left Tie
deck to 90 mo the toret3p. BY and by
he vas missed, ar d no one knew whore OF
how, or Just when he wss 'ost.'
| "LaI dsmen dcn'i know anything about
the hsrdships Of sailors life. They thins
that is more or less phrase coir ed for use
in s,o-y books g