St. Paul daily globe., 1892-01-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


n Newspaper Mans Experience
in Its Trip to the Pacific.
One voyage at sea is said to destroy all
desire for another. Wicked old Jonah
was not more disgusted with his mari
time experience than is Edward Hunt
ington Dwight, the West Superior news
paper man, who has travelled 24,000
miles in the whaleback Charles Wet
more, says the Seattle Press-Times.
He shipped as lampcleaGer. This
never has been very lucrative employ
ment. and the five foolish virgins made
nearly as much out of their job as Mr..
Dwight did out of his. He received 81
per month, with the privilege of seeing
all there was to be seen.
At the Northern hotel last evening he
was relating some incidents of the vow
age. Mr.. Dwight said:
al earning that a prominent citizen
whose name had appeared misspelled
in the paper on which | was working
was looking for me, | determined to
ship on the Whalebaek.
"Grue, | did not succeed in getting a
very large salary, but it was the best
bargain L could make with the captain.
The weather was very fine at the out
set, and the ship only consumed an av
erage Of ten tons OF coal day until we
reached MonteyldeO. After that the av-
erage daily consumption of fuel was
twenty tons every twenty-four hours.
We did not go around the horn, but
passed through the Straits of Magellan,
and, think, made better time than any
other vessel has made going through
these narrow, dangerous straits. Nj "a
gellan straits are not much wider than
the Sound is here, and are full of sharp
pointed rocks and hidden reefs. There
re no pilots there an ships which
make the passage always anchor three
nights. We anchored but once. We
made the distance of 367 miles from
Virgin Rock to Cape Pillar in thirty-tWo
hours. Counting the one night we
anchored we made it in forty hours, and
eight knots an hour even is fast enough
in such dangerous water as the Straits
of Magellan.
at was about this time that our mas
cot began to show himself in his true
light.
''What. did you not know that the
Wetmore had mascot?
'Well, we did have one He was a
large goat. 1t was regular secret So
ciety goat that was put On board at
Philadelphia. 1t was rumored that he
had eaten all of Mr.. Wanamaker'S new
the offenSe. During my work Oh
daily paper have, in common with
great many others, alluded to this Spe
cleS of animal in diSrespectful man
Ger, but | never dreamed of such a ter
rlble retrlbutI0n as to be compelled to
go to sea with one. The goat was
left at Port Townsend. | hear the
lodges there have a number of new
members to Initiate. Off the coast of
Oregon, when the dark clouds hung
overhead like demons threatening to in
crease the fury of the storm, when
thoughts of home and the SinfulneSS of
my past life and repentance for my past
sins rushed through my brain like the
avant couriers of coming death, there
was one thing that would have made
my demise easy; that was if we did go
down there was no show for a goat. l
would cheerfully have. been buried in
the deep blue sea, had been sure that
the goat would have shared my fate.
In all the accounts of the manner in
which the hawser was fastened to the
ZambeZi it is stated that the Zambezi's
men lowered the boat and risked their
lives. This is not true. Not boat was
lowered from the ZamDeZi. Not one of
her men risked his life. The Wetmore's
men did all the work. Looking at it
from an impartial standpoint, | think
that the Zambezi's salvage claim is
most unjust. 1t was definitely stated
that the matter should be submitted 10
arbitration, and the captain of the Zam-
bezi agreed to this. No one Oh board
the Wetmore had the least idea that
salvage claim would be made, and when
we were detained by the libel even the
sailors were indignant. The voyage
was a pleasant one throughout. The
UpSSaI hnhQ uaH hoo,EifrII., tba
kind cf seas until the rudder was lost;
then, of course we were at the mercy of
4he waves. The vessel was an object
which aroused a great deal of curiosity,
and ships would even deyiate slightly
from their course in order to catch
glimpse of the Wetmore.
"When we reached the Everett a
small boat came alongside and we took
Oh board Mrs. Starr, the rowing corre-
Spondent of the New York World. She
threw the first line that tied the Wet
more to the dock. Then there was
great cheering and shouting. A large
the sight, and it was gala day IN
Everett"
A steam barge was built by Capt.
Alexander McDougall and launched in
1888 at West Superior. Wis. An at
tempt had been made to alter the lines
of the barge so as to prevent her stag
gering in a heavy sea. 1t resembled a
torpedo boat and was called the ''101."
Among freshwater shippers the strange
craft was the subject of much ridicule,
and was sarcastically called 1.-THE pig"
The name still clings to vessels of this
kind, and 1t is a common expression
now.
This Vessels capacity was 1,400 tons
of grain or ore and she Registered only
437 tons. Her owners, it is said, divided
$4,000 profit in two years. She only
cost S45, ZOO.
The Wetmore is the eleventh whale
back, and was built by the same man
who constructed the 1O1. The Wetmore
has gone from Liverpool to New York
in fifteen days, using 1S0 tons of coal on
the trip. The whaleback is painted red,
and will pay visit to Seattle as soon as