San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-11
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Youth, Love and Romance on an
Emlgrant Ship From Bremen
to New Orleans.
Written for the LIGHT.

In the month of September. 1852,
large and full rugged sailing ship
left the port of Bremerhafen. out
of the river Weser, in Germany.
1t was the ship Ernestine, belong
ing to the large banking firm of
Brauer d Co., of the city of Bre-
men. She was passenger vessel
and her human freight consisted of
twelve first cabin passengers and
some two hundred or more, be-
tween decks. Her captain was an
old storm beaten seaman, though
at all times pleasant and of a jo-
vial disposition. The first mate,
the very opposite, misanthrOpe
and a woman hater, but a strict
cOnfOrmer to his duties, and the
second mate, young man who
had but a short time ago received
his first hOnOrs from the NaViga-
ton school at Bremen, was an en-
thusiast for his profession, imbued
with new ideas of a modern ciVili-
ZatiOn amOug Seamen, working for
the amelioratiOn and development
of seafaring men to higher stan
dard of n anhOOd which had been
instilled into his susceptible mind
by that great reVOlutiOniZer in
naval science, Prof. Arthur Breu-
sing, at that time professor of phil
Ology and instructor of astronomy
in the Navigation academy at Bre-
men. The crew consisted of a
ships carpenter, a bOatswain, a
sailmaker, sixteen full-fledged sail
Ors, four past apprentices, two boys,
a first and second cook and a stew
ard and boy assistant for the cabin.
The steerage passengers represent
ed the usual make up, cOnglOm-
Grafton of many natiOnalities of
Europe, all bound for that imagin-
airy land of milk and honey and
gold on this side of the big pond.
The cabin passengers though few
in number came from various parts
of Germany. One a young man,
whose name indicated him as ma
tive of sunny Italy, Herr Chiapini,
fresh from German university, but
who, instead of close attention
to the deep secrets of "Materia
Medica" had wOrshiped at the
shrines of "Bachus" and that little
imp "AmOr," neither wise nor well,
he had been sent by an irate father
to new cOnQuests as an NJ. ID.
though without his "sheep-skin"
to Vegetate with his art among the
AbOriginees of the American for
ests and new cOnquests among the
Indian maidens.
Mr.. Chiapini was at once smitten
by the charms and smiles of a pair
of blue eyes, the owner of which a
young maiden in her prime of
youth, hailing from the great city
of Braunschweig, and who was
send across the Atlantic to rela-
tionss to Out-dream loves first
young dream in the metrOpole by
the Mississippi, but after paying
due tribute to old father Neptune"
listened by the hour to love Idyls
and poetic rOmances of "SignOr
Chiapini" under the soft light of
the moon on the cabin deck.
On one occasion, when some
what after four o'clock p. m, the
starbOard watch had been ordered
"belOw," and serenity, under fine
northeast wind, all sails and stay
sails set, seemed to be the order of
the afternoon. Herr Chiapini, the
love-lOrn maiden from Braun
schweig, and last but not least,
guitar and song book, appeared.
They seated them selves on the
shady side of the cabin deck. The
harmony Of the heart, the guitar,
and the voices were in perfect uni
son,-when 10 and behold, the dis
turbed face and head of the second
mate appeared at his state room
door, and with dagger looking eyes,
surveyed the wOrshippers of Amor.
The young lady caught at the
wrong idea, and with a self-im-
posed seeming sadness and plain
tive tone, began the first lines of
"Loreley:"
Heart, my heart, oh why this sad
ness" etc,
The mate interrupted her, in an
emphatic staccato: Eyes! Some
fiendish and frightful hobgoblins
have been creating little
sadness over my head just now
Thus it came, that 'the harp that
once in Tara's halls" etc, was
hung up dismantle for the bal
ance of the voyage.
A most interesting duo of pas
sengers was gentleman and his
young wife. Mr.. W., who had al
ready lived in Texas for a long
time and who hnd r,nnAn q ,.inl4 u