Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-23

learn the perfect management OF both
steam and sailing vessels, so that he
must be as good sailor as the master
OF any ship that he may board aAd
IA good general ofhcer as
the commander OF an ocean Elmer"
His application for license will nos DC
consIdereG even after six years, until
Il is shown that he has couductea, IN
der the care OF his master, square
rlEged vessel at least twenty tmes np'
and down the river and bay.
Then, II he is successful In passing
rigid examination before the commits
sioners, he receives "seeoad-rate
branch,n or license allowing him 70 pl'
lot vessels drawing not more than
twelve feet. At the end Of year Of
this sort OF training he is entitled 70
reeeive a "1rst-rate branch" allowing
him 10 pilot vessels OF any practicable
draft. He is now q full.nedged pll0h
and may begin to reap the reward OF Ms
years OF training.
The following statement By one OF
our pilots will give 40 idea OF the ordi-
nary hardships OF the life:
"My last trip up" be said, II caught
an English tramp steamer. IL WAS ~
night, and we had TO race With the crew
Of another boat There was one OF
those cross seas that makes the tough
est kind OF q pull; and before boarded
the steamer, the skitf was half full OF
water. 1 was soaked, and my yalise
was making q cruise on its own &C.
count M aud down the skin.
hadn't dry stitch on melt was
In January, too-Rnd thought when
had given them the course Id 80
below and get into some dry toys. but
when opened the vallse there wasnt
A dry thread in II; and my tobacco had
, swelled up as big as my head aud run
all over my white shirts and ruined
them. By the next morning / got
pair OF pants dried down In tho epHlne
| room, but had TO spend the night IN
| my wet clothes, for the captain couldnp
help me. He had shipped In gTeAt
hurry, and hadn't thing aboard bus
one blanket and the clothes be had on,
so | had to doze on a chair beside obe
Of those COMPOUNDED English open
J CRATES that sends all the heat up ths
chimney.
but such things don't seem much
after one experience l had eight years
ago. One winter night / roWed Gus
| from the break water TO catch steamer.
IL was blowing great guns, showing
| Ike the deuce and cold enough 70
| freeze the face of a billiard ball; and
we couldn't see the lights quarter OF
a mile ahead. 10 some way we missed
the steamer and she missed Us; Win
wind and tide against US We eouldnt
get back, so we drlfted out TO sea 10
| that awful weather. without food, water
or fire. We drift four days before
we were picked up; one mao died. ana
we others-there were three OF u.s.
nearly died, too. The Ice 10 the boat
was frozen solid around me near
" no to ny hips; they had 70
chop both OF US loose. The doctors
wanted 70 cut of both my legs Gloss 10
| nv body; said would die II they didn't.
| told them I'd rather die; ny folks
stood BY me, and I've got the legs yes
They're as good as they ever wore. ne
stood nearly SIX feet and weighed 100
mounds. bot ! don't want any more
adventures like that, though We are al
liable 70 get caught just the same way
apy winter. Every once In while some
pIlot goes adriit, but they don't Often
get of as well as did"
The men OF the Greedy expedition SUI
fered frlghtfHlly, but not worse 'nsn
this The adventure seeker ooes boz
have to travel 10 distant parts OF VIC
world; all this was within TWO nunoIs'
miles OF Philadelphia.