St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-01
SAFE ON DRY LAND.
After Days ofAnXiety the UNI
bria's Passengers Reach
Terra Firma.
They All Behaved Admirably
While the Ship Drifted
Before the Gale.
lnexplicable Conduct OF the
Captain of a Ship Of the
Same Line.
Gallant Conduct Of the YES
sells Officers in the Hours
of Peril.

New York, Dec. 31.-The long over
due Cunard steamship Umbria has ar
rived. Her passengers are all ashore.
Their baggage has been examined.
MANY of them have left town and
thousands of anxious hearts rest easily,
relieved of the burden Of anxiety that
for many days weighed them down.
The great steamship rests easily in her
berth at the foot of Clarkson street. Her
DAYS of toll, desperation, and her
thousand battles and perils are past,
for the present at least. She is safe,
comparatively sound. Not thing IS
there tomar the smooth surface of her
gigantic sides.
Capt. Mckay sleeps at last. He is in
bed, and that for the first time since the
steamship, out there nearly thousand
miles from her destination, i'll mldocean,
broke down and became as helpless as
the warrior of old became when he was
endorsed and his heavy aTmor made 1t
impossible for him even to run away
and live to fight another day. And
when the steamship broke down the
Lives Of Hundreds
of men and women fell upon the shout
ders of the one man. Had the main
spring broken the works in the watch
would have become useless. AnG so
Capt. Mckay, now that he has landed
his hundreds of souls, deserves the sleep
he is now enjoying.
In hundreds of homes, in clubs, In
the hotel parlors today they are telling
the history Of that terrible week in ma
ocean. 1t is great story, and upon the
nier of the Cunard line it was told
many and many time. 1t was 1880
O'Clock last night when the first news
Of the arrival off these shores or the
long overdue Cunarder reached TINS
citv. At that hour the observer at Fire
island made out the lights Of some large
vessel which was apparently coming
into port. and keeping as near to shore
MS she possibly could do. 1t took the
observer. who knows all the ships ana
lines bv their lights, but few seconds
to make out the unmistakeable night
colors of the Cunard line, and then IN
the minute
New Work Anew It'
Instruments licked on hundred cir
cults. ana within ten minutes OF the
time that the observer at File island
saw the first lights Of the Umbrla nearly
every city for thousands of miles knew
that she had at last put in an appear
ance. Once before during the twenty
four hours just past the report llau no1n
sent out that the steamship hao arrlVeu'
and then it had proven false. IhlS 70
mort came from Boston, and set manlo
heart to futtering, only to increase
anxiety. to deepen the gloom that WV, VmI
overcast many q homestead. But t u%u
EVCOuu Il'iO II to
doubt the news.
The Cunarder had come in 81 .,. %
land; her lights had been seen; withIn
few hours sine would be at he, w" doni.i
before another twelve hours tn T IL
ing ones could be with their trle nda s" I'D
so when the mothers OF the fnn' iIaU
went down at l o'clock this mor rnln ~
answer the ring at the door boil It To- 80 ~
init the shiverlng, red-nOSed IittIa mos.
senger boy, to hastily tear me nnen mn TIC
yellow envelope and read there in hIenIy
anu WhlIe the "elooiii0 iiO" that
The Ship Had Arrived,
and would be at her dock in the morn
ing-Well, perhaps the wretched little
messenger looked in alarm at the bank
note thrust into his hands; perhaps he
stood in beWiderment when the old
molher caught his rags to her heart and
burst into tears: perhaps he did not
Know why she did ii, and perhaps on
the other hand he did.
1t was colo and bleak on the bav This
wind whisted mournrully through the
bare trees Oh Staten island, and the or.
binary denZenS of that deluded Dart of
the world saw nothing extraordinarily
beautiful or cheerful about their bleak
houses this particular morning. But to
the handful OF passengers huddled to-
gether on the deck Of the Umbria at
daybreak the bleak land looked precious
indeed, and there were many who, in
sheer happiness perhaps, threw their
arms about each other ana danced
around until the objects on shore be-
came more distinct.
There was heavy mist broke over
the bay, but toward O'Clock it began TO
lit little, and then they came in sight
OF quarantine. She came up along,
tagging the Staten island shore around
the fort, and
E Small Army OF Tugs
and small boats accompanied her, toot-
Ing at tie huge monster and barking
around her like so many pug dogs about
Il maStilf. The Umbria looked Juiet and
lady-like. There was nothing to indi-
cafe that she had anything but the
usual voyage. She came along slowly.
10 be sure, but she did not cough as if
she had the cOnSumption; in fact, she
came along as slowly and as uncOu-
cerned and unframed as if she had Just
passed through a duel with some French
gentleman on the field of honor. 1t was
$40 o'clock when she dropped anchor
Off quarantine, and minute later she
was boarded by DR.. Jenkins boats. On
the doctors beat were about a score of
reporters. who scrambled up the side of
the vessel like so many cats. About the
vessel there were clustered The MANY
boats that had been hired by friends of
those on board, and 1t was a happy and
cheerful aud Flows the baby and
map" for the next half-hOur.
The Cunarders purser, Jolly old
Fields, told everybody that she had
passed Fire island at three minutes past
midnight this morning; that at sos
O'Clock the vessel was
Off Sandy Hook
lightship and that at 7:4l she passed
Sandy Hook. She lay TO off there for
some time TO wait until daybreak for
the fog TO lift. AS she lay there several
vessels passed by her, and when thov
made her out gave her a greeting. the
Umbria left her resting place shortly
after O'clock and passed up into the
BAY at 7:4l o'clock AT $40 o'rloply che