The Portland daily press., 1893-09-20

times. He told me great many partlcu-
lars of our adventure at Christiana that
proyed to me that he was BranscOmb.
/ was as pleased to see him as Though
he had been long-lost brother, | took
him off the vessel, and had him made
second officer on one OF the vessels q
which I am part owner. But 1T WASH t
long before he got on a spree and lost his
place.
"There was another meeting five"
bears ago, said the Senator when l had
Questioned him further, which was al
most as interesting. In 1854 l sailed out
to st. Johns, N. B., for Dublin, in ship
loaded with deals, In those days sailors ~ ;r'
received very good pay. They got thlr-
teen pounds in advance for the voyage
If the vessel put back for any reason, the
voyage ended Well, the vessel was new,
built in the winter and this was her first
voyage. A ship that has been lying
under the snow all winter will swell and
the seams will open and great zeal OF
she was the Lizzie Thompson-had
that experience. Before she had been
/ out very long she began to leak great
deal. The men said that she WASH
SAFE and insisted on going back. wen,
the end of it was they mutinied, there
was a fight between the officers and men,
and one man was shot. The man at the
to steer the the vessel, so took the wheel.
The captain was walking up and down
the deck ringing his hands and saying
that he didn't know what to do. l told
him that | would shoot them down if
were in his place. The outcome of the
fight, though, was that we turned back.
| was one of the men sent IN a boat to get
a tug. We rowed sixty miles and came
back with the tug which towed the ship
in. Then some of the men We're arrested
and the harbor police were put on the
ship.
"There were four apprentices with us,
on the voyage-nice young men, sons of
shipowners 1t was their first experience
and that with seasickness and the mu-
tiuy they were heartily tired of the sea.
Two of them came to me and begged me
to get them away. So after while L
promised them that would, and one day
ran a line from the bow of the ship
and fastened a boat to it. ! kept the
police busy talking while the boys slipped
into the boat. Then l went over the
side after them aud cut the painter
They missed us directly and flashed q
light on u.s. But there was "A foot Tide
there 1t was going out with rush,
and we were away before they could do
ANYTHING There were 200 sail in the
harbor but ] knew OF q Drlg among 6hem
that was going to Providence the, next
morning. and [ put the boys aboard her:
Then. the tide not being 50 strong, l.
rowed back to the ship. The captain
was on board by that time and there was
o great fuss. They wanted to know
where / had taken the boys, but would
not tell them. So they put me under
arrest and took me up to the police
court, There they told me that if
would, tell where the boys were they
would let me off. But | wouldn't.
They kent me there all night. but the
next morning they sent me back to the
ship, and when the brig sailed out of the
harbor | saw the two boys aboard,
Five years ago l was in my, office in
San Francisco when II mar. walked in
tall thin fellow-and said: Are you
George Perkins?' told him | was.
From Maine?' Yes, from Kennebunkport
Did you Ship on the Lizzie Thompson
at St. Johns in 1852 Yes. DO you, re-
member the two boys that you helped to
get away from the Ship? Well ! am one
of those boys. Then he told me MS
story. He had learned trade at Provl-
dence and had done we'll. when the war
broke out he enlisted and ne served all