New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-10
HOW Long 4 DERELTCT Will FLOIT
THE FANNIE E woorsToT. ABANDONED MORE
THAN THREE YEARS AGO STILL A
MENACE To NAVTGATION

MENACE 70 NAVIGATION
| few days ago the lt,le drab-colorel Nor
wegan fruit steamer Christian johnson came Into
| port from cuba with her usual load OF bananas.
| There Nas nothing particularly interesting about
the Johusen's coming into port except to the con-
signers OF her cargo and people who make n living
by handling and selling bananas. But when her
captain reported that De hal seen the Fannie r..
WOols,on smashing around OF 1Iat,cras. maritime
people began - do some hard thinking.
FOR the Woolsion IL more OF terror
Of the than ever the Flying
Dutchman. AMI for good reason. Accori-
!nS 20 sailors The appearance OF the Dutchman
vas warning that The ship sighting him would
never reach port. bat tho phantom OF Itself dil
40 harm. The Woois'on. however swinging about
over the Atlantic. f. waiting for q chance. not -
giyc a warning. hut - punch hole 90 some good
ship AMI MI her crcw TO "Dayy Joncs's locker
without D warning
The photographic Office IS greatly disturbed by
the Fannie J.. Wooision. When she was aDan-
don"l IN October 1891. Fhc was northeast Og Hat
t~ras and on FIRE Instead " burning 90 the waters
Edge and going - pieces as wc!l-roguatcd and
not cyilly disposed vessel would d. she started on
% mako a record rs a rover.
Noi until November j. twenty-one days after She
Bal been abandoned. was she seen, and IN that
tu" che had dr.fiel CO miles o. the eastward
Then she struck slant" OF wind or current and
directly In the track OF steamers bound to the
south 81 Europe aui more than 4 thousand miles
east ~ the American coat. Forty days later she
WAS again seen. s'1l drifting eastward. Then she
began course which made the track ~ her drlft
look Ike the railroad map In Big atlas. First
she started for the northeast. but after hundred
miles or 60 gave o. up. AMI June - began going
toward the west-southwcsi. She kept this NJ for
more than - miles. dr.ftcI north again. doubled
on h'r course. made zlgzlg marks FOR "A time anl
then coiks'rcwei her way into the path OF steam
era coming from Gibraltar.
ON september L. lss2 she seen I'm the latitude
" savannah. - degree. North about LOO miles
on the coast and then went nearly due north for
20 miles Then she made some more f,nrleI rec
desperate EFFORT % get home again How nearly
she led j. shown by the reports OF ls9i n
the Bcrmuca- Here she caught tho tide of the tiilf
stream. ana again began nOrthwari cruise. About
ms TINE naval vessels were ordered to look for
h'i ana one OF me last expeditions Of the Kcar-
sarge was 10 hunt for the d"Teiict
ms attempt was unsuccessful. and the Nesuyius.
which went on special mission after her. was "A. Isl
unsuccessful Since then she has not been seen IN
The johnson met her OF Hattcris
sine" the time fhe started from ITatieras T. the
eastward IN 1871 she has drlftrl nearly 200 miles
ana tho johnson reported that the hulk was a,-
parenily good for another trip ~ the same length
a small part ~ her forecastle weaihei-wDrn and AMI
grass-ladcn. reared rs head above The water 4
lonely anchor hung from her starboard hawsehoe.
ont everything else had been carried away. The
captain OF the johnson Thought from thu appatr-
ance or her decks that she had been hit by pass
inS shiI. ana II is saf" 10 say that the ship was
hurt more than the Woolston
with "A record ~ i.pD miles or drifting 10 her
credit T. Is time her nofnadlc career yls ,'IaI ,ni
II is likely that ono more EFFORT sin b. made IN
find AMI destroy the most dangerous dcrelirt that
has ever menacel lives ana property on the At
break her up her cargo Of lumber viii Keen me
hull nnodt Tor an Indefinite time.