The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-21

Of getting their uniforms ives. After the
crew OF the snip referred 20 IN danger Of
being drowaed. old Capt Libby pat
ozt IN the old ssde-whees t1b
GolIah. vessel never intended 70
venture out under the circumstances. He
neid the Goliaa up into the storm, got q
haSser aboard the vessel IN peril and
fowed her TO safety. together with her c-ew.
When the cspislu Of the vessel rescued By
Capt. Libby sac that he vas being driven
ashore he dropped his anchor. and. Of
course. II the chain parted. the ship would
have hare hem wrecked. The chain would
no donbs have parted IN . short time. and
once Capt Libby got bis hawssr aboard
be told the captain Of the vessel in distress
10 slip bis anchor chain. he would not
run the risk Of allowing the anchor 70 De
heayea-"
However, the cutters have now been
aroused TO action, and the Canadian gov
ernment mas also been aiding in the
search. one Of IT'S steamers bringing back
favorable news. as Is shown by the dis
patches below:
Pear TOWNSEND, Oct special. -
The revenue cutter Grant returned from
Tacoma at midnight. and Capt Tozisr
vas handed orders from Washington City
ship Ivanhoe. A few stores we're taken
on board. and a. IL :35 D. N. the Grant
sailed for the ocean. IL Is said
that she viii 20 north along the
Vancouver coast TO the upper end Of the
island. then go out TO sea. cruise south,
retnraing along the coast from the Colup-
bio river north The Chilean ship
Georgina. which arrived ut Port Townsend
Yesterday. reported having cruised all
around the vicinity of fifty miles south
west of Cape Flattery. She did not see
any wreckage whatever.
VICTORIA. Oct 2-fSpeclal. The Cana
dian government steamer Quadrs returned
island which she has carefully examined
from Quatsino to the Straits for wreckags
OF the Ivsnhoe or any other craft which
might have come to grief. Indians were
met AZ Quatsi no. who said they were sur
vivors of the schooner kilmeny. which
they left sinking. As she is now safe in
port their story is not understood. No
wreckage was seen on the entire voyage,
and the belief that the fvanhoe is all right
is accordingly strengthened
While anxiety is naturally caused by the
non-arrivaI OF the Ivanhoe, that fact
alone is not sufficient ground for the con-
clusion that she will not come to port with
all hands safe. This is the view expressed
by Thomas w. Prosch in an interview yes
terday, in which he said:
while there is some cause for appre-
hension whenever q vessel consumes more
than the average time in making q voyage,
there is vet too little ground for the gem
eral feeling of alarm at the non-arrivaI of
the Ivanhoe at san Francisco. The aver
age trip to and from San Francisco is
about fourteen days for sail vessels in the
coal trade. frequently the run is made In
eight days, bur quite as often twenty days
are taken. Once IN a while q ship sails over
the course in six or seven days. but no
more common is this than for the same
vessel, or similar vessels. to require
twenty-five or thirty. days to make the
voyage. Ia ls55 / came up the coast on
the brig Cyrus In six days. Five years
later the bark NaranIissie was sixty days
in making the same trip. Neither il the
age of the lvanhoe remarkable-twenty-
nine years. One company owns four yes-
sells which have probably carried more
lumber from Puget sound than any other
eight. one of these is the Canada, thirty
five years old: another the Dashing Wave,
fortv-one years; third the Shirley. forty
four years, and the fourth the Samoset,
forty-seven years. The steamer Goliah,
built on the Atlantic forty-hve years ago,
has perhaps gone more miles and done
more hard work than any other vessel in
the American merchant marine. She is
yet in active service, and will probably re-
main there for many years TO come. There
is yet no reason for the conviction that
the Ivanhoe has met disaster"
Henry Bode. merchant tailor. PA Co
umbi la street
A. A.l