The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-27

stretched out his legs ana MADE iinsa sin
SonlIortable. Grand afternoon he said
Won w Wis., =, missioner i understand that
about the fair
Then the commissioner asked many
ISusslons about the show. He wanted TO
snow IL there was much interest in il
mere and II II would be a success
ana, by the way, Mr.. Pilot he asked.
az they making any preparations TO re-
ceiVe me when ] arrive and have they
Planned any demonstrations
am sorry 10 disappoint you, sir
anything of the kind I believe that il is
SHOWN that you are coming. but 1 don't
DeHeve that there will be any reception on
your account
Then the commissioner laughed until
away"
Brewer had any number of expert
STces, SAID the man with the SLOUGH hat
DO you remember how Capt. Cheese
oiough took him TO Boston? He was in
GA NO, 3 at the time, 1 think, just before
the civil war broke out. The frigate Con-
gress had been in South American waters
TOT three years, and she was ordered
nome. No. spoke her down the coast
she set jack and hove TO. I'm not
gong TO New York, said the captain
when Brewer hailed him.
you've got a fair wind for New York;
you peter 80 in, sung out Brewer.
~ like to- said the captain, but my
orders are to go to Boston You know
the shoals, of course. Come aboard
you'll have to take a boston pilot
4 know it, said the captain. but I
want your company Bring all the papers
80 Brewer put on his best clothes and
came aboard. Remember said the cap
tain to him, you're not to give up any
papers or war news to anybody but me-
Wen, Brewer got his pilotage fees in to
Boston, and a Boston pilot, who came
aboard, did all the work. Brewer dined
with the captain and had longs chats
With him and told him everything he
knew That the frigate was chock full
or confederate sympathizers and they
tried to get Brewer to talk to them.
Mr. Pilot, will you kindly have
cigarT one of the officers said, very po-
litely.
Certainly said the pilot.
Wen, they went aft where they could
those big Havana ones. Then the officer
tried to get war news, but Brewer was as
mum as one Of you newspaper fellows
with scoop up his sleeve.
i don't know what your politics are,
said he, but l am know-nothing.' The
officer didn't bother him after that. That
Andersonville prison and several of the
others afterward commanded confeder-
ate ships: They all cleared out as soon
as ever the Congress got to Boston, and
some of them helped sink the Congress
not long afterWard"
That was tough experience he had
commanding the phantom ship" said the
smooth-shaven pilot as he shifted his
feet on the radiator, 'at least l would
call craft a phantom ship which had as
many dead persons lowered over her side
as the Cambria did. She was an emigrant
ship from Cork, and she had about 200
passengers. She got into pretty heavy
storms and had long passage Her stores
and water got pretty low, ard ship fever
broke out among passengers and crew.
The emigrants died by the dozen. When
Brewer boarded her that night there
We're hardly sny passengers left and only
Brewer hadn't been on board very
long before he saw three dead bodies
dumped into the sea. There was a north
wasn't possible to fetch Sandy Hook that
night. Because what? The crew were all
disabled that there was nobody to make
sail. She was under topsails and maintop-
gallant sails. The pilot thought that he
might fetch Sandy Hook If he had besides
the fore and mizzen-topgallant sails and
the mainsails. Probably the gale would
have blown that way for two or three
days. There was nc time to be lost with
all those suffering and dying people on
board. So, by Brewers order. the Cam
bria was put about, ran down the coast,
and got inside of Delaware breakwater
before morning. Twelve or fifteen more
passengers were down. A revenue cutter
came out and gave up provisions and
water when they learned the condition of
things. The dead were taken ashore and
buried in the sand. The bodies Weren' I
carried up far enough, and before long
they were all washed out, and some of
them came floating out to the Cambria
1t was CHASTITY sight. l tell you pilots
don't take much fancy to ships liks that -
How about the Star of the West?" 1
asked.
hat. Don't you remember, just before
the war broke out, how the sidewheel
steamer Star of the West was secretly fit
ted out with re-enforcements and sup
plies for Fort Sumter? Brewer was taken
along to guide her into Charleston har-
Dor. That was about as tough a Job of
plotting as man ever had, too. You
see, the confederates had taken up all
the buoys, and at night all the lights were
out. The steamer got there at midnight
having waited up the coast until it
got dark. Brewer had nothing but the
city lights to guide him. The range lights
and light houses were out of business
The lead, which was going all the time
showed that he was running into danger
so the steamship waited until nearly
daylight. Then Brewer got his bearings
of the old light house and the Fort
NToultrie ranges, and was doing pretty
shore a couple of rockets shot up. 1t was
about half daylight.
"Then the steamers commander, Capt
MCGOWAN, who knew those parts we'll
saw a flag over above the cedar tops 1t
was that of the First Charleston battery
and it was not long before his eye caught
And not far off was a mighty suspicious
looking schooner. Well that steamer got
it heavy. The battery opened up. A shot
flew very close to her walking BEAM
Another struck the water under her coun-
ter Brewer, standing in the pilot-house
felt the shock and turned the wheel around
like mad, to make sure that the steering
gear was all right. 1t was. Then a reve-
nue. cutter, a schooner, came toward them
in tow of a big tug. Fort Sumter gave no
sign that her officers had seen the Star
of the West, so the captain thought that
as the fort did not appear to want to pro-
tect him he would just get out of that and
he did. The last shot whizzled over the
pilot-house and Brewer felt the wind of it
as it flew. 1t was narrow escape for
him.
"That was the first firing of the war and
a Sandy Hook pilot came very near being
the irst victim. The Star of the West came
back to New York"
s'WelI' said the SLOUGH Hat to the Long
Jacket, 'it's time to go"
There was a shutting of feet around the
radiator and the pilots went out into the
gathering darkness.
Father" said the boy, what is in
solvent?"
a long word used to describe a short con-
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