The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-04
A SEA ROMANCE.
A Coast Sailor InheritS a
Fortune.
BUT HE CANNOT BE FOUND.
Last Heard of as Cook of the
Mary c. Russ.
BUT HE CANNOT BE FOUND
THAT WAS MANY YEARS AGO
Salina Easterbrook's Wealth Is Left
to His Long-Absent Son, Who
Is Being Looked For.

Sometimes good fortune does smile on
tho merchant seaman, but in most cases
when it is almost ready to beam upon him
Jack slips away and destroys all chances
of basking in the sunshine of good luck.
Fortune is waiting to patronize Sailor
Edward Easter brook with enc of its treas
ured glances, but Sailor Easter brook is n lot
to be found.
Private detectives have taken his case in
hand. and perhaps before long he will be
located. Easterbrook is looked for by
Messrs. Robbins. Billings & Co. of Victoria
Embankment. England, lawyers who are
handling the estate of Salina EasterbroOk,
late Of London County, now deceased
Edward EasterbrOok is heir-sole heir, it
is believed - to a valuable number of
shares in several English corporations and
lands in the county of Surrey.
The latest news that the solicitors of
Salina Easterbrook had of Edward Easter
brook was some time in 1886, when 1t is
claimed that he shipped as steward of the
American schooner Mary G. Russ. Since
that time the man has lived at several
sailor boarding houses and also stopped
for awhile at Grants house at Astoria.
His present whereabouts is not known.
EasterbrOOk, then young boy, acquired
a fODdness for the sea and determined
to ship as cabin-boy in a vessel bound
from Liverpool to New York. His father
no mention is made of his mother-objected
to his, going away, and took steps 10 pre-
vent his leaving England. The lad ar
ranged his plans aptly aud managed to
escape on the vessel mentioned, an act
which so enraged his parent that he de-
termined to diSinherit the boy aud let him
shift for himself.
A voyage across the Atlantic with its
attendant hardships brought forth no sign
OF repentance at having chosen the VOca-
ton of sailor 10 the hayward young
Englishman. There was fascination for
him In the bowling OF the gale and the
surging of the frOthy waters. He straight
way signed 10 ship again from New York
and continued in his career as seafaring
man until years of voyages in and out of
various ports threw all of his acQusin-
iances off the trail and left bis Identity
matter of difficulty in this republican land
of ours where men do not ask one Dother
the particulars of their respective antece-
dents.
Selma Easterbrook is not only reported
to have been wealthy man, but man OF
family, a true descendant of lords TO the
manner Dorm.
At present the Mary c. Russ is at Eureka
landing lumber. So many different stew
ards are employed on board coaster in
the course OF ten years that 1t Is doubtful
whether there be any record of Edward
Easterbr0ok ever having served on the
vessel.
In speaking of the Easterbrook case
yesterday, an English Sea-captain said
that II is not at all an unlikely thing for
British tars, or, more especially, appren-
tice-boys, to fall heirs to fortunes in the
old country. in England" said he,
young boys seem to cherish a great de.
sire to follow seafaring life. The sons
of some of the wealthiest and best families
in the land can be found on board of most
any first-elass English ship.
Sometimes when in a foreign land a
humble appren tice-boy will receive word
of the decease of relative who leaves the
lad fortune sufficient to enable him to
buy ship of his own. Yes, romances
such as you speak OF among English sail
Ors are not altogether uncommon"
1t is thought that Salina Easter brook re-
pented on his deathbed of his declaration
TO disinherit his son, and in this way
named him as his heir to fortune which
Will undoubtedly appear more than great
IN the eyes OF a coast sailor.