The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21
Id. NEWELL & son, Westminster, Corner Eddy Street.

Any engine violently arrested in mid
career may jerk of the nut of holding
down bolt, and this accident looked
very natural. .
Passing along the tunnel he removed
several shaft coupling bolts and nuts,
scattering other and ancient pieces OF
iron underfoot. Any engine stopped sud-
denly may disorganize her shaft coup
ling bolts, and this accident seemed
even more natural. Cylinder bolts he
cut off to the number of six from the
after engine cylinder SO that it might
match its neighbor and stuffed The
bilge feed pumps with cotton waste.
Then he made up n neat bundle of the
various ODDS and ends that he had
gathered from the engines-little
things like nuts and valve spindles, all
carefully tallowed-and retired with
them under the floor of the enginc-
room, where he sighed, being fat, as he
passed from manhole TO manhole of
the double bottom, and in some fairly
dry submarine compartment hid them.
Any engineer, particularly N IN un-
friendly port, has a right to keep his
spare stores where he chooses, and the
footof one of the cylinder shores blocked
Gil entrance into the regular storeroom
even il that had not been already
closed with steel wedges. In conclu-
sion he disconnected the after engine,
laid piston and connecting rod, care
fully tallowed, where it would Se most
inconvenient to the casual visitor, took
ont three of the eight collars of the
thrust block, hid them where only he
could find them again, filed the boilers
by hand, wedged the sliding doors of
the coal bunkers, and rested from his
labors. The engine-room was a Gem.
etery, and il did not need a bucket full
of ashes tipped over the skylight to
make it any worse.
He invited the skipper to look at the
completed work.
"Saw We ever such a forsaken wreck
as that?" said he proudly. at almost
rights me to go under those shores.
Now, what d'you think they'll do to
us?"
"Wait till we see,' said the skipper.
"It'll be bad enough when it comes"
He was not wrong. The pleasant days
of towing ended all too soon, though
the Haliotis trailed behind her a heavily
weighted ifp stayed out into the shape
of a pocket, and Mr.. Wardrop was no
longer an artist of imagination but one
Of seven-and-twenty prisoners in a
prison full of insects. The man-of-war
had lowed them TO the nearest port,
not to the headquarters of the colony,
and when Mr.. Wardrop saw the dismal
little harbor, with its ragged line Of
Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, the
bodybuilding shed, that, under the
charge of a philosophical Malay, repre-
scented n dockyard, he sighed and shook
his head.
II did WELL" he said. 'This is the
habitation o wreckers an thieves.
Were ut the uttermost ends of the
earth. Think you they'll ever know in
England"
doesn't look like It," said the skip
per.
They were marched ashore with what
they stood up in, under n generous es-
cort, and were judged according to the
customs of the country, which, though
excellent, are out of date. There were
the pearls: there were the %poachers;
and there sat n small but hot governor.
He consulted for awhile, and then
things began to with speed, for
he did not wish to keep a hungry crew
ut large on the beach, and the man-of-
war had gone up the coast. With a wave
of his banda stroke of the pen was
not necessary-he consigned them TO
the blackgang-tana, the back country,
ind the hand of the law removed them
from his sight and the knowledge OF
men. They were marched into tho
palms and the back country swallowed
them up-all the crew of the Haliotis.
Deep peace continued 10 brood ovcr
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Austria
lasia and Polynesia.
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