The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-26

but to got the rod out OF the piatOp's
not possible unleIs W0 uie stealn. Well,
thsrs'll DO steam the morn II theFo'a
nothing else. She'll tizEle everywhere"
Next morning men from tho shore
saw tho Hallotil through cloud, Tor
II was az though the deck smoked, Her
crew were chasing sIeam through the
shaken and leaky pipes to iIs work In
the forward donkey.anglnoi and where
oakum failed to plug hole they
stripped on their loln.ololhs for lap
ping, aud aWore, hRlt.bOilad and mother
naked, Tho dOnk0y'engine worked at
prlus-lhS price Of constant atten'
ton and furious stoking-Worked long
enough 10 allow q wire rope, II was made
up OF q funnel aud u ioremast stay, TO
DO lsd into the engins'room aud made
last on the cylindarcoYsr Of tho Tor
ward engine, That rose easily enough,
and was hauled through the skylight
and on 10 the deck, many hands assist
ing tho doubtful steam. Thep oRmO the
ing Of war, Tor II was necessary 10 got
to the piston and tho damned piston
rod. They screwed M iron screw plate
on 10 the piston, doubled tho wire rope,
aud IOI hall q dozen men TO Smits with
an exlHmporlzad bRtIsrgran Of tho end
OF tho pisIon-rod whore 1t peersd
through the piston, while the donkey
engine hauled upwards on tho piaIon IT,
soli. Alter Jour houra oil this furious
work. tho pistonrod suddenly slipped
and the piston rose with q jerk, knock
ing one or two men over into the GU
CINE room, But when Mr., WATdIop
declared that tho piston had not split
thOy chscrOd and thought nothing Of
their wounds, and the donkey'angine
Was hastily stopped, for lie boiler was
no thing 10 tanpOr with. And day by
day their supplies reached them by
boat Tho skipper humbled himself
once more before the governor, and as
a oonConion had leave TO got drinking
water from tho Malay boAt'bulldor on
the quay. II was not good drinking
water, but tho Malay was auxious to
supply anythingi in HE power II no were
paid l0riL
Now when tho jaws Of tho forward
engine stood, as It were, stripped and
empty, they began TO wedge up tho
suores Of the cylinder itself. That work
alone filled the bsttor part Of three days
warm aud sticky days, when tho
hands slipped and sWOa! ran in tho
oyaL Whom the last wedge Waa ham
merod homo thoro wus no longer an
ounce Of weight on the supporting col.
umns; and Nh Wardrop rummared the
ship for boiler plate. thrcS'quarLOrs OF
an inch thick, where hH could find IT,
There was not much available, but what
there was was mors than boalon gold to
him. In one terrible forenoon tho en-
tire crew. naked and lean, hauled back,
more or less into place, tho starboaFd
supporting column. which, rs You re-
member, was cracked clean through.
Mr.. WNdrop found them asleep where
they had finished tho work, and gave
them days rest, smiling upon them
like father as ho drew chalk murks
about tho cracks. They woke TO new
and more trying labor, for over each one
oil these cracks three.qnarter'inch
boiler iron was to DO worked hoti the
riyot holes being drilled by hand, All
that time they were fed on fruits
chiefly bananas, with some SAgo
Those we're the days when the men
sFooned over the rachel drill and the
haad forge, and whero they fell they
mad leave TO lie unless their bodies were
in the way Of their fellows feet. And
80, patch upon patch, and patch over
all, tho starboard supporting column
was Coutsd; but when they thought all
was secure Mr.. Warirop decreel that
tho noble patchwork would never sup.
port working engines. At best 1t could
only hold the guide bars approximately
true. Tho dead weight oil the cylinders
must be borne by vertical strutI, aud
therefore gang would repair to tue
bows and take out with files the big
bow anchor dayitS, each OF which
was some three inches in diam
etSr. They threw hot Goals at
Wardrop, and threatened 10 kill him,
those who did not weep (they were
ready 10 weep on the least provocationl;
but he hit them with iron bars heated
at tho end, aud they limpsd forward,
and tho davits camo with them when
thew returned. ThOy slept sixteen
hours on tho strength Of it, and in three
DAYS two struts were In place, boted
from tho foot OF tho sturboard support
ing column to the under side OF tho
cylinder. There remained now the
port, or condenser column. which,
though not 60 badly cracked a. its fol.
low, had also boon strengthened In
four pisces with boi.Or plate patches,