The sun., 1896-01-28


and good, luck to the Campania. We shot
ahead and soon crossed her bows Not long
ssr %hc was sh' ,he into df0s y the
Sa~s for seventeen hse
SsSmpanis. sp and the papers would have been
hilsd With M tho triumph of the Yankee liner,
give the name of the Officer, who was casting
', President Grlsoom renchdi New York in
time to attend the regular monthly meeting
Eas held at Q o'cioek o The accident Se's to shs
meeting Mr.. Griscom left Tor his home home in in
philadelphia. Before leaving. he said that he
nSopEh Tom wh cabin an dns B"sSh
the statement Mr.. Griscom. refused to divulee.
but he said that. later, the company would
what Capt. Jamison said about the accident.
,hd The rst Of the cargo OF the s. Paul and
line pier on the lighter sharp at ii o'ciock
sunday night. The next consignment came
up at, o'clock yesterday morning; In the
boats. Six lighters were engaged in taking Off
the cargo, and 1t 1. expected that i will all be
composed chiefly Of. fruits. dry goods. and
glassware. and weighs about 1000 tons 1t
sary the stores would be taken out and
everything portable aboard, even to the furni-
Up to last evening none of the 81 800. 900 of
gold on the st. Paul, most OF which is con.
signed TO W. H. Crossman & Bro, ~ Broad
member OF the firm of Crossman & Bro.
YESTERDAY criticised the action Of the ships own
srs In he of the gold ,as H
49,. the %ns ws g. are %ade e suffer for
that the lnternational Navigation Company
we. 1t does seem. however. that when a man
is ho6 iosinS a6S four & Per cent interest day on S
might endeavor to land the gold AS early as they
commentins on MIR. Crossman's complaint.
Clement A. Griscom, Jr.. said:
We are doing the best we can in moving the
sS sy s 10
than that. i is iwa1s con .defed that the trans
fer OF mails Is the most important thing to be
y,s ,speskinss Of the same am Thing. James Wright
SWe are doing x our . own % WORK IN n"% our own way
and end doing it the best we can; Perhaps we know
as as
1t was learned yesterday that the companies
In which the gold 10 insured have the matter of
eood reason to believe that the ship cannot be
foated for some time the companies themselves
hs
day afternoon to discuss the question. Moth
ing definite was done. Nett her the Crossmans
concerned for the safety Of the gold, The bull
lion is stored in q vault between decks; and is
feet feet SOU are. and its door is secured BY set Of
,9uadruplex combination locks, To this SIT of
the Ghsi fs se and
vault until every key has been inserted and
turned at the same time. 1t is said that the
bullion Is the same as that recently exported by
As soon as it was learned that the st. Paul
the Cramps at Philadelphia to stop work on On
the st. Louis. which had been sent there for
alterations and get her ready for sea-. She
spstch Just before he left for Phadelph,a.
ssgas the eaessd the
American line pier about 10 O'Clock Last night.
She . has been to sail in place Of the
Dock Superintendent Wright gave orders that
as soon as she reached her Ter the work of ut
the st. Louis was transferred to the New
the he S St. PauI's crew 10 the St. Louis. 1t may
be determined this morning. however. to ship
an ass to ye besn done to Se
was to tit her with larger tunnels. Consider
able progress had beer made on the work nee
came to get the ship ready for sea. BY work
ing night and day, the s.. Louis was ready to
sail early yesterday morning. The old tunnels
d. A. Nash. secretary of the Board of Pilot
commissioners. was asked yesterday to account
for the fact that the st. Paul had no pilot
aboard at the time she ran aground. Mr.. Nash
said;
he saw no pilots: Our pilots have all been
questioned. T and they say ray they did not see the
must be remembered that pilots do not 20 so
far out to sea Us they used to. About three
months ago the pilots. with the consent OF the
Commissioners. decided that after Dec. l.
n'k % e ns % Fire Fire isand
The place where the St. Paul struck is seven
teen and three-quarters miles west of where
the nearest .pat-ol of pilot boats was. and
thirty four miles north Of Barnegat. You can
see. therefore, that she was within the lines
How she happened to miss pilot IL she really
understand. A steamers whistle can be ard
In u fog and IL the St. Paul had blown her
whistle she would have been surrounded by
pilot boats in no time.
THE newspaper reports say that The St.
Paul's lead WAS cast every fifteen minutes. II
that Is true, and the man who cast the lead
knew what he was doing. can hardly under
stand how the ship Went aground. Two miles
from shore Capt. Jamison might. rs is reported
have found his ship in seventeen fathoms
waier. Had his lead been cast fifteen min
utes after that. and Ind the sounding been
ported correctly. he would have found the
thirty.two. or fifteen fathoms. In either of
tho ti-st two cases. the great depth OF the water
should have indicated to him that he was pass
ins over one OF the mudho'es. In either event
the safe thing TO have done would have been to
proceed more slowly. After that. taking for
granted that the lead was cast every fifteen
minutes, he would have got ghteen seven
then one half mile from shore he would have
got the seven fatlioms he is reported to have
got. 1t may bo possible that the lead wasn't
cast every fifteen minutes"