New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25
SAVED FROM THE DEEP.
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF CURIOs
TO WHICH FAMOUS WRECKS HAVE
CONTRIBUTED.


Not only are strange things and many wonders
seen by those who go down to the sea in ships. but
the people whose business It is to from peril
ships which have approached too near the shore
under circumstances which were not intended to
govern their movements. sometimes see queer
things and az they are. like many other mortals.
possessed Of the mania for collecting odd and curl
Gus things their Offices 10 be the repositories
OF all sorts OF odds and ends gathered from the
waves and the deep waters
One Of the most noteworthy collections Of the
sort in this city has been made by II. Bertram Her
bert Of the Merritt Wrecking Organization. Many
famous wrecks have contributed to this collection.
one Of the best known being the cunard steamer
Oregon. which, after her disastrous encounter with
a coal barge. sank to rest off Fire Island. One OF
these relics is a common cabin clock. the nanns
being stopped at l:B o'clock In the morning OF
March A. 1886 The Oregons flag is In the same
case with the clock When the steamer Mary A.
Boardman was sunk on the Romer Shoal In 1854
she carried down a fre-hose nozzle. which thirty
years later brought up and Is now labeled as
a curio. The old Sound steamer Rhode Island con-
ributed bottle OF settler water. which stu re-
tans some of the original fizz; the rebel ram Mer-
rimac Is represented by lamp shade. and Britisn
nan-of-war. which is said to have been sunk In
174 In twenty fathoms of water in later years gave
I'D a piece of rope which bears every evidence OF
having become well acquainted with salt water.
The Hussar whose wreck Is supposed to be some
where off Port Morris and TO be the hiding place OF
lots OF British gold has added cannon ball TO the
collection, and another cannon ball is said 10 De
from the wreck Of Morgan's pirate ship. Two me-
mentos of an unlucky ship part OF the name
board from the stern Of one OF the boats and a
piece of charred timber from the same boat which
was part Of the outfit OF the British ship Carnie-
hill which was fire not long ago at Brooklyn
pier She was afterward rebuilt and named the
and ,ac ned a
first voyage under the American flag.
Relics from the wreck OF the sloop-of-war Morn
Ing Star which was sunk in IFS by the explosion OF
go kegs Of gunpowder at the spot which is now the
corner OF Front and Broad SITS; a sword which
was sunk three times on the steamers Taapoosa
Cairo and Conestoga a candlestick from the wreck
of the Spanish steamer Niscaya which went 10
pieces on the Jersey coast: bottle OF black sand
for lighthouse on the dreaded Diamond Shoal
off Cape Hatteras, brought up from depth or 10
from the wreck Of the steamer Wells city. other
interesting reminders that big ships as wei az
is supposed ultimately to overtake those who brave
the dangers of the deep. end that depth is no safe
In addition to these relics from the German
steamer Artesia, which was wrecked In the Straits
Of Magellan. the name plate from the wreck or the
steamer Atlantic. on the Nova Scotia coast some
magnetic sand from Sable Island piece OF the
first Atlantic cable: bottle OF olive oil from me
bark Roberts which was sunk In lSii. the pot,le
being recovered in 1877; gun from the sfs srIS
and did not return; glass graduate from the brlt
ish bark LOrnty which went ashore on BedIoW
Island last winter and large number OF other
fragments of wrecks from various parts OF the
American and West Indian coasts, where the COM
many has carried on its operations.
Surrounding this strange collection are pictures
OF wrecks and battered hunks ana stove,in
steamers divers and their apparatus, and some Old
time photographs. one of them being or the now
famous Competitor which has been mixed up IN so
nam alleged cuban flibusterng expeditions. This
last picture was taken twenty years ago, when,
the vessel was at the pier on the staten is'anu
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