The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-04
REMARKABLE CHILDREN.
They Were Born and Are Being
Raised at Sea.
From the Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonian.
That out of family of four children
three should be born at sea, and on
one ship is a remarkable occurrence,
which, taken into consideration with
the fact that the only child of the fam
lily born ashore did not live to be a
week old, makes it more so.
The children are those of Captain
and Mrs. Carson, and they first saw
the light of day in the cabin of the
Manx ship Manx King. Captain Car
sons family consists of two sons and
one daughter-Tom, Jack and Teresa,
Tom, the eldest living child, was
born on the Pacific coast, about three
hundred miles off the coast of Chile;
but the exact latitude knd longitude
was never determined other than by
approximation, as the sky had been
overcast for several days prior to his
birth. On May 3, 1883, the arrival of
the young sailor was becomingly cele-
brnted by the officers and crew of the
ship.
Teresa was born in the storm center
of the most dreaded coast in the world,
almost off the peak of Cape Horn, on
March "a, 1891, when the Manx King
was in latitude 54:42:16 south, longi-
tu5c 1885 west. When the ship was
laboring heavily in a living gale the
little stranger made her appearance.
When she was about ten days old the
ship, then in the South Atlantic, en-
countered a hurricane and was thrown
on it's beam ends, and set so low that
the seas came in through the cabin
skylights, completely flooding the cab
ins. The ship was soon got on an even
keel, and reached it's destination with
out any further mishap, and with both
mother and child in excellent health.
Jack was born Dec. "a, 1892, in the
North Atlantic ocean, in latitude 4:16
north; longitude 24:31 west. The
weather when Jack first came into the
world was all that could be desired,
and the noble ship, with it's precious
living freight was bowling along un-
der all sail at about fourteen knots an
hour.
All of the children enjoy remark
ably goou health, and a. sea, no mat
ter how hard the gales may blow, these
children of King Neptune never allow
them to interfere with their play. No
matter at what angle the ship may
ride, nor how much it may pitch and
toss, the children of the Manx King
play in the ships cabin. The children
have become so accustomed TO the mo-
tion of the ship that not one of them
has suffered any bad mishap; for,
where they are thrown down by the
violent pitching or rolling of the ship,
they seem in some way to settle on the
deck, much after the fashion of the
storm birds on the ocean waves, and
though in their short lives they have
encountered more storms than falls to
the lot of most mortals who live on
land, not one of them has suffered even
a sprained limb.
Toms knowledge OF nautical matters
is naturally extensive, and 1t is safe
to say that, If he follows the sea with
his father until he is fourteen or fif-
teen years old, he will be able to nav
igate as well as most men who have
been at sea twenty or thirty years,
for with him it is natural. AS young
as he is, he knows the name and loca-
tion of every line and spar on a ship,
and II 1t came to a pinch he could give
all the necessary orders for shortening
sail or putting the ship on its courses.