Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-30
THREE REMARKABLE CHILDREN.
They Were Born, and Are Being
Raised at Sea.

Ihey We're horn, and Are Being
Raised at Sea.
From the Portland oregonian.
That out CT a family of four children
three should be born at sea, and on one
ship, Is remarkable occurrence, which,
taken into consideration with the fact that
the only child Of the family 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 CarsoPs family consists of
two sons and one daughter-Tom, Jack and
Teresa.
Tom, the eldest living child was born on
the Pacific ocean, about three hundred
miles off the coast of Chile; but the exact
latitude and longitude was never deter
mined other than by approXima tiOn as the
sky had beer, overcast for several days
prior to his BIRTH On May g. 1883, the ar
rival OF the young sailor was becomingly
celebrated by the officers and crew of the
snip.
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
lSi, when the Manx King was in latitude
54:42:l6 south, longitude 73:35:14 west
When the ship was laboring heavily in a
living gale the little stranger made her ap-
pearance. When she was about ten DAYS
CD the ship, then in the South Atlantic,
encountered hurricane and was thrown
en- Its beam ends, and set so low that the
seas came in through the cabin skyliohts
completely flooding the cabins The shin
was soon got on an even keel, and reached
its destination without any further mis-
hap, and with both mother and child in ex-
cellent health.
Jack was born December "a, 1892, In the
North Atlantic ocean, in latitude 4:16
north; longitude 2i:31 west The weather
when Jack first came into the world Voc
all that could be desired, and the noble
ship, with its precious living freight. was
bowling along under all sail at about four
teen knots an hour.
All Of the children enjoy remarkably
good health, and at sea. no matter how
hard the gales may blow, these children
of King Neptune never allow them to in
terfere with their play. No matter at what
angle the ship may ride, nor how much 1t
may pitch and toss, the children of the
Manx King play in the ships cabin The
children have become so accustomed 10
the motion of the ship that not one of them
hIs suffered any bad mishap; for, where
they are thrown down by the violent pitch
ing or rolling of the ship, they seem in
sc me 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 saw
that, II he follows the sea with his father
until he is fourteen or fifteen years old
he will be able to navigate as well as most
men who have been at sea twenty or thirty
years. for with him 1t is natural. AS Young
as he Is, he knows the name and location
Of every line end spar on a shin. and IF
1t came to a pinch he could give ali the
necessary orders for shortening sail or nut
ting the ship on It's courses