Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-12-20
THREE REMARKABLE CHILDREN
They Were All Born and Are Being
Raised at Sea.

That out of family of four children
three should be born at sea, and one
on ship, is a remarkable occurrence,
the fact that the only child of the
family born ashore did not live to be
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 ocean, about three
hundred miles off the cost of Chilli;
but the exact latitude and longitude
was never determined other than by
approximation, as the sky had been
overcast for several days prior to his
birth. May 3, 1883, the arrival of the
young sailor was becomingly celebrated
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, March "a, 1891, when the Manx
King was in latitude 81 degrees 40
minutes and 16 seconds south, longi-
tude 70 degrees 35 minutes and IA sec
onds west When the ship was labor
ing 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, encountered
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 cabins. The
ship was soon got on an even keel
and reached it's destination without
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 de-
grees 16 minutes north; longitude "a
degrees 81 minutes 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 under all
sail at about fourteen knots an hour
All of the children enjoy remarkably
good health, and at sea, no matter how
hard the gales may blow, these chill
dren of King Neptune never allow them
to interfere with their play No mat
ter 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 motion
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 it is safe to
say that if, he follows the sea with
his father until he is IA or Is 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 and spar on a ship, and if it came
to a pinch he could give all the neces-
sary orders for shortening sail or put
ting the ship on it's courses Portland
Oregonian.