The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-24
A Vessel l33 Years Old
Still in Service.
Remarkable History of Old
Time Bark True Love.
Nerve That Brings Possessor Money.
Trolley Car Accident.

truthfully DOaSt OF tne larBcso shipPihS
interests on the Atlantic coast, not ex-
cepting those of New York and Boston.
That was when the enterprising merchants
of the town put their money into vessels
that sailed TO every important port in the
world and brought back cargoes OF the
finest products of India, China, ana
Europe. Those days are gone probably
never to return but the veteran sea rovers
who still remain, CAM tell the names of
ships that hailed from this port and made
fortunes for their owners by voyages In
far away seas i'm the first half of the CEN
tury that is now drawing 20 close.
dozen years or more ago some Oh tnese
sailormen had memories OF their sea-
going days revived by the arrival In port
of a barge that had once been prominent
in the merchant fleet OF Providence, but
which had yielded To the trend of the
times and been reduced To the common
place business of carrier OF Goals. Now,
however, even those old hulks have been
crowded out and there is nothing TO re-
mind one of the halcyon days when
Providence was the home port of some Of
the finest sailing ships that ever spread
their sails to an ocean breeze.
II Providence has lost sight of the YES
sells that once filled her harbor, Philadel-
phia has in one instance at lesat, been
more fortunate, for il has just been dis
covered that the bark True Love built Mt
that city in 1854 is still afloat. This old
timer is coal hulk, and at the age OF l33
years is still in active service. The dis
coyery that the vessel was still afioat was
made through the following report of "A
casualty made TO the Maritime Exchange:
True Love, barge, was in collision with
schooner Gravesend of London, off Graves
end, and had port quarter damaged to
such an extent that it was found neces-
sary to tow her into Rochester, and she
arrived at that place in charge OF the tug
Commerce. The True Love, therefore,
has not only outlived her builders and
their Successors, but also every craft built
I'm her time In 1864, when the True Love
was launched on the Delaware she was,
although only 96 feet and eight inches in
length, the largest vessel intended for
commercial purposes that the Delaware
had ever foatcd.
comparison with the huge Hamburg
American Packet Company's steamship
PENNSYLVANIA, with It's 5S7 feet in length, or
the White Star liner now building which
will be s0i feet, or with the big five
masted schooner Frank Palmer launched
the other day at Bath, Me, with coal
carrying capacity of 1000 tons. The True
Love, upon being completed, sailed away
from Philadelphia early in 1860, and no
record Is had of her return until August %,
1873. when, at the age of l09 years, she came
into port from lyigtut, Greenland, with IL
cargo of kryolite In command of Captain
Thomas Nathaniel, consigned To b. Crow
Icy, She was discharged and surveyed by
the American Lloyds in October, 1873,
and sailed away, never 10 return again
Upon her arrival shortly afterward in
l.ondon she was sold and turned into "a
coal hulk in which capacity she still
serves.
The Dimensions of the True Love are
Length, B feet inches; beam, 20 feet 8
inches: depth of hold IL feet She meas
ufed 2y6 tons register, and, like all old
craft, carried We little more cargo.
The discovery that vherc was still afioat
Shilauclpnla- built vessel of such an age
caused much comment on the floors of
the Maritime Exchange in that city, and
some shipping men are of the opinion
chm. this old craft shoald, il possible, bo
pur, ,,;sscd rs relic Records show that
the True Love was for time owned in
Huh England. by q. Dahl previous To
her purchase by John :. Ward of London,
and during that time she was engaged
IN the Baltic trade.
reports oi funerals that this or that hyIun
was rendered at the services as IL was n
particular fayorite OF the deceased during
life. This seems proper enough and indeed
n most fitting way of paying a last tribute
% the memory of the dear departed, but
II what Boston man says on the subject
is true there is likely 90 be "A mcrcenary
motive underlying such u musical in
inemoriam. Speaking of nerve, said
the man from Boston, II know of one
young man in our town who simply lays
over any nerve game that i have ever
hoard OF and I've run up against n good
many OF them in various places. This
young man sings one soIag, no more. He
sings that one song in a perfectly agoniz-
ing manner. The song is No Cross No
Crown Now, there are a good many
young men who sing several songs fairly
we'll and never make "A cent out of them.
They lack nerve This young man that /
am speaking OF is acquainted with many
prominent business men I'm Boston. He
is a clerk in an office there, and he meets
them in the course of business. Well, sir
when man dies whom this young chap