The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-03

curiosity, indeed Down in the rnariti.
provinces, where they are getting to be Il.
pert ship builders, they still build tooem
schooners, and the Goldhnch of IivernoE
n. S.. that recently came mere to load Il,
Curacao, was declared by the old-tmets
to be one Of the handsomest vessels evIs
seen in Bangor. She was further nofefa
from the fact that she carried double tot.
sails.
The brig is also disappearing from RI,
American registry. There are oniy r0n
briggs, the katahdin and the Telos NAH,
owned in Bangor, where formerly tbsrs
We're dozens, and no brig has been bunk
in this country since the Telos was launcbY
ed from Crosby's yard here in 1883.
While all the coasters are of the fore.
and-aft rig nowadays, half a century aoo
il was just the other way Cant A7tt7r'
p. Veazje of Bangor recalls the time anon,
the year 1870 when he commanded tb,
schooner Economy, rugged with a squ3ra
topsall on the fore, and when schoon4-l
rugged in any other way, except thar a,
large ones carried not only the square tor
sails, but also topgallant sails, were rara
90 shipmasters say that the Sarah Buck
built at BUckport about the year 1S43 VS.
the first fore-and-aft rugged vessels tbst
ever came to Bangor. She was comn1andaJ
by Capt. Noah Rose of Islesboro. and
when she appeared here the old tars sbooi[
their heads and declared that she womb
never work in any weather She wofJla1
all right, however, although she was mar
as good before the wind as a square to7-
sail schooner. In those days they burt
small vessels, the Sarah Buck, which was
considered TO be of good size, carry.o.s
only 125 tons of coal.
In recent years a lot of queer rigs have
been ,contrived The three-masted tonsaH
schooner IS one of the comparatively new
types. Inc first vessel of this RIG ever se4,
Eastern
Boston, and she was puzzle TO most Uo5-
pie. The Aitanaha was originally a British
tramp steamer which, having been caet
away on the southern coast, was bough, "a
she lay, repaired, Iigged into schooner
and admitted 10 American registry Tba
William S. Cloves of Port jefferson. New
York was, so far as known, the first vessel
punt IN this country, or anywhere else for
that matter as a three-maSted topsaJ
schooner. The master of this vessel was
sorely afflicted with rheumatism, and in
order that he might steer and watch her
without being exposed to the weather he
mad the after house constructed with A
monitor roof over the forward part. with
heavy plate glass windows all around ana
a wheel rigged there. Thus he was ena
Died to steer the schooner without waking
ms rheumatic pains, and it was called a
great scheme. The William E. Cloves is
dead, as sailors say, long since Down in
the maritime provinces they have built
several of these three masted topsail
schooners, and it is claimed for them that
they sail well and act well in all weathers.
Many people make the mistake of calling
these vessels barkentines; they are not for
they carry fore-and-aft foresaiIs
Some of the provincial schooners have
square topsails, which they use when run
ming before the wind and lower when on
the wind, substituting then a fore-and-aft
foresan and gafftOpsail. One of the first
three-masted vessels, aside from ships aud
barks, ever built in Maine, was the Fame
OF BluehiA. She had a short mizzen like
bark, carried a square maintopsail and
square foretopsail and topgallant. 1t was
queer mixture and they used to call her
a 'jackass bark. The name ''jackass
brig" was formerly applied to the rig
properly known as the brigantine. An
other nondescrpt of early days on the Pc
nobscot was the Rhoda, which had both
a square and a fore-and-aft foresail aud
double foretopsails.
Nowadays, when a man builds a
schooner the question is not as to rig, but
merely one of size. If sufficient money
can be raised the vessel is made as big as
a common ship. The biggest schooner en-
salt water, and, strictly speaking, the big
gest in the world, is the Frank A. Pal
mer, 1872 TONS built in Bath in 1897, and
now on her way to Key West with bout
g. 800 tons of coal for the United States
navy. The man man built her is now at
work on a still bigger schooner, four
masted and in Camden. on Penobscot bay,
they are building a schooner to beat tho
Bath monster.