The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-09

I only half completed the fob. The paint
had been well worn Off by the long voy-
age. Inside, however. a c,eaner ship has
never reached port after a voyage around
the Horn. Everything was in order, and
II Will take very little work 10 put the
steamer in condition for her northern run.
A crew of carpenters worked almost
every one of the seventy-rve days the
steamer was out, fitting up passenger ac-
commodations. The South Portland was
a fruter before the Boston and Alaska
Company purchased her. long deck
house OF steel was put on. and cabin and
state room partitions had 10 be put N
this room. as vel! as between decks In
her present condition the South Portland
will have accommodations FOR go first
class passengers She has an enormous
hold and will carry a great quantity of
freight.
Capt. Seeley said yesterday to a POST
lntelligencer reporter:
THE South Portland has had a most I'M
eventful trip from New York. and on the
whole a very satisfactory one We left
port on March - last and stopped bat
one day on the entire trip Coming I'D the
South Pacific coast We made our best time.
For fourteen days In succession the
steamer made 30 miles per day. The
weather was perfect. We made as many
as ten and a quarter knots per hour, and
came In through the straits. without trou-
bic"
The South Portland was for several
years one Of the most successful flibrIst.rs
that ever lodged the Spanish gunboats of
the coast Of cuba. She was more success
ful from the fact that neither the Spanish
or American governments knew OF half
tho big Cargoes that were successfully
landed
SIZE was operating between New York
and the islands In the fru4t trade when
the Cuban patriots first began the strug-
gle against Spanish nsrule Her owners
It is said, found II very profitable 10 land
cargoes Of guns and ammunition on the
voyage ~ the fruit ports The steamer
would .oai from scows by night at some
point near New York. run down 10 the
island. pat the cargo ashore IN small boats
and be- OF for her legitimate cargo before
the Spanish government knew % II She
was never tied ~ by the government fn-
the work. 1Fing - the fact that little or
70 evidence could b. secured against her.
Last summer she was exceptionally sue
cessful.
Capt Seeley has been IN the steamer for
nearly three years. but has nothing 70 say
or his nHhustering experiences perhaps
after Spain has been thoroughly thraShed
- viii tell the story but not iii then
The other officers Of the steamer are. First
Officer, A Moore; second officer. "
"he'an. chief engineer. W Dickson: as
s.s'an' engineer, Joe Burns chief stew
ard, II Tuck
TIE South Portland had three passengers
who came around IRE Horn IN her. They
are on TIER way north an3 Rad an excel
lent trip. They are J. LeTkowltch II
Schwartz and c. DeIe. S8e has consider
able cargo aboard. including 40o barrels
. pitch II viii be unIoated az soon a.
the steamer Goals
TIE South Portland was buff In 1855 a.
Gfrangemout1. England but Is now under
the American flag. She was formerly ~.
british ship Dawn. She rvs a gross ton
mage 81 So and ref tonnage q IS Her
dimensions are: Length iS5 feet. teau,
= feet: depth ot hold. Is feet