The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-17
OUT FROM THE
JAWS OF THE
FROZEN NORTH
Three Whaling Cap
tains Home Again.
THEY HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
THE CALL EXPEDITION SAVED
MANY LIVES.
No Truth in the Report That Captain
Mason Of the Whaling Tender
Jennie Had Gone Out Of
His Mind.
THEY HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
THE CALL EXPEDITION SAVED
MANY LIVES.

Three captains from the whaling fleet
arrived in the city yesterday. They are:
Captain A. c. Sherman of the wrecked
steam whaler Orca, Captain w. P. S.
Porter of the wrecked steamer Jessie H.
Freeman and Captain E. w. Newth of
the jeanette. The latter vessel only left
here last year, but the Orca and Free
man were among the feet that was frozen
in. Both vessels got nipped in the ice
and went down.
Captain Newth brings the news that
Captain Leavitt, who went north in the
Mary D. Hume and afterward trans
ferred to the Newport, took the tender
Thrasher when she went north and has
gone whaling in her. Captain Snow of the
Thrasher has taken the Newport and will
bring her to San Francisco Both the
Newport and Jennie will stop at the can
neries and bring down loads of salmon.
In regard to the reported trouble on the
Bear Captain Newth says: Captain
futile was far too lenient with the
whalers. There were 10S in our crowd,
and they had to be divided into watches
in order to keep the decks clear. When
one watch was below the other was on
deck, but when there was a little work
to do the whalers refused to do it. They
wouldn't shovel coal, they wouldn't make
sail; and, in fact, wouldn't do anything.
The only thing left for the captain to do
was to put them in irons. Had 1t been
my business I'd have fed them on bread
and water.
THE story that Captain Mason of the
Jennie had gone crazy was made out OF
whole cloth. He was never even on the
sick list, and is navigating his vessel to
San Francisco at the present time. Some
one out of pure cussedness must have
HAD it not been for the wrecked
whaler Navarch and the arrival of The
Call relief expedition fully 10 per cent of
the froZen-in whalers would have died
said Captain Sherman yesterday. 1.-The
Navarch was wrecked in an Arctic storm,
you will remember" continued the cap
tain, and many OF her oc crew - were ere
the hull again, but one day 1t came
drifting past Point Barrow, and out of
it we got $50 sacks of flour. There were
just two of those sacks left when the
Bear arrived, and then the men had only
been getting a four-inch square of bread
every twenty-four hours for month. The
Bear reached Point Barrow on the 18th and
the jeanette came in the next day, so we
were well provided after that. 1t is to
be hoped that the Government will suit
Journey across the Arctic wilds was
most perilous one.
The jeanette secured two whales and
over 5000 pounds of trade bone during the
short time she was out, so Captain Newth
did remarkably well. In regard to, the
man Nicholas who was shot in the leg
while trying to desert, Captain Newth
Port Clarence, and there was a con-
spiracy got up among the men to desert
in a body and &c, to the gold mines.
Nicholas was the first to try to get away
and l began firing at him, more to scare
the others than with any intention of hit
tin the man. One of the balls ricochet-
ed and struck him in the leg, and that is
all there was to 1t. In eight days he was
all right again and asked for his dis
charge. / took him aboard the Bear and
told Captain Tuttle what he wanted, and
Captain futile gave him his discharge
He is now among the gold hunters at
Port Clarence
The gunboat Bennington came down