Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-12
HOW BOSTON WAS SAVED.
A Famous Trait Of Her People Foiled
the Spaniards and Made Them
Seek a warmer Climate.

- A1sAe VI nex feO0Ae COAAe0
the sDaniards and Made Them
Seek q Warmer Climate.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
There had been sounds all day dull,
deep. booming sounds-from various direc-
tions. True. there were sounds on previous
occasions. but none quite SO emphatic.
And now Boston realized that the worst
was at hand.
The Donna Ipecachuana and the Don
Jingo y Sarsapareelah were anchored OF
the harbor. and at any moment the bonn
bardment might commence. Everywhere
people could be met hurrying toward the
interior of the state, loaded down with
family trees and Puritan Bibles. and all
the minor household gods. The gilded cod
fish CLEANED duly on the state house The
grass on the common turned an ashen
brown.
At $50 ante-meridian the Donna Ipecac-
huana yawned heavily and dropping into
position fired steen-inch shell from her
bow gun. The projectile entered the city at
the fish wharf. and chasing itself up the
venient opening. speedily found itself in
course it curved here and there and left
and right. and in zigzags and obliaues,
until 1t reached Washington street, where
it was too tired and confused to explode.
This shell was simply warning. 1t
had the desired effect. Mayor Quincy and
the city authorities moved quickly. They
had the Spaniard's terms. A ransom of
SO 600 900 to be raised in six hours, 800 tons
Of coal and five offhand shots at Bunker
dition. Twenty Boston maidens. the flower
Of the Hub, were to be Immediately sent
aboard the enemy's ships as hostages, to
be held in testimony of Boston's good
AT 10 o'clock the maidens left the wharf
in two barges ten to barge. The SUMS
rays touched with fire their cleaning spec
tacles and yellowed the texture s. OF @ their
gated 1888 years.
They did not weep. There was look Of
high resolve upon their chiSeled features.
A moment later they were speeding away
over the ripping waves.
A chill breeze swept the decks as the two
installments boarded the respective war
at the barometer. Then he looked al. the
ten maidens. After that he cheerfully
looked back at the barometer. /
The fair hostages. statuesquely cold. sat
were not disturbed. The handsome Spanish
officers who strolled by with smiling eyes
and cleaning teeth did not come back.
pns dscs kept s
fixed on an imaginary point six PAGES in
front Of him. And all the time 1t grew
colder.
The captain Of the Don lingo in his great
coat consulted the executive officer in an
ulster. They couldn't understand the ever
Increasing chill. Nor was the puzzle les
Sene0 Wnen the cnleI engineer sent up WoTu
that Ice was rapidly forming in the star
board draught condenser, and that the
pumps were clogged with icy needles:
And all this time raw. off-shore wind
swept the decks. The captain, who was
an anable man, as well as dark and re-
vengeful enemy, approached the hostages
and was about to ask them If they had
brought their wraps with them, when they
turned upon him such a chilly stare that
he felt the marrow Of his bones grow
cold
With difficulty he moved away on his be-
numbed feet, and was Immediately con-
fronted by the boatswain.
"Sir,'' said the latter. in choice Biscayan,
I'VE won't do any bombarding to-day. The
powder is frozen SO hard that you can't cut
1t with an ak"
Don't try!" roared the captain. "We'n
get out of this as quick as the Lord will
let us. don't intend to be frozen up stin
in this internal climate. Send those gi-
girls ashore and we'll up anchor and
away!'
Twenty minutes later the warships were
steaming rapidly southwark, and the maid
ems were on shore telling their overjoyed
friends how they had frozen out the dread
invaders.
And the captain of the Donna Ipecachu-
ana and the captain Of the Don Jtngo y
Sarsapareelah may never know how they
converted their ships into floating refrig-
orators by taking on board those coldly
chaSte Boston damselS.