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

curiosity. indeed. Down in the maritime
provinces, where they are getting 20 be evs
pert ship builders, they still build toDsau
schooners, and the Goldfinch Of LivernooJ
y. 5, that recently came here to load far
curacao, was declared by the old-timers
20 be one Of the handsomest vessels eve
seen IN Bangor. She was further notable
from the fact that she carried double ton
sails.
The brig is also disappearing from the
American registry. There are only two
origs, the Katahdin and the Telos. nov,
owned in Bangor, where formerly there
We're dozens, and no brig has been built
in this country since the Telos was launch
ed from Crosby's yard here in 1882
While all the coasters are Of the fore
and-aIt rig nowadays, half a century ago
II was just the other way Capt Albion
=. Neazje Of Bangor recalls time, about
tne year 1910, when he commanded the
schooner Economy, rugged with a solara
topsan on the fore, and when schooners
rugged in any other way, except that the
large ones carried not only the square ion
sans, but also topgallant sails, were rare.
Olo shipmasters say that the Sarah Buck
oulit at Stockport about the year 1873 was
the lrst fore-and-aft rugged vessels thar
ever came to Bangor. She was commanded
by Capt. Noah Rose of Islesboro. ana
when she appeared here the old tars shook
Their heads and declared that she would
iA-fNA WI n IA any weather. she worked
All right, however although she was nor
as good before the wind as a square ton
san schooner In those DAYS thew bult
small vessels, the Sarah Buck, which was
CONSIDERED to be of good size, carrying
only 125 tons of coal
In recent years lot of queer rigs have
peeh contrlVed. The three-masted topsau
schooner is one of the comparatively new
types. The first vessel of this rig ever seen
ia eastern waters was the Altamaba of
Boston, and she was puzzle to most peo-
PIE The Altdmaha was originally British
tramp steamer which, having been cast
away on the southern coast, was bought as
she lay, repaired, rugged into a schooner.
ana admitted TO American registry The
William S. Cloves of Port Jefferson. New
York, was, so far as known, the first vessel
Dullt IN TINS country, or anywhere else for
| that matter, as a three-masted topsan
schooner The master of this vessel was
sorely afflicted with rheumatism and in
| ORDER mat he might steer and watch her
| without being exposed to the weather he
| had the after house constructed with a
| monitor roof over the forward part, with
| heavy plate glass windows all around and
| a wheel rugged there. Thus he was ena-
| pied to steer the schooner without waking
| MS rheumatic pains, and it was called a
| great scheme. The William z. Cloves is
| dead, as sailors say, long since Down in
| the maritime provinces they have built
Il
| 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 foresails.
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 foreband-aft
| foresail and gaftOpsail. One of the first
| three-masted vessels, aside from ships and
| barks, ever built in Maine, was the Fame
| of BluehiH. She had a short mzzen, lil-A
! bark carried a square maintopsail and
square foretopsail and topgallant. 1t wa
! queer mixture, and they used TO call lcr
! a ''jackass bark The name "jacl,1e.is
| brig was formerly applied to the zig
! properly known as the brigantine. -
| other nondescrpt of early days on the Pc
! nobscot was the Rhoda. which had both
a square and a fore-and-aft foresail aul
| double foretopsails.
| Nowadays, when man builds
schoonervthe question is not as to ris, ''pt
| merely one of size. If sufficient many
a common ship. The biggest schooner en-
| salt water, and, strictly speaking, the bis-
| gest in the world, is the Frank A. Pas
| mer, ,S32 tons, built in Bath in 1897, n.ld
| now on her way to Key West with i'b>Ht
| $500 tons of coal for the United States
navy. The man man built her is now
work on still bigger schooner four
| masted, and in Camden, on PenobScot boys
| they are building a schooner TO beat ia
| Bath monster.