The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-20
Gould NOT Catch / BREEZE.
BARK THEODALD.s LONG. TEDIOUS
TRIP FROM san FRANCISCO.
Sails F1apDang Day After Day-ldle
n . Painted ship IDen . Painted
Oeean-Capt. Cameron Learns the
Sad yews 81 Hts Wife's Death.

~ painted salp upon 3 painted ocean
with a mantle Of fog thrown over the
whoie tells :ae experience u the old bark
Theoha.a. which arrived IN per. yester-
day from San Francisco, thirsy-;wo days
OFT. The light bEeexss that blew were from
i contrary direction and al the other air
thai moved seemed % travel up and down.
hcs masts. Fog days her coal begrime3~
canvas hung from the yaris IL empty
folds. waiie captain and crew waited Oh
the decks below and whistied fer a breeze.
OF course there were days in The thsrsy-two
that some wind WAS moving Up the coast.
else the Taeooald would ssill have been on
the ocean. But they were few and far be-
tween The tug Boyaen sighted aer Thurs
day morning IN the mist away on Cape
Flaitery ana towed her into port.
Capt Cameron. Of the Thsohaid. told the
story Of his long trip last evening TO q
Post-inteligeneer reporter as follows:
I'VE Left San Francisco on July e In
ballast for Seattle. just after getting out
side Golden Gate. the wind failed US and
We did not find sTAcking breeze during
the entire trip. The best days. run the
Theooald made Was eighty miles. and for
the last ten days I have been drifting
around within few hours sailing OF Cape
Fiat;ery. absolutely unable TO reach IL. IL
was truly run for the sailors and not for
the owners. We had plenty Of provisions
Oh board. so did not suffer from THAI score
The wind simply would not blow, unless
you coun, the light head winds, which took
US back instead Of pushing us along. The
sea was like glass Uosy OF the time. ex-
cept for the long ocean swell and there
was never i trace OF q storm. We woald
have welcomed a blow TO change the mo-
notony. We painted ship at SEA, having
plenty or calm days in which 10 do the
work. We repaired our sails and did ev-
erything else we could find, bu. still time
hung heavily.
we sighted thirty-thres sailing vessels
while on the trip. bu; were not near enough
TO make any OF them out until the ship J.
q. Brown. Capt. Marnisn came UP to us
We met her about seven days ago 80 miles
OF Cape Flattery. She left San Francisco
two days after the TheobaId. Until three
years ago / was in command OF the Brown
and It seemed like meeting an old friend 10
run across her on the ocean. She lowed
into Comox. where she loads coal for Ho-
no!ulu. day ahead OF me.
4 ran Into nest OF vessels when got
up TO within fifty miles OF Cape Fiattery.
The Theoaald lay around there for nearly
ten days and during that time we spoke
the schooners ST. Nicholas. Mary F. Russ.
Salvador and Spokane, all from San Fran
cisco and long time out. The st. Nicho-
las was bound for Comox TO load coal for
Honolulu. She got tow in. The Mary E
Russ. which left San Francisco the same
day as the Theobald, was sighted wefness-
day The Salvador was shirty-three days
out and the Spokane. bound for por; Gam
bic tuAntN-ntNa HeyS viN
viii try to beat up the Straits
There is sad part to the story Of the
Theobalds lang trip. Capt. Cameron's
wife died at San Francisco shortly after
the vessel left. He learned OF II on landing
here today. Her estate had not been set
tied UP. and his relatives were alarmed at
his not having arrived here.