The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29
U. S. S. NEWARK'S CRUISE
Sailor Hamburger Tells Of
Her Experiences On a
Recent Trip.

the u. S. S. Newark, has just completed.
says the Newark Sunday CALL II viii
be remembered that the ship was unheard
OF for an unusually long time, and 1t was
feared that she might haye been lost in
one Of the terrible gales that prevailed
along the South American coast about
that time. Beyond the brief explanation
that she had run short OF coal nothing
further was,made public by the Navy Pc
partment. Here are some highly interest
ing extracts from a letter written by
William F. Hamburger, Of this city, 70 a
friend. The young sailor is a son OF the
captain of No. / Engine Company, and
his letter shows what a bright type OF
American bluejacket he IS He writes
Here we are in San Francisco, after
one of the most interesting cruises | have
ever taken. Our cruise from New York
10 Brazil was without any particular in
ciaent. hut after that we began to meet
events that would go a long way to MI a
Mo Ing hook. one of the most eventful
narts of the voyage was from Montevideo,
Uruguay, to Valparaiso. Chill, wnlcn We
made with the aid of axes and saws and
about $50 cords Of CHILEAN forest. we
were all right until we ran out OF Tug
Straits of Magellan, from there we ian
into Smiths Straits and had all sorts %.
hard luck. We struck head winds ana
seas and gales, and between them an
they handled us in Low bay IN an NJ
babited island without coal enough on
hoard to sock a spud. and we dlan' even
have the potatoes. And then the Weashsi
don,t believe there ever was such
weather in Gods eountry-all 'piue jazz
ets when away from home reter 70 az
.cod,s cotntry"-yo never saw sucn
waother and YOU want to pray never g
see any of the kind we experiences lol
~ aavs we were cutting WOOD 70
feed our ships engines.
VIC could have sent to Ancud, forty
a,ght miles away, for coal, but We WANT
"a 81 get out of it without letting any
hoav know Of our predicament, but u was
e ,,se we cut down trees ana
ana snlit them into cordwood, ana tnen
COM Il of to the ship in our poats- az
+ha whjle the rain was coming GOWN :"
h,cratfu1s. and most of the time we "ele
arancbea and chilled, and we shftea our
u,at clathes for dry ones until an oui
ads were saturated and still we mao 70
ssw and hew and chop in wet clothes'
80 no aid not have enough steam 10 ary
49, in tbe ship. Then when we got al
~ WOOD off to the ship 1t wouldn't ourn.
$40 ~ the bows are still swearing over
49, auarv time they hin of it. Then
We sent a boat TO Ancud for coal ana an
other to Porto Castro for provisions ~
were twenty days in that hole, ana WINE
We were waiting for the coal we NAG al
the fun there was to be had III TIA W.
bolv Mace. and it wasn't mucn.
We had plenty of wild ducks n geese
+oeat there were millions of them there
ralr about gamey foodl Did you ever
~ ono If those ducks or geese thai i've
notbing but fish. if you have never
s.,.5 ~hem-don' One can acquire q tasee
go s,most anything, but you'd have 70 oe
- 1900 i we were before you could
tackle them. We had plenty OF
o,ams though. and they were all r1ght-
= we only had had some green CORN
100, potatoes and a few other things we
.o,,,d have had cIambakes 70 Deaf sne
band CLANS were so pientiIui eaat W
ao,,1a All our cutter in an hour AZ low
t,de without moving out OF ten-feet space
- NE had an abundance of FISH, too'
q II weren't so badly of for grub but
- conlan't find anything that would
h,,rn. ii rained there most OF the time
- everything gets wet and stays wet
FINALLY. on June 1a, we sighted q sseulnel
heading in toward our woodward she
turned out to be the CHILEAN Government
with 100 tons of coal Tor us. we
b,,stled ii aboard and left next morning
for Ancud. where we took on another Ivy
toms and then we started on Tor var
naraiso. Everything was lovely after We
reached rsoouimbo. Al this place we naa
uarv nlaasant experience. Part of the
srn;,,an raef was there. and it is also the
saaaa,.rters NJ the British South Pacifle
aaat p,t ut that time the only Eingiisn
shin there was an old-time frigate caiiea
Tsffev. SHE is dismantied and Is used
- Z store shin for the fleet. There IS oniy
!, s,nau erew aboard her, and / guess they
svsra lonesome. So they Invited a crowd
~ a,,r fellows over one evening 10 see
+bara and they treated us first-rate-
to eat and drink; no hard stun
Won know. We wanted to return the COM
nl;mpnt. but We are not allowed aver q
hottle of beer aboard our ships now, 50
We hired d hotel ashore, and we did une
ching m brown. You can Imagine how
pooa everybody was feeling when one q
hi, fellows got up and proposed three
cheers for Queen Mckinley and President
victoria. and the gang gave them, we
Ieft the next morning. and as we steamed
mi the Liffey hodsted the Stars ana
strines and ~signailed goodlby.
orr next stop was at Iuuique. n from
mere 10 Melinda, Peru, then to callao,
9erns The Peruvians were celebrating
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