The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
UTAH MISSIONARIES in
TERRIFIC STORY AT SEA
SuSa Young Gates Writes of the Perls Through Which Her
Party Passed = Tells of Meeting With Club
Women In New York.

late, but no streetcar would take hand
baggage, and you may fancy sixtee
men with two valises and an overcoa
apiece, with four women and three va
Uses and baskets apiece were not easil
accommodated.
We ali stood on the outside of Green
hotel and furnished a free circus TO
passing Philadelphians for an hour o
more.
AT last huge, battered old omnibu
clambered up, and into it we crowde
and crammed, some on top, some hang
ing on the steps, and bundles piled III
to the coof.
People came to the doors to see tn
| unusual sight; We laughed as hearth,
as they did, for we We're a merry party
Ten or twelve boys, with as many olde
I people, can make a good bit of fun and
noise, as the stewards on this vesse
have discovered.
The steamer Waesland is very mucf
/ like others of its class, and we have me
with much courtesy and Kindness from
! officers and crew.
The first two days were simply per-
feet; the sea was as calm as the river
or Utah lake in summer.
On Wednesday, when we crossed the
polar channel, we got into a. perfect
sea cyclone. We were all seasick with
the terrible rolling of the ship; even
the stewards and crew We're affected
by the storm
Wednesday night was indeed an aw-
full experience. Every hole and hatch
way was fastened down, and the air
was foul in the extreme. The tossing
and pitching was unbearable; one
woman was thrown out of her berth
and her limb was almost broken She
has been i'll ever since.
That night will never be forgotten;
men groaned and women Screamed and
cried all over the ship.
Dear, brave little girl, our Clara Hol-
brook, with Elder Clark of Ogden and
Elders Hutchinson and Aston were the
only ones of our party who dared to
venture up to the saloon on deck dur
ing the day. They We're all i'll, but
Elders Aston and Hutchinson came
down occasionally to cheer us up and
report.
The sight of the waves, mountain
high, angry and gray, was wonderful
and awe-inspiring, but it is also a sight
none of US desire to see again.
Many passengers told me they expect
ed to go to the bottom; but in the
midst of the darkness and confusion,
though i'll and sore, not one of our Utah
party felt the least fear. We were mes
sengers from God, sent by his servants,
and all expressed and felt a calm reli-
commands the winds.
In the night the engines We're all
stopped. as the terrible shivering of the
screws when they were lifted out of the
water, and they were out most of the
time, threatened TO tear them all to
pieces.
Just then the electric lights gave out,
a woman next to us began screaming
and yelling with shrill vigor. Men tried
oh ~ = ls,,-l
vessel tossing like d toy on the daShing
waves. Men groaned and women wept.
But out from our staterooms arose a
soft, plaintive hymn of hope and con-
One of the elders kneeled down in the
darkened passage and with calm, clear
voice, audible TO us above the. storm, he
prayed with faith and fervOr.
We were soothed and Gained. And
in the midst of it all we dropped quietly
to sleep.
Next day the storm began to abate;
two days and a night it had ragged, but
now our prayers were answered and
the sun came out and gradually the
waves subsidized. At o'clock that after
noon the hatchways We're opened lit
lie; by o'clock a few venturesome ones
had gone on deck.
Next morning was clear and beauti-
Jul. All the sick ones, and all were GER
-ainly sick, recovered, and peace and |
oy reigned everywhere.
A little fog has bee present. off and i,
IN, for the last two days, but the sea is |
again like glass and we are spinning /
dong swiftly.
The usual experiences of sea voyages
lave been ours-ships passing, both |
light and day; whales, porpoises, a
Whole school of them; fog-horns sharks
II their fiukes, all these caused more or
ess excitement or amusement.
One of the two most amusing things
have seen is the man upon the look
ut who PAGES dramatically back and
orth and sights approaching ships
bout one instant before all the rest of
IS, and who then elevates a tin horn to
is lips and blows a most Little Boy
Blue" sort of blast, to announce his
iscovery to the captain below, who
ever hears it.
l laughed for an hour when this ridic-
lous travesty on the hoary tradition of
he IMAM on the lookout was ex-
lained to me- If he would only raise
is hands to his lips and shout down to
ne captain, ship ahoyr in true Jack
ar fashion, / could easily forgive the
of the unnecessary, but
institution; but that tin
orn. Well, it simply upsets my grav-
V whenever l hear ii, no matter how
sasick or homesick l may feel.
The other funny thing is not a thing
but a boy, real sailor
Dy. A real sailor boy. who dances a s
al sailors hornpipe on a real ship.
hat isn't so funny. but of course it's !
lteresting. veryi Yet this lad, English ! {
ON the little round wool cap and in
1cent face to the tip of his long, wide. {
apping trousers. is funny, even to look I
/. The tin horn and this boy are the !
owns in this circus. whose every adj
snt heralds a laugh.
We have all had many pleasant con- c
.rsations with each other and the {
her passengers. and evidently our
.rty have made a good impression, in r
lite of the midnight pillow fights and t
laughter of our western t
DIS. who keep their mountain energy f
titled up decorously during the day, 8
lily to explode with Impressed merri- C
ent at night. when none but the b
eward and four sleepy women are f
ar to listen or to betray. God bless
EN- all: they are brave, true hearts,
cry one,
We are due at Queenstown tomorrow +
noon. SUSA YOUNG GATES. n
Fortunate Bicycle Riders a