The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-11-30
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
work to buy an additional piece to make
it up to one thirty-second. The sue
ceeded just about the same time. and
each insisted ON his right to be the
master. 1t was evenly divided. and
the managing owner said that be could
make no division. On the quiet tie sold
piecemeal to Cap'n Davies to protect
his position as master, and piecemeal
to Cap'n Davis to help him get to be
master; this was good thing for the
managing owner. for the Nellie B. had
not been paying for long time. and
he had been thinking of having her
cut downfor coal barge. Finally Cap'n
Davies and Cap'n Davis had bought as
much of the bark as they could, and
they went in body. the two of them.
to the managing owner to get him 10
appoint one or the other master. Then
the managing owner told them he did
not have anything to do with it. since
he did not own anything in the bark.
When they came to compare notes
they had spent lot of money. and
were no better off than before; in
fact, the advantage was entirely with
the managing owner. who had got
good price for property that it did
not pay to run. Cap'q Davis had fif-
teen thirty-seconds. Cap'n Davies had
fifteen thirty seconds also. and the re-
naming two thirty-seconds was owned
by the ships husband, a South street
ship chandler. He Played fair with
both shippers. He would sell half to
each if they wanted to buy him out
very badly, but he would not sell all
to one, and thus be party to giving
him control over the other captains in
vestment. He suggested that they
take the Nellie B. turn and turn about,
and that's how it was that the bark had
two. shippers.
The way they fixed it up was that
when Cap'n Davies brought the Nellie
b. in from voyage and had her dis
charged down to a clean floor, he
should turn her over to Cap'n Davis to
charter and load and sail until he got
her down to clean floor ct the end
of the voyage. When Cap'n Davis had
her in charge Cap'n Davies was not to
go aboard. but he could come down
to the pier and find all the fault he
wanted-and that was a whole lot
and vice versa. 1t was a caution TO see
how each of these old shippers put the
bark into apple-pie order before they
came into harbor from a voyage. The
paint and cordage bills, to say nothing
of white duck. must have been some
thing big. but the ships husband, who
was in that line of business, never let
on as between the two captains, so he
must have been making a good thing
out of his small interest in the Nellie
B. The two old gentlemen were great
rivals. and it was nip and tuck be-
tween them on every point connected
with the bark, and it would be hard
to say which was the more jealous of
the other.
1t got so they never would speak ex-
cept when handing the bark over, and
then they were freezingly polite.
Woodworking. Cap'n Davis" was
always the form that Cap'n Davies fol-
lowed. ''the Nellie B. is on clean floor.
and think you'll not find anything the
matter with her."
: THANK you, Cap'n Davies" was the
unfailing response. 81 suppose it
seems so to you. but I have brought
broom with me; she'll not be the worse
for good sweeping. suppose you'll
enjoy the rest while I'm gone"
well, wish you prosperous lad
ing and quick voyage. You're get
ting old. man, and this will likely be
the last voyage you'll make in the
Nellie B., SO make the most of it,"
Then they'd part, speechless with
rage. Not content with sitting on the
pierhead day after day watching the
loading of the bark and finding fault
with everything the other skiprer did.
Cap'n Davies thought he'd take a look
at the bark in some foreign port; he
wanted to see whether Cap'n Davis
saved up all his repairs for the home
port, or whether he fixed the Nellie 3.
up creditable when she ~-cA+ FOREIGN
The bark had been chartered for Mel
bourne with clothespins and wooden
ware. That's voyage that took her
all OF hundred days. for she was a
dull sailor, and Cap'n Davies had plen-
ty OF time to get out to Melbourne bv
steamer. There he waited for the bark
to be signalized from the Heads, and
when her number was made he took
sailboat and hurried down Port PhiEp
to see how the Nellie B. was looking
when she came into port foreign.
Whether the bark looked better than
Cap'n Davies expected to find her, or
whether she looked worse, nobody
could say for certain. But that some
thing serious was the matter ANYBODY
could see. Sfor the old skipper hardly
woke up to rip and tear more than
once or twice day, and that was moth
ing for him. The Nellie B. gotta char
ter for London with wool, and lost nc
time dischlrging. eap'n Davies hung
about her all the time she was in Port
Philip. Soon after she sailed he Just
up and died. There wasn't much salts.
faction in it for Cap'n Davis. for h..
died, too. before he got around Cape
Horn, and he never knew that he was
sole captain at last.
Another scheme of the two shippers
went astray. Each of them, having
neither chick nor child, had willed his