The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-15

schooling they might as well be in
port. Many a good catch had been
prevented by the wind suddenly dying
out while the fish were in sight. To
secure immunity from loss due in this
way to Gains, Captain Jacobs placed
an order for small compact electro
gasoline engine of 80 horsepower.
He arranged to set this in the stern
under the cabin, and he built berths
for his battery cells and tanks for
his fuel in the same part of the YES
sell The midship section he set apart
for his store and sailing quarters; and
then found that he had ample space
forward for his supplies, for his mess
room and for sleeping quarters for his
men. The cost of building and equip
ping the vessel according to Captain
Jacobs's plans was $4,000, which is
pretty stiff price for mackerel
schooner, and more than twice as
much as many of them cost.
I'VE owe the success of this trip to
the little engine" Captain Jacobs said,
as he whisked off the hatch and point
ed to the bins full of mackerel lying
between the layers of ice in the hold
There are $4,000 as fine fish as you
ever saw, and we got them in two
casts of that net. That's pretty near
high line. But we'd never have come
near them if we had been dependent
solely upon our canvas, for there
wasn't whisper of breeze blowing
when we sighted EN- That engine
IS the new fangie In mackerel fishing.
It's thing the other fellows will be
running after soon"
The Helen Miller Gould got rid of
her fish even faster than she caught
them, for by o'clock in the after
noon the $4,000 had been sold. Most
of the fish went for ten cents each,
but the choice brought twelve cents,
and the catch put $4,000 in the peck
cts of the owners-not bad for two
hauls of the net In few days fishing.
On Wednesday morning at daybreak
the Helen Miller Gould was scudding
out through the Narrows again, bound
down the coast in quest of other
schools of fish. Miss Gould had ex-
pected to pay visit to her name
sake, but other engagements prevent
ed. She probably will inspect the
schooner on its return.
Last year was a bad year also for
mackerel on this side, and in his ef-
forts to supply the market Captain
Jacobs came close to involving this
country in another fisheries dispute
with Great Britain. In defiance of
sailor superstitions he crossed to the
Irish coast where mackerel were
plenty, in his thirteenth vessel, the
Ethel B. Jacobs-named after one of
his daughters. And he crossed the
ocean in her in thirteen days: weulA
have made it nine, he says, had he
not been becalmed four days. sad
The Irish fishermen heard of his
coming and were up in arms against
him; but he fished outside the three
mile limit In all sorts of weather,
and had good luck. He ran into Liv.
erpool to ship his catch to this side,
and the British Government seized his
vessel and kept her tied up for q
month before he could secure her re-
lease. Then he instructed his lawyer
to file claim for damages against
England-and went right back to the
Irish coast after more mackerel. He
had shipped cargoes of fish to the
value Of $1,000 to this market, when
he was told by cable that his wife
was seriously ill.,
Command of the Ethel B. Jacobs
was turned over to his friend and
mate Captain William Cluett, and an
English pilot was put aboard Of her
Then Captain Jacobs came home. Cap
tain Cluett made a successful hau
and started to Liverpool with his fish
but the English pilot ran him on 6
reef on the Irish coast and sent the
Ethel B. Jacobs to the bottom. S.
the thirteenth hoodoo finally got +,
its work. Captain Cluett is sailing
with Captain Jacobs on the Helen Mil
Ter Gould, which is pretty good evi
dence that the loss of the Ethel B
Jacobs is laid to that English pilot.
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He Guessed Wrong.