The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-29
PHILOSOPHY AND BRINE.
Nobody Knows So Well How to Run
Things Ashore as Sea Captains.
Especial Dispatch to The TimeSl

NORFOLK. VA, July e6.-OoWn on Nor
fox waterfront, where tonnage rises and
falls with every incoming and recedinS
wave. and sea captains gather 70 talk of
charters, charts, luffs and sibes. most of
tho Questions which veX mankind uptown
are settled off-hand.
Philosophy, deep beyond sounding, is
possessed by masters of two, three, four
and five masters, and when the wind ia
vors this may be had for the asking. Pick
Cd men command ships, men who have
Clear heads and whose words have weight
a knot of such were spinning yarns
OF various sizes in a rope walk, other
wise tug Office. in Wide Water Street
this morning when the talk drifted toward
conditions ashore, the accumulation OF
wealth and the like.
One partl, across whose bronzed face
smiles like sunlight swept occasionally.
safe he hid several opportunities during
his lifetime, which haG ne sliced he might
now be rich. Many years he said he was
in the schooner Mary Jane, running wood
from the James River to Long Island Sound.
when in a storm the Mary Jane was lost
She was the only vessel ne ever lost. he
said and it was hard with him. but he
I said he made Vi. his mind that he would
not c-ieve over her, and since then he
met every misfortune bravely-
Soon after the wreck of the Mary Jane.
q WelI-tO-CD i!.l4I QiIGrSG TO DlillQ MIN
anothe1- vessel He would have been a
rich man now, he said, if his nerve hadn':
failed him, and he refused the offer.
Everybody who owned schooners in that
trade for the next few years. he said.
got rich II has been a lesson to me- he
said. never refuse nothin' a man offers to
give ye''
Everybody agreed that a child can tell
you that there is pure philosophy. drained
big schooner. but she is owned by 9th
ers. He is fairly well-to-do, though the
sharps say the philosopher said he became
reconciied TO his lack Of wealth some time
since. when one of the very rich young
men Of New York who was in his town
went fishing with him.
The rich man said he did not know what
to do to eniov himself. whereupon the
philosopher said that If he had as much
money as he had ne would do several
things which ne named. The rich man
said he had done all those things ard
none OF them amused him any more.
Here the tug-owner. who has so many
tugs that ii kaeps his nose to the grind
stone trying 10 ge. coal enough to keep
them going. chimed in.
He said he began 70 realize how useless
1t vas to try To get rich when Howard
Goulds yacht. Niagara. was in this port
some time ago
He said he saw t>e steward taking pro-
visions aboard the princeiy Yacht aboard
which not long afterwards Mr. Could and
his beautiful wife entertained the Emperor
OF Germany. He said the sweet potatoes.
the irish potatoes. the beef. all the food
was Just like that he had at his house: he
Gid not believe the folks on the Yacht couii
eat any more than he could and he
has. since the episode. been reconciie6 TO
his lot.
AS the burned old tugs continues TO wake
everybody in Norfolk at crack of dawn
with their footing to the Client bridge tend
er TO open the "draw" it IS susnected.
hnweyer, that ne cherishes an ambition TO
own q. yacht bike the Niagara
Another cap'ain illustrated how haro Ine
lot OF the real rich is. by telling now
Mr.. Vanderbilt Is trying TO amuse himself
( by running an automobile.
He eaia Mr. Vanderbilt. VINO owns the
New York Central Railroad. could ride on
IL every day IL he wants to. the million
atre. though. had go. tired OF travelling by
rail. ha has done that 50 mucn MANY other
things came out IN that COMPANY which go
far toward nrovine that nobody knows
how 10 run things ashore 50 Well as ships
captain.