The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-07
LON HASKELL'S LUCKY SHIP.
HE o HER IN A MORSE TRADE AND
SHES OUTLINED BETTER CRAFT.
WashinEton's Picture and the Bible In Hcr
Cabi1, silver Under Her Masts and tho
American Eagle for n FiEurehead-They'r re
the Mascots for the Maine Coast Trade.

0abl1, Nilfcr tnueT HtH "ahNN " INC
American gle for n FiEurchead-They're
the Mascots for the Maine Coast Trade.
BANGOR. Me. Oct. 0.-Tho schooner Cata.
mount had taken on the last stick of her high
decNload Of lumber. the stevedorcs had rolled
up thei- rubber aprons and lighted their pipes
and the " cook and hand. a nut-brown, blue
eyed Yankee boy of T.. from Deer lSle, stood
surveyinS the stores for the trlp-dry Goldfish.
flour, mola~srs, salt pork. salt beef. baking
powder and kerosene, which, with apples and
POTATOES at this time OF the year invariably
constitute the supply Of q Down East coaster.
Her skipper, Capt Alonzo Haskell OF Deer lSle
had been up TO the brokers' Office 20 get hiI
bills Of lading. and after n parting glass nc
McNamara's har 10 was standing beside tbs
railroad bridge where he was having n last
word with the drawtender. Tho dravtcnder
remarked that the Cntamount stood II well, and
that he didu't see what kept such old tubs
anolt when 80 many good vessels were going
down every year.
Il wouldn't trust my carcass In her around
tho Cape for no money" declared the draw
tnndcr, who had spent tho most Of his life Ia
taking lust such risks
"Gii, Won don't know that old c%ritter," re-
sponded the Catamount's master, surveying
the ancient schooner rrfrotivclv: she's a lucky
voSSil. she i, II oyer thrr" was one. n shea
b%"ttnr'n she looks, too. Bet We there amt Q
drop % water In her now"
The drpwtcnder averred that he took no stock
in the lack theory, that II was all bosh. aud
that u took a good, tight vessel, well manned
and we'll found, 20 stand New England coast
weather alter September. Capt. Haskell nod
dcd attentively to an this. aud then he seated
himself on the bridge FALLING and proceeded to
c~liivlicn Can't Gill on the subject or lucky
vessels. turning nov and then to squirt tobacco
juice overheard ana 20 glance adWirinEly at
''ss q'2 = a. IqS '1i q .1 LhG ceauWtt t t%,hs an
what yol say bout vessils standin' up 10 tie
veyidrg : jest 50, but they's executions to al
ton, ye,s.rao, -ir. Now you look her over.
All you take inter constellation that she's
iorlH.'eyen year Odd and ant had q boiI or
a trdhhod OF a handful OF oakuln drly inter
her since ~, and notlin' new in the way or
slils or ,riE2in and thon you tell me II she
amt lad good lucR somepin lnoren naterhl,
u dodge al the trouble that a man en- look
for, T. draSgln' lumber and coal tween hero
and New York eight months In the year
" Fore | took the |Catamount what did I
havet | had a quarter interest and a masters
te.th In lest as suck a looSin three-mSs,er
an good 10 stay out all night in, but she was
an uniucky, ve,sil. " was born right into her,
was the Star Of tho East. and every cent I had
went down with her. She was always un-
lucky, and they used TO say twas cause they
%iIn t RaS h .tc s%TsI 9 ein. tRoT HrRelM Master NIL BIi.
lings claimed twas cause they launched her
on a Friday after the tide turned.
SO was the Mary Ann Mckinney ,unlucky.
There was a man killed At her launchin'. and she
never maze q "Trip V NpleEon tHo soI Gi1Dn 61v e' berr
ashore she was bcin' run into, and when twasn't
that she would bump into somep'n, an twas
an sometimes had to pay big damages to the
other ves'ils owners. Trouble with her was
she was Is "a, named do af'eTr a I T9n2 me w dS scSaobst
Henry-she was always in trouble. too, and
finally her cop'n he committed suicide, right
her somewhcres they never could lind. an
IL always opened when she had corn OF somepn
Ike hs', 's bat IN her sRa5d IA i9n SoS SsSy. AN Man Re ' hat
cheap stock into her. 40 that they never could
get her !iSht, no matter how much oakum they
Worst cSse / ever heerd Of was the brig
IauEhln' Water, that Cap'n Lem Hopper went
in When she was brand new they loaded her
Cruz. While they was ar-ioadtn her SIC caught
FIRE from tho galley stove and il cost 500 To- hx
fight with the mac an he nearly killed one
Of EN-, and cap,In iooEer he had to go to court
Gauss the Teller that got his head split open
wasn't able TO be on hand fore that lime. an
C.p'n Hooper be Ind, 70 hunt around for an,
the hawser got fouled in the tugs propeller.
an the brig went ashore down near Bucks
then she had TO be hauled out al Bucksport for
repairs. After that she managed TO get TO sea
and was Goin' along all right when she banged
The brig had 10 come back to Rockland. an
her owners had 70 give a big bond SOS sie
could Te ;ho away nG M2ihi aftd mSI Syd T1 he he oTne 81
got a TELEGRAPH despatch from New York sayin'
rs how the brig had been knocked dowIn IN q
al CaJiz by q Spanish steamer. That's what
happened to The Laughin., WatcT-end what'dye
bsin' rugged the owners had on hand a lot OF
spars and rigGin' that had been saved from the
schooner Argus. that had always been an IN
with all hands, an they thought they'd save
money by putin her stun into the brig They
VA E1' b S1F mex. hot but e th Sg Knew Sni Se3 mere !'nG old s sp'n.
that had seed such things done ar. turn OUT
bad, an 50 the luck Of the Argus was grated
Hiram E"' snow snow ''f that owned her he didn't
s TsH "a. 70 t &c no on mG tRe beach cS 70 Deer qfsie OP two on or
three years fore lost the Scar OF the East.
Then when I come home no says 70 me. says he,
H., ,SP9GsS, zSS Ta1 do% Sn' there of hauled led up ftfhss::
three . E,sSgri S shes ana 2 iee .en ga ask but ms Sesrt 70
T% aeEks H Ts%ss.ssihi1e4.sS s afIlienr7, v ages Veil Veil We 6sds
hoss that was Vas al, my ~, gif nes got d Hst Of ,1 her fiat fh.t9Ss oss
money, and cussed 4 I'D earn Hiram dIdnt
Ny wife was fraid Of the hos;. and she said
OF a vessl In trade Tor that rarln ,animllo' you
take her, quick. so We snapped,
We'll, the boss he rin away With old Cap'n
Hiram next week after that, and stove him
all up. but the Cstanount she's never run away
with nobody. I've been. in her esventeen
year now. and she's alters been a good vessil to
me. | was out In her In the biz November
blow Of rs. but she never parted a ropeyarn.
and lots O. good v~essils. and steamboats,, too.
was piled up. She amt handsome. to look At,
but she gets around with the best Of them. and
it's all cause she's lucky Give her 2 rub o
ful not to ground her on a rocky bottom. and
shes all right for twenty years yet.
What gives her luckP We'll. I you'll look
in her house you'll see pictures OF George WASH
linton, and Gineral Jackson and President Abra-
ham lincoln a-hangin' up ther'n a big Bible
on the shelf at the head Of my bunk. Then
she was honest built, and launched on a leyen
O'Clock tide the Fou'th o. July, and shes. got
silver under both Of her masts and the Meri-
can eagle with srrers in his mouth fer a fgpr
won't bring luck there amt no luck nowherel
HARD TO PAS CANADIAN COIN.