Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-07
Summer Plan Of 7, Jenkins Hams,
Writer Of Sea Stories,
FAMILIAR WITH THE SEAS.
His Grandfather, Admiral Hams, was
Parragurs Flag Captain Isis Father
f. General Peter &. Hiatus.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence
New York. June Both, l9o0.-The
most interesting scheme for passing a
pleasant summer that know Of has
been adopted by T. Jenkins Hams
whose novels Of sea life. Captain
Gore, and "Mr. Trunnell,' have begun
70 attract attention. Mr. Hams writes
of the sea out Of the fullness Of knowl.
edge, for he has shown its moods ever
since he was old enough to know much
Of anything.
His father. General Peter C. Hams
whose work In connection with the Nj
oaragua canal Is well known Is not a
seaman, but his grandfather Admiral
Hams. was flag captain Of Faraguts
fleet In the momentOus naval opera
tions In the Bay OF Mobile which We're
so important IN the civil war
T. JENKINS HAMS AND HIS
YACHT
Briefly, the summer scheme Of T..
jenkins Hams Is TO live on yacht all
summer, not on steam yacht costing
many thousands and not making long
cruises, but on a trim, not too large,
, sailing craft which he plans 20 keep In
and very near the harbor OF New York
until late In September or early In Oc-
tober possibly later The name Of his
craft Is the Truant. She Is about 40
feet long and is fitted with all the con-
veniences, though little has been spent
b. her owner for show or luxury She
IS sloop rugged.
Hr Halns is only 49, He Is there
fore one OF the youngest OF the current
ly successful fiction writer's He be-
gan to study the vocabulary of the sail
or at the age Of 3. when being on a
steam launch with his father. he beg
ged TO be allowed TO IKE the wheel
TO guide her" as his juvenile lips
phrased it-and was laughed almost In
10 tears by every one on board, who
told him he could never think Of being
sailor until he learned 10 say steer
instead OF guide" Even then. though.
his desire 10 be an able seaman when
grown W was strong. and at 10 or "A
he was put on board one Of Uncle
Sans lighthouse tenders. where he re-
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time he visited every lighthouse from
Baltimore and Florida and many points
between them along the coast. This
experience confirmed his live for the
sea, though he says frankly that he
didn't like the light service very well.
and at u.s. after six months as a stu
dent at the Columbian University. In
Washington, he shipped on a vessel
bound for California by the round the
Horn route.
KNOWS THE COAST THOROUGHLY.
Before this he had had some expert
ence as member Of the United States
coast survey. the chartng Of the coast
Of Maine being the task set for his par
y, Young Hams was not a scientific
member Of the party. though; his part
was 70 pull stroke oar Of whaleboat,
and this experience gave him both mus
Gle and quite as intimate knowledge OF
the rock bound northern coast Of his
country as his lighthouse service had
Of the fiat and sandy southern coast
For q time, too, he was connected with
a division Of the engineering survey
which was working on the James rlv-
err This party had steamboat at its
command.
He began 70 make notes Of the seas
I'm the neighborhood Of Cape Horn and
OF the Pacific coast while on HIS first
voyage as a sailor, mentioned above
The vessel he sailed on was a wind
TANNER. and It's business was whale
ffhing He helped take a variety OF
whale known as blackfish or the South
American coast near the latitude OF
Rio Janeiro. being accorded the honor
OF "hrinS the irons into the whale
himself. which means that he was in
char=e Of the harpOou gun, for whales
are no longer harpooned by the old
hand method.
Soon after that he began TO think
seriously about writing. in the course
Of his work he learned a good deal
about blackhsh. He thought the things
he had learned would be interesting 10
the general reader, and so he wrote
them I'D, but the publishers didn't
-gree with him and sent all his articles
back.
CAPTAIN GORE.
When the ship got farther along on
lis vOyage-lnto Antarctic waters, south
of the Horn-he had a shy at the por-
poises OF the southern ocean, which he
found even more interesting than the