The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-20

gold she carried was taken ashore. There
was time for it,
Here" pointing to a picture, .is one
OF the queerest eases we have ever had.
l ne snip Augusta ran onto an island In
the upper Amazon in 1875. These islands
are deposits of mud and are very soft
Inc snip was on there eight months, but
we finally got her off,
Inc picture showed an extraordinary
situation. The island seemed to be moth
ing OUT low, conical hill rising from
Tue water. The ship had run right up
TINS SO that her entire length was out of
water, and almost half of her length
was sticking up into the air at an angle
OF 10 degrees above the crest of the hill
IN order to keep her from breaking her
pack across the top of the hill which
she was likely to do simply by her own
weight, long props were put in under her
skyWard soaring bow. Then the wreck
ing company's boat took up it's position
behlnd the unlucky steamer and put the
pumps at work sending powerful streams
of water against the hillside. BY this
mutation of hydraulic mining they. grad
ually washed the hill out from under the
steamer so that little by little it Slid
back into the river
Here" went on the captain. s'is tha
Skull and tusks of waIrus taken from
the ship Nerito in 1895. The Nerito went
ashore on Sable island, a long narrow
strip of sand which is known among sea-
1arlng folk as the graveyard of the At
!antlc ocean. Here is a map of it as it
lies, $50 miles east of Nova Scotia. Do
you see these ships?'h pointing to tiny
black boats, scores of them ranged in
rows around the long -serpentine island.
everyone of those represents shin
winch has been wrecked there and not
one of them4 all was ever saved until
we got the Nerito off in 1895.
1T was outside of our field, which is
really only our own Atlantic coasts and
the West Indies; but nobody else would
undertake the job. We did, and, as
say, we scored the first rescue from that
graveyard. We were rather proud. I'll
ADMIT, to heat people on their own
ground
Here is a bottle of sweet oil from the
park Roberts which was sunk in 1874
on the southern coast 1t wasn't until
1877 that we went down and raised her
10 get her cargo, which was of olive oil
and sweet oil. AS 1t had been in sealed
bottles 1t was as good as ever
When say our field is along our own
AtIantlc coast l mean our usual field, We
dld one job on the Pacific coast, shipping
all the machinery across the country by
rail and hiring boat over there. We
mad job at Cape Horn, too and we
sent our own boat all the way to do the
work
Wreck1ng company is run a good
ueai IKE ire company. Everyone of our
boats is ready night or day to go out on
1op at moments notice. Within three
minutes after we get information at the
once mere of a job to be done one of our
poats can be 81 the way to the scene We
have thee stations; one here, one at New
port News and one at Jamaica. Most OF
the trouble comes along the Long Island
theCarolinas and Florida. The wrecks
along the New England coast are gener-
ally small vessels.
,Our-methods in this country are some
what d1fferent from what they are
ABROAD. On the opposite Atlantic COAST
they have high tides, so that the rescuing
ship can go close alongside the wrecked
vessel, and that facilitates the work OF
getting her off. Over here, with our long,
siop1ng beaches and low tides we some
times have to anchor mile or mile and
half from a wreck. In case like that
all the machinery and things we are tt
use have to be transported to her in
small boats AS a heavy sea keeps UP
from tWenty-four hours to four or five
days after storm this is dangerous as
well as difficult.
ed vessels must-be ready to take his life
in his hand at any time. Here, for in
stance, is case, pointing to a photo
graph of stranded steamer, which was
almost hidden in a mass of surf and
spray. From the ship to the shore
stretched a trolley line, as the captain
called it. "A mansin a basket was max
ing the trip from shore to ship.
In the case of wreck like that" said
the captain, ''it is imperative for US to
get to work as soon as we possibly can.
Otherwise the sea will pound the ship to
pieces. Our men go on board, taking two
or three or four immense cables which
are fastened to winches operated by en-
gines of the. wreck itself. These cables
are anchored seward, and the engines
go to work to pull the ship off inch by
inch. The men on board never know
how the job will end. They may get the
ship off, but they may have her go to
pieces under them, and in a sea like
that" pointing to the. picture, that
would mean almost certain death
when ship goes on the rocks there
are various methods to be pursued. II
the tide can be made to float her off, a
big patch is put over the hole, she is