Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-12-04
Youthful Crew
STRUGGLES
With the Gale

The two-masted Yankee schooner
Western Ear, reconstructed from
the hulk OF the wrecked British fore
and.aiter A. Gibson, is drifting. water
logged and lumber laden, somewhere
IN the Gulf Stream. far east OF Nan.
tucket. Her skipper. Lewis Stanton.
a tall, clean.limbed and modest young.
ster of Rockland, Me-; his mate. Will
liam Landry, and Arthur Wiley. the
midshipmite and the bo'sn tight and
the crew of the little coaster, arrived
here yesterday aboard the Portuguese
steamship Peninsular, from Lisbon.
says the New York Sun. The crew
looks less than his age. sixteen, and
really would have been In knicker-
boxers II ne had not come from sea-
faring stock, and had not decided, at
the frock age, to become a roamer OF
the frothy main. Besides being the
crew Arthur was the cook OF the West.
ern Ear.
1t is not a long trip from Calais, Me-.
to New Bedford, Mass. In ordinary
weather, but 1t was an interminable
one for the little coaster In a tempest.
She left Calais on November with
1890 feet of spruce lumber and
shingles and ran into stress the frs,
day out, when a comber came aboard
and. catching up a part Of the deck
lead, let 1t fall on the crew. knocking
him, as he himself said. with fine
show of nautical indifference. into
the lee scuppers," very proper place
for crew to be knocked, according
to all the formulas. The crew got ur
with the help Of the mate and was
surprised and not altogether displeas
cd that he had fine wound over his
right eye. which. II seemed likely
eventually might develop a beautiful
scar.
Inc gale was right of the land, ant
the Western Ear couldn't buck IL. snt
reeled down and stood out 10 sea. Mig
ger ,he piack ana tan ana something
eise Jog, was the only one Oh the snip
company that complained. lie isn't
wafer Jog, that 49, wheh water Is
swashihs ABOARD az the rate Oh toT
nihu.e, anu ne il'eu up MS voice
anu howiea. but the saiiaht demeah
or Oh the crew nao reassurihg enec'
on MN anu ne hhaiiy got ms sea less
ana became as good sea dog as eVel
'rou q"ar.er ueck'
1t was OFF Cape Cod that the West
ern Ear started Europeward before
the blast. On Sunday. after scuddint
nearly day, a great sea swept ovel
| the small ship. tearing the boat iron
the stern davits and carrying awal
the water casks. The wind shifted Il
southwest, and the Western Ear mau
| aged to shape course toward tn,
coast. On Tuesday she was within
sight OF Cape Cod light. Another fros
ty Northwestern tore down on her an,
drove her far to sea, carrying ava.
her rudder and forward stays. There
after she drifted, helplessly broadsid
to sea, until the Peninsular hove Il
sight on Thursday morning, about 10
miles east of Nantucket.
| Cant I A. Rettencourt of the pc
njns,,lar saw the ensign NJ tho schoor
or union down Avin9 In the rigvinS
and he headed for her right awav
Meanwbile' the crew and fhe skinne
and mate mt m mention the An
hadn't had ANYTHING 10 drink for for,
and one.baH DAYS and tbev were nat,,
loilv ANXIOUS 10 be rescued The Gre,
land mate and skinner had subsiste
an canned tomatoes raw not helm
ah,e IN cook them and the dos ha
ken, himself alive on canned saline,
which the crew conIdnt eat II
ouoncb their thirst canaan mate an
rev drank molasses and VINEGAR
diet NJ this sort the skinner said wa
ajIinr hui mot nutritioms The Iaho
of iattjsoninp the deck cargo whjc
often iettisoned itself i'm 40 wild
wav that nil hands except the dog ha
IN take IN the rigging nj times
sova tb.msejvos had made The ore
60 weak that ,hev vera inst able ,
holm themsoives whom the Peninsu,s
cave along
she stood nv from I, m mt
duck an TbnrsSay hafore Cantajr pe
tenconrt ri.ked jower,ny a boat Eve
thon The con. were on ioftv that rea =
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