The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-17
THE SIX NASTED Schooner.
BIG FREIGHT CARRIER WITH A
SMALL CREW.
Fore, Main, Mizzen, Spanker, Jigger
and Driver Masts-12,0O0 Square
Yards of Canvass.

Catch view of the spars of the giant
schooner George w. Wells "A little to
one side and you imagine that you see
the masts of a squadron of schOoners.
In her lines she is a yacht. TWEEN
tieth century machine the siX-sticker
has demonstrated herself to be in speed
carrying capacity and economy.
The Wells, with the blue house flag
of her consignees tapping from her
mizzen truck, lay off the Erie piers on
Friday, but yesterday the long, grace
full vessel was moved up alongside an
Erie pier above Hoboken. She will be-
gin discharging her freight of $4,000 yell
low pine railroad ties today.
Here is the proof of the practiCability
of the sailing machine.
on August IA last, when she went
over board into PenobsCot bay, in the
little seaCoast town of Camden, Me, in
the presence of 10000 people, she repre-
scented a lump sum of 100000 in timber
and metal Figure that she cost $780,
900.
Capt. Arthur L. Crowley, the young
skipper capitalist, of Taunton, Mass,
who commands, and owns, perhaps, the
biggest part of the new era schooner,
receives 10 cents for bringing a tie from
Brunswick, Ga, to Hoboken. That is
$4,000 for one trip.
She carried 1900 tons of coal from
a ton. That is 81, $50. Earnings of $14,-
26O within five months, minus running
expenses, is more than 912 per cent.
a little more than year ago people
were laughing at Capt. Crowley. They
called him a dreamer. He found a man
who had faith and money He was
George w. Wells, of Southbrdge, Mass.
millionaire manufacturer of spectaCles,
who had become interested in shipping.
Wells had started with nothing. He
was born on a farm up in Woodstock,
Conn.
The keel was laid and later the ham
let turned itself loose. Miss May Wells
scattered white roses upon the bow
and freed a flock of white doves, and
officers of the Kearsarge and Indiana
danced at the ball that followed the
launching.
From the tip of her driver boom to
the tip of her jibboom the Wells is
about 425 feet long. on her keel she is
302 feet II inches long. On one trip she
can carry as much coal as three of the
Philadelphia and Reading Golfers.
Builder II. Nj. Bean, of Camden, said
in an interview on Nov. 20 that he be-
lieved in the practicability of a seven
master. Mr.. Bean built the Wells, and
there is talk in Maine of building a
seven master.
To run a full-rigged ship of the size
of the Roanoke, queen of the Sewall
fleet, which is a slightly larger craft
than the Wells. requires a crew of
about thirty-fiVe. The siX-masted
schooner carries eight men before the
mast, two mates, engineer, cook. cabin
bOy-fourteen with the captain.
Sharp bows, a clean run aft, graceful
curves and great length take away all
appearance of bullIiness. Her frame is
white oak, her planlling and ceiling are
hard pine. The lower mastS are Oregon
pine, each 1l9 feet long. Each topmast
is IS feet in length
Her masts are known as fore, main,
mizzen, spanker, jigger and driver. She
spreads $1,000 square yards of duck in
twenty-five sails-driVer, jigger, span
ker, miZzen, main fOresails, six gaff top
sails, driver jgger, spanker, mizzen
and maintopmast staysails and
fore staysail, jib, flying jib, outer jib
and balloon jib.
Her ground tackle is immense. One
anchor weighs $3.50 pounds, the other
$500 pounds. Rove into each is 800
fathOms of two and one-half inch chain.
She is 345 feet long on top, As feet
inches beam and % feet deep. Her gross
tonnage is 1910, her net 2,740. Cabins
and staterOoms are finished in ash,
sycamore and cherry. There are hot
and cold baths, steam heat, electric
bells and a telephone line to the galley
and the engine room.
"She sits on the water like a duck
and sails like bird" says her proud
skipper. She can reel off more than 200
knots a day before the wind.-New
York World.