Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-30
How Captain Barr
Gained Experience


While there seems really less chance
Of our champion being beaten In AM
erica this time than ever there was
accept defeat, the knowledge that ono
Of the chief agencies in administering
the blow was raised" by ourselves.
Is bone of our bone and flesh of our
fesh-nanely, Charles Barr. skipper
Of Columbia-should tend to soften the
bitterness Of the experience. says the
London Yachting World. Few men in
any walk Of life have been animated by
more honest aspirations. more deter
mination to conquer all obstacles lying
between him and his goal, or more
tireless tenacity of purpose: moreover.
fewer still have reached the very top
Of their profession from such lowly
and unlikely beginnings.
A native of Gourock. Barr. In early
youth, had such knowledge-no more.
10 less--of small boats as all boys have
those privilege II, Is to be reared on
the coast. When n was apprenticed.
oowever--in Greenock-to the grocery
'rsde, II seemed as II all he would ever
have to do with the sea and ships
would be to have look at them from
me beach at holiday times. by lucky
-1cidsni his brother John drifted into
"a hitting. and straightway became one
% the leading British racing shippers.
the success on the part of his brother
4 once fired the imagination Of the
| "urng shopmun. and soon the counter
aim than that Of the grocer's shop.
From the very first young Barr became
50 keenly enamored Of the sea that a
tumer with his brother on the high
! y susccessful racing 1-tOnHer rlerin
20 impressed him with the possibilities
y his new calling that instead Of going
back for the winter to his comfortable
.hop, he engaged to go founder fishing
N the middle reaches of the Clyde II
N S-ton smack-the wettest.. coolest
ii-tiest work to which man can doom
.imself--so that he might the quicker
and the better perfect himself In the
-!ficult art of sailing cutter rugged
vgssel
Young Barr had not been long on
board the smack till # became album.
| ;.antly apparent that Fate fbr ones
wasn't blind when she beguiled thi,
,non to the sea. With the exception Of
HIMSELF the men In the smack were
"9mparatively elderly men, and on,
bitterly cold winter morning the litti.
boat was caught In a shrieking nor
.agterly gale off Portincross, the fish
ing hamlet on the Ayrshire coast. tire.
or four miles south OF Fairlie. tina
produced the Hogarths. Millport wa
the natural harbor to make for. bu
after many gallant attempts to sail tn,
smack there It became painfully an
parent that there was as much Iikeli
hood Of her flying to It as sailing I,
Il. BY this time the older men ha,
become enfeebled and disheartened
when Barr. who had been workin,
spIendidly all along. took the TILE
and assumed command In general
Having seen how hopeless IL WAS at
tempting to beat the boat to a place O
safety. he boldly put her before tn
wind and started TO run her to Ardros
san. The boat WAS only half decked
and he had an awful time OF IL 20 pre
vent her from popping the bigger q
the seas. on the entrance to Ardros
san harbor. In spite of all his skill
she so nearly foundered that he abar
doned the idea OF trying to make thi