Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-21


Bellevue hospital. New York city. last
week, and started at once for his home
in Yarmouth, n. S. where he VIII eat
his Christmas dinner. Last Christmas
he had no dinner to eat and passed
Christmas day on an iceberg
Lambertson is youth of is. hut hard
ship and sickness nave make him look
much older. When the brig Sea Serpent
was moved TO the Roberts wharf in
Brooklyn early in March Lambertson
went ashore and after shaking hands
with his shipmates proceeded to Belle
vue hospital, where he was treated for
gangrene superinducel by frost bites.
''You are a sailorT said the physi-
elan who examined him.
Yes, sir; sort of sailor fisherman"
who brought you here?"
II came from the Azores in the Sea
Serpent"
And how did you get to the Azores"
Part &c the way on an iceberg and
part of the way in the barquentine Mel
''Now," said the physician, "tell MS
how. YOU received your injuries And,
mind, | don't want n forecastle yarn or
sea serpent story"
This is in substance the story told nv
young I.amberts0n and corrobOrated In
part by letters from Nova Scotia TO the
hospital authorities:
FEATHER ard | went ont fishing on
Christmas eve last from Cark's harbor.
We were after mackerel. and were doing
well, INIT had not been long out when a
Bay Fundy fog surrounded us and we
concluded to put back. The old man
Steered and I rOwed. as there wasn't n
breath of wind to fill the sail. After
cropping our way east for half an hour we
struck against something or something
struck against us. and was thrown
clean overheard. ! know now that the
keel Of our boat eollled with the snur
Of an iceberg. When ! rose to the sur
face | heard the old man shouting, but
couldn't answer him, and il seems TO
me that the spur got between us in the
first place and then we were separated
altogether by the entire berg. At all
events, ] hayn't seen the old man since.
though he is alive and wen, thank God
| ] am n pretty good swimmer. and after
laundering around some time I managed
to get on a ledge of the berg and main
tain myself there by bracing my shout
der against a slight projection overhead
knowing ] could not keep this position
very long | climbed with great difficulty
to the top, though really there is no
such thing rs top to n body which has
no shape that one can make ont. II
was like one of those huge rocks you may
see taken ont of the earth by blasting,
and it rolled and tumbled about in all
sorts of ways.
"When | thought I was on ton IN,
berg would keel over until found N.Y.
self on the side, and at one time IL turned
? complete sOmersault and threw me
once more into the water I had n cnol
mind TO give mp then and accept what
seemed my fate, but ] thought Of the
folks ut home. and that my father being
probably drowned. the family would
have to depend upon me. SO made an
other effort. The berg was rolling, and
presented many sharp points here and
there one Of which | seized, and by its
means lifted myself to the ledge from
which | had been thrown. Realizing
that | could not maintain myself in that
position ] climbed once more to the ton
and this time found myself in n saucer-
shaped cavity. Whipping out my knife.
| hacked away for dear life, until had
scooped ont a pile Of pebbles and sea
weed on which I rested my feet. Mean
time my body from the waist up was
exposed. Even at this | was in danger
Of falling out, or off. when the berg rolled
over as It frequently did. | was, there
fore, obliged to he constantly on the
alert. From this situation I was now in
| could think and think. The berg had
evidently come down from Labrador in
the warm current, and was drifting in
a sOutheaSterly direction. The part of it
above water was about IL feet in att
tude and had hopes that II I did not
snrrumb to hunger and thirst / might be
taken Off by a passing Snip. Exhausted
from my cXerti0ns and though fearing
that sleep might mean death | could not
resist the drnwejness that came over me,
and so fell asleep. When / awoke after
n few hours it was night, and the stars
we're in the sky. Though my hands and
feet were numbod | did not feel as cold
rs one might imagine, 1t is useless de-
scribing my sensations. / thought of
the sad Christmas mother and the kids
would pass without me, and. perhaps.
without the old man, and I prayed TO
God TO save me. ! was glad when tho
morning came-Christmas morning-bu'
] suffered fcarfully from hunger and
thirst. Christmas day passed over me
like Christmas eve. and az the dawn of
the 26th I gave up hone But one should
never despair, even though hundreds ~
miles oui at sea IN an iceberg. for that
evening I was taken off the berg hy q
boat from the barkentine Sea Serpent OF
j. T.. l.. commanded by
Capt Ferguson, and bound for the
Azores. The captain treated mo well
and after staying on tho Azores Few
wocks I came 70 New York in the Sea
Serrent, n Liverpool hrigantinp
That is about all" concluded the
young fisherman from Nova Scotia "au3
say. Doctor ! don't want 70 spend M
moro Christmas DAYS on q berg ST I
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