Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-09-24

.et ~"e tue stofy was proven correct
10 every detail. II was published ia q
Maine newspaper, and then happened to
come under the eye OF Mrs. varnum, " BIO
showed u In tarn to her nephew, Mr.. Mad.
dox, knowing he was interested In sea
farfng matters.
VITA what interest Mr. Maddox read
the tale can Be imagined, with It's connec.
ton With tha very vessel and voyage witt
which he was identified twenty-sight
years sgo.
THE BOTTLE FOUND.
The bottle was found floating three
miles OF M9nomoy Point, little 10 the
southeast. IL Is far cry from the Indian
ocean, bat the bottle eventually made the
ocean trip, though II took over third of
mans life Tor IL. Mr.. Maddox. from his
sesfsriug lore, hss evolved theory of
bottles Ioarneyings, and the natural
reason therefor, though the bottle may
have made very circuitous line of travel
over the oessn's surface. His theory Il
that u wss esught by trade wind currents
till II fell into the swing OF the guilt stream,
by which II wss washed to the Cape Cod
waters.
The place where the bottle was cast
into the ocean Is Of the east coast OF
Madagascar. There trade winds blow
from the northeast, by which the bottle
vas driven around the Cape OF Good
Hope, slowly but surely bobblng iss
way Into the Atlantic. Once around
the Cape, II encountered the trade winds
4 B41sr ttt rr.ate o ~.
These trade winds from tho north and
south combine. and are one OF the causes
Of the gulf stream, blowing steadily from
tho equatorial regions OF the old world.
Tue warm current OF the gult stream,
which travels at the rate Of four miles an
hear In some places, washed the bottle
EDWARDS iiiI II was caught in the wide
sweep of toe Cult OF Mexico.
IL presumably rounded the curve OF thc
galf, and kept on up by the Florida penin-
sala aud the Atlantic coast, still following
the gait stream guidance. The gulf
stream passes Cape HattprRs only ten
miles seward, aud Il IL supposed that
shout at sais pnint the bottle was forced
out o, the gait stream current, and drawn
into ths coast wise currents that were later
10 carry 10 by Mouomoy Point. There the
bottle, passed and re-passod by hundreds
o. vessels, wss finally picked up by a
Hsrwiehport fisherman, ana It's ocean
wandst!ngs wsre over.
! Tits presumptiye sea journey Is tAe
direct route, Bot A. tho bottle has been
fu,Iing. rambling aud floating along tho
OCEAN waves tor twenty eight yesrs, there
Is no knowing whsre Il has setuaIiy been
To that long Interval. at what ports II
may have touched or what waters it
may have trsvorssd. Even bottle,
drifting htthsr aud thitbcr at the mercy
OF wind. and currents, may cover vast
deal OF ocean sarfscs In twenty eiRhi
| years, and this one, cast from the "Hsttie
/ T.. Tapisy", msy have been In. many out
ot.ths- wsy corners OF the earth before
floating along by MonomOy Point, of
Cape Cod.
| aADpox's MOVEMENTS.
Meanwhile. during the bottles wander
ings Third officer Maddox had met with
many changes. He landed in Falmouth,
Fog, in 1874, at the end OF that voyage
from the Indtan ocean. The Hattie f, +"
was ordered to Btemerbsvsn, Germany,
! whither Maddox sailed. There be left be
"Hattie", and came hack to America for a
years schooling.
lie never s@w the ship again. In the
spring of 1875 be signed on another vessel
and took up sailors life once more. In
all, be followed the sea fifteen years,
rising TO b chief officer, going round the
world three times, and seeing all sorts
and conditions Of men aud places
In 1885 be came 10 Broekton to settle, and
h&. lived here sinee. being now employed
80 salesman at Goy's furniture store oH
Centre street. n. hiss r'eh fund Of
stories about the sea. lie Was wrecked on
Squirrel islsnd ia Boothbay hsrbor, mar
rowly escaping Nith his life, bat In the
main h,s sea travels we're fortunate.
An unasuAI coincidence on one OF his
trips was ,skIag out cargo Of railroad
/ iron from New York, and coming baes
east on be railroad built from that anne
I cargo. Tue rails we're taken around the
Horn and disehsrged at Portland, Ore,
tor the Mort bern Pacific road, then about
I 10 he constructed. MADDOX came oscS 70
the Pacific COST few years after this
voyage, and Iosrneyed east over the
Northern Pacific, BY tina, time In practical
Z operation,
Thtss are but the accidents aud adven-
tures o, sea:sring life, bat this bottle
Circumstance IS among the most singular
be ever encountered. II comes alt the
more strangely after be had abandoned
the sea, and bad been lsndsman fifteen
/ years IA Broekton.