The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-17
A BOTTLES LONG JOURNEY
THROWN INTO NAW YORK HARBOR
 FOUND IN BERMUDA.


 Cast Adrift Last October by James M.
 Keane of This City-Frnveile" seven
 Hundred Miles I'm Five Months-CoV-
 cred With Pharmacies.
 Tales of the sea are always interest ing and many of them are the cause or much speculation and Wonderment. This is especially so when there is tinge of localism about them. A rather strange story of bottle lhnocehVly cast over the side of vessel comes from Bermuda. On the occasion or the second successful internatlonal yachV race, October last, a party ol NeW HaYeners were among those who Wlt- messed the contest from the steamer | Cypheus The party was composed ol | James M. keane, Bernard McSueeneS' James A. Ryan and Master Beelar. AS | is often the case a bottle of stlmulantS | was taken along as protection rom lhe chilling blasts. In the course ol tlhne | this was drained and in joking way | MT keane tore the corner ofI one ol | his business envelopes, put It llllo the | bottle and after securely tastehlnS lhe | cork tossed it into the briny deep, Wlth never the thought of seeing or hearing from it again. Such was not the tate of the bottle for a few days ago well known resident of Fair Haven received copy of the Royal Gazette published at Hamilton, Bermuda, on March l. | Among other matters Of interest IS | lengthy article under the heading Bot | tie Cast Ashore in Long Bay It IS as | follows:
 "A bottle was picked up on the sea shore, securely corked and bearing, as could be distinctly seen through It's par- nacle bearing sides, a paper of some nm port is needless to say an opJecu or very great interest which at the mo- ment of finding may be raised even to | the point of excitement A few days ago such was the experience ot H. H. i Smith. who found a flat quart bottle of unstaned glass blown with the words, warranted flask, in Long Bay | Somerset. To it's sides clung many bar nacles. and to the cork was attached a seaweed growth, with the appearance of which we are acquainted, but, which |
 rine flora to designate. From these signs it was evident that the bottle haa been long time in the water HOW long indeed, even the paper inside was l silent on Needless to say MT. Smltn lost no time in drawing the cork ana extracting the contents The puttle coH- tained a medium sized envelope Tn a state of perfect preservation put was otherwise empty and smelt very strong ly of whiskey On the envelope which was somewhat torn and ruf1led in ex- tracting it from the bottle, was the printed direction in the left hand corn CT. originally intended for use in the post stoffice-'Return to James M. keane' staple Groceries and Meats, 21Ol Frank lin street New Haven, Conn NO Wrlt ing appeared on the paper and the printed request may, for the time pelns be received from the phiosophic con solation that the ocean bore news that MT Keane sells staple groceries ana meats at Franklin street, New Haven, is glad intelligence to that which the bottle has oftimes brought from the T ocean--that 1t had last left the hand Of some despairing traveller on the deer mid the roar of the tempest, in hope that it might by heavens will one day bear tidings of him again to the peaceful homes of men far from the wild waves play. It would still be m teresting to know how long this bottle has been in the ocean, and at Wha' place it was committed to the elements New Haven is city of some import ance on Long Island sound and not further distant from Bermuda than New York Whether Mir. Keane drop ned the bottle in the briny deep at New Haven here in Bermuda or elsewhere or by whom 1t was sent adrift are par ticulars which it would be gratifying tc know. and it is MT, Smiths Intention to acouaint MT Keane of his having picked up the bottle and desire of in formation on these points
 This missive as will be recognized has travelled a distance of about sever hundred miles in almost exactly five months, It doubtless encountered many tides and streams particularly the gulf stream, which would have g tendency to carry 1t north, But on the contrary it noated south and crossed the stream.
 It is MT. Keane's intention to com municate with MT Smith and endeavo' to have the bottle and contents re- turned to him.