The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-29
THE WILD IRlsHMAN OF FREEuew.


formed the Of Freevsew Bay gave land
locked TO the inner of the harbor The chan
nei at low tide than half hundred feet
across between The Point and the main town and the
bar which harbor prevented all
but light draught from entering The mayor and
leading spirits Of Fairyew already dreaming Of
jetty would make the town great port entry,
and the surveyor had been figuring on the cost
OF dredging away that deep-aden ships might
have thrtyfoot channel low water but the estimates
appalled, the most sangune citizens and the most
conservative pointed that the mains Of
Fairview crossed the harbor mouth The Point al
depth only fifteen high tide At low tide there
but above the great iron pipes and it
pointed that the Of sinking the mains or the
impossibIity shutting The Points' supply
question thrtyfoot channel If not
ultimately impossible for small town TO contemplate
The people OF The Point all mariners fisher
folks or boatbuders and like all toers Of the sea-
they held themselves aoof from the landuooers across
bay proud and content with their
Until Captain Ole Svensen had been Of the
most popular and best beloved community when
he died and left his all Chrisnahe people called her
"Chrsty"-they would have taken her their hearts
gladly she any the sorrowful dependence
orphaned girls expected show But Chris
", who tall and fair and good sailor as any
inches The Point displayed astonishing
and offensive determination 10 take neither the
dctaton patronage Of anyone least CT all the women
She far TO keep her fathers crew in pay for
a after funeral and shocked all the by
then announcing she command of
Sara the coastwise schooner Of which he had been
proud itself in the regular trade till she could
fnl 4 skipper of her choosing.
they could countenance and lot OF iii aatured
round about a girl who would ship alone a
schooner with lot Of who might do
well for shipmates with rough fellows like Captain
Svensen were certainly unfit company for young
woman supposed be gently nourished. and OF good
breeding. But, IL happened Chrsty made
than voyage skipper for her first mate hand
some curly haired black-eyed reckless young Irshman
named Tim Ceary, been fathers
One trip sufficient for the speedy gallant to win Chris
ty and the wedding sooner announced than the
Of The Point began whisper lugubrous prophe
sizes about what Tim would do with old Svensen's
money. a matter Of Saga Chrisy's prin-
cipal heritage and the old salts of the village
liked Ceary and by all the gods of the that
mariner weathered dirty weather.
Indeed the worst could be honestly
sailor that he daring foolhardiness fond
of fight frolic land water and with all the
happy improvdence with that characterzes both
sailors and Irishmen.
Chrlsty had been Cleary for about four months
the great that almost submerged Freevfew
swept up from the southeast In fact Tim brought the
Saga the bar the night before. low tide, in
wind that almost hurricane, himself whstiing
stood wheel and every OF the breath
less of fear Of going pieces in the pitch darkness that
lay the water thick shroud. Nobody in Free
view in all that sorTn-swept country will
forget the tempest that ragged IN that
night after the Saga bar, scenes Of
death and devastation that doomed every side
morning when cloudess sky and a warm, bright
lit the of the tidal Ruined wharves
ed streets, dsmantled houses drowned
all the melancholy wreckage cast in the night by
resstless Saga tempest though
Of vessels dragged from their moOrings
went TO pieces miles from the anchorage But the oldest
sight of all in the morning the strange steep
ship deviation for that obscure port Eolus aground
the harbor. No sooner had they sped her than the
and all the aldermen FASTENED the waterwors
to find whether she had cut the town pipes
the bar the drew nineteen feet
light and her hold full goods
and with the tide out eighteen feet the
inside harbor she lay tilted her beams
stern high that her showed above the water
How did get the main? Thr was no
he had her
scatheless in while the onrushng food OF
water buried the town water pipes fathoms safety
When the tide she rghted herself anoat
but now the great question arose was how TO get her
There lay the little harbor useless as if
she aground in the American desert. To
OF the cys water supply would have cost more than the
value Of the boat The owners wouldn't pay, the city
wouldn't pay the people wouldn't pay
pickering parties were as far
from agreement ever and the the Eolus
quite Disguised turned the ship the
companies and withdrew. The steamer with her fires
and her cabin deserted lay idle for months
Then some queer things happened Captain Ceary sold
the Saga and bought the Eous course they got
steamship for song-she worth $4,000 sea-but
locked up In the impossible harhor She wasn't worth thu
scrap IN her hull For month the Joke of Free
view and everybody laughing the wild Irshrian
and Christy As for Ceary he took possession and
Christy. whose baby scarce month old brought
all her belongings aboard The wags began
ship Ciearys Castle the Houseboat the Styx.'
but Just same Tim weeks preparation made
everyone stare one morning by sending dense columns
OF spoutng from the Eolus red stacks Half the
down the beach that day, before noon
her began churn the and her prov
turning slowly toward the harbor mouth 10 had been
nosing his ship cautiously along the Prov
turning slowly toward the harbor mouth.
nosng his ship along
mayor officer Injunction him
and amid the Of the crofd he slowly back
his mornings After month every tine C7eary
got up injunction served hirn-quite
unnecessary proceeding utterly impossible
the Eolus lighteued she without
least nineteen feet % clear water the pipes
But everybody afraid Tim Cleary would try Il
the town" by wreczins the system. He
his quit him. and the sossps
began pity Chrsty her baby Nobody could
she bore bravtiy fcr hy consent,
ruin staring ga the face md Tiri had tain ave
HIS II indeed he had take .:
e quit f3oing with the Eoias. thcn * ae
man and assistant engineer hy living
ship conttived exc spare living f7r hin-
self Christy little Tin Of whom Re seemed passion
stely fond
It vas more taau year after the famous udai save
1893 that second terrifying s incep-
ton swept down upon Freeview. Daring
Point seeing the cozg tyFhoon roved the Eos.
ard begged and Christv ashore for
hahys the kid Irishrnan laughed and Chrlsty
laughed and even TIRE baby coed ceasnty Fl face
Of The Iov-sveepn hurricane The clouds and ufsht
With driving shrisking wind drove Everyone
their shelters then ard al night long TIE
rushes upon TIE driving hack the panscst-3se7
people from, house tn TIE o5s rulo ragged
along ire water ard back ritera u vnE