The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08
Crew Rescues Three Castaways
in the Nick of Time-Inter-
esting Tale Of Adventure.
MAN IS LOST OVERHEARD.
Eight Thousand Miles Sailed
Without Canvas on Vessels
Mainmast, Being Damaged
By a Typhoon.

SPECIAL
New York. May Back from q long
and adventurous voyage, which began at
this port sixteen months ago, the Bath
built clipper Roanoke lay OF Stapleton,
Staten Island. with a force of riggers
sending down the tophamper Of the tow
erins fabric. SO that she could pass under
the Brooklyn bridge to her berth. near
the foot Of Grand street, East River.
There she Will land the 1000 tons Of
general cargo which she took on board at
Shanghai Nearly 700 tons OF mating.
which had been shipped at Hong-kong,
was landed at Baltimore. where the ves-
sci touched before proceeding to this
port
In a voyage which consumes sixteen
months and which Is extended over 5000
miles OF blue water, many strange adven-
lures may come. II Is interesting to note
that this one more than rounds out her
masters million miles at sea-four times
The span from earth to moon.
He Is Captain Amesbury. who nearly
thirty years ago started on his wedding
TIP rom this port in a little two-masted
s~chooner, Of which he was master. He
IS now master OF a clipper oHninE four
masts, though one OF these was so bad
ly sprung In a typhoon in the China seas
That the captain was afraid TO trust any
as a result the journey was stretched out
to the extraordinary length which has
made this round trip notable In. marine
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FINDS Son IN PORT.
There was q big neet OF sailing ships
riding In the Narrows. but only a
showed such a Matterhorn altitude a. did
this gianteB. and after a long. hard pull
the rovboat came bobbing aiong4dk
scaD5ain no. on SoaTa;Y r nas Mats
got in" the mate continued In a voice like
q foghorn, before he gets word that his
son. who is master Of the bark Adolph
Obrig, n whom he hasn't seen for ten
Singapore the day before the Roanoke
$50 he unmoors from the Roanoke and
say whers the be now. But wherever
they be o can bet they are having
some long yarns 10 urreef. Ten years o
TEL about these sixteen months? Oh.
yes. I car do that No. ] don't have no
call to look at the log for dates- You see,
s ssa0, oa don't s, have ,1 50 much NJ b., 70 think
IN n OF these deep-sea trips. and we
remember all that happens and the time
" sail from here on December 2, 1900,
bound for Shanghai and with l24.Wo cases
six days GU. from here and We meets a
s satfT ship pesain a S Sosisr i New vas York sGo' ch Ms
William Hayden his name a as likely
a Lad as ever went to sea- Well. sir. he
was was co on that I pop POP LAD laaae a,d mere her I've wne M,,s e
it We ION her to. but couldn't rescue
the lad. and when the gale blows. itself
OUT; We 60 on our way and I sn,na m 5ss
route-and reach lava Head fA days Later.
CASTAwAYS RESCUED
There We eets the sort Of weather that
makes US sometimes think We was an
other Flying Dutchman. though what we
should be doing I'd there in the Sunda
Straits. providing We was a Flying Dutch
man. was What we couldn't figure out
seeing that his cruising ground In down
than a month, and we was ali Of sixty-two
days making the run through the China
seas.
well. we arrive at Shanghai. discharge
our oil. take on about 1000 tons Of gen.
eral cargo and go to Hong-kong, where
we gets the mating below there, ships q
The mate here interrupted his narrative
hear that war had been declared and of
their excitement when T they heard heard 1 Of sae
good sailormen." he added, "and they all
left us at Baltimore. probably looking for
quick way OF getting back ana help
I'VE made a rescue Of some castavays"
the mate resumed. three OF them adrtft
In q boat. and It was about time somebody
they would have been dead or drowned.
They were eighty miles south Of Borneo
when we rescued them Their schooner
had foundered and they had been floating
about for ten days when we gets them
on board. Tives them nourfshment ana
en- Transfers ms sso them . t 70 a n sse sss Fs.rait,-a
monsoon that keeps US there twenty \
seven days. Then we clears the straits
hits a dead calm. and stratghtaway
His name was Edward Middle |
ton, and he was one of the best seamen
had. How he comes to fall from aloft
nobody ever knew.
CAUGHT IN TYPHOON.
Then comes along this typhoon. and the
mainmast is broken and broken 80 badly
that It looks as IL It would 90 over the
side. We takes in sail and when the
modsrates we put a spare spar
on the after side. flashing II there with
heavy hawser around mast and spar.
But the mast was SO weakened thar We
dared not carry sail on II. n all the rest
the voyage we made without using Il
That took at least one-third on our speed.
what, with this and the head gales we
zot, we were I5s days coming home"
For twenty-five years Mrs. Amesoury
had sailed with her husband. but was not
him on this trip.
Two paintings which hang In the Cap.
private cabin are her work. n
apartments and tell how she occupied
time on the many long journeys.
The oanok Is Of 3.S47 tons net. i'll reef
inches long. ~ feet 2 inches beam and
o feet 2 inches depth. Of hold. Her four
.hick at the deck. Her lower yards are 100
Ieet long. Her skysail yards measure