New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11

Eisenbraun was not reported in thrtyseven days,
when the British steamer Greenbrier gave him pro-
visions in mid-OCean. He put INTO Madeira October
90 after scventyto days route, and after overhaul
ing and reftting his boat continued to Gibraltar
reaching there November 20, after voyage of one
hundred days. He in good health and
spirits though he had not escaped his share OF adj
ventures. On September ), during a heavy gale and
while hove-to with sea-anchor out its bride broke
the boat fell off and popped by sea- carry
ing off his ruder, tiller sea-anchOr and the watch
he ed for navigation, and spelling his provisions
that he lost everything but hope, he entered
it in his log Four days later a steamship bound for
Gibraltar supplied him with stores and ninety-cent
watch to replace the other The next week another
ship spoke him. tried to induce him TO abandon his
voyage, and when he refused gave him water and
food. On October 10, while taking a short nap, his
boat collided with sleeping whale, but luckily he
escaped with only a duCking.
Esenbraun claims that the voyage not lonely
depressing but that he found abundant OCCupa
ton and contentment. Frequently he welcomed
storms as he could then take in sail, set his sea-
anchor crawl into the little covered space he called
his cabin, close the hatch behind him and sleep
comfortably. Nor had he fear of accident, rcCOg-
nizing the wide cxpanse of and how tiny speck
his craft formed upon it. His voyage having been
broken at Madeira cannot be considered so great
achievement Blackburn's, especially in view
of the lattcrS physical inirnitieS. Blackburn
tainly stands unequaled a dory voyager"
The others who essayed the voyage in 1908 were
Joseph Chavres, Portuguese American, and William
Schneider, a German american. The former, like
Blackburn, has of his hands crippled the work of
an insane cOmrade a fishing vessel He left Boston
June CO. in the twcnvfoot dOry Portugal, but after
going about two hundred forty miles returned de
carng that his boat was not fast enough Schneider
in tifteen-foot dOrv, and rescued from her
the Banks by the fishing schooner Procyon after hav
ing been three weeks and making little progress
Rarely is the from England to America at
tempted, though there conspicuous instance
of this in the Little Western which sailed from Glouces
fer Mass i'm nd al
Isle of Wight fortysix DAYS later manned by George
Thomas and Fred Norman, returning again the next
year from London to Gloucester in sXty-two days.
She was the only American boat up to that time
make the Atlantic voyage in both directions, and
her doing made occasion of great rejoicing
10y the thousands of shell backs who resided along the
New England seaboard.
The transatlantic traveller who the tiny fabrics
tossing on the choppy swell OF the Grand Banks with
their hardy occupants fishing while the parent barks
lie within easy reach. marvcls at how they live
through the gales that srite them. But pcrilous
as their plight IS it be nothing compared that
of the marine Wanderer who deliberately sets out
to cross the ocean and subjects himself to every
har1shi and discomfort, having scarcely to
move, and living for weeks with only a thin bC ard
between him and eternity. From the narratives OF
those who misfortune these SkiiS and
ct1cd it is easy to understand what suffering must
be endured by those who fare still worse. when their
boats become crippled and unmanagcable, their food
spoiled and water saltcd their boat starts leaking
and they begin desperate, unequal fight TO keep
aloat hoping against hope for rescue until with
tagging energies and dcSpondcnt spirits they wait