The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-13

Captain Adolph Frietsch. the world
renowned Lone Mariner" is visiting
in Roswell. His records in one sail
ing is given herewith:
Thirty-four days acros the Allan
tic in the schooner Nina. 1894.
T~wenty-six days across the Pacific
in schooner Coke. 1889.
Fourteen thousand miles in schoon-
er Anna F. from 1901 to 1904.
The schooner Anna F. is now an
chored in Buffalo Bayou at Houston,
Texas, and the Captain came to Ros-
well from that point. When he goes
back to Houston he will board his
little schooner and head for the Gulf
and direct to the islands off the Flor
ida coast. His name is connected with
some of the most daring and start
ling adventures on the deep seas.
Captain Freitsch has just completed
4 voyage of nearly 1,40O miles around
and across the Gulf of Mexico.
The Captain, who comprises the
entire crew, is unquestionably one
of the most remarkable and adventure
~ome sailors on the globe.
He became famous about nine or
ten years g by crossing the Allan
tic ocean alone in a small schooner
Of his own constructor that was only
forty feet in length. Again in 1899
he made another adventurous voyage
alone from San Francisco to Honolu-
lu, a distance of 1000 miles in a five
ton BOAT. The Anna F. is the latest
boat, he having built it in Mobile.
Alabama a few years ago, making il
alone without assistance.
His Life.
Captain Adolph Frietsch was born
in Alec, Finland, about As years ago.
When a boy he was of a restless dis
position, but his parents managed to
keep him at home until he was II
ears of age. during which time he
was fairly wei educated. having gra-
luated from a technical school. At
the age of seventeen the same spirit
of adventure which in olden times
1rove the Vikings, his ancient ances-
tors, to ~piratical cruises in distant
seas. compelled him to leave his ma
rive shores and seek relief for that
uncomfortable spirit for adventure
by a life upon the vast seas of the
world. Joining a ship he went to Bonn
bay, and then, after awhile. he found
himself on the shores of America.
Concluding to give up the sea he wenT
west and settled on the western shore
of Lake Michigan, where he remained
for nearly seventeen years.
The old Viking spirit of adventure
however was still in him, though it
had lain dormant for many years.
The desire for roaming the seas
again took possession of him and he
decided to gain by crossing
the Atlantic in a small boat alone.
and of his own construction.
He accordingly built the small skiff
which he named the Nina" and cross
ed the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to
Queenstown in t~hirty-four days and
| few hours.
On the Stage.
The Captain is known the world
Jver at the seaport towns where his
iaring deeds at sea have been told
aver and over again.
After his famous voyage across the
Atlantic, the Captain was heralded
throughout the land as a great adven-
turer. and he soon became interested
in vaudeville. having appeared in all
of the larger cities as a stellar at
traction for the continuous vaudeville
houses.
He is also a poet of no mean abifi-
~. having on a number OF occasions
written verses for the leading north
ern dailies. one of these little poems
having attracted attention as 1t an
swered one which appeared written
by another regarding the p~fonuncia.
ton of his name.
For the past our n I'VE years the
Gulf of Mexico has been the home OF