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

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third Atlantic voyage in 1908 which failed however
The marvel is that man so hampered should venture
to ALL and this feeling must be intensified by
remembering that of his trips has he had
any human aid whatever-rclying on his own manned
hands row, steer and stow sails, cook, ana DO
the multi udinous duties such undertaking calls
for daily
On Tune IS, 500 seventeen years after his mishap
on the Grand Banks he sailed from Gloucester, Massa-
chusctts Gloucester, England, in the sloop Great
Western arriving his destination August some
siXtv-two DAYS later. His voyage was attended
with its share of hardships and he suffered more
on account of his manned condition. His plan to
warn oncoming ships of his presence was to hoist
two lanterns his masthead, and as other crafts
could not understand this signal they would give him
a wide berth, while he slunbcrcd peacefully IN his
little cabin He was treated royalty at Gloucester
after having had amusing encounter with the
Superintendent of the Docks there. You cannot
bring your boat in here" declared that official
Blackburn sought to nurse her to a secure moor1ng
"Whv!" rctOrted her owner. lis she too big! 81"
NO " was the reply, "shcs too small "We,
reioincd Blackburn, whats your limit? She will not
take up so much that she Il crowd any liner
Two years later, une Q, 1901, he sailed again from
his home III the sloop Great Republic, for Lisbon
which he reached July IS, after passage of thirty
nine days. On May IS, 1902, he began nlne-months
cruise through the inland and coaswise waters, using
the soop Great Republic the greater part of the
way. Sailing from Gloucester to New York he worked
down the Hudson River, Erie Canal and Great Lakes
to Chicago thence through the Illinois and Michigan
canals and Mississippi River to Columbus Kentucky
whence he shipped his boat by rail Mobile and
from there sailed through the Gulf of Mexico to Bis
cayan Bay where he sold the soop and purchased
rowboat in which he made his way to Jacksonville,
thence returning New-York by steamer.
Reaching his home in February, 1908, the spirit of
adventure infarned him again, and June of the
year he left Gloucester in the siXteenfoot dory
America bound for Havre, Gibraltar, back across
the Atlantic Florida and thence up the Mississippi
to ST. Louis where he intended exhibit her at the
Fair. The America his smallest boat, and he
met adverse fortune from the In storm his
boat flooded, and he nearly drowned while
asleep below He escaped the worst but his provisions
being spoiled had to make ClarkS Harbor to reht.
After sailing again he similar mishap and
he abandoned the voyage and returned home, for,
ships much longer
Esenbraun. a Ger1nan-was driven back in his first
dory Columbia he kept for nineteen days during
which time he covered three hundred fifty miles,
but was forced to put back spent from fatigue and
rheumatism, and landed at Rockport June 49, I'm
dis.nayed by this. he started again August in (,
panied as far as Halifax Nova Scotia, by Charles
Schuz. who was planning a similar singc-handed
trip himself and went thus far to gain experience.
1t fortunate for Esenbraun that he did So for
III crossing Fundy Bay the little craft swept
by a heavy sea, which filled the cockpit and washed
him overheard, though he, being good swimmer,
managed regain the boat with the help of his mate.
Leaving Halifax August IS alone for Gibraltar,