The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
.LONL|EST MAN HAS AT LAST MARRIED Captain Frietsch of Lone Mari
 ner Takes a Wife SAILED FOR MANY YEARS Daring Finn F as Rraved the Storms of Every Sea In an 1s-Ton schoon- er-Now He Has a For
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SAILED FOR MANY YEARS

From the New York World.
 Capt Adolph Frietsch. who for twenty yeart has been hermit on the high seas has terminated his lonesome engagement Quite by mistake he met a girl and now quite by design he has married her. Alone in the little two-masted schooner Anna F. the two have sailed away together and now there is a hermit family on the ocean.
 For twenty years the captain of the recently launched matrimonial vessel commanded a real live ship on a real live ocean, and which he was crew and cook. deckhand and pilot all in one,
 Incidentally Capt. Frietsch holds the re- cord for one-man cruise across the Atlantic from New York to England. He sailed the ocean and the Gulf Always alone he has buffeted the high waves and the high winds all by himself be- cause he grew sick of city life. After the cruise of 150O nautical miles Frietsch put Into Galveston to get mar ried. After mature deliberation he had decided against a single-souled and lone some existence after he had gained the reputation of being the '1onesomest man in the world" Tying his schooner at the Galveston wharves, he took his last journey alone by railroad train and buck Ing broncho to marry Miss Caroline An uefson on her brothers ranch near Cloudcroft, in New Mexico. After having ere red the Atlantic fin thirty-four days in his little schooner, the Ninas he was wrecked on the Scot tish coast With another boat and still with himself for the crew, he sailed on around the world and crossed the Pacific Ocean. Known over the world as one of the most daring sailors of the main he has recently added to his reputation.
 Still by himself In a new schooner the Anna F., of eighteen tons he sailed from tho coast of Yucatan to Galveston through two hurricanes and with a bro ken rudder. That was to keep the en- gagement for lis wedding.
 On June 15 he set sail from Biloxi, Miss to gather fancy shells off the Mexi- can reefs Since that time he has been alone on the water riding out storms and buffetting against the trade winds. He was driven from his course and compell- ed to abandon his project to keep his matrimonial engagement. narlly sailor.
 Capt Frietsc.l is a Finn and primarily sailor man. Instinct and disposition are all for water. For so many years had he cruised the sea alone that he had almost grown useu to lonesomeness He might have been Viking for his boldness
 When he crossed the Atlantic all alone In his small boat, the Nina, he gained I reputation and a vast amount of exper- fence. Since that time others have acc complished the same feat, but none in the same period of time. The nearest ap- proach has been forty-five days from New York to Ireland.
 The vessel in which he crossed the Pa cific was scarcely big enough to be call ed a respectable representative of di- .ninutive Mosquito Fleet Then he came to the blue water of the Gulf of Mexico.
 Since that time he has been cruising in the south, only occasionally invading the emerald waves of the Atlantic. He sells sea shells, and from the proceeds of his lonely work he has accumulated a for tune.
 It was since he commenced cruising in the Gulf that Capt. Frietsch met his fate. Last winter he put into Beau mont with a cargo of fancy shells gath cred from the Mexican reefs The girl who Is now his bride was visiting in that city at the time.
 1 The 1dmllY party ndpptutu lO blIOl down to the river bank. They saw the shells and saw the boat. The Lone Mariner" admired the lines of his fair visitor. The cut of her costume appeal | ed to him like the sails of a we'll trimmed ship.
 The girl and her brothers looked at the shells while Capt Frietsch looked at | the girl.
 "shed stand up in a strong breeze or t.1 a1l Inn thought to himself as he recounted his ad- ventures to the visitors in an absent minded sort of way. By the time he had thought of 1t long enough he found himself well acquainted. l When he departed from Beaumont It was to make one of those long trips alone. What wants a wife" he de- | cided during the long hours of a long day under a tropical sun. He made for port and wrote the letter which settled his | fate.
 Capt. Frietsch decided that he could | take on one more cargo of shells before the nuptial knot was tied. Consequently | he slipped the sailors knot that held hiEl at Biloxi and :rade gail for the Mexican reefs.
 Ran Into Hurricane.
 When but short distance from his des- tination he ran into a hurricane of exces- 
 lonesome storm and pitched about on the gulf like a cork in the Yellowstone gey- | ser.
 | Sometimes he took well-aimed astron- | omical observations from the top point | of a seething wave and again he took subterranean plunge that opened up what might have been the bottom of | the sea
 | Incidentally he was blown far from his course onto the Mexican coast above Yucatan. Wher the storm was over he | started again for the reefs in the teeth of a stormy trade wind that kept him back long enough to be caught in a sec ond hurricane. Ills rudder was smash ed In grinding wave, but the Tone | Mariner" weathered the storm. | He looked at his compass and he look | ed at his chart. Then he consulted his calendar and gazed at his clock. Its about time to get married" he said to himself. and shaped his course | for Galveston.
 Capt. Frletsch took his bride for a | honeymoon voyage.
 'sThisll give her a chance to get used | to the water" he explained, before cast | ing off from the Galveston wharves. "It's | all off with the squalls for the season and September is a good month. After she's once tried 1t she'll like 1t better'n | ranch"
 Tn his little two-by-four boats Capt. Frietsch has been cruising the sea almost | all his life and all alone. He has ex- plored deserted shoals and fought his I way through untraveed seas. And now I'm sick of it. he declares. When he goes cruising by himself again