The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-23
AYHoS ENDS EVENTFUL RUN.
DINERS son SAFE HOME WITH
SOME FINE YARNS.
ships Machinery Broke and She Had
Hard Time. hut There Was NO Famine
and No Mutiny-FOpd short and they
Caught and Ate Fish for variety.

Hard Time, Dut lheTe WIS w '""'S
and No Mutiny-FoOd short and They
Caught and Ate Fish FOR variety
Douglas Donald got home yesterday
,rorninp aboard his fathers steamship the
I,hos. which had been drifting along our
Southern coast for the last two weeks
with machinery disabled, and her decaying
carpo of bananas contributing by Its odort 70
the discomfort OF passengers and crew.
Douglas, his schoolmates, Fred and Keith
Saunders, ten-year-old twins Donald sauna
ans, aged 0. Mr.. and Mrs. Morris A. Mnd'
Mrs, James A. Dunschie, sister OF MIS-.
Donald. and James Henry Tamke, tutor OF
the boys, left Staten Island, where tney
live. for brief vacation cruise. Douglas 10
about ~, and has sharp black eyes, black
hair and fine conception Of his duty to the
newspapers as weaver Of fiction. All the
bows of Rosebank followed him around
Yesterday and hung on his yarns, which
yeeked with the flavor Of tumbling brine.
He got up to Staten Island on tug early
4, the morning, the Athos having arrived
m scotland lichtship late on Monday night
IN tow of the Hamburg American liner
A,tai. and anchored. After he had read
all the afternoon papers and found varie-
Gated assort ment Of tales about the Athos
and her vicissitudes, he let his ina gination
loose He burst into his mothers parlor at
e o'clock Yesterday afternoon, his eyes
Aoshing with the unwonted excitement OF
being interviewed, and cried:
aSny, ma, | Just saw two newspaper
men and had my picture took. They wanted
me to stand with my arms folded but /
said I wouldn't do it; that the only way
I'd have my picture took was while was
stretchin' my chewin' gum out like this
and Douglas pulled out long thread with
an art Of which only youngsters are capable
and then gulped it back again. resuming:
Il bet you they won't print 1t. And
told them some awful whoppers, Ma. 1
.aid that had caught a seventeen foot
shsrk myself while was out in the captains
boat all alone
Mrs. Donald at this point called Douglass
attention to the existence Of another re-
porter who wanted to have a yarn spun
for him. Douglas faced the reporter,
vhom he had not at first observed with a
g,ieless smile, and asked, Now what II
7 tell you?" in a voice that indicated that
he had very few new romances in his
locker.
Douglas seemed astonished when the
reporter declared that he wanted just the
facts in the case and intimated that he
might be able to put in little color him
self. Thereupon Douglas crossed his
heart and said he hoped to die II what h,
was going to tell this time was not the real
goods.
him something to eat. As he had already
eaten FIVE or six times since he landed in
the morning his mother expressed fear
that something might happen to his engines,
as something happened to those OF the
Athos. While Douglas was slowing away
at the door, and back Of him, stretching az
regular juvenile hawser. The boy said:
Dug amt you coming out soon?'
Douglas said he was, after he had eaten
something.
THAT'S one of my friends. There's a
million Of them out in the yard"
The reporter counted later and found
chat Douglas was exaggerating:
7 After removing some OF the FOOD imped ,
iments Douglas declared that he had had
the time Of his life, but that it was not as
good as some Of the afternoon papers had
said He had not got enough to eat. but he
got enough to live on.
.Was it as good stuff as that?" his mother
mixed and Douglas VIII an expression OF
land suggested that Dug should hurry. as the
villagers were murmuring.
I .I'm giving them some stories. too.
Douglas remarked, as he waved his hand
toward the yard.
All the fishing that Douglas did was over
the ships rail- and he had only bites.
When the machine busted" the ship Just
drfted and the captain came arounn every
now and then and said that the engine
would be fixed after a while. But 1t never
<-~l ,~l, In, IAott m
few hours. When the ship got into the
trough of the sea all the women got sick,
but Douglas. having been brought up within
stones throw Of the very back yard OF
liners, was as well as II he were in swimming
of Rosebank. At Hatteras it was rough
and winoy and the ship almost rolled her
rails n Ter. Then Douglas cid feel a bit
squeamsh; but he was not really sick, al
though all the other boys were and the
women-well, It was terrible the way 1t
effected them.
Douglass story lacked a bit in details.
Mr.. Lund, who kept diary Of the voyage,
supplied these. While the ship was drift
ing her bananas were gradually resolving
themselves into mush-like substance that
gave out an all-pervading odor. An extra
upon to supply all hands after the first
tank was exhaust diwas tainted with banana
oil. Then the passengers and crew had to
be satisfied with distilled sea water:
The rice gave out, and the eighteen
Chinese in the. crew complained. They
also wanted tobacco. A negro flremen
who had q plug and refused to give chew
to Chnaman was attacked by the latter,
who cut the negro on the hand The China
man was put in irons and that ended the
trouble.
Some Of the crew went out In boat
when 1t became APPARENT that the Athos
could not make Fort under her own steam,
and caught small sharks and dolphin.
Mr.. Lund says that some OF the Cinnamon
ate parts of the shark the white persons
ire dolphin. There we're provisions
aboard then, but thov were mighty scant
and the fish hel.ed out the limited
hrder, The passengers ished from the
rails. The wome, stayed in the cabin
most Of the time.
The BOYS did not appear to be troubled
over anything. and when they were not
trying to fish they were telling stories OF
shipwreck and wishing tina. something
real exciting would happen. On Aug. IA
the Spanish steamship Nontevideo came
along and supplied the Athos with pro-
visions, but the fishing was kept up to re-
dnce the monotopy Of looking over the side
The steamship Altai fell in with the Athos
about 100 miles from Sandy Hook on Sun
day and took her in tow. Tho passengers
were transferred to the Altai. far from the
eickenlnQ Odor of bananas. HEAVY weather