The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-05

= der steam: but il Is the
90~ longest ON record wher you
make it in the bluff bowed
| Dutch built British three ma sted ship
johanna. which arrived on Saturday
night. Two years ago. on Il voya."
from lloilo TO this port. the Johanna
accumulated an incompatible lot Of
| barnacleS in a drift of 2OG DAYS. She
was out 30 days this time and her
skipper Captain McIvor. II Highlander.
| who is not much over I'VE feet tall.
says he thinks that she can do worse
The men before the mast are sure of
ii. All hands are anxious to see her
barnaclpS which the cook says ought to
be big enough. served single, for a
meal for Il furnished seaman.
| Being on the Johanna was somewhat
| like sailing through space Cn planet
without wireless. She spoke only one
ship. the Sierra Lucena. from Carditf
for Hong Kong. The greeting was by
| bunting only. and each ship merely
asked the other to report her. Alto
| gethcr the Johanna covered 21,OOO
| miles. When she was ten days out
she ran into = typhoor, lasting three
days. Reporters who gropcd down
the bay through the fog to find the
Johanna asked the skipper what he
carried while the typhoon was raging.
| and he saif'
Garry: Why. you couldn't carry n
hair on your head unless you reefed
it. We hove her to under naked Spars.
Just imagine yourself down in Park
row Owe been here before. youn" man.
and know something of your blessed
old SkyscraperS, looking M at the tall
est building there. The eaNs of that
building seemed just as near the side
walk as the crest of those waves ap-
pcared to us. The squalls We're simply
terrific. The barometer went down like
an express elevator. All hands were
on deck standing by for anything. At
$50 on the morning of August - we
thought the blow had about exhausted
itself and we set two topsails and Il
fOresail to steady the ship. which was
rolling good deal.
An hour later the gale came out of
another quarter worse than before. and
we had TO sacrifice our sails to save
the ship from going on her beam ends.
We let go the sheets and the wind
whipped the sails to ribbons. The ship
may be slow, but she is a steady old
tub. and she did not tremble under the
awful ducking she got when the seas
got up on end. Our pinnace was
washed overheard. lifeboat smashed,
the cabin flooded, the sidelghts washed
away. but she was as steady as Il
church or thirty-story skyscraper.
"She was too blamed steady. in fact.
| 1t was shame the way the only two
sailing craft going our way passed us.
One four-master that we had on our
port quarter at noon went by almost,
it seemed 10 us, like an express train,
and three hours later was hull down.
That was bit discouraging. But what
can you expect of Dutch ship:
After the tumult of the typhoon came
n riot of monsOonS in the Indian Ocean.
The skipper thought at first that he
would make New York by way of the
Cape of Good Hope. Two weeks bat
tlng with monsoons. in which nearly
Two tons of potatoes in the potato house
on the forecastle head We're carried
away. caused him to change his mind
and his course. He came by the Horn.
All hands We're living on salt horse.
4 committee of one from the fore
castle. consisting of John BOhn. \. B.,
of Finland, waited on the skipper and
asked him to put into the Falklands
for fresh provisions. The skipper said
hnt bo+ lt. f,,{n nd tt,,t
if any man aboard the ship knew of
any shorter route than he was taking
be would be obliged if that gentleman
would come and take the helm. All the
ships flour had been spoiled in the
rumpus of the elements and the men
suggested that flour also might be nee
essary. The skipper declared that he
would attend to everything.
He made Stanley Harbor. in the
Falklands on January 10. and got the
news of the world as recorded in Il
Buenos Ayres newspaper up to De-
cember 8. Port Arthur had not fallen
then.
Thereafter it was problem of how
to make the old hooker move with all
her muslin on. The new supply of pro-
visions inspired Able Seaman Jack
O'COnnor to go aft ten days after the
ship left the Falklands and suggest
that the long abstinence of the crew
from the good things usually served
on a voyage of n good British ship en-
titled them to plum duff and things.
O'Connor says that the skipper said
that he had decided to charge all hands
penny more on the tobacco he had
sold them "for interest and expenses"
Thcreupon O'Connor was indignant.
declaring that it was not n square deal,
as the crew had been giving the Anglo
American Oil Company. which owns
the ship. interest on their wages for
the last fifteen months.-New York