The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-23
ATHOS ENDS BVENlPUL RUN.
OWNERS son SAFE HOME WITH
SOME FINE YARNS.
ships Machinery Broke and She Had q
Hard Time. but There Vas No Famine
and No Mutiny-Food Short and They
CauEht and Alto Fish for variety.


CAUGHT and Alto Fish for Variety.
Douglas Donald got home yesterday
morning aboard his fathers steamship the
Atbos, which had been drifting along our
southern coast for the last two weeks
with machinery disabled and her decaying
cargo OF bananas contributing by It's odor to
the discomfort OF passengers and crew.
Douglas. his schoolmates, Fred and Keith
Saunders, ten year old twins; Donald Saund-
ara. aged 0, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris A. Lund,
Mrs. James A. Dunschie, sister OF Mrs.
Donald. and James Henry Tamke. tutor OF
the bows, left Staten Island, whore they
live. for a brief vacation cruise. Douglas Ii
about ~, and has sharp black eyes. black
hair and fine conception Of his duty to the
newspapers As a weaver Of fiction. All tho
bovs OF Rosebank followed him around
Yesterday and hung on his yarns, which
reeked with the flavor Of tumbling brine.
He got UP to Staten Island on a tug early
IN the morning the Athos having arrived
Of, Scotland lightship late on Monday night
IN tow OF the Hamburg American liner
Altai, and anchored. After he had read
ali the afternoon papers and found varie-
oated assortment OF tales about the Athos
and her vioissitudes, he let his ina gination
loose. He burst into his mothers parlor at
o'clock yesterday. afternoon, his eyes
flashing with the unwonted excitement OF
being interviewed. and cried
SAY, ma, just saw two newspaper
men and had my picture took. They wanted
me TO stand with my arms folded but
aid wouldn't do It; that the only way
I'd have my picture took was while was
s.retchin my ohewin' gum out like this
and Douglas pulled out long thread with
an art Of which only youngsters are capable
and then gulped 1t back again. resuming:
\ bet you they won't print It.. And
told them some awful whoppers, Ma. I
s.id that had caught a seventeen foot
sbark 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,
whom he had not at frat observed, with
ruileless smile, and asked, Now what'll
I tell your" in . voice that Indicated that
he had very few new romances In his
Douglas seemed astonished when the
reporter declared that he wanted just the
facts In the case and fntimated that he
might b able to put IN little c, color him I'M
heart and said he hoped to die II what he
was going to tell this time was not the real
goods.
First he asked his mother please to give
him something to eat. As he had already
the morning Ibis mother expressed fear
that something might happen to his engines,
as something happened to those OF the
Athos. While Douglas was slowing away
the provisions he ta,ked. A boy s lI;sn I'd
far as the finest Of Douglas yarns, was
regular Juvenile hawser. The boy said:
Dug, amt you coming out soon?"
Douglas said he was, after he had eaten
who's that?" the reporter asked.
That's one Of my friends. There's .
million OF them out In the yard
The reporter counted later and found
that Douglas was Gxaggerating:
After removing ,ome Of the 1000 tmped,
the time Of his life, but that 1t was not as
good as some OF the afternoon papers had
sad He had moi got enough to eat, but no
got enough to live on.
.was It as good stuff as that'' his mother
llimitable scorn, said. -Na-a-a-w!"
and suggested that Dug should hurry as the
villagers were murmuring.
I'm giving them some stories too.
Douglas remarked, as he waved his hand
All the fishing that Douglas did was over
the ships rail, and he had only bites.
When -the machine busted" the ship just
drifted and the captain came arounn every
would be fixed after a while. But it never
was hxed good enough to last more than
few hours. When the ship got into the
trough Of the sea all the women got siok
but Douglas, having been brought up within
n.1s vas t as % IN
OF Roeebank. AT Hatteras it was rough
and windy and the ship almost rolled her
rails ,nier. Then Douglas did feel bit
,squeamish; but he was not really sick, al
though all the other boys we r. and the
Effected them.
j.. Douglass story lacked bit in details.
M. Lund, who kept q diary Of the voyage,
applied these. While the ship was drift
Ing her bananas were gradually resolving
tank Of water that had been depended
upon to supply all hands after the first
tank Tss e1haustedfwas tainted with banana
~ I ,;hsn the passenSsrs and crew had to
The nce gave out. and the eighteen
Chinese in the crew complained. They
also wanted tobacco. A negro hremen
who had plug and refused to give chew
to Chinarnan 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 sprare Mt that the Athos
could not make port under her own steam,
and caught small sharks and dolphin.
nr. Lund says that some Of the Cinnamon
ate parts Of the shark; the white persons,
tie dolphin. There were provisions
aboard then, but they were mighty scant
and the fish helped out the limited
Arder. The passengers Ashed from the
rails. The women 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 that something
real exciting would happen. On Aug. IA
the Spanish steamship Montevideo came
Along and supplied the Athos with pro-
Visions, but the fishing was kept up to re-
duce the monotony OF looking over the side.
The steamship Altai fell in with the Athos
about $50 miles from Sandy Hook on Sun
Gay and took her in tow. The passengers
were transferred to the Altai, far from the
nckening odor OF bananas. Heavy weather