The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-04-21

~ on the Bay or HloGO, even |
. o when you make the trip un-
u i der steam: but II is the !
~o< longest on record when you |
make il IN the bluff bowed |
Dutch built British three-masted ship |
Johanna, which arrived on Saturday !
night Two years ago, on a voyage
from lloilo to this port. the Johanna
accumulated an Incompatible lot OF
barnacles in a drift OF 2OG days. She
was out 2lO days this time and her
skipper. Captain McIyor. q 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 10 see her
barnacles, which the cook says ought TO
DE big enough. served single. for a
meal for famisked seaman.
Being on the Johanna was somewhat
like sailing through space On planet
without wireless. She spoke only one
ship. the Sierra Lucena, from Cardiff
FOR Hong Kong. The greeting was by
bunting only. and each ship merely
asked the other 70 report her. Alto
gether the Johanna covered $1,000
E.ies when she was ten days out
she ran into a typhoor, lasting three
days. Reporters who CROPPED down
the bay through the fog to find the
johanna asked the skipper what he
carried while the typhCon was raging.
aud he said:
Garry? Why. you couldn't carry
hair on your head unless you reefed
q H. sNar
Just imagine yourself down in Park
row Q've been here before, young man.
and know something of your blessed
old skyscrapersl looking up at the tall
est building there. The caves of that
building seemed just as near the side
walk as the crest Of those waves ap-
pearcd to us. The squalls were 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 a
foresal to steady the ship, which was
rolling q good deal.
"An hour later the gale came out of
another quarter worse than before. ana
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 10 ribbons. The ship
may he slow. but she is a steady old
tub. and she did not tremble under the
awfu! ducking she got when the seas
got UP on end. Our pinnace was
washed overheard. lfebOat smashed,
the cabin flooded, the sidelights washed
away. bl. she was as steady as a
church or a thirty-story skyscraper.
"She was too blamed steady, in fact.
1t was a 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
il seemed 10 us, ike an express train
and three hours later was hull down
That was a bit discouraging. But what
can you expect OF n Dutch ship:
After the tumult Of the typhoon came
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
Ting with monsoOns, in which nearly
two tons Of potatoes in the potato house
on the foreCastle head were carried
away, caused him to change his mind
and his course He cameby the Horn
All hands were living on salt horse.
A committee OF one from the fore
castle, consisting of John Bohn. n. b.
of Finland. waited on the skipper anc
asked him to put into the Falkiand'
for fresh provisions. The skipper said
that that was his intention, and thai
IL any man aboard the ship knew OF
any shorter route than he was taking
he would he obliged if that gentleman
would come ana take the helm. All the
ships -four had been spoiled in the
rumDUs of the elements and the neT
suggested that -four also might be nee
essary. The skipper declared that h'
would attend to everything.
He made Stanley Harbor in the
Falklands. on January 10, and got the
news Of the world. as recorded iis Z
Buenos Ayros newspaper, mp to De
cember o. Port Arthur had not fallel
then.
Thereafter It was problem of how
30 make the old hooker move with al
her muslin on. The new supply Of pro
visions inspired Able Seaman Jacl
O'Cornor to go aft ten days after thC
ship left the Falkands and suggest
that the long abstinence of the crew
from the good things usually served
on a voyage Of a good British ship en-
titled them to plum DUR and things.
O'Connor says that the skipper said
that he had decided 10 charge all hands
penny moro on the tobacco he had
sold them for interest and expenses
,Thereupon O'Connor was indignant
declaring that it was not a square deal
ms the crew had been giving the Anglo
American oil Company. which owns
the ship. interest on their wages fol
the last hfteen months.-New Yorl
Sun.