The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-20
SAILS IN 2iODAYS FROM JAPAN
SHIP JOHANNA WORSENS HER
WORST TIME RECORD.

In Al 900 Miles She Saw Only Two Other
Vessels-On Jan. 10 she Got the News
OF the World Prom August Up 10 Deoem-
Der . in n BuenOs AyTeS Newspaper.
II IL a long way from Kobe, on the Bay
Of Hiogo, even when you mako the trip
under steam; but II Is the longest on record
when you make 1t In the blum bowed
Dutch built British three masted ship
Johanna, which arrived on Saturday night.
Two years ago, on a voyage from lloio
70 this port, the Johanna accumulated
an incompatible lot Of barnacles in a drift
Of 200 days. She was out 2iO days this time
and her skipper, Capt. MoIvor, a High
lander, who Is not much over s feet tall
says he thinks that she can do worse. The
men before the mast are sure Of 1t. All
hands are anxious to see her barnacles,
which the cook says ought TO be big enough,
served single, for a meal for a famished
seaman.
Being on the Johanna was somewhat
like sailing through space on planet with
out wireless. She spoke only one ship,
the Sierra Lucena, from Cardiff for
Hong Kong The greeting was by bunt-
ing only, and each ship merely asked the
other to report her. Altogether the Jo-
hanna covered n 900 miles. When she
was ten days out she ran into a typhoon,
lasting three days. Reporters who CROPPED
down the bay through the fog yesterday
TO find the Johanna asked the skipper
what he carried while the typhoon was
raging, and he said:
-Carry2 Why, you couldn't carry a hair
on your head unless you reefed IL. We
hove her 70 under naked spars. just
imagine yourself down IN Park row Owe
been here before, young man, and know
something Of your blessed OLD skyscrapers)
looking up at the tallest building there.
The caves Of that building seemed just as
near the sidewalk as the crest Of those,
waves appeared 70 US. The squalls were
simply terrific. The barometer went down
like an express elevator. All hands were
on deck standing by for anything. At
the blow had about exhausted Itself and we
set two topsals and a foresal to steady
the ship, which was rolling good deal.
AN hour later the gale came out Of an
other 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 ducldng she got when the
seas got up on emu. OuI pluIAlC5 was
washed overheard, a lifeboat smashed, the
cabin flooded the sidelghts washed away,
but she was as steady as q church or q
thirty story skysCnper.
-She was too damned steady, In fact.
It 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 to us,
like an express train, and three hours later
was hull down; That was bit discour-
aging. But what can you expect OF a
Dutch ship2'
After the tumult Of the typhoon came a
not 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 battling with
monsoons, in which nearly two tons Of
potatoes in the potato house on the fore.
castle head were carried away, caused
him TO change his mind and his course.
He came by the Horn. All hands were
living on salt horse.
A COMMITTEES Of one from the forecastle,
consisting OF John Bonn, A. B., Of Finland,
waited on the skipper and asked him TO put
into the Falklands for fresh provisions.
The skipper said that that was his intention
and that II any man aboard the ship knew
OF any shorter route than he was taking
he would be obliged IL that gentleman
would come and take the helm. All the
ships -four had been spoiled in th6 rumpus
Of the elements and the men suggested that
-four also might be necessary. lhe skipper
declared that he would attend to every
thing.
He made Stanley Harbor, In the Falk-
lands, on Jan. 10, and got the news Of the
world, as recorded in a Bpenos Ayres news
paper, up TO Dec o. Port Arthur had not
fallen then.
Thereafter IL was problem Of how to
make the old hooker move with all her
muslin on The new supply Of provisions
inspired Able Seaman Jack O'COnnor to
go aft ten days after the ship left the Falk-
lands and suggest that the long abstinence
Of the crew from the good things usually
served on a voyage of a good British ship
entitled them 20 plum duff and things.
O'Connor says that the skipper said that
he had decided 70 charge all hands a penny
more on the tobacco he had sold them
@for interest and expenses Thereupon
O'Connor was indignant. declaring that il
Il was not a square deal as the crew had
been giving the Anglo-American Oil Com
pany, which owns the ship, interest on their
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