The Ordway new era., 1905-05-05

night. Two years ago, on voyage
from lloilo to this port. the Johanna
accumulated an Incompatible lot OF
harnncles in drift of 206 days. She
was out 210 days this time and her
skipper, Captain McIvor. u Highlander.
who Is not much over iive 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
barnaclcs, which the cook says ought to
be big enough. served single, for
meal for famished seaman.
Being on the Johanna was somewhat
like sailing through space en- 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 to report her. Alto
gether the Johanna covered 2l,0O0
miles. When she was ten days out
she ran into typhoor, lasting three
days. Reporters who groped down
the bay through the fog to find the
Johanna asked the skipper what he
carried while the typhoon was raging,
and he said.
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hair on your head unless you reefcd
1t. We hove her TO under naked spars.
Just imagine yourself down In Park
row Qve bee;, here before, young man.
and know something of your blessed
old skyscrapers) looking up Mt the tall
est building there. The eaN's of that
building seemed just as near the side
walk rs the crest of those waves APP
pcared to us. The squalls We're simply
terrific. The barometer went down like
On 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
foresail to steady the ship, which was
rolling good deal.
IAN 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 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. n lifeboat smashed.
the cabin flooded. the sidelights washed
away. but she was as steady rs q
church or n thirty-story skyscrapcr.
"Shc was too blamed steady. In fact.
1t was n 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.
1t 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
tling 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
md his course. He came by the Horn.
All hands were living on salt horse.
A committee of one from the fore
castle, consisting of John Bohn. a. T..
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
be would be obliged if that gentleman
would come and take the helm. All the
ships -four had been spoiled in the
rumpus of the elements and the men
suggested that -four also might be nee.
essnry. 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 a
Buenos Ayres newspaper, up to De-
| cember o. Port Arthur had not fallen
then.
Thereafter 1t 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 voyage of good British ship en-
titled them to ''plum dun" and things.
O'Connor says that the skipper said
that he had decided to charge all hands
a penny more on the tobacco he had
sold them "for Interest and expenses"
Thereupon O'Connor was indignant.
declaring that 1t was not a 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
Sun.
Nrcr1r ErcuT yvI,rF4 A LION.