The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-16

will De remembered with esteem and affection by all members of the steam ship Miranda party, who visited Green land in 1894. Through sense Of duty he brought all the passengers and crew of the Miranda with safety from Greenland to Nova Scotia in his little schooner Reigel.
 JAMES D. DEWELL
 Captain George W. Dixon, formerly one of the best known master mariners of this, city, was killed by a crane at the Charlestown navy yard yesterday afternoon. He was about afty-six years of age.
 Captain Dixon, who resided at No. lO Oswald street, Roxbury, and Robert Russell were imprisoned in the engine compartment of the crane when it fell overheard from the wharf. Dixon was killed, and Russell engaging in a bat tie for life fifteen feet under water, saved himself. Swinging back the iron door, he met a roaring, inrushing tor rent. Battered and bruised, Whirled this way and that, and on the verge of suffocation, he struggled to the surface and was rescued by comrades in an eX- hausted and, semi-conscious condition. From ock in the yard known as North East wharf, a gang of men had undertaken to launch a forty foot cut ter attached to the receiving ship Wa bash. Suspended from the arm of the crane, it was being slowly lowered when, without the slightest warning, the heavy iron machine toppled from the siding at the docks edge, and it's tragic journey to the depths was her. aided by the splintering and twisting of timbers and iron work, the death shriek of Captain Dixon and the out cries of a score of workmen. ... In a tWinkling, Captain Dixon's life was snuff1ed out. Caught by the fall ing apparatus, the mans head was crushed and the left foot nearly sev- cred. ...-1
 With a splash which spurted a col umn of water high into the air the crane vanished from the view of the horror-stricken laborers.
 And for the slightest space of time the death roll was credited with two victims. But desperately on the very bed of the dock Russell was Waging a terrible battle for existence and was successful. Captain Dixon's mangled body was removed from the scene by Undertaken Briggs, who conducts the city morgue' but for a reason which none offered to ? explain, the victims widow was kept in ignorance until newspaper reporter visited her home nearly four hours af- ter the accident.
 Captain Dixon, up to the time he re- moved from here to Roxbury with his family two years ago, to, take posi- ton in the Charlestown navy yard was for fully thirty-five years one o1 the best known master mariners sail ing out of this port. He was native of Maine, being born near BoothoaS Harbor. At an early age he came tc this city and took up fishing for live lihood. His natural ability soon showed itself and he was soon made master, and in the years that followed up to four or five years ago, he was successful skipper and for many years was known as one of the leaders of the fleet.
 His ability did not confine itself tc any particular branch of fishing, for ht followed Georges aandl1ning, trawlins to, Western Bank when that fishing was new, I1addocking, Newfoundland herring fishery and the Greenland ant Iceland flitched halibut fishery, 1t being in this latter, in which he was one ol the pioneers, that he is best remem' bered, although many of the older ones remembered him as crack Georges handliner.
 He was an entertaining conversation alist and writer, and for several years when he went to Iceland and Green land, he corresponded with this office his letters being published and reac with much interest.
 He first went skipper from the firm O. sayward Brothers, going to Georges il the schooner Mary Louise. Later ht went from the firm of Rowe & Jordal in the schooners Clytie and Barracouta and of late years from the firm of "Johl F. SWonson & Co.,, in schooners George J. Tarr, Henry W. Longfellow and Ri gel, the two latter being built for hin and of the latter he was part owner.
 In many ways he was a genius, bu despite this, man of very regular ant Yaethodical habits. As a navigator hi reputation was of the highest and hi' superior in this branch probably neve sailed from Gloucester in the fisheries He was a close student of the heavenly bodies and a keen observer of all thing pertaining to his chosen profession.
 Some years ago, when the new fount halibut grounds, now known as tn "F'unks," were discovered, the f1itchet halibuters, Captain Dixon among them began to go there and they began tt fish up this bank farther to the north ward. There was no chart of this par of the ground, so Captain Dixon mad careful soundings for some two hun dred miles of it's extent and from i made a chart by which he and some O the other shippers worked. Later Il made A complete chart of this part o