The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21

to the epllntered side and leaped into the
yawl as II he were a flower-falry. instead
Of hairy slN-footer.
Couldn't you fire herr" asked Slias.
who had been watching vainly for smoke,
Gould, but wouldn't" said Capt. Hank.
That things got fine sherry and port
wine aboard till you can't rest, Here
her manifest There was note from her
captain on the table saying that her crew
had made him desert her and 60 aboard
a fruitcr IL we could salyc her, we'd
mako more than well make in six
"Salve herr" snorted Capt BIZ. Then
he snortcd again as the chopped-off top
OF wave took him across the fuce
"Salye herl And in thisN' He waved an
arm comprehensiycly around the whole
world
Tho shInnecock gave point to his re-
marks by diving with a choking Eurgle
into a ridge OF water that seemed TO have
stormed clean from Spain, growing IKE a
SNOWFALL on the way. Two hundred feet
away the sea was breaking on the wreck
like heavy guns, and the spray-smoke
drifted clear 10 the schooner and pclted
her laundering canvas.
You couldn't dare put n man on her"
roared BIZ through the storm. 'She may
break at any moment or dive under. And
what else ye can do. I'd like to know
Pass a hawscr TO 'er and tow err
roared Capt. Hank.
And tear out our mainmast or our
whole stcrn,' answered Bill
There's thirty thousand dollars worth
fest" shouted Silas. who had been look
ing over It. And all stuff that can't be
hurt by little salt water. II we only
could tow EerN'
The three men looked at each other.
Then they looked at the appalling sen
They looked at the spouting wreck.
I'VE can try" said they.
Now II happened that the Shinnecock
had 200 feet Of two-lnCh hawscr aboard,
a mere thread that would part like smoke
II II were stretched between tho sinking
\. ..,lr at,1 Ina h.A In hot
Wild weather. But IT was the vital link
with which a connection could be made
between the schooner and steel cable
that Capt. Hank had Splcd on the bark.
So presently the yawl made another
mad trip, this time with n long inch rope
paying off with her from the ShinneCoCk.
And with this thin rope the men pulled
the twU-inch hawser aboard the bark
And when that two-Inch hawscr had been
quadrupled and bent on the steel cable
and the latter made fast TO n bride
around part OF the bark's forccastlc head
all WAS ready for the job of salvage.
This little job, that is described so easily
/ I'm a paragraph, took Just tvc hours. II
was ~ o'clock when the men slid of the
bark again. aud tussled through the vast
sea back to the pounding, rolling, plung-
Ing, creakinG, sob6ing, smothercd
They were wet from head to foot. they
/ were iced from head to foot, they were
| too stim to leap aboard and had TO be
! dragged In, and they were too nearly fro
| zen 10 speak While they were being
| dragged in. the yaw smashed herself In
/ 20 neat little pieces against the vessels
| side.
But everything had been well done.
/ With oil the crew failing on TO the big
hawscr, 1t slipped heavily on the bark s
/ deck, plunged into the sea and came
| aboard, half an inch at time,
Midnight came. and the manila hnwser
| was aboard at last and fast around the
! malnmast with four turns, building up
] four feet OF solid rope. and the steel ca
! bic whipping up and down In the water
! as the Shinnecock began TO pull,
THE weather has gone down. agreed
| the three pilots and the boatkccpcr. The
! going down would have been passed un-
. noticed by a landsman. for tho sea was
! sun turning itself ineidc out and back
! again, and the whole universe seemed to
be humming with wind But Il must have
/ been go. for the ShinnccoCk. that had
| been forced 20 hcave TO while she was
, alone, was now running westward with
the great booming dercllct I'm tow.
] One o'clock; and . o'clock: and ,
| o'clock; and all that time one steady
| fight, Not u man dry aboard, not q man