Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28

her! And in this!" He waved an arm COM
prehensively around the whole world
The Shinnecock gave point to his re-
marks by diving with a choking gurgle
into ridge of water that seemed to have
stormed clean from Spain, growing like
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 to the schooner and pelted her
laundering canvas.
You couldn't dare put a man on her,
roared Bill through the storm. She may
break at any moment or dive under. And
what else can you do, I'd like to know"
Pass hawser to er and tow 'erl"
roared Capt. Hank.
And tear out our mainmast or our whole
STERN, answered Bill.
There's thirty thousand dollars worth
of cargo aboard. according to this mani
fest, shouted Silas, who had been looking
over it And all stuff that can't be hurt
by little salt water. If only could tow
herr
The three men looked at each Other. Then
they looked at the appalling sea. They
looked al the spouting wreck
we can try said they.
SO presently the yawl made another mad
trip, this time with long inch-l ope Tay-ng
OF with her from the Shinnecock And
with this thin rope the men pulled a two
inch hawser aboard the bark And when
that two-inch hawser had been quadrup!ed
and bent on the steel cable on the wreck
and the latter made fast to bride around
part of the bark's forecastle head, all was
ready for the job of salvage.
This little job, that is described so easily
| in paragraph, took just five hours. The
men were wet and iced from head to foot
| they were too stiff to leap aboard and had
| to be dragged in, and they We're too nearly
| frozen to speak While they We're being
dragged in the yawl smashed herself into
| neat little pieces against the vessels side.
But everything had been we'll done
| With all the crew failing to the big
| hawser,. it slipped heavily off the bark's
/, deck. plunged into the sea and came aboard,
| half an inch at a time
! Midnight came, and the manila hawser
| was aboard at last and fast around the
| nainmast with four turns, building up four
! feet of solid rope, and the steel cable whip
/ ping up and down In the water the
| Shinnecock began to pull.
The weather has gone DOWN. agreed
| the three pilots and the boatkeeper. The
going down would have been passed unno-
ticed by Iandsman, for the sea was still
turning itself inside out and back again,
and the whole universe seemed to be hum
| ming with wind.
In the darkness and the wet and the cold
| on deck. three pilots shook hands in &C.
| stasy. Capt Silas had studied the manifest
| in the cabin, and returned with the report
| that the cargo was surely worth at least
| thirty thousand dollars.
| Five O'Clock and the stormy dawn showed
| the bark still riding. though she lay very
/ deep now. She'll keep. all right" said
Capt Hank. We're making four knots an
/ hour, and IL we can hold on till this even
| ing we'll be ahead thirty thousand dollars .
| Noon--and the schooner's masts still held
though each tough spar bent SO harI that
| agony of the wood Trio after Trio had
/ taken turns at the labor of the wheel
| Every man aboard was CLASSY with ice. Al
every slip into a followed sea and avery
spasInodic ascent to a crest of wave, the
| steel cable resounded sharply like gun;7re.
| But the Shinnecock was within thirty
four miles of the Hook.
Eight hours more, and her tow would be