Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-03-13
WILL NOT RACE FOR cur.
Report That Schooner Il. ID. Remick
Would Enter, Is Unfounded.

Would Enter, Is Unfounded.
Inc report that the former Ellsworth
schooner L. d. Remick she 10 not sailed
by an Ellsworth captain now-would en-
ter the next international race for the
Americas cup, is unfounded. II she
ever had any chance, she lost it on that
record breaking trip from Bangor to
scituste, Mass, recently. It is now feared
that II the races are sailed at Sandy Hook
In the summer OF 1903, she would not be
able to get there in time to compete.
The Bangor Ne,os is still talking Of that
record trip Of the Remick. This is its
last shot:
Ever hear Of the schooner L. D. Remickf
Well, she's no cup racer. She's a sixty
one ton coaster, formerly named the Tele-
graph, and she was built Ut Killingworth.
Conn.,, in 1s29-the year OF President An
drew Jackson's first Inauguration. In
her earlier days the name Telegraph may
have been appropriate enough, but on her
last voyage Slow Freight would have
fitted better. This old sled sailed from
Bangor, Nov. q, lumber loaded for Scit-
uate, Mass, and she made such slow pro-
gress that pretty soon the ship reporters
lost run of her.
The ship sharp in the News office had
forgotten all about the L. d. Remick
when, along in mid-winter, he was sur
prised to see this line in the telegraph ship
news:
Portsmouth, N, H., Jan. Is-Ar, sch L. D.
Remick, Bangor for Scituate."
He supposed she had arrived ct Scituate
long before that, discharged and come
back east, or hauled up. Well, every
week or two since Jan. IS we have been
reading of the L. d. Remick being Tin
port" at Portsmouth, and lately Of at
tempts being made by tugs to tow her to
her destination. But luck, the weather
and her own inirnities were against her,
and it was not till Feb. q that she man
aged to reach Boston, from which port it
should be easy for her to get to Scituate.
Ninety-six days from Bangor to Boston!
That lumber has had time to either rot or
sprout, and the s'grub" and tow bills
must have long ago eaten up the freight
money and more, too. Talk about the de-
liberate Dago mariners, and their eighty
and ninety day voyages from Bangor to
the Mediterranean! Why, they were fast
by comparison. We remember that some
years ago an Italian brig or bark was 100
days from Trapani to Boothbay, and that
she had been given up as lost when she
arrived. But the l.. d. Remick beats
them all. To be sure, she spent good
part of the ninety-six days holding on to
her anchors in harbors-forty days in
Portsmouth alone, but it's all in the voy-
age.
People who think they are having a
hard time ashore, and who don't like their
jobs ought to take few winter coasting
trips, and then they d be glad to grab at any
old job on dry land and consider them
selves lucky. Coasting is hard enough
work when the weather is fine, but in win
ter, when in addition to the drudgery and
discomfort the coaster crews are staring
death in the face two-thirds of the time,
| it is an occupation fit to strike terror to
hearts of oak.
And the vessels they 60 in! Look at the
L. d. Remick -seventy-eight years old!
patched up and calked and SO on at in
tervals, but when vessel, even with the
good stuff they put into them in old
times, gets to be that aged, why, no one
need be surprised when she provides the
ship reporters with sad story. Even
| the best OF them are liable to disaster in
the winter gales-the new and strong,
| hof
chance has the old-timer? Figure that
out, and then marvel that the L. d. Rem
| lex managed to get to Boston at all.
Ellsworth sea captains tell some differ
ent stories regarding the Remick, when
she was the Telegraph. For time she
was run as packet between Ellsworth
and Portland, and has many good runs to
her credit, perhaps the bsst being one OF
| twelve hours from the time she sailed
| from Portland until she was tied up to the
wharf at Ellsworth.
On another trip the Telegraph took a
load OF bark to Salem, Mass, discharged
and was back at Ellsworth in four and
one half days.
It was OF this trip that a story is told OF
the shipper of the bark-a bluf-speaking
| man prominent in business and politics
in Ellsworth in livelier days. When the
Telegraph was about ready to sail with
his load OF bark, he was called away for a
few days. When he returned he found
the Telegraph tied up at the wharf, but
no bark in sight.
Hunting out the captain OF the vessel he
shouted: 1What in - have you done
with that load of bark?"
cleft it at Salem, as I agreed to d."
replied the captain.
ssLike you did" wass the reply,
and the shipper. went off, sim skeptical.
| The next day he showed up in pleas
anter mood and saluted the skipper with:
sBy thunder, Cap! l guess you're right
about that bark; got check to-day"
He whose days pass without imparting
and enioying, is like the bellows OF