The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-01-17

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gray-sided hooker, loaded deep with
treasures of the Far East, swung at
anchor just above the Quarantine
station. Her crew celebrated her ar
rival from Manila and other ports,
and her skipper, Captain Fenton,
came into town to report her safe ar
rival to his agents and to get bit of
Thanksgiving cheer ashore.
When the Hudson passed in Quar-
antine yesterday she finished what
had been rather trying voyage for
officers and men. There was some
thing happening most of the time, as
one of her men put it, and the sto-
ries told aft and in the cabin justified
him.
The most remarkable happening
was the rescue at sea of Anan, the
Malay quartermaster, who fell over
board when the vessel was nearing
Bermuda, and who was only got on
board again after a piece of rare sea-
manship. First Mate James McGan-
egal, very modest man, was loath
to tell of the incident, but every Eng
lish speaking man on board was loud
in praise of the skipper and his Off
GERS.
Anan, good looking, yellow
skinned Malay, with a working
knowledge of English, on November
21, when the Hudson was battling
with a northwest gale $50 miles from
Bermuda, started to go from the
bridge to the water tank for pail of
water. He reached the port rail when
the Hudson fell to meet an oncom-
ing sea, and then, instead of rising,
buried her nose and shipped tons of
water, which galloped like mad over
the bridge and deck. The quarter
master was thrown clear over the
rail and landed in the boiling sea.
Fortunately he kept hold of the
wooden pail, and it is to this fact
that he owes his life.
Both the skipper and the mate,
clinging to the bridge rail, saw the
man go, and as the water receded ran
to the wheel. An instant later the
Hudson swung to port.
By this time most of the crew were
whatever they could lay hands on to
the unfortunate man, fast drifting
away from the vessel. Such was the
fury of the storm that they were I'M
able to lower a boat. The steamer
slowly circled about until she was
tail to the gale and rolling in seas
which broke over her poop.
r1r ho,.
about until he was near the man in
the water. The whole crew by this
time lined the rail. Chinese, Lascars
and Malays We'd with each other in
the endeavor to throw line to the
man.
Anan had been unable to catch
either belt or line, but he had had the
presence of mind to tuck the pail up
under his arm. AS the Hudson got
to windward, Third Engineer George
Murray and another man went down
a rope ladder thrown over the side
and tried to reach the now uncon-
scious Quartermaster Overhead, the
forty Orientals were chattering ex
citedly above the storm. This form
of rescue was not a success, and so it
was given up.
Finally some one on board made a
lasso, and by throwing repeatedly
they managed to get it tight about
was drawn close to the vessels side
and hauled on board. For two hours
the crew worked over him before he
was brought around, and it was two
days before he was able to go to work
again.
There was another rescue made on
the trip. In the Gulf of Alden a heat
crazed stoker jumped overheard. A
boat was promptly lowered, and he
was rescued. The bath was evident
ly what he needed, for he soon re-
turned to work.
The Hudson's voyage from Algiers
was long one, for she was so de-
layed by storms that it was necss-
sary to put into Bermuda to replen-
ish her coal bunkers. She sailed
from that port on Friday, and even
then her troubles on board were not
ended, for on Sunday morning her
main steampipe broke and had to be
patched up. After that her officers
had to be content to steam along at
five-knot gait. The only real exciting
incident below decks, member of
the crew said last night, happened
on the way out, when a Chinese sto-
ker bit the ear off of a companion
in stoke hold dispute.-New York
Times.
ENDANGERED LIFE TO SNAP OK.