The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-02-13

Inc story or the time Wnen WnOle
ships crew saw the Devil throw
man into the crater at Mt. Vesuvius,
the facts of which have all been
sworn to by members of the crew and
is now on record in England, is relat-
ed by n q Pentrath, we'll known in
Wenatchee and LeavenWOrth as the
agent for the United Wireless Tele-
graph company.
/ 1t may be of interest to notice that
Mr.. Pentrath holds the longest name
of any man in the county. his full
name being Norburne Tyes Hendower
Bedrugen Whitmore Bedrugen Whit
more Edgecomb Pentrath.
The story related by him is one of
the strangest on record and is looked
upon by Mr.. Pen;rath as one of the
things that can absolutely not be eX-
( planned.
| He vouches for the absolute truth
of the details.
/ Mr.. Pentrath spent ten years OF his
| life at sea and holds a masters GER
j tificate, he, however, never held the
years on limejuicers as second or
! first officers after serving his APP
premiership.
! During 1876, Mr.. Pentrath was
first officer Of the English ship Ro-
salie The Rosalie left New York
+ with q cargo of petroleum in cases
! for Salonica, and was caught on the
I banks in that memorable glale III
which large number of vessels, in
Guiding number OF fishing boats
were lost. During the gale the Ro-
sale lost all her bulwarks, sprung
her foretopsail yard lost two boats
and part of her deckhOuse as we'll as
much of her lighter canvas.
The gale was succeeded by light
airs and Gains, making the voyage
take As days to Gibraltar, where they
put in for slight repairs and water.
At Gibraltar a Mr. Young was taxi
en- on as a passenger, he being very
DESTROYS of reaching Salonica. Al
this time the Servians and Montene-
girns were at war and Russia and
Turkey were expected to go to war
at any minute.
On leaving Gibraltar the same Ill
luck of light, battling winds and
Gains followed the Rosalie until she
reached the island of Sardinia. where
she put in windbound by 'levant-
err" a gale which blows down the
Mediterranean.
The vessel was windbound there
ten days and then beat out past the
Bull and Calves, two largo rocks Ob-
structing the fairway, a2l nearly
getting into a collision with a Mes
i sina barry who would not give an
inch, compelling the Resale 10 max
another boar dto pass the Bull.
| The same i'll luck in the way o.
] light airs and Gains continued TO fol-
! low the vessel until she had drifted
/ into the beautiful bay of Naples.
4 Now, 20 understand the balance OF
the story every English vessel carries
on its side a circle with two lines
drawn through it, known as the Plim-
sol mark, or correctly the load line
mark This mark gets it's name from
Mr.. PHmsol, who did so much for
the welfare of British sailors and
was father of the Merchant Shipping
Act of Great Britain, otherwise
known as the "Plimsol Act" This
act or law regulates the food, water
an dtreatment that shall be accorded
to British merchant sailors, ETC, and
Il was said that it was rushed thorugh
principally against a Mr.. Bates. the
great Liverpool shipowner, who own
ed over one hundred vessels, and it
was said of him that never one of
his vessels ever reached a foreign
or home port without all the crew
being down with the scurvy, owing
to the rotten ten-year-old canned
beef and junk and other stores that
he furnished for his crews eating.
Now, on this particular evening
it was the first officers short night
watch, viz, from II to a. m, but
at four bells Go o'clock he was
walking up and down the port side
of the quarterback with The watch
officer, and the Captain and Mr..
Young were doing the same on the
starboard side enjoying the beauti-
full view of the Bay of Napels, the
city and Mount Vesuvius. The
mountain was not in state of
eruption, but there was an immense
bank of cloud and smoke hanging
over the crater rejecting the flashes
of light from the crater
Suddenly the lookout on the top
gallan fo'csail hailed the quarter
deck, saying, do you see that light
on the mountain, sir?"