New-York tribune., 1909-07-14
ARRESTS ON CLERMONT
FIRST NAVTGATOR 4ND
THEN CAPTAIN TAKEN.
Many 1duentures attend the Ship
of Mystery after Her Silent
Midnight Getazcay.
THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING.

The Clermont's adventures were only starting
when that tidy and troublous craft left Ho-
boken on Saturday night TO become q two days
mystery of the harbor. There have been board
ing parties going up her side since then with
clubs and guns and irons clanking. and they
took of her first her navigator ana then her
captain. to appear before a Brooklyn magis-
trate There was also something not altogether
unlike q r1utiny.
Gully. the navigator, was taken into custody
on Sunday but he produced his sailing papers.
duly signed by the of men at the Custom
House. in which James D. Gully was clearly
nominated the Clermont's master. and so he
was discharged at once. Yesterday she was
boarded again and Captain Allen was taken off
The captain says that Magistrate Voorhees, dis
charged him; Gully says he was paroled, to ap-
pear again on Thursday.
Captain Allen told about it yesterday with
your true seamans emphasis and eye for detail
AS for the others who nominated owners
in the little ships sailing papers, they have
moved and are not to be seen. Only Gully,
navigator and master according to those same
papers, had a kind word 20 say for them
When the Clermont left her passengers
the West 22d street pier after her Saturday
night trip, Gully, the navigator, dug up from
his peajacket sealed packet which he mad
had from the men who hired him. He read the
contents and made for the Harlem coast at full
steam ahead.
The Gullys are all sailors. time out Of mind
This one, whose name is James D. says that
his father is the oldest pilot who sails out Of
New York to-day. He goes by the sailing pa
pers. and takes his orders from the owners. who
have their names there Captain Allen had
nothing to say about II.
They landed at Harlem. picked up the steam
er's launches. md put off again down the bay.
At the Morse shipyard. in South Brooklyn. the
Clermont slipped in and made landing Gully
called all hands to the forward deck and told
them that they were discharged. that the boat
was to be laid up. and they could get their pay
by calling at the companys Office in a few days.
Captain Allen heard it all, nd said nothing
nothing that is, to what. as a sea captain. he
might have said. Later he took the men aside
and told them to stick by the ship. He had
hired many Of them. anyway.
Early next morning there came policemen
from a Brooklyn precinct. Captain Allen is no
longer a young man. and Gully is one sciT
Gully taken into custody and brought be-
fore Magistrate VOORHEES,. charged with taking
possession Of the boat. He produced the sail
ing papers in which his name was properly in
scribed as master. and was promptly discharged.
All day those of the crew who stood by Cap
tain Allen hung about the CIermont- Both
sides turned in soon after nightfalI and slept III
their accustomed hunks. On Monday morning
Charles L. Van Fossen. who is named as one OF
the owners in the papers. went to Jefferson
Market court and tried to- get a warrant fox
Captain Aliens arrest without success.
Early yesterday, while Captain Allen was still
in his bunk there came another boarding party.
Before he knew it he was surrounded. big
policeman stood in the cabin door and another
at the portfolio. and behind them came Gully
vVhO % aril
telling his name. The captain desired 10 know
why In blazes they invaded his ship. The cap
tain would very find out, he was assured.
unless he made less noise and came along with
the policemen
The arm of the law was the stronger. and
CAPTAIN Allen went with them. He says that
Magistrate Voorhees, discharged him; Gully says
that he was paroled to appear again in court on
Thursday. He released. at all events. with
a strict injunction from the magistrate that he
was not again board the boat. Two blue
coated guards summed themselves in her broad
wicker chairs all day long and played pinochle
on her mahogany tables. on the pier the faith
fuI crew, encamped. a dozen wistful eyed sons Of
the sea. with Captain Allen and his son. the
bosun's mate and electrician. and a slim. dark
haired young woman, who was stewardess-
As to Just who really does OWN the ClermOnt
there are diverse testimonies. The sailing
papers are positive. but is Captain Allen.
The papers name Charles Ferguson. Charles l.
Van Fossen and Griswold A Thompson each as
owning one-third. Captain Allen says that an
interest of 81 POO has been promised to him. and
that he represents two-thirds of the ownership.
while Van Fossen and the other two really own
only one-third between thcIo
Meanwhile, the ClermOnt is the CIernont no
longer. she changed her name after the Cler-
mont Steamship Company was formed and now
wears canvas strips over her name boards. on
which is painted the name Charmary. That
is the name she sailed under the private