The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-15
Capt. Jack
Brown, Lover

IO as SOOn LnlnK OF q pOrpOlSe CoLn-
ing aboard and asking the latitude
and longitude
The speaker was Captain Jerry
Bowles of the trading schooner Patsy
Bolliver. Three or four of Captain
Jerry's cronies were seated with him
in his snug cabin. A square bottle, a
pitcher of water and half dozen
thick glasses on the table showed
Captain Jerry's hospitality.
well, it's true, all the same" de-
clared Captain Billy Masterson OF the
Ida Basset. Hes not only In love,
but he's hooked hard and fast, and II
he's not spliced in the Spring It'll not
be his fault"
"Who is she, and how did 1t all hap
pen?" came in chorus.
"It's a funny yarn" declared Cap
tain Billy as he filled his glass, "and
don't mind II tell you. You all
know Captain Jack has always been
that bashful IL girl looked at him
lideways he was Just as likely to jump
overheard as not If there was no
other way to get out of the way. If
there was one man in the country
who it would have been safe to say
never would have hitched up 1t was
that same Jack Brown.
"I got the story from his mate.
Young Jimmy Dodd. You will remem-
Der the heavy gale last SEPTEMBER.
which smashed things down the coast?
Well. Jack was southbound with car.
go of lumber for Cuba and he caught
it flush just below Hatteras. The Sal
ly Parker Is as stanch n little craft
as was ever turned out at Bath, and
this, with Jacks seamanship, and
there's no better. enabled him to pull
through. with little more damage than
the loss of his deck load and some
tearing up of his standing rigging,
which was soon fixed up after the
gale had blown itself out.
"Others were not so fortunate. 1t
was about 100 miles south of Diamond
Shoals that the Sally Parker raised a
small schooner with both sticks taken
clean out of her, all her boats stove
and her decks a tangle Of wreckaSe.
Jimmy says he never saw a craft
aloat in worse shape.
There was pretty heavy sea run
ming, such as you all know follows
after gale in these seas when the
Sally Parker bore down on the dere-
lict and saw number of people on
the deck, 1t was not hard to guess
that it was going to be mans work
to get them off.
For some reason, 1t must have
been Fate, the devil or Providence, it
all depends on how you look at it. Jack
decided to go abroad himself instead
of sending Jimmy. The whale boat
was gotten out, and with couple of
square heads at the oars and Jack at
the tiller she started for the wreck
1t was hard Job for even so handy
a man as Jack to lay the boat along
side the battered hulk. but he did II
and scrambled through the wreckage
on to the deck.
"It was yacht with party Of rich
New Workers on board. The captain
of her and the mate as well had beer
washed overheard and about half hel
crew had been smashed up, and two
or three of them killed when hel
sticks went. Hatchways and com
panionways had been smashed ant
she had sprung leak in half dozer
places. You can guess those pas
sengers were glad enough to see the
Sally Parker, and the way they fel
on Jack was worth seeing, so Jimmy
says.
at took two or three trips Of the
boat to get them all aboard the Park
er, but at last 1t was done and none
too soon, for before the Parker ha(
fairly squared away on her course tht
yacht went down.
"Now here's where the real stor!
begins.
SIN the rescued party was old Johl
Goldson, who, they say. has NOR,
money than would fill the hold OF tn,
Patsy Bolivar; his wife and daugh
ter, another young girl, his ward, an,
two young fellows. nephews Of tn,
old codger.
"It was the other girl that did tn
damage to Jack. Jimmy says she wa
quiet little trick, pretty as picture
but not nearly as good looking, to hi
mind, as the daughter. But then
think Jimmy was sort OF struck Wit
this one.
"Howbeit, Jimmy says 1t was oom
cal to see Captain Jack on the ru
down to Havana. For the first day O
two, every time he looked at the gil
he would turn red and when he foun
her looking at him he looked a
though he would make a dash for tn
rail and go oveTboard any minute, an
yet he could see her pretty much a
the time she was on deck.
after a while though he seemed Z
get used to 1t and actually was abb
to speak to the girl without, setttn
his hat on fire. Before they got t
Havana he was showing her how b
worked his ship and talking away 8
though he had been used to havin
women passengers ever since he WEI
to sea- Jimmy says the last two day