The Ketchikan miner., 1909-01-02
Price of Work Was
 Their Lives

ss. ,lp Bodicea which sailed into Royal Roads a few days ago, B days from San Francisco to load lumber at Hastings mills for the Tritvi Kingdom worked day ait day for a week after the ballast shifted during hurri- cane encountered Dec. 10. when the ship was in the latitude of the Columbia river on her way north. Soon after the tug drop ped the Boadicea off the Golden Gate on Nov. a, a strong north west gale was encountered and the ballast was started as the vessel rolled badly. having to carry considerable sail to keep of the land. Day after day strong winds were encountered and it was over two weeks be- fore the vessel was worked north of the latitude of the Golden Gate. On Dec. 10 strong gale blew with great violence from the northwest, the ship rolled so that the tips of her yards touch
 ed the sea. Capt. Thomas was shaken from his bunk, his sec tant was bumped from its place and broken and his chronometer jumped from its place. while the ballast which had been started during the previous gale shifted leaving vessel lying listed badly and rolled so that it seemed she would turn turtle. Capt. Thom- as and ths majority of the crew hurried into the hold to trim the shifted ballast, shoyeling for their lives as the sand continued to heave up and fall over upon them with every roll of the ship as she careened from beam to beam in the heavy sea, while the wind whistled through her rig ging. The toms were broken, floors wrecked, and 1t seemed that nothing could be done to save the ship. As the ballast piled up and shifted with every roll the fatigued ships company worked only as men work who know that the price of their work is their lives.
 The salvation of the Boadicea
 was due to an idea of Capt Thomas. He got out ten large sails, about a thousand dollars
 worth of canvass, and making one end of the sail fast to a mid ship stanchion, he dashed the other end to the ships side, and into the sail the sand was shov eled. Then the busy sailormen sewed up the canvas with it's load of sand, making a long bag whic was made fast on top of the shifting ballast to hold it in place. Ten big sails were used in this way, and the shifting sand was trimmed and the ship
 brought up on an even keel while she still rolled heavily.
 Three strong gales were en- countered, the third in the neighborhood of the enterance to the straits, of which the Boadicea arrived ten days ago. The sand-filled sails held the ballast securely during the third gale, however. Three times the ship made the land. On the first occasion she came in sight of Cape Beale light, next she made Carmanah and the third time was brought up rear Ia toosh. The V ind blew heavily seaward and she was again driv- en out to sea. Coming up into the straits on Wednesday night no tugboats were seen and Capt. Thomas decided to sail up. His vessel will be lowed to Vancouv- CT today to load.-Daily Colonist
 Daniel Guggenheim's cor !. ment upon the reported organiz- lion of a gigantic competitor for the American Smelling & Refining Company is full of in- terest. It reveals among other things, that he does not yet COIL slider the smelting promotion be- v0nd fho sracuIafive sfaUo in