New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-25
A 33,S4S MILE TRIP
FOUR-MASTER ACME.
Shippers Daughter Knits and
Catches Sharks.

The Standard oil Company's steel four
master Acme dropped anchor yesterday on
Tompkinsville She had taken case oil TO
the Pacific Coast and had come back
again with a hold full OF such "analo-
gous" cargo as fine wine, scrap iron, canned
salmon. rags and asphalt Her arrival meant
a safe and sure cargo for the owners.
relief for the mind of the skipper. medi-
cal attention for wounded mate, and the
completion of a IS, s4S-nile journey for the
shippers daughter, who was her fathers
guest.
Miss Augusta Viele Park is the young
woman who accompanied the master of
the Acme. About seven months ago she
left her home, in Dorchester, Mass, for
San Francisco, where she has an uncle.
He had written TO her to come out West
since she was a girl in short dresses. and
when an invitation came last spring Miss
Park packed her trunk and took a fast
train for the coast.
The local office OF tLe Standard Oil Com
pany learned that she started for San
Francisco, and when she arrived there
she was informed by the local agent in
that city that orders had come from No.
o Broadway to place one of John d. Rock
efeller's touring cars at her disposal
the coast that Miss Park did not see and
the speedometer of the Rockefeller auto
mobile recorded a big mileage under the
direction of the sailing masters daughter
When the young woman was thinking
of returning to her family in Dorchester
report came to the office of the Standard
Oil Company in San Francisco that the
Acme was reported some fifty miles out
side the Golden Gate and presently Cap
tain ]. G. Park met his daughter The re-
turn ticket by rail to the East was can
celled. and the young woman decided then
and there to return with her father on the
trim fourmaster Acme
SHIP DISPLACES AUTO.
Within a few weeks the Standard oil
touring car was forsaken for the Standard
Oil sailing vessel The rose bower in
uncle's garden gave way to a Iow-roofed
cabin, and the green slopes of the coast
range mountains were suppanted by the
blue. heaying plain of the Pacific.
On the third day out a playful kitten that
mad slowed away from the Waterfront
made friends with the shippers daughter
and amused himself with a ball of yarn
the young woman was weaving into a
jacket for her father
day. what are you going to do to kill time
on the run to New York;"
Il can crochet and darn your socks" she
replied. land If that becomes tiresome I
can play with this kitten"
The skipper Of the Acme laughed out
right
Better do your playing with the kitten
now" he said, for he will be a full
grown cat by the time we get to Sandy
Hook"
His observation was right, for when the
Acme got in yesterday Mr.. Tomcat. real
big rat catcher lay crouching for game in
the hold
Miss Park was busy throughout the en-
tire voyage OF 12s days. She finished
enough needlwOrk she said, to supply
Christmas presents for her friends for
three years. After the Acme came to an
anchorage yesterday Miss Park came on
deck with a roll of bandage in her hand.
HARD BLOW AND INJURED NATE.
You see 1 have been playing the part
OF trained NURSE she observed, las we'll
as attending to my sewing Mr.. Sinclair.
fathers mate, has bad arm that needs
dressing. / have attended him ever since
the wheel damned him when We were off
the Falkland Islands.
"A big sea slapped against the rudder
Y hen he was at the wheel and il just tore
mis- arm 10 shreds. Father attended him
with first aid and I took care of him after
that. 1t happened on August p. We were
in a twenty-four hour gale. The wind
veered from southwest to northwest and
then back again to southwest and we had
to lay to under three lower topsails and
, reef foresaii."
Were you not afraid of the Storm
suggested a reporter.
No. ] am afraid of only one thing
replied Miss Park, and that is lightning.
During our worst blow l laughed at the
Cussing of the sailors and father told me
II was no time to laugh.
Il inherit a fear of lightning. Mother
was with father on the old Alert some
twenty-five years ago when the ship was
struck by lightning ana burned at sea.
They were rescued by Captain August
Viee of the French steamer Comte D Flu
and taken TO Pernambuco, where / was
born a few months later. Now there,
have told you my age. My parents were
go grateful that they named me Augusta
Viele after the French captain"
Miss Park is six feet tall and weighs
about 100 pounds. Her face is covered with
dark sea tan, and she shows a perfect
row of white teeth when she smiles.
please don't think that 1 played house
maid throughout the voyage" she said. as
I the reporters started 20 go ashore Il
| fished for sharks and caught them, too,
| and took a four-mile walk on deck every
! day. The cook here did not make dough-
nuts to suit father and / was ordered 10
! the galley to take hand. Father said the
! ones made were better, but the cook took
! the hint and later gave a better prod
uCt."