The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-18
LINER BUMPS A FISHERMAN
~ tCID COLCHESTER SkIPPER
DIDN'T WIND IT wren.
hIs Business Mas Fishing and He Kept
Hard ~ ., when the Cie,sIsnd CircIsd
Rack To see ~ He Was s'in Nnoai
Nner the Mhaek tie Get In the Fog

Back To see ~ tie was StIII Anoai
amer the WhArk Tie Got In the Eos.
These are parlous DAYS for Gloucester
men a. the fog zone extends even down
below Nantucket. and the liners are
running almost a. thick "a cod Weather
which ths fishermen reckon little 81
even IN the March iumults. il serene
enough in mld-July. the West India hurr
down near the Ralt 81 Gains But the
fishermen fear fog in the steamship track
where they often ~ Ia drag their for
tunes from the deep. more than they do
the lsshins 81 the temI-sts in which they
ar. used to handle their stout little ships
When a liner hits a fishing schooner there
il usually mourning IN Gloucester. II
was only hv u matter " mer. inches that
the little Rel,nc- ~ Gloucester was not
spltted ON IN" bow of th. Hamburg
American liner Cleveland IA Yesterday
from Hamburg
The Cleveland passed Nantucket Hight
ship AZ ! ~ y VI on SATURDAY. and a. !
, O'Clock far or ~ the usual course ~
fishermen, wh'l- she ~as going al half
speed and blowing her fog whistle. DIS.
covered the Reliance. Jogging under "a
/ jumbo jIb and reduced msinsah
small schooner in fog although the fog
NAV not lie Opaque enough ~ conceal
the surface Of an unrliffi-d s-a. ~ pretty
hard to find from the hridg. 81 n hig
liner. particularly when she materialize-
from the gloom directly on the towering
/ hOws that help 10 hide her Chief Officer
! Friedrich krus. in charge ~ the bridge
saw the Reliance "a the port how IN tim.
TO swing the ship far enough To star
board To miss cutting the fisherman down
but there Was a bump that startled the
passengers h-low aud on deck
The latter ran over To the port side and
Chief Of4cer kris- ran TO the port end
OF the bridge What they saw sent their
hearts into their mouth- The Reliance
was scraping alon gsids Of the great ship
and her skipper and a member ~ the
crew. supposedly the cook. who had
scIHied aft and Jumped INTO the sea
under the belief that the schooner was
bound for Davy Jones. were climbing
into the dory that was trailing astern from
long painter A. the Cleveland went
slowly ahead the mainmast Of the Rel.
anCe Spsar-d the emergency lifeboat.
swung out on the davi's on the port quar-
ter Of the liner
Miss Gertrude Renny-on. the opera
ginger. who was sitting on tina boat deck
reading book did not suppose the hump
meant anything and went On reading
The ship swung then and IN" stream-r Of
black smoke that had been flowing on the
other side Of the ship and away from Miss
Rennvson enveloped her Sh" dropped
her book and ran across the deck with !
what had been a white Shirtwai-t now IN |
deep mourning After wipinR the SCOT
from her ewes she also saw the fisherman |
then jus; vanishing into the fog astsrn.
Everybody noted that there wer. no |
dories on deck and inferred that the crew |
Of the schooner were ouI al the travis
Capt Dempwolf was not sure that be !
had not made a hole ia the fisherman 4
that might send her 20 the bottom and he ,
decided to pick her mp II possibl. lie
cr,Iised around two hours. IN. Who'll. ship
company helping With marine and opera ,
glasses and just plain keen eyes pe-r,ng I
all around the compass to find III. fisher
man The skipper SaW her first and later
the Passengers had a chance TO look az
her close by There appeared 20 b. moth
ing the matter With her except q crac.. 81
topmast That IL one ~ the WAYS t..
sk ipper made sure that he was not ha,Irng
some other fisherman than the on. that
made hun halt two hour. on hts vovag.
What surprised the passengers a. veil
a. the sk upper vas the placidi,v with which
the schoonar's skipper Vie~aSl his mis-
hap and the difference ~ appearance
Her decks seemed to b. swarming with
men who were mighty busy cleaning a
giant catch % glimmering fish The
dorss had all come IN and mad. fast
The TRANSFORMED had taken only two
bo,lr. po,lbtIess all hands hal heart |