New-York tribune., 1910-01-19
DAYLIGHT W AS DARK
md SESAME OPENED.
But What Skipper Thought of
CrP7c Can't Be Printed.

The ulasts Of the Daylight today mark
the shadows of the Upper Middle Grounds.
and the rollers race between them before
they come in and fall upon the peach at the
Highlands. How the Daylight went down
in a collision. how her men took off the
men OF the Sesame and how they were res
cued in turn by a narrow minded sailor
man with pipe-an that is the story OF
man with a heavy grievance. and his name
is James De Grass
The Daylight came upon the Upper Mid
die Grounds soon after her namesake had
frightened up the cottages on the Jersey
coast She was a three-ma sted schooner,
and Captain De Grass had shipped FIVE
negroes and Iascar mate TO take his yes
sci and her thousand tons Of coal from
Norfolk to Boston. The wind was light.
but she was beating nicely
The Sesame. TOO. Jared forth 70 the Upper
Middle Grounds in tow Of the tug Annie
" No stouter scov sails the seas. She
was heavily laden. and no one coming UP
TO her from the leeward would ask what
that lading was sam Washington was
sitting on her port forward corner calling
Sam Richmond a worthless. greasy,
rice grubbng. chills-and-fever niger" and
Sam Richmond sat 70 starboard and in
timated that Sam" Washington was a
pork-fed black scaIawag," who never was
ft to eat dirt in Old Virginia. and was
probably afflicted with chilblains
The Daylight came on. bearing north
northwest. and her skipper beloved to the
tug 70 get out Of his way. with some re-
marks on what the wind was whispering to
him about the Sesame and her cargo. The
Daylight was deep with coal; the Sesame
We in ND inf
instant, when the breeze from her came
full aboard. the scow came down and
rammed the schooner little forward Of
the mainmast.
She opened up like a sieve. and her
skipper went over after the five negroes
and the lascar mate into a yawl that was
built to hold one oarsman and the skipper.
and at pinch the owners daughter. IN
the mean time civil war and mutiny had
broken out on the scow
The first shock sent the crew rolling
into the lading, and when they had dug
themselves out there was panic. Sam"
Washington tumbled over Sam Rich
mond in a wild rush for the starboard
rail, two men were thrown down and
trampIed on in the confusion; the port
corner scowHan got a bump on the knee
and the starboard man had his hand
stepped on. and the entire crew lined up
against the rail and shouted for help
The yawl wal1owed alongside and took
them off. for the skipper remembered the
Arabian Nights and that the property OF
sesame is to open. When the men OF the
rival capitals had added their weight 10
that Of the i've other persons and the las
car mate, the skipper found that the yawl
was showing a scant inch and a half of
gunwale above the water.
The Daylight sank before their eyes.
going down and leaving her masts half
out OF water When the skipper looked
around he saw the tug pulling off with the
Sesame in her wake. He put up his hands
and expressed an opinion. A short sailor
man with a pipe came out OF the wheel
house and having the better Of the wind,
made himself heard
Take yer off when we git back" he
said Then I'll tell yer what think O.
fellers that object to my cargo an inter
fere with my niggers in the performance o.
their dooty"
And the Annie w steamed of with the
Sesame 70 where they leave such things as
she had 10 leave in Davy Joness locker.
When she came back that way, well on
toward noon, she called at the three masts
on the upper AlOOIS ITOuI4OS dnO p4CHcO UP
the yawI with the seven negroes. the lascar
mate and the skipper. They asked him
down in South street last night what had
become OF his men.
I dunno" he said. but I can tell you
Just where 7 hope they are"
Where is it?"
Then he proceeded TO tell them. 4 short
sailorman with a pipe also figured in the
picture.