Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
Tween TWO SP0UTS|M0NEY GIVEN BACK
Yacht Gavea Has Narrow Motorists Illegally Held Up at
Squeeze on Potomac Rossyn, Court Decides.
ONE ROSE BEFORE HER LAW IS NOT YET IN EFFECT
Steers Into Another Corscrew Old Statute Of Operative
River to Clouds Alexandria County
THEY COLLAPSE JUST IN TIME MISTAKE MADE OFFICIALS
cros.
of All His Sea Lore and Enter the Dominican
to Escape Without of Interference
Yacht Gaiveta Has Narrow
Squeeze on Potomac.
ONE ROSE BEFORE HER
Steers Into Another Corkscrew From
River to Clouds.
THEY COLLAPSE JUST IN TIME
Peril Put Capt. Keene to the Elk
ercise Of All His Sea Lore
to Escape.

Water spout. SIR" cried the lookout
aboard the steam yacht Gaiveta last Fri
day afternoon as she nosed along in the
choppy waters of the lower Potomac.
Dead ahead. sir
THAT I see,' growled hardy old Capt.
Theodore Keene. who'd been watching a
strange looking cloud straight ahead OF
him for ten minutes.
That was about all the opportunity for
conversation aboard the Gaiveta at that
moment The situation was getting pretty
tickIish for even as old a hand as Capt.
Theodore keene.
The Gaiveta was headed straight for
the whirling mass Of water which ofidgeo
from river to cloud. Capt. Keene threw
his wheel over
Between Two Perils.
Another waterspout. sir. On the port
bow. SIR" calmly called the lookout as
the yacht turned on keel. Abreast OF us
and close by
Can't. Keene did not need this dis
ouieting information. He would rather
have been told what to do in an emer-
aency that taxed his sea lore ana ex-
perience.
Between two fire extipguishers mat
threatened his furnaces and added the
menace of swapping his boat he was not
sure he was equal to the occasion. IL
was moment of peril that would appall
the most courageous. And the peru was
fast closing in.
Gaiveta in Grave Peril.
The Gafveta ran the very grave danger
of being tripped over by several thou-
sand tons of swirling water. winch arose
from the ugly. brackish water or the
lower river straight into the dirty clouds
above with an ominous growl. Had the
giant playthings of the sky and sea ever
fallen upon the Gaiveta. there would not
be as much as a ditty box left 10 tel the
tale. However
Cant. Theodore Keene was chewing his
ouid with his slicker drawn close about
him his brow knit so as TO snow the
deem wrinkles of an olC-time sailor man.
gazing at those swiring things mat me
sailor in the bow SO suddenly hdo cdieo
attention to.
Capt. Keene thought he'd better throw
her helm over again and git outer the
way err tn tarnal spout. afore she split
the Gaiveta from stem to starn:
Over went the wheel and the Gaiveta S
nose poked the choppy black water aside.
The sky was lead colored. and there was
a deep sense of something bad about to
happen.
Waterspouts Draw Together.
The two gigantic columns, uncontrolla-
BILE and quite likely to sweep upon his
ship at the whim of the heavens. danced
toward each other as if in a game. The
shin had to be headed away from the
second danger but ran the risk Of hav-
ing the original menace pour its ten
millions Of gallons upon the decks with
the surety of sudden trip to the bot
tom.
What would have happened had the
spouts stayed right there, dancing and
chasing the Gaiveta with their gigantic
fun can never be known. Suffice to say.
Capt. Keene never wants to play that
sort of a game again.
Just as he was making a last desperate
effort to run in close to the Maryland
shore the two big spouts burst. The
roar was terrific as the great masses of
water fell apart in the air. Waves rush
ed high on both the Maryland and Vir-
ginia shores The Gaiveta rocked and
rocked. But what Of that.
Capt Theodore Keene spat overheard.
rubbed his hands, cut of another plug
and turned TO his mate:
"Ain't seen a spout for some time.
Never did see two spouts at once afore.
Did ye?"
And the Gaiveta went on down the
river.