The Washington herald., 1910-02-18

After a hazardous voyage OF nineteen
days, riding out gale after gale in the
Gulf Stream. the little nonmagnetic
brigantine Carnegie reached safe anchor
age in New Haven harbor on wednes-
day afternoon.
For nearly three weeks this tiny craft
has been buffeted by the gigantic seas
which are supposed TO have swamped the
naval tug Nina.
In his report to the Carnegie Institute,
received in this city yesterday. Chief
Observer W. C. Peters, who is in COM
mand, writes:
Had stormy Passage.
We have had a stormy passage. hav-
ing been driven over the latitude of Cape
HatteTas five times. Finally, after be-
ing for several days within 100 miles OF
New York, I was obliged to shape the
course for Montauk Point. / have put IN
here to give the party a good nights
rest Tomorrow. if conditions are fair,
I shall proceed to Brooklyn. but 1t does
not look promising tonight.
we passed New London last night
February 15), but as I could not COM
municate with the shore until having
passed Quarantine. I kept on. hoping TO
report here early in the morning. How
ever, we were delayed by the wind and
the wait for the quarantine officer"
The Carnegie left Hamilton, Bermuda,
January ., and proceeded TO Murray's
Anchorage, where a falling barometer
gave promise of a northerly gale. This
prophecy was fulfilled. The gale came
on. and lasted for two days, after which
the vessel squared away for home on
January IS.
Buneted by Gales.
The first days run was an excellent one.
but after that gale after gale came up,
generally blowing from the north. Five
times the Carnegie weathered the latitude
Of Cape Hatteras during a lull Of wind
and sea, but each time it came on TO
blow so heavily that she was obliged to
heave to and lose in drifting TO leeward
all she had gained.
The stanch little craft rode out the
gales well, but came near losing two Of
her crew. A man who was swept over
the side by q boarding sea was hauled
back aboard by the end of a staysan
sheet TO which he was clinging Another
was thrown from the foretopsail yard.
but saved himself from death by holding
on to the rigging.
Baffied by head winds and squalIy
weather, SO that he could not beat into
New York, Mr.. Peters stood parallel to
the Long Island shore, and on the night
of the 18th weathered MOntauk Point and
passed into the quiet waters Of Long
Island Sound
He stopped in at New Haven tc give
his party the first nights sleep they
have had in three weeks, and to relieve
by telegraph the anxiety of the families
OF those aboard.
First of Her Kind
The Carnegie, the first Of her kind.
is wooden brigantine 155 feet long with
a displacement Of 56S tons. She was built
at Brooklyn, n. Y, and launched June
y, 1909. Designed to make a magnetic
survey of the seven seas to determine
the variation OF the compass all over the
world, she Is built entirely OF nom
magnetic material. and her very fasten-
ings are of bronze or copper. She Is
equipped with auxiliary power for use
in head winds or calm weather, and can
steam about six knots an hour.
On August q last the Carnegie
spread her canvas and set out from
Brooklyn on her maiden voyage to begin
the magnetic survey Of the North At
lantic Ocean. DR.. L. A. Bauer, director
of the department of terrestrial mag
netism, accompanied the party on the
first leg of the cruise. and personally
supervised the work as far as Falmouth.
England All the way across the ocean
the little floating observatory hove TO
at intervals and took astronomical and
magnetic observations to determine how
nearly the compass needle pointed to the
true north in each locality.
From England the observers continued
their work southwark as far as the Island
Of Madeira, about 300 miles of the Afrl-
can coast, and from there back across the
Atlantic along the usual sailing route
@'Si 4AANNN vas oA6iAlNN Bu NLG afternoon
of January T. and the Carnegie came to
anchor in the Hamilton Channel that
evening.
All the way across heavy swells we're
encountered coming from the northwest
and indicating there was rough weather
in higher attitudes During the stay in
Bermuda the old observation stations
were made 10 determine possible errors
which may have crept into the readings
Of the ships instruments.
Vessel Rolled Heavily.
While running from Bermuda TO New
York the work was seriously interfered
with by the violent rolling and yawing
Of the vessel.
IN the course Of the next hfteen years
the c~znegie will have completed the
magnetic survey of the oceans of the
world and the published results of her
work win enable navigato-s who are ab-
solutely dependent on the accuracy OF
their compasses TO lay with accuracy their
paths across the trackless ocean.
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