The Republican journal., 1911-09-28

NV GAAAS CAOy oiC OCSOtlllIS
recollections.
Coastwise Captains.
The Trusty Men Who Pilot Good Ships
Out of Our Harbor
From the Boston Transcript
There earth is an Eden, the climate balm.
Bright hues deck the fislds, and aloft waves
the palm.
Wide the cypress its vast leafy canopy throws,
And in loveiness blossoms the Florida rose.
[From an old magazine.
By the Ocean Steamship Company's
line used to make the trip to Florida.
The masters of the ships out of Boston
are ]. H. Diehl, M. A. Hammond and
George Munson.
Captain J. H. Diehl in command of
the City of Macon was born in Germany
and was educated there and in the Unit
ed States. He has been twelve years
with the company and makes his home in
Maiden.
Captain M. A. Hammond is in COM
mand of the City of Memphis, and Cap
tain George Munson of the Nacoochee.
Captain Munson and his wife are partic-
ularly happy nowadays over the recent
arrival of bouncing boy.
The masters of the Clyde Steamship
Company are Captain B. Macbeth, Rich
are Mcguire and W. o. Chichester.
Captain B. Macbeth in command of the
and resides in Cambridge, Mass. He
has been seventeen years with the CLYDE
line
Captain Richard Mcguire in command
of the Katahdin is Roxbury, Mass,
young lady and they reside in Brookline.
Captain W. O. Chichester in command
of the Chippewa owns an automobile
and delights to make the run out through
our beautiful suburbs.
Hundred harbored Maine
Whittier.
Richard Golden, 1.-THE actor of Old Jed
Prouty fame Of Bucksport, il speech
said that when he died he wished to be
buried within sound of the 'swish of the
Penobscot.
The Eastern Steamship Company's cap
tains are:
Captain S. F. Pike, in command of the
Calvin Austin, was born in Bangor, Me-,
and lives in Lubec, Me-, near the sol
dier's monument. Every picture taken
of the monument includes his house.
frey, master of the Cape Ann of the
Gloucester steamship Company, were
former shipmates. Captain Godfrey
also lives in Lubec.'
Captain W. H. Allen, in command of
the Governor Cobb, resides in Roslindale
and is competent and energetic man.
Captain C. M. Mitchell is in command
of the Governor Dingley.
l knew all of these men when they
were pilots.
Alternating on the Bay State, Cam
den, City of Bangor, City of Rockland
and Ransom B. Fuller are Captains E.
W. Curtis, G.. A. Blair, G. w. Colby,
Austin Linscott, l.. F. Strout, q. w.
Sawyer and Frank Brown.
The masters of the Metropolitan
Steamship Company are Captains H. H.
Crowell, L. NJ Crowell, H. L. Colberth
and T. E. Halves.
Commodore Captain H. H. Crowell, in
command of the James S. Whitney, has
been going to sea since he was sixteen
years of age. He was square rigging
three years, and has been around the
Cape of Good Hope once and around
Cape Horn three times. He has had
lots of hairbreadth escapes and close
calls. He fell from the topgallant yard
once and landed on the main yard with
out hurting himself any, getting up aloft
again in few moments.
He shipped aboard the ship Western
Belle at Portland, Or, and applied to the
master for a job. Upon being asked
where he was from Captain Crowell re-
piled: "Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He
was then asked: ''Can you milk cow"
and he replied: Eyes, sir" He was en-
gagged. The captains wife and sick baby
Were aboard, and he wanted a mae that
cbuld do the milking and be an able sea-
man at the same time. The captain, with
the ship pitching and rolling, had hard
time doing the milking and one time got
Gin bad" with the Chinese cook for leav-
ing the bulkhead open and allowing a
wave to come in, filling the milk pail
with water.
Captain L. NJ Crowell, brother Of
Captain H. H. Crowell, used to be with
Captain Brown of Marion, Mass, on the
Carroll, running Down East. He was
command of the H. M. Whitney.
Captain H. l.. Colberth (member of
the Sons of the American Revolution) is
in command of the Herman Winter, and
Captain T. E. Halves of the H. F. Dl-
mock.
The New England Coal & Coke Com
pany's captains are A. G. Abbott, Peter
Frostad and William M. Smith, in charge
of the great steamships Everett, Mel
rose and Maiden. The company is at
present building new boat to be called
the Newton. This will be the finest boat
of all, and Captain Abbott will be III
command and is now ashore looking
after her. | understand she will have
her own ice-making plant. l am told
that the first three vessels mentioned
cost upwards of half million dollars
each to build.
Coastwise Steamship Cympany
tain Elmer E. Crowley has the Coast
wise and Captain A. L. Hersey the
Transportation.
The Maine Steamship Company,s yes
sells are the Massachusetts and Bunker
Hill. Captain C. 7. Snow is in command
of the Massachusetts, and Captain +.
H. Lewis of the Bunker Hill.
| wish time and space permitted me 10
tell of the famous fishermen, yachtsmen
and shipowners l have known in the
years l have been coastwise clerk at the
custom house. Among the many have
known are John Stetson, Thomas W.
Lawson, Eugene Tompkins. W. II. Crane,
the actor who said he was born and