Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-10-11
WHERE IS BUCKNAM
Former Bucksport Man Reported a.
Not With Turkish Fleet.
lFrom the New York ssn.l

"Any day now" said Capt. J. Il
Wagner, at the Hotel Breslin, New York,
as he SGT FIRE to long, lean cigar, 81 am
expecting r. d. Buchanan, OF Constanti-
|nople short, square chap, broad as he is
long, undersbot jaw; regular human bull
dog. Great little fellow is Buchanan.
Wouldn't cash in his American citizen
ship, you know, to hold his job as boss Of
the Turkish navy. He was Buchanan
Pasha, ace high with the young Turks,
strong with the old Abdul Hamid crowd,
owned trunkful of orders, could take the
! wall Of any foreigner in Turkey-but he
quit because they made the limit too
high.
fright now they are wondering in Ber-
lin and London and Paris what would
have happened il Buchanan Pasha had
| agreed to become q Turkish citizen and
had taken active command OF the sultan's
feet in the war with Italy. Along with
w. H. Ledbetter, Y. 8. N, retired, who
had helped Buchanan Pasta in one of the
| toughest jobs man ever tackled-trying
to make something Of the Turkish navy
he has dropped out Of sight temporarily.
heard to-day that he is in Boston and
likely to be here in few days. But il Mr..
Ransford D. Buchanan, lately OF San Fran
cisco and any place else you happen to
think Of, was on the job OF Prevesa or
Tripoli it's q good bet that the Italian
yellow journals wouldn't be gloating SO
many gloats. He would be licked by
weight OF armor and ordnance, no doubt;
but believe me, he would thrash around
some.
There's Q man who doesn't need any
eight sheet advertising. For twenty
years in several oceans he has been doing
the interested and unexpected, and Euro
pean chancelleries have thought it wise
to keep tab on him. As said, Buchanan
is square rigger, forty-eight years old,
hard as steel and shrewd as Vermont
storekeeper. He was born in Nova Scotia
OF a seafaring family, got his first sailing
experience on the great lakes and then
went to work for the Peabody line Of
Australian packets. He knocked around
for some years with the Pacific Mail
steamship company, got in with Cramps
as an expert and finally landed in Turkey,
| where he made a hit with Abdul Hamid.
ale quit, as he told me year ago, be-
! cause he had got to the time OF life when a
man figures that money is worth some
thing. The young Turks had granted him
| some valuable concessions in Constanti-
nople in the way of street railways and
electric lighting. AS naturalized Turk,
he might have lost the CONCESSIONS in any
| upturn of politics. As an American he
figured he could not hold on to what he
had got.
at was not until 1908 that r. d. Buck
nam began to loom up as an international
figure. The Turkish government had q
cruiser, the Medjidieh, OF 8, $50 tons, on the
ways at Cramps, q fine new boat that the
sultan wanted to get home. A Turkish
crew had come over, but after getting to
Philadelphia had got cold feet. So the
Cramps looked around for q man big
enough to jockey the cruiser home. They
picked Buchanan, who happened to be out
of q job.
"He landed the Medjidieh ali right and
SO pleased ABDUL Hamid that the Sultan
sent for him and asked HIM to act as his
naval adviser. Buchanan said he would
like the iob IL It was understood that he
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was 70 DC the DOES. Inc sultan toio nun
to 20 ahead and do the best he could and
| that IL he had anv kick coming nlease annlv
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! 1t worked out pretty well. Buchanan re-
membered Ledbetter and got him over.
SIT wos q ,ood comhinst;on prc,r.
l. So SA.
the aH-rouno executive ana trieo handler
| OF men; Ledbetter, ex-navyman and dis
c;n,inar;an Thew went to work To 70.
mooei the navy along American lines.
| They established school for officers.
They ;nst;tutea raon,ar tarpet nractice
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