New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-30
DEEP SEA GRAVE FOR
THE BOVER|C'S COOK
Friday, the Thirteenth, Was
. Too Stormy a Day
for Him.
ENDS LIFE WITH RAZOR
British Tramp Steamer, After
Hard Fight with Big
Seas, Gets to Port
Here.

Three years and four months away
from her home port OF Cardiff and slated
for South American ports when she
weighs anchor here. buffeted and bruised
by the waves, but still sitting them
az proudly as the day she took the
water. the British tramp Bcveric steamed
into the harbor early yesterday morn
ing and made her way to the BUSH
Terminal docks, in South Brooklyn her
iron decks. heavy with rust. her runner
seemingly stranger to the paint brush
for many months. she tied MP to the end
of one OF the 1.400-foot piers ana Oesa"
10 mt ashore bale after bale OF heihP
and sack after sack Of castor seed.
Her captain. Vincent Harper, WHY
thin-faced Young Welshman, win
thick white sweater under his coat OF
blue ana gold. acknowledged that he was
glad 10 see his vessel safe at her h'oo'
ings When a sailor Acknowledges tha'
Il generally means that he hasn't sleP'
much for the last few days. having oeeh
engaged I'm a touch and go battle 10 Keep
out OF Davy Jones's locker
That was what Captain Harper nau
been through Three times on the Noy-
age from Gibraltar to this port ne nau
been compelled TO heave 10 for forty
eight hours at time, and on Christmas
morning. while his vessel was "aiio"-
ing I'm the trough Of the sea- noun.
famous wave came over the star ood'
side Just abaft 'midshps. carried away
the hand steering wheel on the poop anu
all but washed overheard hair uo%e"
men OF the Chinese crew VINO were u!
ing TO set storm trysail on the mann
mast I'm hopes Of steadyine the snip.
we had rough weather all the way
across" said the captain nut 'hriS'-
,os VAS ticker. The second mate. An
drew Mercer. was i'm charge OF the men
who were setting the trysall wnen tle
wave hit them. II picked them up Inc
straws and dashed them against tne
yinches and the hatch coaminSs OF lhe
after deck. leaving most OF them uhcoh-
scIous In the seething water. Mercer
and the first and third officers waded III
Ia the rescue. while wave after wave
broke over the rail
The water was breast high. Mercer
got his leg badly wrelched. but he ana
the other white man managed 10 pun the
Cinnamon out, and they were ABOUT "a
grateful a lot as I ever saw. ! sent TWO
OF them To the Long Island College HOS
ital this morning. one with three broken
ribs and arc ther with his right leg broken
twice below the knee
The breaking Of the hand steering gear
gave the skipper a couple OF anxious
hours for the reason that the steam APP
naratus threatened every moment TO &c
out OF commission. leaving ,he vessel ab-
solutely at the storms mercy. Thc
nounding of the waves had loosened the
steam steering engine from its fasteninsS'
and Captain Harper feared that II Wouid
finally give way entirely Three hours
work. however. fixed the hand gear SO
that II could be used In case OF emerg-
ency. which. fortunately FOR the Boveric'
did not arise.
Old Holus's Christmas gift was the
second bit OF excitement which came TO
the Boveric on her voyage from Bombay
where she finished loading tbirty-two days
ago. The other bit came on Friday De
cember 70. and confirmed the captain In
his suspicion that there was something
unlucky about that combination.
IT was unlucky for the fremen's cook.
ANYWAY" remarked Captain Harper The
Chink-he was only young fellow-went
forward about o'clock that morning
and borrowed n razor saying that the
chief cook wanted to shave. An hour
later | was called out Of my bunk with
the information that he had been found
behind the after deckhouse. his throat
cut from ear 90 ear. We couldn't learn
any reason for his act. except, perhaps,
that he was seasick.
The Cinnamon wouldn't go near him to
prepare him for burial. But they brought
a clean suit OF clothes AMI "A pair Of
boots. and the first and second mates and
[ dressed him up for the Journey, sewed
him in a tarpauln with couple Of fire
bars and pushed him over the side. That