The evening world., 1912-12-06
cupid R|DES WAVES
Of STORM At SEA
TOHARBOR Of LOVE
He Pilots Sailor and Bride He
Saved Into Calm Matri-
monial Waters.
SHE WAS NEAR DEATH.
Romance Began as Swain
Snatched Elma Anderson
From Swirling Depths.
SHE WAS NEAR DEATH.

Wn0n the steamer M1llinOCket sale
at I o'clock tomorrow afternoon for
Stockton Springs Chief Engineer
Charles A. Engstrom will take with him
. new mate. The chief was married to
Miss Elma Olina Anderson last night IN
Brooklyn. Il was a simple ceremony,
for the men of the sea do things In a
simple way. DR.. Jacobsen tied the knot
and Luther d. Dow and his wife stood
up with the couple. A dinner at the
Beaux Arts followed.
The saiorman met his bride six years,
ago and never has been told q prettier
romance of the sea. He met her q ship
wrecked lass In the middle OF the ocean. ]
He saved her from death In the boil.
ing waters, picking her up when the
approach Of the end was being counted
by minutes.
Elma Anderson was a girl In her
teens. Her home was In Finland. amid
ssafaring people. She had relatives in
New York and she had ambitions be-
side. To carry out her ambition she
braved the perils Of the ocean In a little
three-masted schooner. the Eva May.
This was one day in 1906, and the stanch
little craft carried crew OF twenty
two all told. 1t was fair sailing down
the harbor. 1t was beautiful weather
overhead and the sea was-making the
way smooth for the pretty young emf
lyrant. But the moods of the sea are as
varied as those of mans sweetheart,
and the fair sailing was not to last to
the end Of the voyage.
TERRIBLE STORM PUTS ALL IN
PERIL.
Two days more with good weather and
favoring winds and New York would
he In sight. The wind veered around
into the northeast and the glass showed
the Eva May was In for a storm. The
sails were reefed and everything made
taut aboard the schooner. Night settled
down with the vessel in the midst OF IA
terrific gale. and the storm was sweep
ing the decks from the sea and the sky
when eight bells were sounded. Light
ming flashed and zigzagged through the
heavens and the thunder doomed its
wild alarms. Mountains OF water
washed over the bow and sides, while
the wind tore at the rigging, shrlekins
nj anger when the lashings refused TO
1T.
he little Finnish girl vas in the cabin
-Jing. She was used to the wild raw
- OF the storm, but her knowledge
de only more apparent her danger.
Q was alone in the cabin Every man
the ship was at duty's post and
ere was no woman on poard to share
r danger or to comfort her. A report
Ike the voice Of a cannon was heard
ubove the roar of the storm. II was tn,
oresail going, torn at last from rs
fasteninss, and the big mast soon fol
lowed. Struck by lightning, the heavy
timber was split near the deck and top
pied into the seaf dragging the higgins
which still clunt to 1t. The schooner
had a heavy lit to port. The sailors
with their axes. fought like demons an.
severed the bonds which held the mas
and imperilled the schooner.
MEN FIGHT FOR LIVES ON BAT
TERED SHIP.
But this was only the beginning OF tht
work OF the storm. The wrench gver
the ship had started her timbers anC
the vessel was leaking. The pumps
were manned and the helmsmen lashet
TO the wheel. 1t took two men to stee
through the valleys and hills of waite
into which the ocean had been trans
formed Now perched high on the cres
of a wave. the next instant the Eva Ma.
would plunge into the swirling greer
waters, with their winding sheets o
white 100 feet below. The mainmast an,
ths mizzenmast came crashing dowi
upon deck. each broken in twain by tn
force of the wind and the waves. TIL
deck was Uttered with rigging. while
the men bravely attacked with thei
axes. The vessel was making water o.
them. It was flowing into the cabin
The Eva May was doomed.
The girl was at the cabin door. pound
ing against 1t with her slender litt
hands Her cries made no more nois
than the Tapping of the wings OF gu
in the wake OF a steamer. But IN
captain had not forgotten his passei
ger. He himself opened the cabin doc
and dragged the frightened girl on dec'
He babe her be not AFRAID and with
rope around her waist dashed her
the stump OF the mainmast.
The boats had been stove In. II
crew stuck to their posts. but men wei
washed from. the pumps and with wi
screams disappeared In the NAV OF u
greedy green waves She saw the me
go over the side. She beheld the helm
men torn from their lashings at q
wheel and swallowed by the unsatisn'
sea. And then she tainted against II
mast.
SHIP SINKS As THE GIRL
RESCUED.
When Elma came to she heard
sounds save those of the storm. A fla!
OF lightning showed her she was alol
on the vessel All mad gone-captai
mates and men-and she shuddered ar
screamed All alone, she was on a sinl
Ing ship In the middle OF the ocean.
Then suddenly she dlscerned the GU
lines of a vessel far. far away.
10 " was the bark Olaf. From her de-
] tho flashes OF lightning had reveal'
the waterlogged schooner rolling
the trough OF the sea. Charles En-
styom was the mate OF the Olaf, al
ne n was who frst made out the for