The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-07-25
Portland. Waldo M. Chaplin Of New York

Portland Waldo NJ. Chaplin of New York
has been admitted to practice before the U, S.
Patent Office.
We were loaned last week an old charter
party dated July q. 1857, by George A. Bowen
son the late Capt. William Bowen, master and
agent for the owners of the bark David Nick
els, of Searsport, of 1874 tons, consigned to
Messrs. R. G. jerks Co. of Matanzas, Cuba,
bound from ST. Mary, Ga. The bark arrived
at Matanzas in charge of the second officer,
who stated that the mate, who was brother
of the captain, fell overheard while harpoon-
ing porpoises, the captain went to the rescue,
and both were drowned. The commission
merchants who chartered the bark were Rich
ard P. Butman & Co. of 20 South street, New
York.
OBITUARY. Capt. Daniel S. Goodell died at
his home on West Main street Friday evening,
July 10th, from the effects of fall. When
going down stairs in the cellar of his
residence he fell and struck on his head, caus-
ing conclusion of the brain. Capt. Goodell
was the son of the late Capt. Daniel S. and
Mary E. Grant Goodell and was born in
Searsport Feb. 16, 1858. In 1869 he began to
follow the sea in the bark Robert Porter with
the late Capt. Theophilus Eaton on the passage
from Baltimore to Sitka, Alaska. The bark
put into Rio Janeiro, where Capt Eaton died.
Young Goodell returned home in the brig
Manson with the late Capt. R. C. Gilkey.
Later he joined the bark Goodell, owned by
his father, and commanded by the late Capt
Levi Crockett and sailed as second and first
officers until 1876, when his father, the late
Capt Daniel S. Goodell, built the ship Brown
Brothers at Newburyport, at that time one of
the finest ships under the American flag In
1877 while in command of the Brown Broth
ers Capt. Goodell made the passage from
Cardiff to Hongkong in 80 days, and in
1882, in the same ship, he made the pas
sage from San Francisco to Havre in 1O4
days and back to San Francisco, making
the round voyage in eight months and 10
days - the best on record at that time
In June, 1876, he rescued one of his crew. Will
liam W. Beach, off Cape Horn, in a gale of
wind. With rope attached to him he jumped
overheard and rescued Beach, who had fallen
overheard, and for this act of bravery he re-
ceived medal from the Massachusetts HUI
name Society with the following inscription:
Reward of Merit, Courage and Perseverance
to Capt. D. S. Goodell, Jr., ship Brown Broth
ers, for gallant and successful efforts in res
cuing William W. Beach from drowning off
Cape Horn in gale, June, 1876" Capt Good
ell also sailed as commander of the ship
Charger in the California trade for several
years and upon the decline of business the
ship was sold. He then entered the employ
of the United States government as first Off
Ger of the transport Hancock for a time He
retired from the sea about twenty years ago.
He married Miss Mary Bannon of Allston,
Mass, who with one daughter, Miss Danny
Sears Goodel, survives him; also one brother,
Capt. William H. Goodel, of this town, and
two sisters, Mrs. Alexine Hadlock and Mrs.
Frederick Davis, both of Boston. Funeral
services were held at his late home Sunday
afternoon, Rev. C. H. M cElhiney of the First
Congregational church, officiating Inter-
ment was in the family lot in Elmwood Gene
terry. The bearers were Capt. Charles M.
Nichols, Capt Henry G. Curtis, Capt James
P. Butman and Capt. Wlfred " Nichols