The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-19
PILOT BOAT
REACHES HOME
FIRES CREW
MADE VOYAGE TO NEW ORLEANS
AND RETURN-slGNEp w a
SPECIAL CREW FoR TRlP. BuT
FOUND NEW MEMBERS iNcAPA-
SIS o. sEA DUTY

Tgfsdav months .HhaNuE lcu Ernsh-
cola m saturday previous ns already
uotsd Iu The Journal
The Pilot was Dob command 70 CART
CHaa. Perry. uf ire bar pilots. and ne
found f necessary on reaChtuE fenaa-
cola t8 discharge most of bis crew The
men had been signed up for TIE TRIP
90 New Orleans. uut most Of them
proved 80 worthless az Heameu that
capt Perry decided t9 giva them im-
mediate dismissal as soon az ne
steamer touched her landing az BAY
Irn street wharf
"A crew. said Capt PerN. who
can't 80 anythins hut slt and sleep
Whne az SEA and loaf shout ne ciy
while lu port are too much 20 lux
urv even Cor steam EiIut hoat
I Consequently The crew had CD leave
cha ship when she reached Pensacola
cart Perry d. Inclined o. think also
that some of ere men at ietst enlisted
under false prstfnsrs. thought he
1 doesn't care to say much about That
part uf d.
4 Those members ~ the Hofncers' and
I crew who got their watkins Papers
were composed ne follows assistant
. nnVIFator. Capt. "BIua Northur. assist /.
/ ant suEIueer. "Ma forT Gb Fen. guar
l termateru. Congressman Emmett WI.
SON. Col D. l.. Slaves. Col a. l.. Ruch
/ C. -khanda. Senator Juo. p. Stokes and
\ T'cla McAuiater. and E W. Lawrence;
I stoa. y Solicitor Scott Al Loftin and
Dr Ths stokes
Concerning the other members 81 the
crew and the party a. whole che New
Orleans picayune 81 Tuesday Sad the
following.
The P,eayuns Story.
The strongest crew which has
brought a vessel into the port ~ New
Orleans since good old DAYS when buc-
caneers sailed the spanish Main arr
rived by the steamer Pilot home port
Pensacola. Flar very carry yesterday
morninE Two hours after tying up
near tho head 81 Canal street the crew
landed. and since then there has been
something doing every minute IN what
Captain Charles Perry calls little Old
New Orleans"
For when elect. state
senators. newspapermcn and retired
business men start out from Pensacola
20 capture New Orleans the city sur
renders az q did yesterday. The cap
ture Of the city. TOO. was made rery
easy. since Captain A. q. Zen led The
buccaneers
Incidentally Captain Zen q pretty
well known even outside ~ New Or
leans and Penaacoia. for 10 was Cap
tain Feu who drove the stout little
dlHrmfrh boat Summers ~ smith
through CUBAN and Porto Rican waters
during the spanish American war and
heired war correspondents not un-
known 90 fame 90 score many world
beats m those good DAYS the Summers
81 Smith was in the picnvune- New
! York Herald service. and not man on
) the assignment doubted the ability q
Captain zen % make Port Antonio or
Key West e good twenty four hours
ahead 90 every other craft
Some % tae beats that Captain Eel
helped the picayuue- Herald men 20 PIT
over in those good old days were tie
I destruction ~ the spanish fleet and
the first homhardment of the war.
when the New York. the Cincinnati and
the Puritan began to tarow their shells
into old MatanEaa When % was known
that tho American NeNy had destroyed
Corvera's feet. be- was CAPTAIN Fen who
secuted for thc story. while the Golden
Rod steamed away az an eighteen knot
clip far Port Aatonlo to hold TIE Ca
bio That was another tNrnty- four
hour beat that Captain Pen helped the
boys to ruf across
stephen Crane. Richard Harding
Davis. aThr persEct" stephen Bon
sal and some others are the men Cap
tain Fcu hoUnohbed with Iu those DAYS
before the United states government
advertised Cor a postmaster at Pensa-
cola And 81 anyone doubted the au-
thoriy ~ Captain rgI then he need
only start something on the Summers
81 smith.
So much by way of parsnthesis
annent one man wao manned the Pilot
and brought her into port YESTERDAY
4 Hls mates we're iu their several paths
- notable Prank H. Mayra editor ~
the Daily Journal colonel on the gov
rrr0rs star ard fhe FiE Woodrow
Il / Wilson mar 90 persar0ia. ia another
while A. n. Ferguson. oldest bar pilot
at Pensacola. ems formerly - ths
i United States revenue cutter service
Il ca another. Congressman elrrt Emmei
Wilson. ~ the third congressional dis
Il uict, j D. stokes recently elected
states attorney Collector 90 Customs
W. H Narthuu. w A. RelL. bar pilot.
e. g. CLIFFORD. bar pilot. =. s. Caro-
bar pilot and hIF son. ForHytbs caro-.
Il r. " Lawrence retired business man.
4 FUo hCAWEter. general salesman. q
ST. RcH prominent merchant: George
b. EazzsIl. bar pilot J s. Taylor. chiet
engineer % the Pilot. a. 4. Roch husl.
l uess man. and others formed the crew
III The Pilot sfr1ued from Pensacola a..
O'Clock saturday afternoon. arrfvtn1
/ at New Orleans az 80 o'clock ATon.
DAY morning The trip wac o good one
weather Hue Captain Perry and Cap.
tain Fel declared that the crew is IN,
best one ever shipped
But We vin have new stokers home.
ward bound they said
The gentlemen made the cruise foi
pleasure. They found g. Vesterda,
and last night they rested nc the Hofs
Il Muutelcuur. preparatory ta steamIui
homrwara this moruInE
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