Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

Betsey and Jane, laden with hundred and nineteen
packages of drygoods valued at one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Our pugnacious friend Captain Moon
of the Globe, after action, captured the ship
Sir Simon Clark, laden with rum, sugar, and coffee
valued hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and
January %, 1915, the Baltimore prvateer Surprise
Captain Barnes captured the British ship Star laden
with twelve hundred bags of sugar five thousand bags
of coffee forty five tubs of camphor three hundred bags
of sage, twenty-five bales of nankeens, eighty-three
of cinnamon, and fortyve of tortoise she'll
the entire cargo worth three hundred thousand dollars
During the the Surprise made thiry-our prizes.
Before Captain Rowland of the Holkar had his dis
appointing experience with the convicts in the
Emu he took the English ship Aurora, filled with dry
goods to the value of three hundred thousand dollars
while, about the time, the Herald OF New York
seized the Friendship of London, with cargo invoiced
at half million dollars. The half million mark
scored by several other American prvateers in this
In the summer of 1918 the General Armstrong, after
spirited action captured the Queen with cargo worth
five hundred thousand. while the HAPPY of Portsmouth
made the same record early in 1915.
TN the case of the HAPPY, her half million of wealth
acquired in cruise of only twenty days shortly
after leaving port she seized the British transports
Budges and Amazon, freghted with rum brandy. beef
pork, flour, and bread intended for the English army.
Before the ended the HAPPY made a second half
million strike. The following list shows the singular
variety of articles representing her riches: "12S boxes
and trunks and 1l6 hogsheads and casks of drygoods
jewelry plate, womens rich dresses, navy trimmings
fine clothing etc. $50 boxes fresh Malaga raisins, 66
trails fresh Turkey figs 1913 pieces British manufactured
goods 20 bolts OF canvas, quantity OF cordage, III
pipes of sherry wine, barrels of gunpowder,
ades muskets pistols cuasses, sails signal flags, lamps,
and paint OIL white and patent sheet lead nautical in
strumentS cut and other glasses medicines and upward
of 100000 pounds sterling in British treasury notes and
bills of exchange
But richer strikes made In her first cruise
the six-gun prvateer Amelia Captain A. Adams o.
Baltimore captured fourteen hundred tons of British
shipping to the value of million dollars In her
second cruise she almost doubled this record when she
secured twenty three hundred tons of shipping An
other highly successful privateer of Baltimore the
York. Captain E. Staples, which, after cruise of thr
teen weeks off the coast of Brazil returned to Boston
with prizes aggregatng million and half Baltimore
also the privateer Rolla Captain E. w. Dew
ley Tor Dooey), which, when cruising Madeira,
December 1915, 1912, captured seven English
chantmen the cargoes of which invoiced at
than two million dollars No wonder that Cuffee Cock
roach and Jack bsheet the colored cabin boys in
of these privateers received their share for
Sl,12l 88 and 1913. 10 respectively
Indeed the ability of these prvateersmen to seize
wealth the high seemed to be limited only by the
capacity of their craft to hold goods taken from the
enemy. There number of instances where these
amateur cruisers returned to port simply because they
could hold no This happened to Captain Almeda
of the Baltimore privateer Caroline who in the fall OF
1918 made cruise in the West Indies in which he cap
tured twelve British merchantmen. These craft after
the valuable parts of their cargoes had been
ferred to the Caroline were burned at and Captain
Ameda returned to port because his vessel could
carry any goods Captain Jacobs of the privateer
Kemp, also of Baltimore, had like experience. On
December g. 1914, he came across eight English mer
chantmen, which he proceeded to attack "one-
three" order After he had taken four of the vessels
he compelled to let the Others escape, he could
not spare another to handle more prizes
this taken by hard fighting. The game of
bluff successfully played by these gold