The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-18
ST0RKFL|ES 1000
MILES OUT TO SEA
AND BOARDS SHIP
That Day Three Chow Pups
Are Bonn and Sailors Say
Bird Brought EN-.

RED with rust from bridge rail TO-
Plimsoi line the British freighter BE.
chuana from Delagoa bay. South East
Africa. by way Of Bombay. STEAMED
into the Port OF New York yesterday
and was warped up to Norton &
Sons pier. Bush stores. The rust on
her rails. decks. donkey engines and
side plates bore mute witness to tho
,empestuous voyage of the steamship
across the Atlantic.
From the time the Bechuana left "Gib"
astern twenty days ago she battied with
south. southwest and westerly gales
From Capt. z. f. Buckley down all
hands declared they had never in all
their seafarlng days experienced such
weather and It takes real gales to make
old-t!me seamen admit such facts.
For two weeks We were more like q
submarine than a steamship supposed
TO foat on the top of the water" said
Chief Officer Alan c. Avery. There
was hardly a minute when the decks
were nat awash and every little while
an extra large wave would topple com.
pletely over the ship.
From the time that We left Della goa
Bay We had rough weather. Crossing
the Indian Ocean TO Bombay was a sue
cess'on of storms. When We were .
thousand miles of the African coast q
peculiar thing happened. I was on the
bridge early one morning when saw q
white object heading directly toward us
through the gale. As It drew closer
saw that 1t was a bird. In q few min
utes the bird reached the Bechusna
and fell exhausted on the deck
BIRD VISITOR PROVES TO be A
sroRk.
Il called TO one OF the hands to hold
the bird. but /, was unnecessary, for tho
poor thing was almost dead and lay or
the deck with eyes closed. Our bird
was a stork and II had evidently been
driven from Africa by storm.
never heard OF a stork travelling 100
miles to sea
We'll. Sir. In about two hours tn,
, stork began TO show signs OF life ant
1t was soon moving about the deck. 1
made no effort to leave US and We tool
! 1t as good sign. And then anothe
: strange thing happened. Along abOu
two bells In the after Don watch Capt
, Bulke.ey called to me to come be!o
, and there was his chow dog Nellie will
q three puppies that Rad arrived SOM
, time that morning. You can't make tn
men on the Bechuana believe that tina
. there stork didn't bring those chop
puppies. As for myself ! hardly thini
p IL possible. for never knew Of stOrkl
to be In the chow dog business.
That stork lived aboard ship 70
three days and then one morning the oil
: bird rose gracefully into the cir. circle
: about the masts for a few minutes an,
l. struck out to the northeast In the d.
y rection OF India
I Chief ONCE Avery has several snap
shots Of the stork and also several o
= the chow puppies In his scrap book I
:, prove the authenticity Of his narrativ,
3 From Bombay to Gibraltar the passas
OF the Bechuana was without tncidCn
v but hardly had the Pillars OF Hercuis
t disappeared astern ere she ran In to
southerly that stood tine freighter o
= her beam ends. Added to the wind an
u waves was a display Of lightning this
illuminated the heavens In q ghs sti
manner.
: LIGHTNING scAREs THE FIRE
v ROOM CREW.
n As the days passed the gales swer
l. from south TO west and back again
n The electrical display was terrifying an
; the natives IN the nreroom called o
= their Buddhas for protection. The BE
chuana carries large quantity Of Ind!