Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-04-04


Don't the little ship and the ar-pump and fxin's
tell We anything? May as well tell you right now,
s'pose-Im pearl-poacher. that's what; run
out OF the Straits by blasted British gunboat
that copied my Kanaka crew and nearly bottled
me.
at-yer-feet, two-minute diver boys, but reglar
tin-hat lead-shoes, rubbersuited, stay-for-ever
shark; and If that box of Doodle is still where
you figure on, bet your last thirst Wen get it,
and get it all. by Satan!"
The afternoon of the eighteenth day out from
Maize we raised the rocky peaks of East Island,
four thousand feet high, and as it was ccver GER
tain that landing could be made we stood on
till dusk and hove to for the night getting every
thing ready for full days hard graft on the
morrow.
But 1t was not the next day that we took up
our berth, nor for two more after that. Dirty
weather. commoner down in that Godforsaken
penguin hatchery than suckers Broadway, set
In with a bump, and for three days our little
Pearl had to fight tooth and nail to hold her po-
sition within hail OF the islands
On the fourth day the breeze blew out and left
just good working air. we hauled up and
stood in for the rocks again, this time getting
close enough to let go our warp and take the
lines ashore.
BY the Official report of the wreck, we were
pretty sure that we were right on the spot, and
this established when, after sounding all
and brought away piece of sea-rotted rope from
depth of twelve fathoms
On the principle that job well started is half
way done, we soon had the diving gear laid out
and at dead low water manned the wheel Of the
airpump after screwing up my mates helmet,
and our quest was on when Red clambered over
the low rail and slipped into the cold depths.
At the end Of an hour the signal came to haul
up, and when Saunders bobbed over the rail and
had his headgear removed he reported that
were almost plumb over the poop of the wreck
and by ranging ahead twenty feet could drop
line down her cabin skylight
We shifted our position and went below to get
a bite of tucker against the next SPELL while my
mate voiced his opinion that:
I'VE would have been better fixed had we
toted some explosive along. for the rudy ship
is steel. and quite likely had a strong room un-
der the cabin"
We expected, however to strike some snags,
as there mostly always plenty of spikes to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bouquet. After
brief spell for grub Saunders got over the side
again and took crowbars along, intending, as he
said, ITO bust something or eat the bars"
Next time he came to the surface he brought
up rusty chronomeser the mahogany case VI
which was quite gccE and said he had located
the safe, which was build into the steel bulk
head of the shippers cabin.
What do you think of the chances OF hook
ing anything, Red?" I asked, when he had
crawled out of his casing.
Tell you tomorrow son." he grunted Seems
a tougher lay than cracking open pearlske, but
IL the weather gives good fair tilt at It,
there's chance OF busting her with the bar,
think"
AS soon as 1t was light enough to grope an
other start was made on the wreck, and we
knew that 1t would be a case Of pulling up the
chest giving up the chase at the end Of that
days work.
Red took along everything we had that was
likely to be useful below, and remarked as he
put his head into his hat:
what don't come adrift this spell will have to
wait for dynamite or Gabriels big bassoon. for
/ won't come up till the bars bend double!
What titanic efforts he must have put forth
down below were well proven by the bundle of
crowbars he sent up on line. bent to horseshoe
shape; and attached to the line was the handle
OF safe. He did not come up for some time
yet however. and Triton only knows what ne
actually succeeded in doing, but when at long
last he signaled and was hauled up. he had a
small tin box made fast to his waist.
No sooner was he free of the head-gear and
able to speak than he blurted out:
"Good Gordon's beer boz she's too much for
me! Every blasted trick did work on that iron
locker, but l might as well dig into the great
pyramid with cream-pun for all the impress
sion I could make with those barsl"
II the safe had been as easy to break as the
box was we would have had those spondulicks
aboard by now for one crack with the end OF a
bar concertina-ed our find. which contained the
ships papers and sundry private documents, evi
IDENTIFY the captains.
No good could come of hanging round any
longer after we decided the Job was too big fol
our limited means to tackle, so we lost not mo
ment in getting lines and hauling on to the
anchor. Then before hosting our canvas, we
took the casks ashore for water, filling them a.
the same place those poor devils must have
used years before and taking look at the site
of their camp, where they had made dugout IL
the clifYside for the lady and child of the party
We might have spent more time looking
around this place had the weather looked pref
tier but Saunders had his eye TO windward. ant
suddenly he jerked me by the and growled
Say. young fellow. we don't want to duplicate
the Robinson Crusoe act this trip-not for senti
ment anyway: and that's just about what wei