Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1913-06-21
baby AIDS CAPTAIN
Daughter Helps Father to NavI-
gate Freluhter.
Tiny Sailor Girl Wears Full sea-ooIng
OUTFIT and 10 often In Path Of
Danger-Has Made Two orl-
entail Trlpe.

New York.-If persons living near
the water front in Staten island and
Bay Ridge had trained binoculars on
the bridge OF the British freighter In
draghiri as she passed through the
narrows recently at the end of q voy-
age from the orient diminutive figure
in oilskins, sea boots and wearing a
Southwestern would have been seen
strutting about with an air that indi-
Gated nothing was SO important as
the navigation OF this ship.
The small person was Phyllis Kel-
way, four years old. daughter OF Capt.
w. e. Kelway. Royal Naval Reserves.
commander OF the Indraghiri. Enter.
ing or leaving port. Phyllis 10 never
absent from her fathers side on the
bridge. She thinks 80 much OF her
seagoing outfit she always wears 1t In
fair or squally wather.
Every officer in the ship agrees the
tiny sailor girl can box the compass.
and at the rate her father Ia teaching
her navigation she soon will be able
to shoot the sun" and map on
q course on the chart.
hO SAAA0 . AONO Vi Inv DCo tohAVo
naturally. She was born in midocean
in a hurricane and never has shown
fear in rough weather. In fact. the
officers who romp with her on deck
when the ship Is rolling and pitching
say she shows much more enthusiasm
when waves are breaking over the
forecastle.
AS proof of her right to be called
a salt" her father points to the fact
there are few children OF four years
in the world who have sailed or steam
ed more than $4,000 nautical miles.
Phyllis has made two round trips from
New York to China. Japan and the
Philippines, and in a few days she will
be off again for another six months
voyage.
The tiny sailor girls affection for
her father is shown whenever the ship
runs into a fog and he has to be on
the bridge for hours at stretch. The
worst weather the ship encountered
was when nearing this coast recently.
and for 48 hours Capt Kelway had to
stay on the bridge. Phyllis knows fog
is q signal for her oilskins and south.
wester. She runs to her mother with
the news and away she goes for the
bridge. with somebody's careful eye
trailing her Ohicers say the child
will never leave the bridge. even
even though tired and sleepy unless
the captain tells her she can go.
Second Officer Beatty said there
isn't q man on the ship who doesn't
think more of their little sailor pet
than the entire ship and the $2.0o0.O0O
cargo she brought
Capt. Kelway is commodore of the
Indra fleet He halls from Milford
Haven. Wales. and has won a medal
for life saving. His ship Is perhaps
the best equipped freighter coming to
this port. She carries telemotor steer
ing gear and has patent hold ladders
In her ventilators. These ladders In
the ventilators permit the crew to go
into the cargo holds without opening
the matches. The life OF a stowaway
was saved in this way. He was suffo-
eating in the hold, but managed to
grope his way to a ventilator and
climbed, almost exhausted, to deck
Phyllis was FIRST to see the man.
She was playing on deck with her
elbows near the ventilator when she
heard cry. She ran to the bridge
with the news. On another occasion
she watched the crew try to rescue a
drowning Chinaman in Singapore. He
was lost.
Capt. Kelway's long sea experience
and his navigating skill saved his ship
in the Indian ocean when water
Rpout threatened to run him down
He changed his course and headed
away from 1t as 1t bore down on the
ship. But the waterspout also shifted
its direction, as II bent on pursuing
the vessel Capt. Kelway outma-
neuvered the spout. however. and
soon was safe distance away. In the
excitement Phyllis was on the bridge.
but the captain didn't notice her until
everything was over. The tiny sailor
girl stuck to her corner of the bridge.
her eyes riveted with wonder on the
black swirling object.