New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-28
AMERICAN EAGLE
GETS HIM TURKEY
Only John Harley, A. B., of
Shipwrecked Six, Has
Thanksgiving Ashore.
HIS CITIZENSHIP
PAPERS LET HIM IN
Others of Crew of Unlucky
BrookIine Held UP by Quar-
antine Men.

The Booth liner Christopher. from North
Brazil and Amazon River ports, via Bar
bados. warped into her pier at Fulton
street. Brooklyn, yesterday TO the accom-
paniment of grooming windlass ana
screaming steam winch. Even before the
gangplank was stretched between her
sides and the pier six sturdy seameh'
their faces bronzed by months of exposure
20 tropic wind and sun. waited impatient
" for the chance TO get ashore.
AS the gangplank was lowered into
place they started down the incline pell-
nell, only TO be held up by officials from
Quarantine, who demanded their ciuzen-
ship papers. The faces of the men were
filled with sudden and blank despair-all
except one of them. that is.
John Harley, able seaman and Brook
lynite also, fumbled beneath his blue
shirt for moment and brought Iortn the
precious papers. A hasty scrutiny OF the
documents, and Harley was permitted
10 go. after shaking hands all around with
his mates. The others remained glued 10
the rail- watching the passengers oisem-
bark and hasten away IN quest OF good
iold-fashioned American Thanksgiving din
ners.
The six rnen-Patrick WEIGH, mate Har-
~ Barbour, steward, and Ludwig John-
son. Alfred Carlson. John Harley ana
William ILlliborg, able seamen-%ere the
crew of the schooner Brookllne. which
was wrecked off St Phillips. in the West
Indies. on November II. They had been
picked up at Bridgeton, Barbados. when
the Booth liner put in at that port. ieav-
ing their skipper. John KerTigan, to sal
wage the Brookline.
Harley said last night, between plentiful
cargoes OF turkey and cranberry sauce
that he and his mates shipped on the 49,
ton schooner Brookline, June "A last Wheh
she sailed from New York with a cargo
of hard coal from Halifax, n. D After
discharging at the latter port the BROOK
line set Der sails for Limerick, Ireland
and no untoward incident happened UNTIL
after leaving the Emerald Isle in ballast
the Rrookline sailed on an even keel
through the Caribbean.
On November II the little sailing vessel
was beset by a dead calm and her sails
hung limp. Next the Brooklne was
caught I'm the swift current of the Gulf
Stream, or an offshoot. Without steerage
way the crew was unable to control the
boat. and finally off ST. Philips, she
grounded on reef and her keel was
ripred away.
Captain Kerrigan, seeing the water all
about was shallow and that the boat was
rapidly filling. despite thirty-six hours OF
unremitting labor at the pumps, DECIDED
10 beach his craft All the crew we're
handed life preservers and took TO the
water. leaving the Brooklne grooming on
a sand bar. They made their way TO land
with great difficulty because of the racing
current, and then walked miles and miles
through dense tropical forests until they
reached Bridgeton, where the American
Consul, Harley said, gave them shelter m
the Sailors Retreat
No mongrel dog, however humble his
lineage. according 10 John Harley, would
have chosen the retreat" for his abode,
and so, when the Christopher came along.
homeward bound, Harley and his mates
were glad to stow away between decks.
For weeks the men Of the wrecked
Brookline had been looking forward to a
turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, and the
action of the Quarantine officials in bar
ring them from land came as a bitter