The Washington times., 1914-06-14
Twice Water Goes Bad, Provis-
ions Run Low, But Captain
Brings Barkentine Safely
Into Port at Last.

whole days would pass and they had
seemingly made not q foot on their
! long iourney. Once the log for eight
long days showed just siXty-eight knots
! OF progress-about seventy-five miles,
Face Hardship at Sea.
Before she had sailed on her second
| clearing, Lloyds. impressed by the
4, manner in which the old craft stood
the southwest gale which had snapped
| her foremast. relented and gave her in
| surance, but only on the condition that
she would take the northern track
across-that on WHICH the Titanic had
| tine might keep in touch with the At
lantic liners in case of mishap.
! But that very precaution proved a
| drawback later. for by the time the
! have completed the voyage. all the
other liners had been shunted to the
southern track 200 miles nearer the
! equator.
Alone upon the northern route. the
| old Success ployed doggedly on. Now,
she was posted as lost" and steamers
were raking the ocean for news of her.
At night the little petrol wireless out
Mt aboard the barkentine would catch
anxious inquiries concerning her fate,
but because her wireless had not the
proper radius to carry to the southern
track she could not answer them.
The fifty days food supply was fast
becoming exhausted. The men were on
starvation rations. Twice the water In
the big tanks went bad, and twice. as
water will do at sea it became sweet
again. Scurvy broke out among the
crew. and dead ahead Of them lay the
great ice drift which had gored the
Titanic to her death.
But the insurance bargain driven at
Lloyd's held Captain Smith to his agree
ment, and he could not then turn and
scraping her strakes, which had al
ready been scored deep near the water
line by pirate round shot a hundred
years before. the Success stood on. Not
ing caught and crushed between grind
ing bergs or pierced by A submerged
ice pinnacle
To the already drudging. ceaseless task
OF tending the sails; was added the
necessity 0t double lookouts, and half
starved seamen clung in her fore-top.
while others crouched on the fo'c'sle
head, day in and day out, night in and
night out. straining their eyes through
the light or heavy fogs that they might
give warning TO the deck below.
Sailors In Mutiny.
Now. every time their puny wireless
would sputter into the night in a vain
attempt to give their location to the
ships which were looking for her. the
crew. spirit broken and diseased. would /
jump to the conclusion that their CAP !
tain was sending the IS. o. S" call for |
aid, and strong hand vas needed 10 |
drive them to the back breaking task |
when both watches were REQUIRED on |
deck constantly to tack her, and to !
wear her when the proximity of a great /
berg would not permit them 10 tack
- EH- -
ice and then al last they were free of |
the great drift But the food shortage /
had not been relieved AID the scurV:S |
still held them in its grip
Back there in the pack when fifty
days out of port. their sextant had told I
them that but one-hali - t4c tourney
which was 10 have consumed only
forty-slx days. had been covered.
When they were twelve days out, 400 |
miles due east of Boston, trouble
broke out among the crew. Five Of the |
Liverpool bullies grew unrUly and de- /
manded that the Success be headed for |
Halifax. which lay bit over 400 miles /
west and about loo miles north of their 1
And when the captain refused 10 4
change the course, there we're whisper II
ings and plottings o nights tween Il
decks. where the crew slept IN tic old I
convict cells. il
Nine days out Of Boston. and one 4
night there came TO the quarterback Il
John Benson, a Scandinavian seaman,
bos'n of the baTkentine.
The men are going TO make trouble,
sir he warned the captain They
plan no hurt to you or TO any Of me
officers but they say they will take tho
ship and put her over for Halifax"
Captain Smith digested the informa-
ton, and then when the six bullies had
been relieved TO go to the tween decks
for a snatch OF sleep. he. with Benson
slipped down the after companionway,
silently made their way to the cells
and shot the bolts upon the pseudo
mutineerE.
Reaches Safe Harbor.
Hours after. the mate beloved
through the hatch. DO YOU hear the
news But the five maIcontents could
nor respond nor did they come ION
side" until Boston haTbor was reached
anu they were handed over to the
authorities to be sent back home.
Outside of Boston bay the Success
Mas met by pewspaper tugs. which in
response to wireless messages. brought !
provisions and water to relieve the
straits of the barkentine's crew
The greatest 'SailOrizing" achieve
nent Of late years was safely over:
but Captain Smith, not content with
having driven the old windjammer
from Australia TO England, and from
here across the Western ocean 10 the
United States. Will up sail and spank
ler out TO curling water again in a
lew days. this time chartered down for
Colon on her way to San Francisco.