The Washington times., 1914-06-14

counted on to carry her across the
| North Atlantic in forty-six days, left
Lancaster with fair weather
! She was provisioned for fifty days and
. carried ls,000 gallons Of water.
Cordase humming, she stood bravely
| on the out-course, and when she was
wireless operator, Gallagher, sat at a
| little petrol outfit which had been in
stalled aboard her. sending the last
good-bys of the little ships company
Of nineteen over the evening sea.
Crook Haven, the great Irish station,
I was taking his messages, the Success,
with her call of II. D. B., having been
given right of way over all other craft.
Time and time again other ships tried
to cut in. but Crook Haven turned
Then Gallagher, with his earpieces
still on; heard the message which he
had shut out come splu1ering out of
the night 1t had been relayed from
the Carpathia- She vas picking up the
Titanic survivors.
Upon the old barkentine the news OF
the disaster fell like a thunder clap,
and the fear OF death took each of
I them by the throat
What chance have We" they asked.
with nothing but a oentury-old bot
tom between US and loosin' the num-
bers of our mess?"
And II was not cowardice. either
There was not a man for'ard on the
every chance that comes in a sailors
twenty-four-hour day.
Mast Snaps In Gale.
Buts in spite of the oninous fate of
the Titanic. the Success ran on with
fairish weather for seven more days.
Then, slap-bang, she ran into the teeth
Of a sou'wester. The north Atlantic 'iled
into bowling, tearing rollers, and a
hurricane swept down. but Captain
Smith headed her into it., holding his
course through the bucking beam sea
that pounded and hammered at her.
Stripped to almost bare poles. she
drove on. her new manila cordage
holding until her fo'ard mast-the orIGi-
nal teak which had borne her canvas a
century before-crumpled at the hounds
just beneath the great foreyard.
Under miZzen staysail, Captain Smith
lay TO for forty-eight hours. riding out
the gale, and when the wind had died
sufficiently. the crew tried to splice the
broken stick. But the old mast could
not be repaired: so she was headed
back toward Ireland. and ten days
later limped into Passage West. near
Cork. where a new mast was stepped.
dropped az the Irish anchorage than
six Of the crew took leg bail" over
side, and. at his wits end. the captain
wired 20 boarding master in Liverpool
to ship him half a dozen new men.
The boarding master brought them 10
Passage West He had hired them
simply for a voyaee on the barkentine
Success, without giving them any de-
tails: and when they saw the craft
that was 10 be their home they refused
TO sign on
Gets Crew By Trick.
By this time. the Success vas ready
again for sea, and Captain Smith, we'll
knowing that he could not III his COM
pIement at that late hour. offered the
sailo.men free passage TO QueenstC Rn,
past which the barkentine would pass
at the end Of a tugs tow-rope.
Gladly they accepted. but they did
not know that the captain had paid his !
t0wage bill in advance and ordered the (,
tug 10 stand straight to sea with him |.
and To cast of the line only when land !
vas fa- behind.
When the six Liverpool bullles real !
Zed that without as much as by your
leave" they were consigned to voyage !
which might well mean death. they did |
what any saLOrman would do.
Toward the break Of the poop they
rushed where the bluenose mate Stout, !
neld the deck. But the first officers
S Gather eye warned him and the lead
-r nf the Liverpool boys was met by a |
Delaying pin. snatched hurriedly from
he fife rail, and crashed upon his jaw .
n good old bUcko mate fashion.
One after the other. they Went down !
beneath the swinging blows of rhe mate !
lnG i'm ten minutes the biue nose. single !
handed. had them properly licked
After that the LiveTpooI Dick Sans
had little chance fer discomfort. The |
faz end of the easterlies which they |
had caught upon their first sailing. died |
4 way. superseded by steady sou-west-
srlies. Tacking constantly. daT IN and
lay oct. the old baTkentine buckcd the
head winds. Tack ana rack again on
short legs was TIC hourly program. and
every time the snip was worked there
were the fore and e.. sails 20 be haul
&c over as she came head 70 wind,
and the yards or her sqGare-rtgEed
-oremast to be braced or backed eter-
nally. II was tbs sort or physical grind
which breaks mems hesrts, but they'
kept dogedly st il although sometimes