The Alaska daily empire., 1915-09-20
HALLEcK WILL
 SAIL "FAVoRiTE"
 BACK TO DOUGLAS


 DOUGLAS. Sept. 2O.-"Bing." Hal Heck. who returned last week from Cordova. where he recently was ship wrecked with his small boat. after having been at the mercy of the sea for nearly two weeks, after the boat had broken down said that the 'Fa- vorite" is still on the beach at Hook Point. A contract was let Go James ! Kennedy of Cordova to salve her and it is expected she will soon be float ed. Mir. Halleck will so Co Cordova and bring her back to Douglas af- ter a new engine is installed.
 Speaking Of his experience, MT. Haileck said:
 we started on our trip at mid night on July S0th with fair-sized load of freight for Warm Springs Bay. and had only been on our way seven hours when the engine broke down and we had to anchor near Tee Harbor. There were four of us on board. Fred Hastings. Chris Teperich. lN. Fuller and myself. so ] sent Full Ter and Hastings back to Douglas for a man to fix the engine The next day the two returned with Earl Lawrence. a Douglas machinist. Ed | Armstrong and George Brown brought the party out on Browns boat. Law renee had the engine going inside of half an hour and it ran for about three hours. breaking down when We were crossing the entrance to Icy | Straits.
 "We drifted all afternoon and all night until about three o'clock in the morning when Lawrence got the en- zine under way again. There was a heavy mist in Chatham Strait and took the wheel for about an hour putting the boat on course for Kill lisnoo. I then turned in to get some sleep and left the wheel in Fuller's hands, telling him to call me wher he saw the Admiralty Island shore. awoke at II o'clock and came on deck to find the boat going in the opposite direction from which we were travel ling when I went to bed l asked the reason and Hastings and Lawrence said they thought the engine would work alright now SO they had headed for Warm Springs Bay. They were about in mid channel when got up so let them so ahead and went to bed
 When ] got up again at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. shore was in sight but 1t was a strange shore to me. and believed at the time we were below Warm Springs Bay. Hastings said they had been studying the chart and that he was familiar with that shore He said we were coming to Peril Straits As they were SO positive, thought I might be mistaken SO let them run until they got tired and took the wheel. By the time day was breaking l was satisfied we had gone beyond our port so l headed in the other direction again. The engine broke down again at four o'clock in the morning and we dropped anchor | AIt-A ANrA DAUAA pay -A-Ah- we Aet- there all day fooling with the engine and that night a stiff northwest wind started to blow A hard tide was set ting in and we were dragging anchor SO I decided to weigh anchor and sail before the wind for Kiuiu Island across Chatham Strait. In some way the anchor and 16O feet of chain was lost overheard and we started on our big journey.
 After dark we lowered sail and drifted. keeping a sharp lookout for the Kiuiu Island shore. but we never saw it. During the night the wind changed to a Southeaster and the next morning we could see shore on our starboard side and we were driving in @ northerly direction. We knew