Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23
FLAGSHIP OF coLUMHus.
Replica Of the Santa Maria on Exhi-
hision at Norwich Dock.

The Santa Maria, the Pinta and the
Nina sailed across the sea from Spain
in 1892. 1t took Christopher Cofum-
bus 10 days to get across the Atlantic
with his tiny fleet. -Four hundred
years later replicas Of the three craft
were built, the Santa Maria by the
Spanish government and the Pinta and
Nina at the expense of the United
States. In 1898 the New Santa Maria
sailed over the course the old one
had taken and she made Hayti in 20
days. So the boats were pretty much
alike in sailing qualities as well as
in looks and the same old trade winds
that kept Columbus and his scared and
rebellious crew stu blow through the
centuries.
Mayor Murphy on Deck.
But the new Santa Maria didn't go
first one did; and that's one reason
why Mayor Murphy was able to go
down to the foot of Market street
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock and
board strange looking hull with a
poop deck and main mast with a
crows nest" and q brig with two
red-kerchiefed pirates in it and can
non sticking out of portfolios and sun
dry other things that made one think
of Captain Kidd or John Paul Jones
and some OF the others the history
used to tell about. And the mayor, as
USUAL bdAtACA OfET lIlS Key IL A1AS ely.
fguratiYely speaking, to Captain War
field and his crew (there are four
now. where Columbus had 20. but
that's because these latter day sailors
know where they're going and get
towed9 and expressed his appreciation
OF the historical significance Of the
ship and its relics and recommended
| that people who want to brush UP on
| the beginnings of their country and
| continent take a while OF and run
down and go over the bark and CLEAN
knowledge in an entertaining way.
On Way to Pacific.
There were lot of people doing 1t
on Thursday and they found many
interesting things on the exact repro
| duction of the old flagship, which is
on its way from Chicago, where it
was exhibited in 1898 and has been
/ hanging around ever since. to the
tPanama-Pacific exposition, where it
| will arrive in October. in time to share
in two months of the big fairs and
then double back through the Panama
canal and eventually anchor again
| after going up the Mississippi and
/ over through the Chicago drainage
canal in the waters of Lake Michi-
object than ever to South Park WIS.,
/ itors.
! The captain gives an explanatory
/ lecture now and then from the fore
| deck and then the people scatter over
| the boat. called ship by courtesy in
Columbus day, and are shown the
| things by courteous and affab1e guides
| The cabin is one of the most inter-
1 esting of places. Columbus himself
| is seated there, and his vice admiral
| or first mate or some other official is
consulting with him and globes and
maps and instruments are lying
around in profusion. Then there's the
/ galley up forward where the cooking
was done for 20 husky deck hands and
sail furlers. and down underneath
decks, where you bump your head
unless you're careful, is the brig and
/ the hospital He was an unfortunate
man who got sick in those days. There
were lot of copper utensils on board
among them couple of big water re-
1 ceptacles. Three score and ten mer
i drink a lot of water when that's al
/ they have and Columbus used to gel
l it by stretching out a sail when il
rained and letting it run into the bis
cans.
There are scores Of interesting
things to be seen and they are all told
about in an official guide that the
guides part with for q nominal sum
but a visit during the next few days
and a wandering around is the only
| way to get the atmosphere. For there
is a real romance about the ship and
| it's things and one does come away
with a deeper appreciation of those
| adventurous men who fronted the fu-
| ture so bravely when they sailed int
the unknown in 1892.