The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-28
LIKE GHOSTS g RETURN FROM A "TRIP TO HELL" Schooner Hilton, Wheel LaShed, Raced About Atlantic
 Unguided. CREW LAY HELPLESS,
 ILL WITH BERE-BEI3I Mate Lost One Hundred Pounds and Captain Is Nearly
 SightieSs.

New York. April 28.-With her sails lying unfur1ed on deck, where they had been dropped. and more than half 1 of her company suffering from ber1- beri and black water fever, the four masted American schooner Triton lay at anchor off Stap1eton last night, where her skipper told about her Voy- age to the west coast of Africa, which he described as "a blow to hell and back"
 For days, while the members of her crew were too ill to haul on a tackle, | the wheel was lashed and the big fore-and-aft flew about the Atlantic | like 9, Flying Dutchman, Carl Schnet- der, the cabin boy, who is 23 years old, and managed to escape becoming i'll, fed tue others six-tenths of a grain of quinine day apiece
 The captain lost 40 pounds by his experience and is down to>, just 100 now But Mate Thomas Murray, g. Nova Scotian, did the real reducing act. He weighed 190 pounds when the Triton squared away from here on Oct. g for Monrovia, and last night he tipped the beam at just 90.
 The first thing the captain did when he went ashore was to get a milk punch. After that he said he felt pretty well and declared that any one who talks Africa to him again will have to fight.
 But the captain gave all the credit of getting the schooner here to Fred Berdin. the cook, who is a Swede. And to emphasize the seriousness of the situation, the captain said:
 "If we'd been out another week the whole bunch would have gone to Hell. But that's where those Ger mans we had belong. After my ex- why the allies can't wade right through them. could have licked the four had. as sick as was. Only for the cook we would not be here
 He stayed on deck, and when he saw a light or when the wind changed he called down to me. I was pretty nearly all in and they called me about every five minutes, but must say the cook was a handy man. Talk about having able seamen under the new shipping law! I'd rather have a handful of cooks like him in a good blow than all the seamen I ever saw tt
 The captains legs were numb from the beriberi, and he sort of ..stumped around'' on deck, as he called it. Then. half of his head also was numb. He said when he scratched over his left ear it felt fine, but he couldn't feel aything over his right ear and had come to the conclusion that scratch ing there was wasted energy. One day he nearly lost his sight while taking a position and could not make out his 1ogarithms until he had squinted at his book for half. an hour.
 'sThe cook was the first to take sick the captain said. t'He came down with the fever. I was the sec ond, but I had to wait till the cook got well before I could get sick or I don't know what would have hap pened to us. Then, after me, Sailor keeled over and his legs began to swell. Then the donkey engineer August Viede. found his legs were swelling up. After him the mate took sick.
 "As if we didn't have enough the matter, bad weather set in. On April 15 we ran into a squaH and lost our mainsai1 and flying jib. There was a gale after the squalI, and we drift ed back three degrees into the Gulf Stream. It wasn't very cheerful, as we had been living on pea soup, bean soup, salt pork, baked beans and bread for three weeks. But the cook cooked what he had as best he could, i and when he wasn't cooking he took a hand at something else, so we man aged to get here.''~ R
 When the schooner came up the bay under tow of a tug that picked her up off Scotland Light vessel, the crew just dropped her sails and the captain said:
 Just let 'em 1ay.''