The daily progressive-miner., 1917-11-08
CAPT. FRED WARNER TO HANDLE A SHIP
 FOR UNCLE SAM
One f the Best Known Alaska Water Navigators Given
 New Command

10 what the Seattle Times Of October 2S. says about Capt. Fred Warner. the well known Alaska navigator. but Al askans are agreed that nothing can be deducted. for Capt Warner. as Alas kans know him. is a man from the ground up. Good luck 10 you. Capt.
 The Times says:
 Somewhere out on the Pacific, Capt. Fred Warner, president of the Ship masters Association of the United States, and known far and wide as one of the iron men" of the seas, is speed ing southvc e lis way to the war zoae trade routes. He goes as com. mander of one of Uncle Sam's big steamships. He stepped aboard the vessel night r two ago. gave an or der and in few moments he was gone. with the good luck" of scores of old friends still sounding in his ears.
 From the peaceful waters of the Al aska routes 10 the mined and subma- rine-infesIed waters Of the war zone that's the latest transition in the car eer Of the man who took the burning steamship Oregon across the treach- erous Eureka bar in a raging sea more than 3 decade ago. when the lives Of scores Of passengers, men. women and children. depended on the steadiness ot his nerve The war zone can offer no test more terrible. according to his brother navigators, and they say that Fred Warner will meet the perils of Uncle Sam's service with the same nerve that conquered the wild dangers ot the Eureka bar in a burning ship
 Known for the Spartan discipline which he enforces both on himself and crew. Captain Warner quietly offered his services 10 Uncle Sam long ago
 nd recently he stepped ashore from Alaska Steamship Company's big p--sengar liner Alaska for the last time until the close Of the war. When ha said goodbye al the headquarters = the Shipmasters' Association. of
 tc was primary organizer. he was surrounded by masters who have carried rhe name ot Seattle to all seas. all gatehered in the office Of W T. Isted. the secretary.
 Warner was the most unconcerned T. : part for the war zone 70 play his part in Uncle Sans conflict. but so far as outward appearances went he might have been setting forth on voyage down the sound.
 There Goes an.
 There goes a man" said his friends after the door had closed behind him
 Captain Warner was born in Eng land and went 10 sea when he was 15 years old. visiting all oceans in sail ing ships h the early S0s. when r years old. he landed in San Francisco and adopted that place as his home port He sailed as mate on a number Of big square triggers and then shift ed 10 steam. working his way up the ladder steadily until he won his mas ter's license He was one of the first masters ever 70 take a steamship 10 Nome, voyaging 70 The beach of gold en sands in 1899. a year before the great Nome rush.
 i number Of years later Warner was master of the steamship Oregon when she caught fire of the California coast in tempestuous sea, and his magnifi- cent nerye and seamanship in taking the vessel over the Eureka bar when 2 single miscalculation would have meant death for all. made him known all over the Pacific. He beached the ship and saved every man, woman and child aboard
 Later Warner went 10 New York and brought out the stea mship St. Croix for Schubach & Hamilton. who bough, her for operation first in the Alaska trade and then between San PHdro and San Francisco. Warner commanded the steamship in that route for two years until 1910, when she caught fire of the California coast. She was a wooden ship and the flames spread with great rapidity. This was anoth- CT real test, but Warner rose 10 the emergency and in record time had all his passengers. officers and crew safe in lifeboats. They reached land with ou- the loss Of a single life The yes sel burnt 70 the waters edge and sank
 Warner then became master Of the IN THE PROBATE cauRr FOB THE