Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-25
COAST GUARD YARNS
PICKED UP IN WAR ZONE
Tells OF Finding Tub OF Ambcrgris
on Derelict and OF Great
Expectations.
PROVED TO BE RANCID BUTTER
Experiences in Alaskan Watcrs--Col-
ony Relieved Which Had S25O,O0O
Worth OF Gold Dust, but Not
Enough Food. to Last Week.
IBY CLAIR PRICE.

WITH THE UNITED STATES COAST
GUARD AT a MEDITERRANEAN
BASE. November 24.-Thc pin Is an in
conspicuous one. and you may miss
lapeis about you. IT Is small wal
rus head with two tusks, which
I h.s plainly enough to any one who
the officers who wear ii are cruising
no" with awnings up in the Mediter-
ranean- For the great bull walrus no
longer raps with his Savcl at Una
Sska 70 Inquire of the sentinel whether
me inhabitants OF the great Icy and
sh{ e ssl w Mf sa axe susn being
of the walrus has adjourned 10 the
war zone. The coast guard has joined
No arm Of the government leads a
more varied life than it's coast guard.
, Two OF the cutters which, happen to-
spent most of their lives on Behriny
Sea duty. where you have TO use alec
,o, ,ngrmome'eTS to register 'he low
scmitropicaI Mediterranean with their
officers in whites
And none of the diversified duties
or the coast guard is in itself more
divcrsihed tflan Behring Sea duty
Just Two years ago to-day" one
SYn n,'a,n SAID an hour ago. on Cape
1aKatag and Nordova. Alaskan coast
we haped a whaler as usual to ask
h i II she was in need Of medical as
maker who had been knitted by n
kanaka six months before. There be-
ing no doctor aboard the whalcr. of
course the skipper had had to fiji the
p!ace himself. The man had Il cut
eighteen inches long across his back.
ana me skipper had washed il out
as Eop darn an old sock, wrapped il
around with raven duck, the iichtest
canvas mere is. ana then whitcwasied
!, outside TO stcrilizc it. 1t was the
,inest piece OF cxtemporancous sur
gerry ever saw. When our doctor 60,
INTO It. he found that ii had completely
course. which were still In H. All he
had 10 do was 10 take the stitches
"ut and put some courtplastcr over
where they had been"
Had ALL SORTS OF
EXPERIENCES IN BEHnINf; 81.
rom Erubs'aking lost miners who
70 on INC verge OF starvation along
cries eo &c. 70 protesting tho seal rock
cutter 10 which the BchrIng assI,.n-
mint ic!! each year had varicgaied
c c..'H OF II: occasionally ie had oc-
casion TO use its one FOUNDERS Off Tho
acat rooheIies for scaling has been
nIonioited Tor period OF some ion
howev. 'ea.a are easy animals TO kill
CLUB are sufficient TO fiji :, s".,Ii,,
sGnioonerS holds with highly vaiuabise
an,.'s' Ihis was attempted OCCASION
hhmy ny Japanese schocners, mannnd
nH Japhnese with All American Saiiinr
master, but in the lonely seas nff ~.
s.aior. number OF these illegal
'"red by the cutters
we got the fright Of our lives &c
800 ~. fioliols one morning about three
years ago" the captain went on w.
were hove TO In "A gale Of Wind re re
e'eren days. in which time we sieh,cd
,h oere!ict: We kept her in sight until
w Seas went down. and then boarded
ner; The boarding officer c;,nn hact!
WIN ms face as white as thai tahI.
e!oth' lie said he had found a tuh or
OF it" oii'' whole tub
nov, Now a.mhcrgris, as any reader Of Sc,
Weight in 'i raa teuI you. is worth its
10 mhat II usually commands
couldn't believe IL. bui We son,
M, ana brought the stuff aboard a,,d
men because the seas were sill 49,. go
nlsh and the derelict iookrd p,et,!
10 go under we put - cnrinI
and S csnse into into, her at the water line
mdH IN tub. all right and i, cnri.f,i,
1870, 1891 IKE ambergris. 1t was thic,;
Sa I"Sf -, SUM OF yelIowish color. We
hau ~ examined at bnalaska an, NC
M'rd!y ate or slept while il was -,
~ ~ was ainbergris, we knew we -.
rest T." Of nur hdIepsndent idlcness for the
mnch The stun had been cxn',i,.',i
.hat IL was rancid butter.
FORMED PACIFIC COAST
.,, AMBEkGHIS COMPANY
co,,;a. WAS The trip" tho rsn,,;n
p;nued, on which we fotindsd thI
eI acinG C ,6a Ambergris Company. NE NE
Tho r ~ inc executive officer presidcnt
pr a tay officer lice treasurer. ne doctor
No. ana consulting medical ~
isnd ana the engineer officer sijnarin-
a sihnutht OF construction. We we"t thn,
and ,ba siS NY miles off the seal Islands
So he ene Eai eva was pretty bad we were
neas!iy iced up that every sea w.nJ
e er US and the doctor was 5running
around nn IN circles attending 10 f roz.S
,hs ana frozen feet. I'VE triaG "a
WAY, whi. and nd, chop ourselves GEAR 70 for 10
MmtiS. out 1t was 60 below ana vo,,
Ho , poke your nose ont on dcccIa
!, '' mo ireszing it. We finally gave
~ up ana decided there was no,6ine
d dc 40 s put to wait for the sea to Ee
go we gathered I'm the wardroom and
Cor nd the Pacific Coast Nmbcr@ris
Ioin pany. which was 10 MAKE ne ~
drew a,Gn f nr the rest Of our lives. Ne Ne
mahc IL valid, we had an old Indian
cnlei' whom we had picked up on The
coast because he knew the Iandinrs
at ,n, the islands witness i, and make his
up Iot OF whales and run them I'M
into bay; then the doctor was To-