The Republican journal., 1921-01-27
Miss Sadie E. Nickerson. Belfast's pub

MlsS Sadie e. NickerSon, belfast's pub
lie health nurse, has opened class in
home nursing for girls of the High school
age and any who wish to join may confer
with her or with Mrs Essie P. earle,
chairman of the committee. The class
will meet in Miss Nickerson's office on
Main street twice each week. Many
practical and first aid theories and prac-
tees will be taught. Under Mrs Carries
direction Feb. 18th will be devoted to
committee work. Miss Parker of that
committee will be in Bella st over Sunday
of that week and speak at the Colonial,
when Manager Clifford will show an ap-
propriate picture.
The barge Waccamaw, owned by the
American Chemical Co., and commanded
by Capt. Harry Landers of East Boston,
left here Sunday, Jan. 10th, in tow of the
tug Lehigh bound for Portsmouth, N. H.
When off Portland liahtship in the gale
OF Jan. 18th she. parted from the tug and
went to sea. The Boston Sunday Herald
OF Jan. 22d says of her:
1.-THE LehiQh, as we'll as the cutters
Ossipee and Androscoggin, have been en-
deavoring to find the barge ever since.
Cruising from Boston and Portland, they
have covered areas of several hundred
square miles in their search. Fears were
expressed that the vessel, which was
built 40 years ago, would be unable to
Withstand the heavy storms, and that the
zero temperature which prevailed
Wednesday and Thursday would cause
her to accumulate ice that would destroy
her buoyancy. 1t is believed that the
men on board suffered considerable hard
ship as result of the adverse weather,
but the message from the Ossipee indi-
Gates that the crew has suffered no seri-
GUS effects from the experience. The
message, which was received at 7.50 p.
M, follows: Just picked up barge Wac
camaw, latitude 42:39 north, 42:68;05
west. All we'll on board The Ossipee
will tow the barge either to Portland,
which is its headquarters, or to this port.
The Herald of Monday has the follow
ing story of the barge's drifting $40 miles
in six days and will int crest Capt. Lam
ders' friends as he has been coming here
since 1912:
She was considerably damaged by the
falling of her single mast, which crushed
the deck house and put out of commission
the donkey boiler used to work the pumps
and the stove with which the men kept
warm and cooked their food. With Capt.
Landers and Coleman was black cat
named Tom, cat with a pompadour, and
the sailors look upon Tom as real hero.
1t was not long ago that Tom deserted
the barge at Belfast on one of the trips,
but when the Waccamaw returned to that
port he was discovered about the water
front and was perfectly willing to ship
again. The Waccamaw was one of tow
of three barges which the tug Lehigh,
+! commanded by the 85-year- old Captain
McGouldrlck, was towing from Belfast,
F, the others being empty The wind was
hitting clip of more than 40 miles an
hour when the tow lines parted off the
lightship Monday morning. Capt. Nc
Gouldrick came right into port and left
the other barges and then set out in
search for the Waccamaw, but was I'M
able to find her. Tuesday morning at / 1
o'clock, in the midst of gale accompa-
/ MED by fall of snow and sleet, the mast
crashed down on the port quarter and
! deck house. 1t threw the donkey boiler
! to one side, putting it out of commission.
The shrouds took Town the chimney to
+ the cook stove and tossed the stove to
one side, so that the crew of two had tc
: 60 without fire until Saturday morning.
| While Capt Landers and Coleman did
not suff~r greatly from the cold, they
/ missed their hot coffee and warm food
Relief from the diet of crackers and fish
came on Saturday morning, when they
were able to rig up the stove again in a
makeshift fashion. The mystery of the
third man supposed to be on board of the
i Waccamaw was solved by Capt Landers
on his arrival here. He said that on the
voyage to Belfast, they had another man
named Brown aboard, but he was injured
in an automobile accident in that city
and remained there.