The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-09
PULITZER CREW
 RELIEVED WHEN
 CUTTER ARRIVES
With Food Scarce on the Ves- sel Men Did Not Expect
 Relief Until Spring.

! | KETCHIKAN. Feb 9.-It was a very much relieved if somewfat weather beaten crew that the Coast Guard Cutter Snohomish picked uD | from the disabled mail boat Pulitzer It Chignik and taken to Seward, ac- ording to officers of the cutter new | in port here taking ol coal.
 If the seven members of the ere" of the Pulitzer had remained on the damaged ship much longer they no doubt would have been hungry, too 1 for provisions were running low when she was found The Pulitzer was located in the shelter of the harbor at Chignih by the Fisheries Commis sion ship Elder, on January 20, one The Snohomish, which had been sent in search of her, arrived by her side on the 23rd in response to wireless news of her discovery by the Elder.
 Bucked Gales .t Severe storms were encountered ! by the SnohOmish soon after leaving 1 Seward on her way South, so strong that she could make little headway against them, and for three days rode heavy seas. Commander F.. L. Austin, of the Snohomish, had laid a course direct to Cape Flattery, but the great consumption of coal without speed forced him to come here for fuel.
 Great waves dashed over her from stem to stern and everything had to than three days. The ship was run at half speed much of the time and held straight into the wind She laid over one night at Sitka to wait for the gales to blow over.
 I Rudder Lost
 It was in such gales as these that ! the Pulitzer ran ashore at Aniakchak ! Bay trying to seek shelter. Her keel was in this way damaged, her rudder post split, and her rudder lost Anakchak Bay is about 40 or 90 miles from Chignik After succeed ing in floating the Pulitzer, the crew rigged up jury rudder, and made l Chignik. There heavily iced down and in waters so shoal that low tide caused her to rest on the bot tom. she was anchored.
 ;E The crew of the Pulitzer had moi Eexpected aid before spring, so werC very glad when the Elder was sight ed. The Elder, bound for the West !. ward, took the mail from the Pulitzer : and after wirelessing news of the Pulitzer's wherea bouts, continued oT her way. ...
 | Chignik was one of the frs places to which Commander Aust,l would have gone in search of the not located her first. the Snohomi5i soon would have been on the scene Capt. Austin's judgment that the Pulitzer might be found there, i she was not absolutely lost, was sub stantiated here on his way nortf by information given him by Capt l.. II. H. Jennings, formerly If the motorship Washington, who was pre- yiously master of the Pulitzer.
 Not Worth saIvaging
 A board of survey appointed from the officers of the ship by Com mander Austin, was sent aboard the Pulitzer. They found the mall boat in an extremely poor condition and not fit for a sea voyage. II IS doubt full if the ship will be worth sal. vaging
 Wind proofs" and other cold wea ther outfits with which the Snohom ish had been equipped during the war, came in for good service dur ing this voyage of the cutter, aud proved just the thing for the wea ther encountered Many of the sailors wore these wind proofs wher the ship docked last night and gave them the appearance of Polar ex plorers.
 The schooner Olga, formerly Jap anese sealer, but which was once seized by the U. s. Government, or account of alleged illegal sealing operations, then sold a p.blic que tion to the highest bidder. and equip ped as a trader was last reported at Cordova to the Snohomish She was also believed to have been los while on her way to San Francisco from Nome, but had been held bacl and blown off her course by rougf | weather and was ablo tO proceed South.
 The Snohomish brous't. South be tween forty and fifty sacks of mai from Chignik. Kodiak and Seward which was delivered to tho Ketchi kan postoffice today, Tor shipmen South on the next stesmer. The Snohomish will leave eacl{ Sunday morning.