Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-30
Irst Story of Progress of G0Wen
Party in Globe CircIing
Trip in Yacht.
|NJOYED THEIR LONG PULL
:sstern Queen lows Yacht From Pa
Mama to Teokea-captain Swensen's
Last View of speejacks Party
Was in Harbor at sydney.

New York-The first story of the
6peejacks has come 10 the port frCm
Inch She sailed lasr August ON the
6fst leg OF her 50000-mile voyage
hound the world. For eight months
Abert Y. Gowen, Chicago business
nm ana owner Of the Speejacks, has
sheeu pushing the Prov of his 98-foOt
sacht through South Pacific waters,
shd except for Il brief bulletin sent SIX
Neeks ago from Ralaul, New Britain,
III the ship construction company
Nhich built this craft, nothing has been
#ard Of this second Cruise of the
Mark."
last week, however, the S. S. East
srn Queen locked at Baltimore, and
m captain, n. A. sSwensen, came on
~ New York with his story of the
&peejacks, the first story of the adj
Mnturers. For Captain Swensen towed
DC Speejacks behind the Eastern
Queen more than 1000 miles. from
hrama to Teokea. and later saw the
hoTen party on their sturdy craft in
&cney, Australia. tefole the adven.
hrers left that port for Java and
Borneo
81 captain Swensen was with the Spee-
Rcks on one Of the most interesting
!WrtS OF her voyage, Der longest jump
9om land to land, and he tells a story
a the trip from Panama to Teo..l,..
. When Mr.. Gowen prepared to leave
aeW York last August his boat. spe-
Saliy built for the voyage. was ex-
1teted to proceed under her own power
~ lile way, traversing the globe Just
Ruth OF the Equator. Her cruising
Nhge however, was limited to 5000
AlieS' and in order to make the first
~ OF the trip from Panama to the
|NafQueSas Islands without mishap and
- saving of fuel, Mr.. Gowen con-
'Aacted with the United Suites ship
- board to be towed to Teokea bv
IL hrSt shipping board boat which
laaae the trip. The Eastern Queen.
8Duaa Tor sydney, Australia, was dele
Eted 10 the task.
me last We saw of the Speeiacks,"
IL Captain Swensen, was shorty
i YER Christmas-the 9th or the 2Sth.
III was IN Neutral harbor. Sydney.
Rnefe the Gowens spent Christmas
~ we We're all invited over to see
~" They We're then in high spirits
.u ANXIOUS to get along into the is
nus and heading west.
En- Tour.
~ We ieIt New York on September 16
~ tSAt cargo. Headed dow, the
n paSl anu Vent through the canal on
~, -''l,' aging to alongside the Spee.
- r. the next day. just off Balboa.
II we nut a line on her, putting
H., asnt-IHeA hawser around her from
ora ~ stern and back to stem to re-
y me strain on her hawse Mines
h.. -"s'eAte her behind the Eastern
- n WIN 500 fathoms of eight-incn
~ ser, tying TO the halter we
- around her. Then we were off for
eoEea ana Tahiti u ~
Aeatbauu oeeh out two days and the
- ,'sr was holding fine. The spee-
Il biz a ~as 'oobing along behind us like
u tra1 10sS oh the end of a string Bur
H. 1eS non the strain she was exert.
II can ,i'e' If we hit any wind and
H. 'p @ The Speejacks was going 70
4 L. w. a a, with thar e:ght-inch haNTser,
D. M .'''- = and pur in a day chang.
49,. ' s'Ea'-inch hawser for a ten.
nd M. 7o' 'aa big hawser out on deck
:. ops,S one end overheard. Then ne
H. ky, 5.nt. which took charge Of
loat ny. en- Q If The hawser. The smar
!. bile NY 'oNe4 toward the Speejacks
ro:eesssI a@e.. ont hawser and slowly
n pulling the speetacEs ana