The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-25
BIGGER OVERDUE
 OVER IA MONTHS.
Garthway Of Glasgow Wanders
 Seas In Strange s6 Cruise
By WEsTBR00K PEelER (lsased Wire Ts The Ase-Hsraid)

 vague position on the south Atlantic the spinsterly old full rigger Garthwray of Glasgow is shaking her spars at the prankful seas,. as an irate landlady might waggle her corkscrew curls at lot of bad boys, and is doing her best to walk home to Scotland in a ladylike manner. She has been gone just IA months too long on routine errand. If everyone didn't know the Garthwray as a most respectable lady of the high seas, never given to shady business or lettering unduly in questionable sea- ports, there might be a suspicion at home that someone had poured her matches full of hee'lan' dew and gulled her into joining the disreputable com pany which slouches along the Emile limit off New York, selling liquor to the smugglers. r,.when the Garthway gets home to Glasgow, her first gusiness will be to have herself measured for new dress of sails for the poor, distressed old woman has been blown almost naked by the bumptious winds of many seas and is taking the sideways home, lest she be seen in her tatters by gossipy acquaintances from Liverpool and Til bury, the Tyneside and Baltimore.
 Then she will ease herself into the cradles in her dry dock and tell a tale, while the men massage the barnacles away and rub her down with soothing aud refreshing coats of dressing. To the Garthway this will have the came effect as pot of good strong tea on washerwoman after putting the job through the wringer.
 "Mon," she will begin, lyon was cr-r-ruise, yon was a most deeficult .cr-r-ruise, indeed.'"
 Captain Interviewed
 The Garthway's distressing experi- -ences were related in New York today by James Robinson Griffith, assistant purser of the steamship Ebro of the Royal Mail Line, just in from Val paraiso, Chile. He logged the story when he met Captain Henry of the Garthway at Iquique several weeks ago.
 The story, then, that the Garthway will relate when she gets back again to Bonnie Scotland is something the like of this:
 X She sailed from Grange Mouth on July 14 with a cargo of coal in briquettes, a crew of 25 fully qualified wind hammers and nine apprentices. Her destination was Iqiuque, which is about two days ,sup the Chilean coast from Valpo, and not far down from Peru. So you see, she had a long voyage. To make it worse, the Garthway is an old-fash- toned ship, with old habits, and she was routed around the horn, instead of through the canal, because-well, she had gone that way many times and old ways are best. Three months, she fig ured, would just about see her dropping her hook in the mud of Iquique harbor and Tapping her signal handkerchief for some spry young tug to come out and see her up the channel to the peo- pie she was calling on.
 Well, the Garthway was just walk ing down the south Atlantic, keeping her tongue to herself and paying no heed to anything when an ill-mannered wind from the Argentine with the punch of Ho":r .iia 10 Firpo began to jostle e. There was nothing to do but .Dipss hsnl eTerything and keep on go- ius,. although tbst wind did force her E9 go up q lot If side streets and do come doubling back. Then there came an unusual display of bad manners and away went two of the Garthway's naasts. Ihe crew nut up some kind of HT@s-gec --e and coaxed her into Mon-
 
 South America, and there she lay in hospital, so to speak, for 30 days, while the lazy, good-for-nothings in the ship yard took their time, stepping two new sticks into her decks.
 Meets Second Hurricane Another hurricane met her and gave her such push that she slid all the way down to the Falklands, not far ~"r'h cf +Nr Horn, where she wasted 'd fa.S n13., mending some sprained ?iJs. Ag2in s'c set out and this time ~ts weather made her pick up her T'crts and tear all over the south At .yHtic, eventually driving her into Cape t"yn, South Africa, out of breath, in d'snant and determined to write letter { the London Times about it under the
 ie of Cannot Something Be Done About This?"
 By this time the wind tanners had become suspicious of the Garthway. They claimed they had heard strangely ominous grumblings of her blanks and there was half-an-idea that some blither- ing fool among the apprentices, who had Killed an albatross and brought down inc curse of the sea upon the vessel. Some of them jumped ship and Can tain Henry had to sign on some new men.
 We'll. to complete a 17-month voyage m few more paragraphs, the Garth way was next chased back across the Atlantic around the Horn and clear over to Tasmania, where she required more attention in the infirmary. Can tam Henry was getting optimistic about that time. He said if they kept on blowing into obscure ports it was bound to be lquique's turn in couple of years.
 n. And sure enough, one morning about three months later they raised Iquioue and tied up at the dock, where Captain Henry, God-fearing, church-going man. exclaimed to the astonished con. signees with understandable fIror: There now, is yer dommed old domi. noes. and where will ye have 'em putt"