Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-12
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dory. He cast one eloquent look at 1t.
then at the crowd Both hands, sound
and wounded, went to his mouth turned
palms out, thrust away from him ~
definitely as human gesture could
thrust, and with cheeks pulled out he
| exhaled wind In mighty:
"PHOOHr"'
Ownership Of seagoing boat was
never relinquished more eloquently or
-, more completely.
| st. Pierre just then suffered from the
temporary closure of rum running &C.
| tivitics off the United States coast.
| the inner harbor on vessels decks. The
warehouses; we're bursting with liquor.
Five dollars case for fine Scotch, II
one would take 100 cases, was the eager
q, offer of one frantic agent.
The day OF the cable ships visit was
the first time the sun had appeared in
% days, and then 1t appeared only to
, set The gale outside blew hard until
/ night It was good for even the stout
: steamer to be anchored inside the small
rland-lockS: harbor.
{ Luck may or may not exist. Cable
men believe 1t does. Morning broke
. fair and fine. The pilot was aboard at
daylight, and outside there was neither
! fog nor rough sea. After leaving the
pilot five hours steaming brought the
mark buoy In sight again, and again
| the grapncls went down.
was so completely raked over that
doubts regarding the accuracy Of the
position originally laid down began To
rise. Up came the grapnelS. Full
speed ahead for sight of coastwise lights
Soon after midnight lights could be
seen and identified; from them bear
, ings were taken. and again out for the
cable grounds. Twice in the next Is
hours. the ship steamed thwart the SIP
, posed line Of cable, without result; and
school Of grampus frolicked around
her IN their superbly lazy way. as II
grinning at a joke they knew all about
but wouldn't tell.
/ Once more the ship ran into the land
for fix. And again she ran out al
ways a bit more away from the line
where the cable was supposed to be
! 1t was at 2 o'clock that at last tbs
dynamometer suddenly shot up to Sc
hundredweight strain. Then interest
seethed through the ship again. The
cable was hove aboard by the power
full winches until two men, slung ove1
the bows on bosun's chairs. clapped {
stopper to each side Of the grapnel
Then the cable was cut and the tes
room got to work.
OK. toward ST.. Pierre" was ths
report.
That meant the fault was in, th'
other direction. The st. Pierre end O.
the cut cable was buoyed and dropped
and the ship started heaving in tn.
other end Of the cable toward Sydney
! Cape Breton
THIS cable was laid in 1873. and thi'
was the first time 1t had beer
sighted since There might have beer
thrill in watching that ancient ropt
come to the light Of day had It no
happened that 1t had lain in clay a.
white and preventative as white leae
for 4 great part of It's track. At that
1t came in covered with sponges. sea
razors. little clans. baby shellfish Of
all sorts, and the covering Of the cable
that had lasted all the years fell from
the core as 1t came over the sheaves.
But those are matters for SargaSst
Sea expeditions. Cabling Is bushes.
Of service. The fault must be found
and after Ave hours of slow steaming
gathering In the old cable tsnderly. tht
cable, was cut and tested again. Fault
3till In the sea. Heave in. agaip.- In ar