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E CEN T Adventures of

the Nollr-malhal 'Bring to

Mind Tragedies of the Sea irl Wtlfth Brave Craft Fared Forth Laden with Human Freight and Thea Vanished from the Z Face

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'ict-pyrlrln, noe, by als new nn nel-.la os. 'sn nllrlm‘nsl¢ma.)

. F all the mysteries that hover about men’s

doings perhaps, none is more intensely felt than that ot the 'missing ship. She leaves port

some sunny morning, well found and handled, and is seen no lnore.- She perlshes in the

dark and leaves-F V , ` _

No black plume an a token '

of her passing. She ,dies an unknown death; she ls

. hurled without funeral' elrpenses, 'and she has the

` grandest scpulchre in theworld, untatholnahle and ln- con-uptihle. But the manner ot-her eniills 'the secret of the sea. . _. ,. . '

“Posted at Lloyds as mlzslng." ~Prohahly no other

phrase has carried withit the weight ot _woe conveyed in these few words, for every hopeihas, heenabiin-

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doned then. The great mariah .underwriting house

oi' Lloyds has paid the ins rancg on the_.sh_lp and she has been rubhel1"oif thcirlildok forever. Some idea of the meaning atxthe phrasescammwlth the recent adventurcslof the Nourmphal,=»the yacht 'of Colonel- John J. Astor, but happily aft`e'l-"ri long suspense tho word was not set down, and the Nournlahal -escaped

, the fnte` ofthose recorded mlsslngi" ‘ _

~Hundreds of persons illled with ambitions, great. and

small, and strong in tlievigor and Eosslbilltles of,lll'e. go away ill the‘vessel"and shout t elr words of fare- well and endcarlnent to the crowds ashore. The wehthsr is'ilh`e and the world.hu'put on its bestattlre. How handsome she looks, the big ship, as she backs out into tbé stream, turning slowly with a conscious<

‘ ness' of splendid power within her, asshe heads for

the vast solltudos that lie before her! __ No thought of disaster enters _the mind as she., dé- parts, though the tenderhearted shed ll, few tears as the great hull glides smoothly off., It is a holiday crowd, just entering upon the'nrst step ot its Euro- pean excursion. and the air-'lsdlled liigghter and aurtsl-mg'-llrllllngslcnlsrs, alla- vg;io»s;_oalle~~s¢r§-as me ever laclllllg mls ovfwswr- iilavillllliilllirelr-1 a. llmll

"` ‘ o ‘ii`o`wiiiitf.` Swiftly she gathers way as she goes,

tr mt and new she is across the harand feels the ill-st breath-

l lnglllttz of the sea-the rise and fall of the mighty

breast on which she rests. Then she fades into a glimmer on the sea line before she blends with the mists of the horizon.

A fortni ht passss..withoui: news of her. Another

week and -irleads grow anxious. They gather in the aaent's odlce for news. There is a portentous absence

. of lt. Mon think, but do not talk. Rumors, perhaps.

give cncoiiregalnellt as some clew is followed, lifting bt-,llevers'up on the Himalaya of hope, only to cast them into the chains of despair next day, when the phantom. dissolves and leaves them stranded with their broken trust. .

Then begins the gambling on the ship, and we hear

that ilfty psr cent reinsurance is offered. Swiftly the sum increases till ninety-nve per cent is reached. There is a longpallse. to give thc ship ber lust lighting chance, wllllo crowds illl the steamshlp omces. Then

e llxe tulle lllld the dreaded bulletin is read, “The

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Queen of the Seas has been _posted at Lloyds as

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missing."

What has happened to her? Ice, tire, -collision,

stornl? Almost ullytllillg is possible, but of one thing tllcrll can be no douht-the Sea has shouted his com-~ lllllnd. and uoiie may disobey. Far away lu the dull,i waste spaces. under it wintry sky, the North Atllllltlc has called with ringing voice and claimed another bride. That is all, for no one comes ashore and we will never know how long she struggled in the clasp» .ing arms. For the gray, ancient Sea lvles dumb and brlnls with mystery' alld brooding thoughts as he draws the dark co\vl of night across his face, and even the rising sun can wlrlug no secret from him... ` And so we ponder on the fate of this great vessel,

forever hidden from us, smitten by the soa. Sho went away; wc watched her vanish on the distant skyline; we wllltad.llnd we wept. But the sea is iillell with riddles, and one more or less w:lll be of little moment

l to lllnl. for he alone can solve them. Perhaps 'twas

ill-c luld ice-arch cneluies till lsurnesssd by me gm... ibut ,hid upon ber; perhaps some lonely derelict op- posed llcr in the olgllt, and both went. locked, to death. l»‘ol- ourselves, we only know tlrat the august ship is gone .with all her people. - »

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since ocean steam shipping began few vessels in the

North Atlantic trado created in the human breast more lingering hope than thc famous old President ere she wlls written oil’ the banks at Lloyds. She was a gen- crnl favorite with the travelling public. many famous

‘ lncn llnd women electing to travel in her rather than

lil lluy other ship between Sandy Hook and thc Ghan- llel., Tyrone Power, the dlstlngulshled actor, always chose her as the vehicle of his peregrlnlltions. und lilo only sentence or word or claw ot any sort that camo from the fated President was written by his hand. For Tyrone Power was among her passengers when she left New York for Liverpool in March, 1841. and townrdillo end of May, or two months later, when all hope had 'been surrendered, ll bottlc was plchcd up at

sen con_taluin§}t a fragment of paper on which was re- corded 'tllg p mple fact tllnt the President was sink- ing, the Q [nature nt the bottom being that of the cele- ` Drilled player Tyrone Power.

When disaster overtaken vessels ln the Atlantic lt’ is

generally the ruse that they are westward bound at the time because lllc westerly gales are the wildest limi the most llltiilfult to weather out. But the Presl- doilt fnded`dM of hu nllla sight bound to the eastward. There wertdib persons on bolmi llll told when she passed out by. Sandy Hoolg that afternoon, and she was d_u_e_ lil,,filiv,erpool in twelve or fourteen days. oc- cllrdlngzul g pe wwntller. And a pond dl-al still "lis-

lifhtlslon ,tm tyeniller" in the western ocean. in spito o 40.000! l displacement and 723000 horse power, and twenty knots often dwin e to a when the surly old fellow gets his hack up, ., .

A :ol-tlpgill pllllllea wmlont any :mlm imlnllls

President. No one wondered. ihough. for it had been 1 tel-rlac winter llgtllo Nntth matic .and canada iild boenlheld up y the elements almost tor months.

gm ‘Wlaq‘sppl-cached. toolfusileusnilllugot ec

` QW NW\`f0¢| Ui *N Im 0 routes. and lt. was iwzln illat-¢lle1.1'-ellldcntull nncgludrlueulllr of la Li ills allyll passed. though. .wil _ at -no-wr anagrams IM tems ill ilu ll national; and brioiy ca ed at-

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overdue, and by the. end of tile mouth sllllilllr state- ments wcre issued about another crack steulnsllip, the Britannia, which had then-been at sea all unusually long time--in fact, tor- a lougcrperlod than any other royal mall steamer ever had been before, and solllo comfort was aitorded by the thought that both vessels .had been detained by the same, heavy weather and that they were fighting it outiin conipany. And it is indeed a comforting thou ht that a consort is standing by a disabled sister, lending what assistance slle can amid the whistling seas and snowy glilcs _

On April 2 the 0l'pheus,'wllich had left America two

days later than the President, arrived after ll stormy passage and her.log showed that on Mzlrch 12 she had encountered a glllo of unusual fc'ro<.~lty cron for the _season and locality. lTlils gale oi' \vllld killlllcrl hope ln the breasts of lnany, and forsolne lime little doubt was entertained that tue Preslllcllt»-vniillut old ship-was making a llcrolc iight of it olll: ttlrro under a shrieking sky and was steering for llle

'Ohnnnel with disabled engines. Then the lirllllnllln came ramping home, with happy tacos wlllilll-.z on the wharf to welcome her, for ;\ppl'cllcllsl_on had lllolllltcll high concerning her, llnd~ they cheered hcr, delivered from the plunging sea. _ _ Hind then still other ships came in that had de-

parted long after the President, lllld'facell pnlcd and men looked at each otllelwvitllout speaking. '_l‘llc sub- ject was avoided or wusldiscusscll ill lnonotolll-s ull- der the brcnth on Qle qullys and the exchanges. An idle story wont the rounds that tile Pl-osirlclll had been

seen steering for Faylll -ulldcr clluvlls, logging only three knots-~n myth thllt lllcd fl-borning. ’i‘llo, next,

day the newspapers contained full liste of tile pnssen-_ gcrs' names on board, and those were read like the ln-

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:lllll url-l'_r berill ivll ,gflhene-were on hum-q 111' lil-.~lt villas pnsscuigeri, ' hi.; 9 ,md 70 m the l-rl-lv. fllllllllg ups grllllliloulh égggrpm-,,¢ B N. “,,,,,_ il qlllllllllllle i e hutllller of l who lr); i\’ew 'York

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Gillsgow,»anll 'her commander, .ianlc.< l\lorl'l-oll, \v:ls an experienced and able scalnlln, well vl\lx<cll ill lilo telnperamental vagaries of the Atlantic; :lllll _vllll lllll ll to try to overcome them as bcst. you llllly ily filllliiillr- izlng yourself with his had llulnurs: At any rlllc, it WHS gcncrlllly hhllllgllt that no llcttor slllplllllstcr ever conll d ills vessel :across iilc \\'leslcl°ll .lt-call in those dllyAthall (lnptlllll l\iol~l~lsl»n, llllll lllltllllllllollly every precaution as to thc proximity ot loc and dcl'c~ licts was taken by this prudent mall, though the oldest of all sailor phrases tells us that “any old thing can happen at any time at sell.”

Bo no anxiety was shown ovcr thc City oi' Glllrgow'

when ll few days more tll:lll thc usual limit llllll pllsscli by and she was not reported. Some _vo:ll'.s, tllolllzll. tim lcc breaks up very early ill Bntlln Bay and thc giant in-rgs ilollt down thc current and stop many a tight ship ill their path. Many

An errant princess of thc North,

A virgin, snowy while,

Sails ndown thc summer scrls To realms of burning light.

Ilut snllorlnen do llot regard these gleaming wan-

dcrcrs as rosliy as poets do, and when thc City of Man- chester rcncllcd Liverpool, having left l’lllllldclphll\ about the snlllc time that thc City of Glasgow lcft thc llltiel' port, and reported that. thc ice fluids oft New- follndlllnd were breaking up. lllen shook their llcllds nlld ulade no comnlcnt. That the creat-up of lilo llcllls was a good tiling in itsclf was true, but it was cqllallg ijrlle .tllnt"it meant tho strcwlng of’ the occnn wil hcllvu lf... which vessels. however D0wel-ful, ll\ H1050 dll_vs lnllzhi mol-t in nlorm, l-wife.

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lllllrc pllpllllll' .~‘ll-:llll~'lll1» lllll- lllll ol' .\'1:\v York to Liv- cl'p-lol t|l:lll till- (R-ilills-. 'l`ills \'<-ssl-is oi' this great cl|lll|l:lll_\' \\-~l‘l< llll- .~'ll---~l~~'.<l`lll l'l\'lll.~' for ll lllllg whllu of ilu- i’llll:ll'<l .~‘lll|l~‘, ;lllll_ il_\'ill;.; illl- .\llll:l'll~n:l ling and lllllllll=lillill~,: ll llltril sl:lllll:ll‘ll ni' 1-illl'll~lll'_\ ill cvcry lil-l=lil_ till-_v olllililll-ll :lllll lwld lilo clwrulll of ‘ille .\lll<-l'i<-llll p:l<.<<-llul~l' lralllv. illlo lll` lllc host ships of lilo illlc, lilo l‘:l<-iiil'_ \\':l.< \»:ll‘iiclll:\l'l_\' i'll\‘<>rl\ll, and wllcll sill- ll-i`| i.l\l~l‘|llllll lll\\':ll'll till- closl- lui' .lll!llilll‘y. l.\;`ll‘»_ sill! l':ll'l‘i<~ll lil-l' \l.\lllll llllllpll-llll~l|l nl' llrsi Class |l:l,'>',~=l~llgl-l'.~', |lll-l'l- lloilll; llll illlll lull |»,|-olls ull board. Sill* \\':l,~‘ .\i;:|ll\~|) ill .\`i_ iii-<»l'L'\"~' i`ll:lll|ll\l fl fvw hours lllil-l' :lllll illvll llllllwll la-lll\\' illc l\ol'iv,lll| for ;_'l>od-I-illr oillcr sllurlilvl- ml lin- ll-|ll|»l-~l|\l~ll|.~' llilzll' ol' ills N965 Aillllliil: lllllillo illl~ oilll~l~ lll~l~l>|lll-,~' .lf ilu- llevp wholf i':lll' llllllllw lllllllo lilllllllr l-|~l llllll- for WQQUN 1‘zll-lill: wus- lll-rl-l' l'l-pol'il-ll, llllll tiwro was llo lll_éiati0l|

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