Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 17, 1922, Page 2

' SR 5 By (Continued from last issue) PAGE TWO TR N TR T FRATT R AT YRSy b L& SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER 1. — Captain Phineas P. Scraggs_has grown up around the docks of San Francisco, and from mess boy on a_river steamer, risen to the ownership of the steamer Maggle. Since each an- nual inspection promised to be the last of the old weatherheaten vessel, Scraggs naturally_has some difficulty In’ securing a crew. When the story opens, Adelbert P. Gibney, llkable but erratic, a man whom nobody but Scraggs would hire, is the skipper, Nells Halvorsen, a solemn Swede, constitutes the fo'castle hands, and Bart McGuffey, a wastrel of the GIb" ney type, relgns in’ the engine room. CHAPTER IL—With this motley crew and his anclent vessel, Captain Scraggs is engaged in freighting garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San Francisco. ‘The inevitable happens, the Maggie going ashore in a fog. CHAPTER In the oflice of the Red Stack Tug Boat company Captain Dan Hicks, master of the tug Aphrodite; Captain Jack Flaherty, master of the Bodega, and Tiernan, the assistant superin- tendent on night watch, sat around a hot little box stove engaged in that occupation so dear to the maritime heart, to-wit: spinning yarns. The telephone rang and Tiernan an- swered. Hicks aud Flaherty hitched forward in their chairs to listen. “Hello. Yes, Red Stack office. . . . Steamer Yankee Prince. . . . What's that? . . . silk and rice? . . . Half a mile below the CUff house, Eh? . . . Sure, I'll send a tug right away, Lindstrom.” Tiernan hung up and faced the two skippers. “Gentlemen,” he announced, “here's a chance for a little salvage meoney tonight. The American steam- “The American $teamer Yankee Prince Is Ashore Half a Mile Below the Cliff House.” er Yankee Prince Is ashore half a mile below the CIIff house. She's a big tramp with a valuable cargo from Hong Kong, with the rudder gone and her crank shaft busted.” “It's high water at twelve thirty- seven,” Jack Flaherty plended. “You'd better send me, Tiernan. The Bodega has more power than the Aphrodite.” This was the truth and Dan Hicks knew it, but he was not to be beaten out of his share of the salvage by such flimsy argument. *“Jack,” he plended, “don’t be a hog all the time. The Yankee Prince is an elght thou- sand-ton vessel and it's a two-tug job. Better send us both, Tlernan, and play safe. Chances are our competitors have three tugs on the way right now.” “What a wonderful imagination you have, Dan. Eight thousand tons! You're crazy, man. She’s thirteen hundred net register and I know it be- cause I was in Newport News when they launched her, and I went out with her skipper on the trial trip. She's a long, narrow-gutted craft, with en- gines aft, like a lake steamer.” “We'll play safe,” Tlernan decided. “Go to.it—both of you, and may the best man win. She'll belong to you. Jack, if she's thirteen hundred net and sou get your line aboard first. Tf she's as’ big ag Dan says she is, you'll be equal partners—" But he was talking to himself. Down the docks Hicks and Flaherty were racing for the respective com- mands, each shouting to his night watchman to pipe all hands on deck. Fortunately, a gaodly head of steam was up In each tug's boilers; hecause of the fog and the liability to colli- sions and consequent hasty summons, one engineer on each tug was on duty. Out through the Gate they nosed thelr_way, heaving _the lead continu- ' v, made a wide detour around Mile rock and the Seal rocks, swung a mile to the south of the position of the Maggie, and then came cautiously up the coast. whistling continuously to acquaint the Yankee Prince with their presence in the neighborhood. In anticipation of the necessity for replying to this welcome sound, Cap- tain Secraggs and Mr. Gibney had, for the past two hours, busled themselves getting up another head o6f steam In the Maggie's boilers, repairing the whistle and splicing the wires of the engine room telegraph. TLike the wise men they were, however, they declined te sound the Maggie's siren until the tuys were quite close. Even then, Mr. Gibney shuddered, but needs must when the devil drives, so he pulled the whistle cord and was rewarded with a weird, mournful grunt, dying away into a gasp. * “Sounds like she has the pip,” Jack Flaherty remarked to his mate. “Must have taken on some of that dirty Asiatic water,” Dan Hicks solilo- quized, “and now her tubes have gone to glorys” Timmedately both tugs kicked ahead under a dead slow bell, guided by a series of toots as brief as Mr. Gibney could malke them, and presently hoth tug lookomts reported breakers dead ahead. Dan Hicks sent a man forward to henve the lead under the nose of the Aphrodite, which was edging in gin- gerly toward the volce. He had a 'searchught, but he did not artempt to use it, knowing full well that in such a fog it would be of no avail. Gulded, therefore, by the bellowings of Mr. Glbney, reinforced by the shrill yips of Captain Scraggs, the tug crept in closer and closer, and when it seemed that they must be within a hundred feet of the surf, Dan Hicks trained his Lyle gun in the direction of Mr. Gibney's voice and shot a heav- ing line into the fog. Almost simultaneous with the report of the gun came a shriek of pain from Captaln "Scraggs. Straight and true the wet, heavy knotted end of the heaving line came in over the Maggie's quarter and struck him in the mouth. In the darkness he staggered back from the stinging blow, clutched wild- ly at the air, slipped and rolled over among the vegetables with the pre- clous rope clasped to his breast. “I got it” he sputtered, “I got it, aib.” p: “Safe, O!"” Mr. Gibney bawled. “Pay out your hawser.” They met it at the taffrall as it came up out of the breakers, wet but welcome. “Pass it around the maln- mast, Scraggy,” Mr. Gibney cautioned. “If we make fast to the towin’ bits, the first jerk'll pull the anchor bolts up through the deck.” When the hawser had been made fast to the mainmast, the leathern lungs of Mr. Gibney made due an- nouncement of the fact to the ex- pectant Captain Hicks. “As soon ns you feel you've got a grip on her,” he velled, “just hold her steady so she won't drive further up the beach when T get my anchor up. She'll come out like a loose tooth at the top of the {lood.” The Aphrodite forged slowly ahead, taking in the slack of the hawser. Twenty minutes later, after much backing and swearing and heaving of lines the Bodega's hawser was also put board the Maggle. Mr. Gibney Judged It would be safe now to fasten this line to the towing bits. Suddenly Captain Scraggs remem- bered there was no one on duty in the Maggle's engine room. With a half sob, he slid down the greasy ladder, tore open the furnace doors and com- menced shoveling in coal with a reck- lessness that bordered on Insanity. When the indlcator showed -eighty pounds of steam he came up on deck and discovered Mr. Gibney. walking solemnly round and round the little capstan up forward. It was creaking and groaning dismally. Captain Seraggs thrust his engine room torch above his head to light the scene and gazed upon his navigating officer in blank amazement. “What foolishness is this, Gib?" he demanded. “Are you clean daffy, do- i’ a barn dance around that rusty| capstan, makin' a noise fit to frighten the fish?" “Not much,” came the laconic re- ply. “I'm a smart man. I'm raisin’ both anchors.” “Well, all T got to remark Is that it takes a smart man to raise both an-| chors when we only got one anchor to our blessed name. An’ with that anchor safe on the fo'castle head, T, for one, can't see no sense in raisin’ it “You tarnation jackass!" sighed | Gibney. “You forget who we are. Do you s'pose the steamer Yankee Prince can lay on the beach all night with bath anchors out, an’ then be got ready to tow off in three shakes of a Jamb's tail? It takes noise to get up all the two ~anchors—s ‘makin® noise I can. Got any steam?” “Eighty pounds,” Scraggs confessed. Having for the moment forgotten his identity, he was confused in the pres- ence of the superior intelligence of his navigating officer. “Run aft, then, Scraggs, an’-turn that cargo winch over to beat the band until I tell you to stop. With the drum runnin’ free she'll make noise enough for a winch three times her size, but you might give the necessary yells to make it more lifelike.” Captain Scraggs fled to the winch. At the end of five minutes, Mr. Gibney appeared and bade him desist. Then, turning his improvised megaphone sea- ward he : adddressed an imaginary mate: “Mr. Thompson; have you got your port anchor up?”’ Scraggs took the cue immedintely. “All clear forward, sir,” he piped. “Send the bosun for'd an’ heave the lead, Mr. Thompson.” “Very well, sir.” Here The Squarehead, who had been enjoying the unique situation immense- ly, decided to take a hand. Presently, in sing-song cadence, he was reporting the depth of water alongside. “That’ll do, bosun,” Gibney thun- dered. Then, in his natural voice, to Scraggs: “All set, Scraggsy. Guess we're ready to be pulled off. Get down in the engine room and stand by for full speed ahead when I give the word.” “Quick! Hurry!” Scraggs entreated as he disappeared through the little engine-room hatch, for the tide was now at the tip of the flood and the Maggie was bumping wickedly and driving further up the beach. Mr, Gib- ney turned his stovepipe seaward and shouted: “Tugboats, ahoy!” “Ahoy!” they answered in unison. “All ready! Let'er go-0-0-0!” . The Squarehead stationed himself at the bitts with a lantern and Mr. Gibney hastened to the pilot house and took his place at the wheel. When the haw- sers commenced to lift out of the sen, The Squarehead gave a warning shout, whereupon Mr. Gibney called the en- g'ne room. “Give her the gun,” he | commanded Scraggs. “Pull against them tugs for all you're worth. Re- member this is the steamer Yankee Prince. We must not come off too readily.” Captain Scraggs opened the throttle, and while the two tugs steadily drew her off into decep water, the Maggie fought valiantly to stick to the beach and even to continue her interrupted Journey overland. She merely suc- ceeded in stretching both hawsers taut; slowly she was drawn seaward, | stern first, and at the expiration of fifteen minutes’ steady pulling, Mr. Gib- ney could restrain himself no longer. He rang for full speed astern—and got it promptly. Then, calling Nells Hal- vorsen to aid him, he abandoned the| wheel and scrambled aft. With no one at the wheel, the Mag- gle shot off at a tangent and the haw- sers slacked immediately. In the twin-g kling of an eye Mr. Gibney had cast them off, and as the ends disappeared with a swish over the stern he ran back to the pilot house, rang for full speed ahead, put his helm hard over, Mr. Gibney Turned His Stovepipe Sea- ward and Shouted: “Tugboats, Ahoy!"” and headed the Maggie in the general direction of China, although as a mat- ter of fact he cared not what direction he pursued, provided he got away from the beach and placed distance between the Maggie and two soon-to-be-furious tugboat skippers. (Continued in Next [ssue) Insulated Shovel. Where laborers are at work op an electric railway of the third-track class there is always danger if ordi- nary tools are employed, for the touching of the third rail with a pick, shovel or.crowbar may lead to fatal results. There was patented some time ago a tool which is insulated for the purpose of protecting the work- men on electric railways. 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