Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 20, 1912, Page 6

TUSATEY i | A | A . W il i I\ 1 4 H f \ p¥ i pontkee Vo house'Tne are If your home or business office were to burn up or be looted by a burglar WOULD YOU NOT LOSE VALUABLE PAPERS? Is it not careless for you to longer put oc coming to us and .enting a private box in our absolutely fire and burglar proof safety deposit vaults? Our rent for a private box is only $1 and up for a wholeyear. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government or kill them. instead of trying to drive sooner or later anyway, KEEP OUT THE FLIES them out It is very much ecasier. The way to do it is to come here at once and buy the window screens and screen doors you will have to have Put them in at once and save yourself trouble, annoyancy and discomfort, lakelaml Ilardware & I’Iumbmg Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built. LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. only is us £6es into our bread vhen you see it. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertlle sail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block east from Lake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ and G C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building Whatever you want in rea lestute we have it best methods only are still better when you try it. FLORIDA R S e e s THE VERY BEST WHEAT d to make the flour which | And the very employed to produce both the flour and the bread. You'll like the looks of our bread You'll liko its taste posed 1o be 3 v Atlantic | unsinkable, swiland, on. mon sailor, mecis | | is with her husband an A cl CHAPTER Il Shapes Swallowed In Elackness, ITEN the watch turned out at midnight they found a vi cious half gale blowing trom i the northeast, which, added to the speed of the steamship, tiade, so far as cffects on her deck went, a | fairly uncomfortable whole gale ot ! chilly wind. The head sea, choppy as compared with her greai length, denll the Titan sulcessive blows, each oune | attended by supplementary tremors to | the continuous vibrations of the en- gines, each one sending a cloud ot thick spray aloft that reached the crow's nest on the foremast and bat tered the pilot house windows on the bridge in a liquid bombardment that would have broken ordinary glass. A fog bank into which the ship bad | plunged In the afternoon still envel oped her, damp and impenetrable, and into the gray, ever receding wall ahead, with two deck officers aad three lookouts straining sight and hearing to the utmost, the great racer was charging with undiminished speed. At a quarter past 12 two men crawl- ed In from the darkness at the ends of the eighty foot bridze and shouted to the first oflicer, who had just taken the deck, the names of the men who had relieved them. Backing up to the pllot house, the oflicer repeated the names to n quartermaster within, who entered them in the log hook. Then the men vanished, to their coffee and “wateh below.” In a few moments another drippinz shape appeared on the bridze and reported the crow's nest relief. “Rowland you sav*' hawled the of- ficer above the howling of the wind. “Is he the man who was lifted aboard drunk yesterday ™ “Yes, sir." “Is he stralght now?" “Yes, sir" “ANl right—that'll do Enter Rowland in the cro nest, quartermaster,” said the ofli then, making a funnel of his hands, he roaved out, “Crow's nest, there!" “Sir,” came the auswer, shrill and clear on the zale “Keep your eyes open lookont." “Very good, sir.” “Been & man-o’ war's man, 1 judge by his answer They're no good.” mut tered the oflicer e resumed his po sitlon at the forward side of the bridge, where the wooden railing afforded some shelter from the raw wind. and began the long vigil which would end only when the second officer relieved him four hours later. Conversation was forbidden among the bridge offi cers of the Titan, and his watch mate, the third ofticer, stood on the other Keep a sharp e 1z out overnead a star i the crow’s nest: 1+ nhead, sir; can’t make it - otlicer sprang to the engine ceaph and grasped the lever he roared. “Hard o port on the star- board tack, dead ¢ came the cry spart vour wheel hard over,” repeat- <t oflicer to the quartermaster .. who answered and obey ed. Nothinzg as vet could be seen from | the bridze I'he powerful steering en- gine in the stern ground the rudder over, but before three degrees on the (um]xl s card were traversed by the lubber's foiat a seeming thickening of | the darkuess and fog abead resolved jtselt into the square sails of a deep ed the at the he 1233 Red Jaden ship crossing the Titan's bow pot half her length away. “I— and d=!" growled the first offi- cer. “Steady on your course, quarter- muster!” e shouted. *Stand from vn- der on deck!” He turned a lever which closed compartments, pushed a button marked “Captain's Room” and crouched down, awaiting the crash. There was hardly a crash. A slight jur shook the forward end of the Titan, and sliding down her fore topmast stay and rattling on deck came a show- er of small spars, sails, blocks and wire rope. Then in the darkness to starboard and port two darker shapes shot by—the two halves of the ship ghe had cut through—and from one of these shapes, where still burned a bin- nacle light, was heard, high above the confused murmur of shouts aud shrieks, a sailorly voice: “May the curse of God light on yon and your cheese knife, you brass bound murderers!” The shapes were swallowed in the blackness astern, the cries were hush- ed by the clamor of the gale, and the steamship Titan swung back to her course, The first oficer had not turn- ed the lever of the engine room tele- graph. ‘I'he boatswain bounded up the steps of the bridge for instructions. “Put men at the hatches and doors. Send every one who comes on deck to the chart room. Tell the watchman to notice what the passengers have learn- el and clenr away that wreck for- ward as soon as possible.” The voice of the officer was hoarse and strained as he gave these directions, and the “Aye, aye, sir,” of the boatswain was uttered In a gasp. The crow's nest (lookout), sixty feet ahove the deck, had seen every detall of the horror from the moment when the upper salls of the doomed ship had appeared to him ahove the fog to the time when the last tangle of wreckage was cut away by his watch wmates below. When relleved at four bells he descended with as little strength in his limbs as was compati- ble with safety In the rigging. At the rail the boatswain met him, “Report your relief, Rowland,” he sald, “and go Into the chart room.” glde of the large bridge binnacle, leav. ing this position only occagionally to ed to be his sole duty at sen. tered by one of the deck houses be | jow, the boatswain and the watch pacea vack and forth, enjoying the "Sumthmg ahead, sir, out.” only two hours’ respite which steam. ship rules afforded, for the day's work had ended with the going down of the other watch, and at 2 o'clock the wash. ing of the ‘tween deck woull Legin as an opening task in the next day's labor. By the time one bell 1 unded, with its repetition fro: crow's nest, followed by a *All's well!” from th. of the 2000 pass leaving the sp: age in posses: while sound asiee i the chart rcom was the commander unless ti pliot had Can't make it itchmen, u abaft in, the manded for the leaving w Lo then three, and the boatsw iy & men were lighting Ap fora On the bridge, as he gave the name glance in at the compass, which seem- | of his successor, the first officer seized Shoel- | Ms hand, pressed it and repeated the boatswiin's order. In the chart room he found the captain of the Titan, pale faced and intense In manner, seated at a table and grouped around him the whole of the watch on deck ex- copt the officers, lookouts and quarter- masters. The cabin watchmen were there and some of the watch below, among whom were stokers and coal passers, and also & few of the Idlers— lampmen, yeomen and butchers—who, sleeping forward, had been awakened | by the terrible blow of the great hol- | low knife within which they lived. Three carpenter’s mates stood by the 1 door with sounding rods In thelr hands, which they had just shown the cap- tain—dry. Every face, from the cap- tain's down, wore a look of horror and expectancy. A quartermaster followed Rowland in and said: “Englineer felt no jar in the engine room, sir, and there's no excitement Iin the stokehold.” “And you watchmen report no alarm in the cabins. Iow about the steer age? Is that man back?" asked the captain. Another watchman appeared as be spoke “All asleep in the steerage, sir,” he said. Then a quartermaster entered with the same report of the forecas- tles. “Very well,” said the captain, rising “One by one come into my office, watchmen first, then petty officers, then the men. Quartermasters will watch the door, that no man goes out until I have seen him.” He passedputo another room, followed by a watch- man, wWho presently emerged and went on deck with a more pleasant espres- slon of face. Another entered and came out, then another and another until every man but Rowland had been within the sacred precincts, all to wear the same pleased or satisfied look on reappearing. When Rowland entered, the captain, seated at a desk, motioned | him to a chair and asked his name. “John Rowland,” he answered. The captain wrote it down, “I understand,” be said, “that syou were in the crow's nest when this un- fortunate collision occurred.” “Yes, sir, and 1 reported the ship as soon as I saw her.” “You are not here to be censured. 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