The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1895, Page 1

‘ _eheers. | . QQOWD OUTSIDE THE PIER DOORS. ‘Wearnas Iepications: Farm NIGHT EDITION GASCOGNE AT HER PIER —— — >. An Immense Crowd Wel- comed the Belated Pas- sengers at Her Dock. CAPTAIN’S OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Chief Engineer Martin Tells in De- tail the Story of the Breaking Down of the Machinery. CENTRAL PISTON ROD CARRIED AWAY. The Ship Made Very Good Weather of It Despite Her Crippled Condition. Tt was sust 11.49 o'clock to-day when the crank shaft gradually got heated the French line steamsbip La Gascogne |und we came down to abvut nine knots. Was finally moored to her pier, seven: | teen days and forty-three minutes from | had to chang* “he bearings of the crank |ehaft. During that time we had a bur- the time of her departure from Havre. ‘The delighted passengers immediately i yan to disembark, and as they came down the jong gangplank they were) rice WM opie ahmit-ithd vociterous | The picr was packed with an enthusias- | -tic “eeowd, ana the overflow of anxious | riewds and signtseers extended far cp SCENE A3 THE SHIP CAME INTO HER DOCK. ricane, and the barometer went down to 7.26 (26.28). “Since then the 6ea has been very |heavy, with high west winds, and we were obliged to slow down to about eight knots an hour, “The crank shaft was then running all right. We never but once sighted a All were reported well on board and me deaths occurred during the passage. _f steamer going one way or the other. THE CAPTAIN’S STATEMENT. | “Yesterday only could we signal some —— news to a steamer going to Philadel- I Utterances of La G phia, We had bad weather right Commiinde: {through, but we came by our own When General Agent Forget, of the joins, (Signed) French line, stepped aboard the Gus-) cogne at Quarantine this morning, he} was mat on the steamer's Geck by Capt. BAUDELON, Commander.” When Capt. Baudelon was afterwa: 8 seen by an Svening World” reporter Baudelon, who hendes him the follow-) and asked if he had anything to add to ing written statement, which Is the ing very brief statement ~hich he had first that the the Gascogne ‘aptain hae made Since | made to Agent Forget, he replied: i 1 reived tn pert: | more at present. I tink “ON DOARD 1.A GASCOGNE, Feb. 11 j that hat 1 have sald covers every- “A. FORGET, 28Q.: ng.” “On the third day of our voyage we, “Did you meet any sailing vessels?” breke the pisten rod. We Isolated one of “Yes, The § the eylind:ra, and continued on our voy- the evening of Feb. 6, when with a epeed of eleven knots, but an American schooner, we met two. Was on we sighted which was dis- ‘ 4 Im the Engine-Room This Morning. 2 in, 6+ ee = 2 “On the 4th and Sth of February we | Playing a United States flag with the union Hown, showing that she was tn with a good breeze and b at and at i@ in the morning we ela vie! per. an Inman tiner, bow wee signalion her t to news to New York tha Tan quite close to her and stopped, but soon found that she had veen abandoned by the crew, for not a of La Gascogne w ho help was needed. dv maged, foul was on board. She wan tudiy | "AUS o'clock i the w“ternosn we sicht . ed & four-masted « booer, abandoned ty water-logged, 80 we went on. The name tne crew, at latiiude 4: lone rane of the vessel was the George Brandt, of Bath, Me.” BAUDELON SPINS Kis YARN. His Native Tongue He Tells of La Gascogne's Perilous Tr: 69 Greenwich, The naiwe of th was George A, MeFadden, of 1 | “On Feb, 1 we had fiir weat Jwere wich a guod nortawest | barometer 7.62 “At 680 o'cloc we signalled to Kire Ince heard that the saw us at Fire Island before we sig Capt. Baudelon, commander of La} nalled. Gascogne, was interviewed by forty| “At 11.15 we anchored at Scotland reporters tn the smoking-room on his| Lightship. wallant ship this afternoon, He speaks! ‘No one was ill during the voyage, ana {no English, though it is agreed he's a| the passengers behaved with commoenda right good captain, too, and M. Eugene) ble courage and gulm through a!) our Thiebaut, Coneul-General at this port, | trcuble verformed the duty of interpreter, The captain was translated as follow “Left Havre Jan. 2%, at 10.30 A, M. Jan, 27, at 780 A, M., met La Normaniie CHIEF ENGINEER'S STORY. Hin Statement Interpreted tor ‘ The going east. On the Bh there was! Evening World.” nothing of importance. The weather| Adolph Martin, the chief engineer of wae fair. a La Gascogne, t# a stout, middle-aged j “ON the 2th there was a good outh| man with white side whiskers, Mr, For- AT THE FRENCH LINE PIER. (Skotched by '*Kvening World’ Artists this mor Capt. Baudelon Amid Cheers as He Comes Down the Gang Plank. | | | | Te Powers = | | | | Chiet Engineer Adolph oor Martin pleture: uh and In Repose. the ‘oming Down wind, @ heavy sea, and at 10.15 A. M get suid he had been with the Company the piston rod broke. for thirty-two years, and had been a “Then we stopped to repair machin- chief engineer for fifteen years. ery. We were about in the east of He cannot speak English, but ex- ewfoundland Bank, On the 9th. at plained in Freneh, while Mr. Forget in Ww o'clock In the morning, we started|terpreted for an ning World” re- again, running at a: eleven-knot speed. | porter, the ca’ of the acetdent to the At Ww M. we were obliked to stop} hinery and its result again, the cushions being heated. On rhe new quadruplecexpansion eng j the dist, at din the morning, we started a he sald. “has thre vy!- again In a heavy sea, barometer 745 nd it was the glatonio milimeters (26.10). Pair weather ‘tral, or largest eylinder, which bro«e lowed by flurr ef snow, Was Ours! “Tas was much more werious than | oh 1 jelther of ine o had by AUS in the afternoon we sighted on | broken tarboard un iceberg five mi away It once. «bs or shape ‘ jo « ageln mo Swe] UThE we ace by simply dis ¢ ‘ount | ¢ e central cylider from the started five! others, and then starting the remaining © hal heavy seas board: | ¢vlinders independently of the one which | ing the Veveel frequently. On the ath, ct] % bro! Tus A.M. We had to stop again wath $| The piston rod broke right in th Feb. 5 we had to stop aguin|tre of the eylinder, where we could We had fresh easterly wind and {get at it air it, and about m bare r |iway between the crank and the pist i POM. there was a strong) An ¢ tfon showed that Py trom the west, the barometer! }yenk was caused by « flaw going own to 26.90. Several waves! sel, the nea not having be toke on board. ‘The ship hea e put to such a strat 41 6 o'clock next moni he weatser was not heavy at tha “ALS in the mor owfal but it at sea that “M evlinder end went on again at ly o'cloek. This ac don Jan, ® Four days “On Feb. 8 thore was a heavy wea, bar: | tare: st wan found that the extra work meter millemeters, light foutheass | which had been put upon the other two] winds At 1 o'clock In the morning the cylinders had heated the bearings of wind ghifted to the west with @ heavy /the crank shaft to such @ de tree that southwest sea. This weather, with snow | we were obliged to atop, and again on ara heavy nea tinued on the oth | ‘eb. 4 and & when we were met by the with @ rong we: n breeze, om, the same trouble occurred, and | “We had good weather on Feb. 1 | we Wore cllged to replace the old bear | lings with new ones, because they had become so much worn. | “This took us more than forty hours, during which time we lay and rolled in the trough of the sea, and drifted aim- leasly about. “Finally when the repairs were com- pleted we started westward again, but were far out of our co! Chief Engineer Martin said that at no time did he feel that the ship was lin any real dangor from the accident, “The bad weather and head winds ¢ layed us more than the broken piston," he sald, “and the severe weather which we encountered after ‘Feb, 5 made it necessary for us to run very slowly in order to take the strain off the crippled engine. The registered motive power of the RD—HE KISSED 24 GIRLS THE PIER IN TWO) MINUTES. | Gasconitsta new engines when tn run- ning order ts 9,000 horse power, but the breaking of the viston brought tt down to about 2,60 horse power, and reduced the maximum speed just about one-half. Engineer Martin says that although he haa a fairly large supply of coal oil in the bunkers, the great length of the voyage reduced tt very much more than usual, He had 240 tons aboard when ne left Havre on Jan and when La Gascogne arrived in port this morning it was reduced to 559 tons. This 1 have lasted about three ‘days longer at tie usual rate of con- sumption, When Mr, Forget came aboard at Quarantine this morning was beam ing witn smiles of Joy and satisfacdon “I told you wo.” he said ty a group of reporters, who met him in the grand saloon. “IT uever for one ‘any serious moment belleved that hom cord eome to ba Gas cown: and the admizable manner In ned as if we which she has wi itved, in spite of this 4 tventy five pas | accident, shows her seaworthy quacities rein the first cabin ant many of “T huve felt alt these Indies wh ta Mate “state of the the rest of us in ened, Bato cnn {thine of tt in the big | manner tn which He Teas shows that | was rig et * tort ‘het Engineer Martin has been more | with the Company, our mont han tt cals Forget 4 him thas ad it not been fab Would have bs assur and speed of eleven kno o latter date the apeed we Vobacco Weakened Ke by toba ext ns why BAL irritated to sweat is habit eure he affected herve exiroya irritation, pro- Motes digestion aad lealihy. refreshing sleep) Many gain 19 pounds in Ww days, You run no risk, NO-TO-BA js sold 4a guarastoes by everywhere, Book mailed free THE STER- LING B ' York or Chie ago. because broken ot two eight knots, and there were times when it was even less than that. It will cost 95,000 to repair the ma- chinery, and the work will take five La Gascogne will sall a week trom to-morrow. “Ct want to say,” eaid Agent Forget, “that 4 apprectate very much the con- sideration with which the Company has been treated by the press when the prus- pects of La Gascogne'’s cafe arrival in port were more than poor, ' TALKS WITH PASSENGERS. They Grumbied at the Delay, There Was No Pantie. E, B. Goodman, of this city, who war one of the first cabin passengers on La Gascogne, said to an “Evening World” reporter this mornin “When we met with the accident to the engine on the third day out from Havre, I don’t think any one on board felt the slightest fear or anxiety aa to | the safety of the ship. | nit fact, no one knew for,» long time w! the’ matter was, and when the ship had come to @ standstill the weather calm, “There waa only a little kicking about the delay, for up to that time there was every Indication of a quick passage, and we all hoped to reach New York by the following Saturday night, GASCOGNE. PROM THE. BTRING- j Wareuing vw FUUT OF MORTON STREET. ‘Then came the second stoppage of engines for neariy two days, !m- ly after we rah into the storm h sed some alarm aw the more timid passengers, especially the |iadies, and many of them remained In | their ‘bunks and staterooms. | “The rolling of the vessel caused a reat deal of seasickness aboard, as | We were lying heplessly broadside to the rollers and drifting about. ‘The off cers did whut they could to counteract this by putting out sea anchors, but It jdit not hep things very much. "We could get very little from any of the officers cause of the diMculty. ai Nd ye as 1 the latitude or longitude » Were Digh Winds and | time, and whe the w nt portion 1 side wa ¥ laring went on deck 4 young Folish of PF. vantry te Was tp artist ® ehe sald in ex- vt is al first, though t sme a trite wards the end of the ken a voyage when lowe ourd the 1 to lends that id orm. Ot nted to sea was have no desire h exper 1 went on deck of the roughent Weather We ti Was there when th hurricane firs iek the ship. | It was rand to it tear up the nd send 1d the to» Suamowska, flying over t ot lightning and sD flashes Who ts well known 4s Well ws musically, both to nd Pari ald that she had Js in New York, and 1 0 arin coneert In this as well as other cities, Bhe entertained the cabin Passengers with her playing the first few days of the voyawe but after that the heavy weather put an end to all public, jentertainments (n the cabin. Mr. Matagrin, @ Frenchman, who has | frequently visited this country, said that lalthough the voyage Was une of the most Se eee was comparatively mild and the sea | 0 ware - pews: i bd a t i YP aatevenss pecan RAG bee i 8 rite [tempestuous he had ever experienced he Ag at no thne alarmed about the safety the ship. He sald | “When the machinery broke down and jit was pl at we should make very | slow time ly only felt anxtous for | my friends ashore. 1 knew they would think some disas- ter had overtaken the ship, und that it had been Jost in the storm or run down lke the Elbe. ‘There was more reason for this when we went crawling on day after day and not meeting aty other | ship or being overtaken: by any. | cl think that is the way most of us board La Gascogne felt about it, C ainly none of the officers e' that would give us the slight- est ground for a Capt. Bav'lelon ‘continually ring us, and I do not ee any one was very badly fright- ened “We we It of us glad enough to see jand y afternoon, and there wi eering aboard when it was ai Fire Island had been Everybody wanted to go out Sn em ook at land, although « . bitter gale wae blowing.” atriking ingldents queried M. Jacquin, another cabin passenger. “Well, 1 should think so. I nearly broke my skull one night ag l was get nto my Herth. when the ship gave a tremendous "One of the most unpleasant features ip that we had to stop our me for two days during the he storm." ‘Members of the Club laid up?" was asked. “Oh; no; but we couldn't keep the chips on the table, and they were getting 40 mixed up all the time that we finally dec'ded to postpone the game for smoother weather. “When the storm first struck us every one made a rush for the bar-room. ‘That Wag really the mont comfortable plac on board for the rest of the voyage. “Not the alightest danger of supplt iving out. There was enough stock on {hand to keep @ fashionable club running ora year.” | “Max Koenigstein, who could only talk neh, though his name looks Teuton- lic, sald he had enjoyed himself all the |Voyawe, though he objected somewhat EY BIGMIN AND COLLECTOR KILBRETH WAITING ON THE PIER, to its length and the many delays. said he was coming to this country to look Into and atuly our Industrial {aystem, With spectal reference to the [Troy Laundry Works, and that he was ding back to start a similar establish ment in Parts, Miss Mel. a bright, pretty and ady, Gi net seem to by her storiny’ ex. ea with her n Was quite r bere in the ; Hiowed by five or six other plense thie urd Cigarros ve Kg. ALL | | | Sage 0 NIGHT “EDITION which sounded like the but which we a the pounding 10, reports, of heavy wel | wards 1earne machinery in the engine-room, A moment afterwards the stopped, and we all burried out to what had happened. The officers, wh were always very poll vas to give the t thelr breakfast, liculous, answers were made te questions» ‘At last we found out that Was the matter with the mac! ey ion sald It was noth! us, and that we would soon rolng on our way in, so that no one Was alarmed in the slightest 4 “They only became fri iitened. when we ran into that terrible hurricane the waves made the ship roll so that Bo one could stand. During the long which | wi wade on Tuesday Wednesday last a good many of the thought thet the ship was going nder and made themselves able, but I wasn't the least bit very dull on board for the reat of me voyage. Poor things! I were seasick.” Purser Japhet and Doctor Gerval the Gasgpgne’s officers, were both 1 viewed By the newspaper men, seemed to take a very calm view of the matter, which has been arousing the most intense anxlety on both sides of the Atlantic for a weekpast. “LT never regarded the situation as se- rious,’ said the former. “The only trou- ble Was that we were driven so far out of our course while repairing the damage to the machinery, that we did not meet any vessela which might take the news to our friends that we were all “it was only @ question of tase ae making port, an for suppl aad enough tood on board to enable ‘© set the same table for another vo; without adding anything te our stores. | tion several steamers signalled us, but we declined to accept any assistance, am ourselves “In fact, we had succeeded in Each of ee accident aie had it not 4 weather and flercs head winds we si earlier Jullo Castro naid he had no int ed the whole voyage. Jor a had three Kites of game for @in= champagne, which I think Is doing, well after & seventeen day voyage.’ Edgar W. Mix Is Hin Owe xe Mr. Edgar W. Mix, a representative of the Thomson-Huuston Electric Com- ness connected with the Company's in- terests in Europe, and who was @ first told an “Evening World” reporter a graphic story of the voyage. Havre on Jan % lust, the weather, suid Mr. Mix, “was very pleasant, and ‘After we were almost at our destina- we were perfectly able to take care of thts from been for the extrao have becn in port two or three daya to meke, and declared that he ha@ en- ner last night and even more ki -o' Gsinieertete cal 7 ONE PASSENGER’S STORY. | periences om Long Voyage. pany, who had been abroad on busi- leabin passenger on La Gascogne, “When we sailed out of the bay at so during the firet twenty-four hours we went 40 miles towards home. The wecond day was so very, Ane that few people were seasick. It looked if the trip would be a lucky one, That day we sailed 407 miles. On the third day ovt, Jan, 29, the first trouble came. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, and there were lots of passengers besides myself out on dech were feeling comfort- able after a good breakfast, when there a slight shock, and the ship's head- was checked. ‘Women Passengers Alarmed. "A great many of the women paasem la THE SHIPS MASCOT. ane ye much alarmed, and ng of officers to tro, eou-, b the clanging of bells tm engine-room, made (he men, to say |icast, feel a’ trif_e uneasy, | Most of us | officers to ask for Information, time we were Informed that the accident which had occurred was not a serious one; that there © ic in the platon od of the Inte inder, and that it could be very repaire!. We were assured there was positively Bo made a rush for the | Morning Looking for Political Jobe, _ ees coe ’ roe ‘would not tell} ux anything at fret. “One of them told me the ship had stopped so that they cou out. the amoke stacks, and it In a short‘ ‘a