The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1909, Page 14

GOST SNK SHP NHC MMO KE PLM Dead Uriah Sears Kept Leaky Adelaide Townsend Safe 55 fears, Says Captain. THEN HE MISSED TRIP. | Which He Believes Explains Why Vessel With New Offi- cers Went to Bottom. “Ghost Just Sat and Looked at Me.” “Tl be back to see that you never let anybody else sail her,’ Urlah sald, and then he turned over and died. “He came back. I've often seen him sitting down on the edge of his bunk, particularly when we were {1 warm latitudes, I could never keep a mate. They wouldn't berth aft, “Uriah never sald a word. Just looked at me, that's all; but he never scared me, though I knew he was a ghost. “He looked tr the ship fine, that Is a fact, I expect he got mad at mo staying ashoro this last trip contrary to promise and sunk her."—The statement of Capt. Hogan. “and reportsthe two-masted schooner Adelaida Townsend lost off Delaware capes, with Capt. Thornblem, of Brooklyn, and al nds. The Town- send was !n collision with the Clyde liner Mohican, bound from New York to Philadelphia, During years of service the ship has been com- manded an owned by Capt. John H. Hogan, of Jersey City, This trip, for some unknown reason, he stayed ashore. The recovery of his trunk on Satumiay last-the day after the wreck—estab- ed the identity of the lost ship, whi till then—she sank so rapidly— had been in doubt. The Townsend was known to sallormen from Maine to Florida and through West Indian ports ‘The Ghost.”—News Item, her ih ag All of which !s concise and accurate, | but ke a short coat over a claw-ham- t hardly covers the exigencies e, for a ship with a more un- putation than the Townsend s "Honest John’? rom Brown Brothers a Lanas, pretty nearly y dock over there has had a at her at one time or another, eir own first born, rst’ and nothing else, shamef ive Hogun for fur fe “Something Funny.” to Capt refuse further comment, nor will copi- ous beer move them to more definite statements. For the sake of what {8 to follow, it should be sald here that Capt. Hogan {as real sure enough persona tnat he lives with haif a dozen other super- annuated skippers in the Montgomery House at No. $0 Montgomery street, Jer- sey City, that he has long whiskers, | br burning eyes set either side of a harp, keen-edged ni regarding the Inve persons of Jersey ( of the m: he ts not a or even a s and talks ike st ek’ppers of poners that navil- luck, and rasting s dead reck wal igo the speed old feli ese Anothe tellow w tappec takea the 4 of She was ome and all to him and more beside" Suddenty the huddled off man over phe radiator began talking In a volce “Vacked by many « night of singing. His, +, tent lait fifty-five | bly never went down to the seven | Kelly | riggers, who knew | MARGARET CARR, RUNAWAY GIRL, WILL BE FORGIVEN. __ THE BVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1609, rviel to. tne! GIRL, WHO LOST ay é HER PLACE, THEN 1 DISAPPEARED, speech was like that of a lonely manj|her, for Uriah was who talks to himself in his solitude Townsend gal that “gunk, her since Uriah Sears dies ren't aboard | chirped the First voyage I w old voice. “And now she's gone—dead r i. iH wh eaters fen TR ; (IPE HEARGT’S PLFA and gone, and them poor souls with | Fifty-three years I sailed th Pretty Miss Who Disappeared le L ! keeping iny promise true to Uriah, ae : ie a she's gone. My wife safled with me moran Five Weeks A a jaboard her—long ago, Those were her) I If Margaret Carr w pais [letters in the chest the papers say came | & mot No. 40 Pre ari Brookiyn, from five week ashore, I'm glad of that, Ud never | want to lose those—no."” | The other olf man- Hater to have once be Jan old-ttine (ea clipper—leaned over | “Don't let him stop. Keep hin talk ling. Mak about the ghost part Ask h ya crew never stuck but Jone voyage aboard the Townsend.” | The ot Na chair beard and | went on wearlly | They sald Urere was queer noises Jaboard at night. One hand we shipped, turned mander 0 him te in the office, Brook! ‘Promise yo sali her while you own her “I'll Be Back to See.” this « q avged young led t saw a blue ght In my eabin burn all | ns night tong, They were acared, all of "I promised, 1 had my master’s tioket GUE Le 20 : them, and I told them, saya Ii \ ‘i q J "Uriah never hurt you. He's kind | then he pads) id HELD FOR MOTHER'S MURDER ah and good fe (rlah, and I'm a man of Duried h ee to have the good morals and nothing can harm yer.’ We, Henlow tomb, fo Coroner Avritel hen he was re- But they quit at the end of every v Wal LAR SRITA MESURE ALL Valarie quest Into the de he argued his age, as tlio Captain here sald. h e f ter, the old wo Beal el capitated | Uriah Kept Her Afloat. "If they'd have known, though, it was Uriah that kept the ship afloat, when |) i20 she was just driftwood and holed, a8 there. {you might say, and found us our bear-| often when I was alone, jyears, and then I breaks my promise to| though 1 knew he was a ghost. I'd Uriah to die in my bunk Ike he done,| have been more worrled {f he hadn't and the Lord and Uriah sunk my ship—| Uriah, he'd come come—'uy thought it meant harm to the and I'm left with nothing but a few dol- | PPlb | fold about Ie at fests but they . — | for a shore funeral. the Townsend and Uriah and said noth- | Nobody would insure the |1M6> but they called my ehip “The |Townsend. 1 told them about Uriah, | 287" burtea my but they only laughed. Couldn't see !t | years ago; 5 t :. u je scare her 60 hat way, but I knew. An’ then last | he scared her, to y trip comes this rheumatics, and now 1 jome from Gonaives can't never go to sea no more. BC. ety asa pass Ch i ' ” + “You're a reporter? I'd Uke to give ‘ The doctor made me stay ashore oF | you eyed articie about the Townsend, 1 ANNAN RRR RRARRR RNG I nover would have, I didn’t think that| fut thats all can tell you. Shes after all these years It would have made | never been in a bad blow, never been For Infants and Children dismasted, never had any trouble since | Uriah died- he looked after her fine, and that’a a fact, but I expect he got mad at me staying ashore this last trip con- e, and sunk her,” any difference to Uriah, just for one voyage; but he sunk the ship because I didn't keep my word to sail aboard In| Uso |her till I died. Poor Thornblem! He | trary to prom | | aptain's temporary burst of ‘> ought never to have gone, but I couldn't | 4.1 h. 14 cere TY up again c For) lose the cargo, could 1? So I asked him }a crumpled 1 of Matting clothes, to clutching a thick stick. gouumend nen fertile, one trib, |The reporter turned to the clerk, | ell, well, now I'm talking of tt, It| nad deserted his desk to listen to th comes easier, Uriah Sears?—a marine. | old man's talk bred boy—captain at eighteen, marridd | A “Flying Outchman.” Over Thity Yours | * Tho Kind You Have Always Bought at twenty, We didn’t bother about age! “Ag sane as I am," he repli ‘THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 17 HURRAY STREST. MEW YORE CITY, then. I was mate of a big c significant gesture. "I've hi i ¢ of & big clipper ship | trout Urialt 20 often that I t } at twenty. ‘ | myself—don't You s ‘Then I hurt my leg and came to|did float for ‘if work for Ury, |her—no? We! i | Dutchmen-—how she kept afloat I don't a? y did call her tting a crew, falk about your Flying “He owned the Townsend then, | know." old sailors n Named her after his wife. She was built ‘Except Uriah,” put in the old clipper JAMES McGREERY i 60 in Poughkeepsie, where the girl lived, | c#ptain- Tinea cen je and as good a job as those yards ever SiGe Mesatcot feat ut over. Flags flew whn tney launched | old friend. Then the reporter came e case ot = 23rd Street 34th Street {wh th | On Tuesday and Wednesday, | Tea Served in Our Balcony Tea Room Free of Charge Between the Hours of 2.30 and 5 PM | January the 19th and 20th. WE SELL MORE REAL LACES THAN ANY OTHER STORE IN AMERICA. EHRICH BROS SIXTH AVE, 22D TO 23D STREET. CHINA DEPARTMENTS. In Both Stores, Cut Glass, Dinner Sets, Fine China, \ Marble Pedestals and Figures. Con- siderably below usual prices. | Dinner Sets. Fine French China, open stock, finished with encrusted gold edge. 100 pieces. 120.00 _French China, open stock, white ESTABLISHED 51 YEARS. 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