Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shifty and absend-minded, Death is seldom timely in his remembrances. Last week, 23 years too late, he sought out William van Schaick, once Captain of the famed excursion boat General Slocum...
That was at a little after 9 o'clock. The boat moved up the river. A deckhand threw down his whiskey bottle and started for the galley; on the way he noticed a little fire that was burning brightly on the floor of a storeroom; the deckhand threw some charcoal on top of the flames and then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat...
Twenty minutes after the boat had scuffed out of her dock, a great flower of flame was growing through her decks, sprouting in the passageways, flourishing suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail...
...flames reached Captain van Schaick but they did not kill him. He beached his burning boat 45 minutes after he had taken her out into the East River. Not quite 500 out of his 1,400 passengers were still alive; some of these had swum to safety...
...Marshal. Saltonstall prepared at Milton and Exeter and during his college career has been captain of the Freshman hockey team, a regular on the squad this year, and first string end on the football team a year ago. As a crew-man he has been in the first Freshman boat, a year later in the Second University crew, and last spring he rowed against Yale in the first University shell. He was president of his class in its Sophomore year and now is president of the Philips Brooks House and the Student Council...