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...Wyoming and Arkansas turned to rescue. The Shipping Board tanker Independence Hall was close to the Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business, the Wyoming began an 850-mi. tow of the Nautilus to Queenstown, Ireland and repairs...
Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...
...while the earth inductor with which the earth's magnetic forces were measured was carried forward as far away from the stern as conditions permitted. It may interest your readers to know that the anchors carried were made of bronze and the anchor cable was very heavy Manila hawser. All stoves in galley as well as cooking utensils were of nonmagnetic material...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...boats then backed up to the starting boats which were moored to a fixed hawser. At about eleven minutes after one o'clock the signal was given, which not all the crews seemed to understand, for '84 alone started at once. The juniors and then the freshmen followed quickly, but not until the orange and black was some feet to the fore. '86 did not start 'till a length or so after the others, and seeing that they had made a mistake stopped rowing. The referee desiring to see fair play, sounded the recall at once, but no attention...