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...Jacksonville, Fla., the first port-of-call, was reached quarrels among the crew had alarmed the captain and his four New England mates. Ashore in the Florida port the brawls, revolving around John Burgess, a fiery Californian, continued. In a waterfront saloon Burgess drew a knife, stabbed a fellow seaman, was promptly shot and killed by a landlubber. Shipped in his place was J. Hartley, an agitator more troublesome than Burgess...
...Santos three of the crew deserted and the Algic went on to Victoria, Brazil, without them. Denied shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three...
...Vagabond smiled, as he thought of Isabella, wife of the ruler of proud Spain, forced to sacrifice the things that women love best to realize the dream of the daring seaman who was bold enough, heretical enough, to proclaim in the face of all existing dogma that the earth was round. He smiled, too, as he thought of his wanderings in the American waters--then as unknown as a black void and filled with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins...
Said Bridegroom Joseph Lionel Archambaud of Pittsfield, Mass. "I don't understand a word she is talking about but . . . anything she says is O. K. . . ." Said Mme Archambaud: "When he asked me to marry him, I understood right away. ..." Said Seaman Shapperly who plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse...
Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months...