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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1907)
SUNDAY. JANUARY 6, 1907. DP i The Second Week of Our THE MORNING ASTOUIAN, ASTOU1A, OREGON. TOLD BY TOTS it CAPTAIN WILLS' LITTLE SON AND j DAUGHTER TELL A REPORTER ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES IN ; GREAT CLEARANCE SALE ! THE WRECK OF BRITISH BARK.it Tho abanonment of the lino Rrltish1 bark Menalope, In tho open Pacific, on tho morning of tho Tth of List IVc- embor. in which Captain N. K. Wills.! his wife tholr little son and daughter, and the crow of eighteen mon figured so fortunately, and her subsequent salvage by the steamer Northland J which brought her to this port, are matters of current history all over the coast now. Put tho fact that Captain Wills and his family are quietly dom iciled horo, at the Merwyn. ho to stand by his stricken ship and await the final j Issue of the salvage and insurance matters In that relation and the others; to recuperate from the fearful stress to which they w re subjected In that IMM'I, lull it-iiliui, vm I'umri miiu j sea at its worst, is not so widely known i ns it might be, and led a reporter of this paper to imagine that the telling of the story of the Menalope by the children themselves might prove of peculiar interest to many. It Is not often that such tales are told by little folks ar.d as these children are excep tionally bright and clever, their im pressions and experiences suffer r.oth Ingr itl the manner of their telling. The reporter called a, the Merwyn the other day and sent his card in to to the children who so,.n greeted him. In the office, and did it without the slightest manifestation of timoreu ness. other than that ir.horent in well- : bred youngsters meeting an el lor f-'r : for the first time. Their manner was perfect; their language, with all its childish limitations, entirely adequate to the occasion, and their poise just a bit remarkable; so much so that the reporter, himself, was quite quickly at ease and thoroughly en rapport with the pleasant task he had s-.t himself. ! Cpon inquiry it d veloped that the ' children were both born at Penzance,: On the island of Cornwall, off the ooUn coast of England, and that the last '. four years of their lives had been spent upon the Menalope, which, by the way. had been deftly equipped by Captain and Mrs. Wills, with every home com- fort, decoration and appurtenance pos sible, the accessories of the old home In Cornwall, which was sold, having been retained and applied to this nd. the education of the children resolving itself into one of the dearest duties of the parents, and with conspicuously, happy results. j The little girl. Victoria May, is well . In her thirteenth y?ar, and her broth-; er, Nicholas Charles Kelynack. has just turned his ninth, and they are the most devoted of chums in every con ceivable line of pursuit and indulgence. When they found out the nature of the reporter's errand, x 1 will be even greater than the first. Our stock-taking is over and we aie prepared to exert all our energies to make this week HONEY We mi Copvrieht 1906 by Hart Sc ha finer C51 Marx MEN'S SUITS A lot of broken sizes that we will not carry over if prices will sell them. $4.65, $6.50, $8.35. See our clothing window. Our Overcoat Department, Chock full of the finest and newest of the seasons offerings. We mean to sell every one of them, $7.50. $9.00, $13.50. See them. Odds and end in the BOYS' DEPARTMENT are likewise reduced. Now is the time to dress the boys. Men's Haberdashery Have you seen that line of shirts for 65c. We advise you to by in a supply. Now is the time. Underwear specials unequaled. HATS! HATS! HATS! At least come in and look over our hat offerings. We are going to make this a record breaking hat week. See our window of hats. They are winners. We are having a sale that will save you money and and you will always find us ready to show you through our stock and treat you courteously whether you wish tc buy or not. Come in and see us. Clothes Bought Here D A eTOIP i "UNCOMMON CLOTHES' the deck made by the mast when It I safe und well, but it took us mi tine went over and the sea was pouring in-j days to Ret into eUr prop -r clothing to that, and the water made her list again, because all our things were on over so much more. the M-lanope, you know, and we were "By and by the boat was ready and just dressed for a lough trip. Hut she had four men in her to steady her ; Daddy soon Ilxed all that, and alter they were both so and take things as they were passed a while, when lie knew the Melanope MAR T ME MESSAGES kindly eager to contribute to the story that the news-monger was quite at a loss to segregate the different morsels of information supplied by each, and the detail that follows, must be ta ken by the reader as the composite ex pression of the youngsters, their sep arate relations dove-tailing admirably down; then they swung Mamma down first, then Vic, und then I was lifted over. N'o, I wasn't much afraid, ex cept of barnacles, and we had to slide ovrr these, and Vie. was cut on her knees, and you know barnacles are poisonous if they cut you. One of our men cut his hand on a barnacle and had been picked up and tow d in hen he brought us to Astoria and ue'.-i been here ever sine". "Did not you children have Hum pet gs on the Mel mope"" inquired t:,c reporter. "Yes, sir; We had three; Queenii arid her son F'rincey; they were pug Roanoke Went to Sea and San Francisco Yesterday. for the purpose. The story as told by il swelled up pretty badly I tell you. j dogs. And we had another we called That was all the fear I felt. Then the ! Annie, that wv got In Honolulu. An mn were sent over the side, and Dad- , ne was a fine ratter, too. Queenie dy came last, because, you know, a had two litters of puppies since we captain is always tne last man to leave; g,)t her. seven each time; and once his ship. When the saimaker came j Annie had puppies, Just two, and when to go over the side, he had on six suits ; 'Vuenle went to look at them, Annie of clothes, and all his pockets wreu,.nl pretty n-trly crazy and fought filled with twine and needles and all her away. We've got two of them his tools, besides two or three pairs t,ack though, and they are on Inard of sea-boots, and he took 'em all with the ship, but the captain of th? them Is as follows, and adheres in terms, as nearly as possible, to the lan guage used by them: "You must know," said the boy, "that we came up the coast from Man zanillo, Mexico. Daddy's orders were to load at Eureka. We were to take lumber from there to Australia, but when we got to the bar at Eureka, on the morning of December 5. a tut? came alongside and handed us orders nim t00- to proceed to Tacoma and load there; but as the watT on board was run- N'orthland has Annie and he wants to When Daddy got ready he gave the , keep her, so we don't know whether order to "shove off" and we left the! she will ever come back." ning low and getting bad, Daddy went Menalope with a big sea running. The, Of course, these bright little peo In to Eureka, anyway, and took on a . boat rode all right, and the men took j pie saw things differently from their fresh supply." j turns at the oars. After we had been J elders in the course of their dreadful We were in there juBt twenty-four adrift maybe an hour and a half and experiences, and overlooked much of hours, and sailed the next morning, Just as we were on the crest of an aw-1 the detail that was carefully rioted by with a good fresh breeze; but it kept tul big wave, Mamma saw the sails of, the grown-ups, and their realizations a vessel a few miles away and Vic, were not as acute as those of the oth- getting fresher all the time and by sundown it was blowing a gale. We did not think much about it, though, until about 8 o'clock that evening, when the ballast began to shift. The mate he told us at dinner there was danger of its shifting, and the men were put to work shoveling It back, who had a towel wrapped around her ( ers to whom little things, at such a head and n'-ek to keep the cold wind 1 Juncture, were very Important, and off, passed it up to Daddy and he used j besides, th'-lr wonderful and beautiful it to signal the schooner. faith in their father and mother, rnlm- "It was a schooner called the Wil- ifi'-d the dangers and horrors that liam H. Smith, and they saw us and ' might else have been poignantly plain; we made straight for her, but it was but all they told was given with a but it wouldn't stay, and the first thin,' a long pull, and it was nearly 1 o'clock : .est and close adherence to the big we knew she was on her beam ends and lurching awful. I was in bed early and at 8 o'clock Daddy called us all into the mess room and we didn't sleep any more after that, because he before we got alongside and fiuite, be- essentials, that was as delightful as fore we got on board. Her captain's , two honest little hearts could make name was Hansen and he was very it. nice and kind to us all. He told Mam- Captain Wills declares that the fam rna to take full charge of his cabins, iiy, as such, have had the last of such said we would have to abandon her as ,"nd he slept out in the gangway. We experiences as were theirs on the soon as daylight came, so we stayed were very glad to get help, so soon Melanope; up all night, and at 4 o'clock in the after leaving our ship and as soon as sea again, that they shall riot go to ho long as he lives and morning when it was plain she would never right herself, Daddy gave the order to get out tht life boat and pre pare to abandon ship. "It took the men until 9 o'clock in the morning to get the boat ready, and the ship was heeling bad. One. of her masts had gone by the board and the rigging was all in a snarl over the side, so we used the high side in fixing the boat we were to go out in. All the other boats were smashed in the gale, we were all on board the Smith, the oan maintain them comfortably ashore; life boat was turned adrift on the sea and Mrs. Wills echoes the determlna- becaue that's the rule you know. And tlon fully, as she has no desire, herself, say, the sailmaker forgot ail his stuff to take any further chances for her and left it In the boat and it. went off little ones as were taken In the brief span of 48 hours at the height of a Pacific tempest last month. with h:r. "We were on the William If. Smith from noon on I'YIday till 4 o'clock the next Monday, when we went into Port Townsend. We met two tugs in the Straits of Fuca, and they both stood by us until we got into port. It was BIG FLEET CROSSES THE BAR Santa Maria Leaves Out Redondo Enters and Goes to Knappton Aztec on to Portland River Full of Drift. Captain Iarkln of the I'ndlne, re ports the river fairly bristling with drift timber, most of it coming from the swollen Willamette. The T. J. J'otter did not got away from Port land until late last night, and will In down this morning. The steamship Roanoke went le-low at noon yesterday arid found a bar she could tackle with safety and went on her way to the lower coast of Cal ifornia. The steamer J. B. Stetson cleared from this port yesterday with her usual cargo of Oregon lumber and later went on her way to San Francisco. The steamer Redondo arrived in I from San Francisco yesterday and went to the Columbia mills at Knapp ton for a load of Washington lumber. The steamer Johan Poulsen came down from the metropolis yesterday morning and went, over the bar later In the day, bound for the Ray City, The Harvest Queen returned to Portland yesterday afternoon, with the barkentirie Gardiner City and the schooner Prosper on her hawsers. ASTORIA GROCERY Phone Main IS1. rw:t rv..,...r-.;..i c '" V.U111 HIV t I lilt '. Burnett's Pure Lemon Extracts For flavoring Ice Cicanis, l'lanc Mange. Jellies, Pas tries. Ktc. ;rconc, win leave out this morning for the I'mpqu i River, when- idie will load lumber for San 1'i-dro. PERSONAL MENTION. The motor schooner Ilerwh k arrived In from Rogur River yesterday after- fioon and will probably go on to Port- land this morning. I'KltH yoihdtl.. 6.. 6.. John (I. HarrlsM of New York l ' spending some time In UiIh city. It j Is reported that he In considering tho building of ii cold storage plant here. Herbert Petit came over from Ilwiieo to meet his wife who was discharged from the hospital hero, and returned with her early yesterday morning on tin- Nallcotta. W. A. Oraham of Ihvuco Is registered Merwyn otel. 10. H. Mcllroy und MIhh Mary lawsoii of VVarrenlou were In this city yesterday. 10. H. Wheeler of Seattle Is In As toria, on business. Ijovl Mellon ami J. A. I'lnkerton of I Mountain Home, Ida., are In this city j ill tending to business Interests. The steamship Simla Maria, camel O. 10. Miller of South Hend, Wash., down from. Porlland yesterday and). ,M a guest of tho Occident Hotel, went to sea during the afternoon, i J- Hanson of llwaco Ih a visitor In ( this city. Tho steamer Yosemlle Is due down J- ""Hfi' of New York Is In As from Portland this afternoon on her "" 11 i,,u'r I'uslness trip. The steamer Tiverton was among the arrivals from California yesti-r-, day, and will go to the Tongue Point mills for her outward cargo. ' Tho Ilrltlsh bark Rankburn went j over the bar yesterday on her way to at Ihe tiie West Coast, with her huge cargo Mrs. of lumber. The Aztec got away for Portland yesterday evening with a big bunch of south-bound freight In her hold, from, this port. anyway, there wasn't any we could use blowing very hard up there. Of course Reconstructs your whole body, makes rich, red blood. Drives out Im purities that have collected during the winter. Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea Is a family tonic. 35 cents, Tea but the one. There was a big hole in : as soon as we got a-hore we were all 0r Tablets. For sale by Frank Hart. way to the Kay City. The sleamshlp Clu-lsllnc MlkkelHon was among the get-aways yesterday from the lower harbor. The French ship Hoche arrived down from Portland yesterday on Ihe lines of the Harvest Qucn, and Is at anchor In tho lower harbor. The steamer San Oabrlel, Captain 10. If. Stone returned yesterday from 'Porlland, where ho bad spent sever al days on business. Mis. Slone, who accompanied him, Is still vlslllng with friends there, but will return shortly, 10. Wittier, representing tho Woodard-Tlermun Printing Company of HI. Louis, was In Astoria, yesterday Interviewing the several cunneyinen on labels. Mrs, ll, 10, Paisley and her little daughter Corrlnne, are In the city, tho gnosis of their friend, Miss R S. Raid win, on lOxchunge slreet. Mr. Paisley Iiiih been here for several days, and gof'H lo Tillamook on the Allluncc when; she comes down.