CHER OF FIFTY-FIVE
YFSBS1 TIE BBINEY
ENDS WITH A TORCH
Fifty-five ya rs ago last sum
mer a trim three-masted full
rigged sailing vessel swept down
the ways from the shipyards at
Darmariscota, Me., to take her
place as a proud unit of the
American merchant marine, says
the Seattle Times. A throng of
searfaring folk, including capt’s.,
and bucko mates—iron men who
sailed in wooden ships in those
days—cheert d as the beautiful
vessel took the water. She was
one of the 16 down casters built
in 1875 on the North Atlantic.
On her bows and stern wras the
word El well.
Within the next few days a
humble old barge with stumpy
masts will be put ashore at Rich
mond Beach and burned for the
metals in her hull. Ship breakers
who apply the torch, if they look
closely, will see cut into her tim
bers fore and aft, the letters—
E-L-W-E-L-L. The vessel to be
consigned to the funeral pyre
is the ship launched at Damaris
cotta amid the cheers of a throng
of Down East seafaring folk.
Flames wall write the last chapter
of her colorful career.
The old Elwell was sold by the
New England Fish Company to
Neider & Marcus, Inc., of Seattle,
who will burn her for her cop
per and other metals in her hull.
Oil soaked waste will be put in
her holds and the torch applied.
In the heydey of her career,
the Elweli was the fastest sail
ing vessel on the Pacific. She
won distinction in 1896 by break
ing the sailing record for the voy
age between San Francisco and
Nanaimo, B. C. She left San Fran
cisco April 22 and arrived at Nan
aimo April 29, left Nanaimo May
2 and arrived in San Francisco
May 7. This time has never been
equaled by a sailing vessel be
tween these two ports. For the'
feat accomplished Capt. J. E. Bar
ston, master of the Elwell, was re
warded by a gift of $500 in gold
and a suit of clothes.
The Elwell was one of the down
easters that followed the famous
Yankee clipper, the iron heeler
from the Clyde, the green India
man and the high-pooped Span
ish galleon.
Like other sailing ships crowded
off the sea lanes by the steam
vessels, the Elwell found her way
into the Alaska fishing ti ade.
She was purchased at a ULited
States marshal’s sale by the firm
of George T. Myers & Co., of Seat
tle, who used her as a barge to
carry supplies to their cannery at
Chatham between Juneau and
Sitka in Southeastern Alaska. A
year ago last spring Myers &
Co., sold the Elwell to the New
England Fish Company. She is
now lying at Eagle’s Harbor await
ing the ship breakers’ torch.
BOOKED AT JUSTCE HAU
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 29. T^'P) ~
William V. Cowan, former assis
tant district attorney of Sacra
Imento County, was booked at the
| hall of justice charged of fail
lure to provide. The complaint was
I issued at the request of Mrs. Lena
A. Cowan, his divorced wife, on
behalf of three minor children.
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