A Strenuous Experience
The pictu ♦* above is oi the Or
phanago launch “K It. o v Inch
tig lies largely in the following true
Btorv.
Oiih SiiMiHV afternoon w« had a
telephone tuns-age from the Radio
Station tilling nsthe launch “May"
had broken from the mooring and
asking if our boys could go after it
with the inis.iio'j launch It took
some few minuses tu round up a crew
and by that time the drifting launch
had gotten quite a distance out, butit
did not take the “K B.O." with Wm.
Robertson, John IVrrin and Max
Sauersascrew, very long to catch up
to it. There was a storm at the time,
and as darkiihub came on the storm
increased in violence. The watchers
on shore wereaVde tosee tho “K.B.O.M
starting hack with the runaway in
tow. Then a mist shut out the view.
When they did not return in ha,e au
hour wethougnt it strange, fur t./en
ty minutes would have been ample
time to have mad** the return trip.
When an hour had passed we be auie
anxious, tearing some accident had
tinppened■ The storm kept, increasing
in violence and tl>e night was very
dark. When two hours bad passed
and I he boys had not y>t returned Mr.
Wikle at the Radio Station telephoned
to Kodink to see if some power boat
from there would come over and look
for the boys and the boats, but no boat
would venture out in such a storm as
wait then raping.
About 11 o’clock the storm set*meet
to abate somewhe t and tbe moon came
out from behind tbe clouds.
1 he power boat “Northern King,"
with Capt. Magnusen in command
came over from Kodiak took Mr Wik
le from the Radio Station and Philip
Olsen from the Orphanage and start
ed out to search for the missing boats
and boys. The seas were running
high and th =t breakers on the reefs
and islands aloug which they cruised
were terrific. Tbe moonlight was not
bright enough for them to see any
distance and they did not dare go very
near land on account of the breakers.
About 2 a.rn. they returned to Kod
iak, giving up tbe search till day
light.