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While the other two boats lay hungrily alongside and watched with charging the snatching of their prize from right under their noses, the WHITNEY’s men managed to elude the wreckage and clamber abroad the HAVENS. Her decks were a veritable tangle of spars, sails and cordage. Her foremast lay in the water under her port chains. The main and mizzen masts lay across the wreck, inextricably raised up with splintered wood and tangled ropes and canvas. A great hole gaped in her deck forward and beneath it the cargo of soft coal “boiled”. Black and threatening, glistening like (?) tar, it hissed and slithered, boiling up against the wooden (?) of the vessel like heavy, black porridge, bearing her down low by the head one moment, almost careening her the next, and the HAVENS, under its impetus, wallowed like a drunken sailor.


When as the other boat drew sullenly


off, the WHITNEY took up the slack of the hawser, the tedious part of the work began. Hour after hour the men sheltered themselves from the chill wind and strove to keep the schooner headed straight. Though the day was brilliant overhead and the water of the bay blue as in August on board the schooner everything was soaked and sodden. Green water, rolling across the decks through the shattered bulwarks, added to the peril of the undertaking. When the WHITNEY fi nally reached Boston she tied her prize up at Union wharf, where it will remain until salvage has been adjusted.


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Bangor Daily Commercial - Early 1900s 3 November 1913


Many Ships Here


Eight Schooners Discharging Coal for Eastern Mfg. Co. The Other Cargoes


About a Score of Vessels in Bangor Harbor – November Proving Busier Than Ever.


With only a few weeks more of open water in Bangor’s harbor, the cargoes that are bound for this port are being rushed here. More vessels arrived in Bangor Saturday and Sunday than came in during any single week in October. Last month was one of unusual dullness in the harbor, mostly due to the rough weather on the coast, and the brisk resumption of activity is perhaps a natural consequence of weeks of enforced idleness. The Eastern Manufacturing Co. is in receipt of several cargoes of coal from New York, amounting in all of about 4,400 tons. Schooner CLARENCE H. VENNER fi nished discharging a cargo of 1,400 tons at 10’clock, Monday morning, and other vessels that have just arrived and are discharging are the N. E. AYER, 338 tons, Capt. Kane; IRENE E. MESERVEY, Capt. Perkins, 335 tons; IDA B. GIBSON, Capt. Latty, 337 tons; WILLIAM JONES, Capt. Halvarson, 445 tons; GRACE DAVIS, 660 tons; ANNIE P. CHASE, 510 tons; KIT CARSON, 340 tons.


There was a possibility of towing to Bangor the schooner HENRY P. HAVENS, which was recently partially wrecked off the Massachusetts coast, but this has been abandoned. The HAVENS has a cargo of coal


for the Eastern Manufacturing Co., and when the disaster occurred, disposition was left in the hands of a marine insurance company with a Bangor offi ce, which has decided to sell the coal in Boston. The insurance company guarantees the delivery of coal to the wharf of the Eastern Manufacturing Co., and bears the loss.


Late arrivals in port are schooner LIVELIHOOD, Capt. Patterson, Orland; Steamer BAY STATE, Capt. Haley, Newport News, 2036 tons of coal for the Stickney & Babcock Co.; schooner BLOOMER, Capt. Harper, Rockport, 800 casks of lime for the R. B. Dunning Co.; schooner SUSIE P. OLIVER, Capt. Tower, Newark, with 376 tons of phosphate for the Henry McLaughlin Co.; schooner HARRY W. HAYNES, Capt. Goodwin, Newark, 425 tons of phosphate for the same company; schooner ALICE J. CROBTILL, Capt. Crobtill, 522 tons of phosphate for the same company. Other arrivals are Schooner INEZ,


Capt. Webster, Castine; Schooner Tug STANDARD, Capt. Magan, Barge; Schooner CLARA B. Kennard, Billings, Rockland; Schooner MARY WEAVER, Jordan; Schooner ANNIE P. CHASE, Capt. Kelley; Schooner OTRONTOY, Capt. Mitchell, Gloucester, with 500 hogsheads of salt for the Alfred Jones’ Sons; Schooner CARRIE A. BUCKNAM, Capt. Perkins, Eastern Cement Co.


Sunday’s clearances were Schooner LIZZIE LANE, Capt. Closson, Boston, with lumber from the Bangor Lumber Co.;


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6 November 1913 Won’t Use Old Warships as Tuberculosis Wards


Washington, November 6 – (?) frayed out at the edges and as otherwise useless battleships that Uncle Sam has discarded should not be used for sanitariums for tubercular patients in the opinion of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. He is not impressed with the plan put forward by a number of physicians and endorsed by the Fourth International School of Hygiene that the old warships of the sea be used for this purpose. In this Secretary Daniels has the support


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