TIIE SCBANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 189. PATHETIC TALE OF THE MARY CELESTE One of the Most Dramatic o( the Sea'a Many Mysteries. THE KEY TO IT NEVER DISCOVERED Nlie Wn Found OH' the Azores Drill lUly w ith Sail l'nrlly Set, but With out Trut'R or Sign of Skipper or I'riMV, Who Was .Sever Heard fro in iu Any Wiiy. From the Iloston Globe. There Is many a true tale of the una Hint Is Htramwr than llelinn, hut nutii lew stranger narratives nf ships ami ihi-ir crews nre rolibeil of their mys tery nml romance after many ears, iiml this Is utie uf them. For nearly twenty ycum there has been no secret of ileath in olil ocean's keeping more written anil talked about than the pt range ease of the abandonment of tile American In limntine .Mary Celeste, off the Island of St. .Wary, one of the Azores group, and the disappearance of the whole ship's company. The Mary 'elestf was found with her lower sails set, with her etirso and rigging un disturbed, the cabin just as it had been when occupied, and the effects of the captain, Ills wife, the mate, and the crew Just as they were when all hands were on hoard. No satisfactory ex planation as to why the vessel was abandoned and what became of the people who sailed in tier has ever been given. Through the kindness of a rela tive of one of the otlicers of the vessel the liioLic Is enabled to give III this article a solution of what hus for near ly two decades been known as one of the strongest sea mysteries on record. The Alary Celeste was a small vessel for a square rigger, as tliey are built nowadays, being ::h0 u;-.d -toil tons regis ter. She was built as a litUr, l"it just before her deoarture on the eventful voyage with which this story has to do her rig was changed to that of a brig antlnc, her owner, Captain James Win chester, of New Yoik. thinking her sailing qualities would he Improved by fore and alt lig on Hie malii-inast in stead of square rig. The vessel was also put In dry dock and overhauled, so that wh-n ready for sea she was in the best shape possible. SA1LKI) FOlt ITALY. After being loaded with a cargo of alcohol In casks, the Jlnry Celesta sailed from New York for llcnoa, Italy, ct. 17. l7i. jcr captain was Jietija mln Kilggs, a young man. but one 0f ample experience as commander f a vessel. He was accompanied bv his young wife and their only child, a till, about 2 years old. Captain llriggs ws a native of Jlarion. .Mass. He had been married but a few years bcfiir his wil'o. being from the same town. The (list mate of the brigiintlne was Albert (i. Iiichardson, of Stockton .HjglliKS, Me., a villiage on the Penob scot river. It was ftom his sister, who resides on Perkins street, Soim rvillo, tinit the facts given here were obtained. J lis father Is living in the old home by the Penobscot, at the age of Ml. William Head, of New York city, was steward. He was unmarried, and mad.' his home with his widowed mother. The crew was picked tip In the ship ping otllccH of South street. New Yolk, and Included Turks. Italians, and Por tuguese, as unpromising (l t as ever swabbed down decks, n was the make up of this crew which led to the theoiy, when the vessel was found abandoned, that the captain, his wife, the mate, ami the conk had been made nwny with by the men. The disappearance If you are in need of a Suit or Overcoat do not fail to call and see our stock. Your Suit is in the lot waiting for you. It's your fit; just your idea of a good suit, and just your price. We have a stock in perfect touch with fashions requirements. 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The two captains said good by, with mutual wishes for good luck, and In due time the Dei Oracia put to sea, sailing a few days ahead of the Mary Celeste. That meeting of the two captains was their last, but the courses of their vessels were destined to cross In a strange way before the western ocean was traversed. The voyage of the Dei Oracia was without incident until Dee. 7, though unfavorable weather was encountered that kept the vessel back and threat ened a long voyage. On that day the island of St. Mary, the southernmost of the nine In the Azores group, was sighted and almost at the same time a sail was made out In the oiling. The crew refreshed their sea-tiicd ey.s with long looks at the verdant moun tains of Santa Maria, but the sail was not lost sight of. It was Mate lievon's watch on deck, and after studying ths sail, which the brig was steadily ap proaching, he found it to be a brigan tlne. Captain Morehouse took a. look at the vessel, and the two men decided that it was the Mary Celeste, which, though she had left N. v York later than Del (Iracia. might easily be in that latitude, as she was a belter siiil er than the Knglish vessel. NO ONK ON JtOAItD. It did not take the captain und mate of the Dei (iracia long to see that some thing wus wrong on the Mary Celeste. The vessel v as yawning about as if without a helmsman, tilling and lulling, lirsl on one lack and then on another. All her lower sails were set, but her topsails were furled, and everything was fiiiug aloft. A closer scrutiny of the vessel showed that the boat was missing from the davits of the stern. The longboat's cradle on the forward house was also empty. The Knglish brig inn down alongside the Mary Ce leste, a bout was lowered and manned, and Male Devon went aboard the ap parently abandoned briganline. Ho i -limbed over the rail, fully expecting to see evidence of murder or plague on the silent deck. No such sight was in store for him. The decks were ns (dean as if recently washed down. Kvery piece of rope was in its place. The sheets were all made fast. The wheel was not lashed, and. as the vessel came up in the wind or tilled away, it turned idly back and forth. The lash ings of the boat at the stern had been cut. and an itxe lay on deck near the davits, just ns It had been dropped, evi dently, by the man who cut the boat free. The nslouUhcd mate of the Del (Jra cla looked about the deserted decks. then descended to the cabin. He was nervously apprehensive of finding evi dences of murder there, but In this too he failed. The cabin was just as it would be If the ship's company were on board. The captain's watch hung from the bracket of the swinging lamp over the table. On the table was a slate, on which some notes for the logbook were jotted down. The date of the entry was Nov. 24, showing that the vessel had been left to her own devices nearly two weeks when found, l'nder the en try of the slate, which recorded light wind and fair weather, were the words, "Fanny, my dear wife." This, it was afterward learned, wns In the hand writing of the mate, who probably started this message to his wife while Ills shipmates were lowering the boat, anil did not have time to tlnish it. Mate Devon, of the Dei (iracia, con tinued his inspection of the cabin like one who expects to see the dead before him at every turn. He looked in the Hats I For men and boys. We sell the celebrated SALE N captain's room, and there saw the clothes of the infant, and in one of the berths the imprint of the little head on the pillow, where the child's mother had put it to sleep, and whence she hnd taken It when called on to leave the ship. The other berths were undis turbed, showing that the abandonment of the vessel must have taken place In the evening. In the storeroom the ship's provisions were undisturbed, ex cept thai one drawer containing can ned nieiris had been pulled out, and pari of its contents apparently remov ed. In the gallery everything was Just as the cook had appflrently left them when clearing up after supper. In one of the sailor's chests was found a JC5 Knglish note, and several articles of value left behind showed that the crew must have left hastily. WHY THK CREW LEFT. Thoroughly mystified. Captain More house decided, utter hearing the mute's story and inspecting the vessel for himself, to take the briuantlne to Oib raltar. Mate Devon was put in charge and wns given two men as crew to navigate the ship. It was nearly 1.200 miles to "the rock," and the voyage was not an easy one to make with only two men us crew two superstitious men who considered themselves on board a fated ship in the bargain. In nil that 1.2'i0 miles the two sailors could not bp iVrsunded to go below once. They preferred sleeping on deck to seeking rest In the cabin, and they would diink water from the butts on dock lather than go Into the galley to make coffee. Finally anchor was dropped in flu bine waters under the shadow of the mighty rock of (Sihrpltar. and from the little white-walleii city clinging to the base of th rock word was cabled to New York of the arrival. Captain Winchester was oldrj-ed to go across to claim the vessel and settle the claim for salvage, which was linally tlxed by the English adinlralily court at $.",11.1111(1. This was paid by Captain .Morehouse of the Die (iracia, and after lying three months in the harbor of (iibraltar the Mary Celeste was put In charge of a'new captain and proceeded to her port of destination. When the news of the findim; of the Mary Celeste became known there was one very ini'iortanl point in the case which was not made public, according to the sister of Mate Iiichardson. Mate Devon of the Del Cararia knew of it. Some time after the incidents related here Captain Lyman T. Iiichardson of the brig Valencia, n brother of Mate Hifhuruson of the Mary Celeste, soughi out the mate of the Del I limit la, and from him learned the story of the Had ing of the abandoned brigantlne. Mate Devon said that while on the vessel he took off the main hatch to inspect the cargo, and found that, the head of one cask of the alcohol was out. He made a careful examination of the cask, nnd cume to the conclusion that the burrel of spirits had exploded, as everything about It indicated that an exnloslon hnd taken place. This, In the minds of Mate Devon and Captain Ulehardson, explained the whole mystery of the hasty departure of the ship's company, who, fearing that the whole cargo might blow up, had taken to the boat with the intention of standing by ile velojements. NEVKP, HEARD FiiOM. 11 was learned by Captain Iiichard son that the .Mary Celeste's long boat had been crushed while the vessel was loading, nnd as Captain Hriggs did not want to wait for a new boat to ho built, or the old one repaired, he had sailed with only one boat, the one at the stern davits. Into this small boat then the people on the brigantino must have hurried when the explosion took plnc In the cargo. In the vicinity of the Azores there is n short, lively chop to the sea, caused by the strong current.! nnd the breaking up of the ocean swell, and In this chop the overloaded jolly boat must have filled, having the oc cupants to the mercy of the sea. It, may have been the purpose of the 1 and Fiirnishin OF UNDERWEAR 220 LACKAWANNA captain to tow astern In the boat, hut an nccident to the painter would have been enough to cast the boat adrift, while in the darkness there would be little chance of finding their runaway vessel. For a long time after the finding of the Mary Celeste the anxious relatives of the captain, mate and cook clung to the hope that they might have been picked up. The secretary of the navy Issued a request that all vessels pass ing the latitude and longitude where the brigantine was abandoned should Jog in the vicinity twenty-four hours before proceeding. This did no go.'d, however, for not the slightest clue to the fate of the ship's company was ev.r obtained, and after Captain Richard; son saw Mate Devon and talked witn him, the widow of Mate Richardson, and his mother, as well as the widowed mother of the cook, put on mourning for their loved ones, whom they gave up as dead. They accepted the theoiy advanced by Mate Devon as the only tenable one as to the abandonment of the vessel, and they held the mystery of the Mary Celeste as no mystery at all, in spile of the ninny tales that have been woven out of the facts hi the case, with more or less imagina tive embroidery thrown In. One theory advanced was that the civw of the Del Oracia mpile away with the crew of the Mary Celeste by throwing them overboard, for the pur pose of securing the ship and the sal vage that would be paid after she was taken Into port. Owing to the char acter of the captain and male of the Del niacin this theory fell flat. scmii: sol tiii'rx schools. An (Kiltie ntioniil Controversy Dis pleasing to Urorgin .Men. From the Sun. The ratio of illiteracy Is highest, 4I.S per cent., in Xew .Mexico, a territory, nnd lowest. 3.1 per cent., in Nebraska. The disbursements In all the slates for educational expenses amounts to near ly SJiHt.Oim.tKio a year. Toward this total New York state contributes $2. liiiii.nrtii, and of this the city of New York $ti.(ion.(Ki. The appropriations of other states for school purposes vary considerably, being S I il.0oii.uil in Penn sylvania, $h;.noo,imo in Illinois, $12.ui0. OMi in Ohio, and JilO.OOO.ooO in Massachu setts. North Carolina spends in a year on education less than $mhi.ihhi, nnd South Carolina only $,i"iii.nnii. (icorgla's expenditures for school purposes are by no means liberal, and the sparse ness of the appropriation has given rise, latterly, to considerable local con flict in the Cracker State. Hy the census of lv.ni the population of Cieoigla was. in round ligures, 1, 'iiiO.win, and the population of West Vir ginia by the same census was 77n.ui"). or considerably less than half. P.ut while West Yliglnln expends in a year Si.ilnii.OOil mi education, Coorgia expends only $l.iis.i,nuO for the same purpose, with the result that the ratio of illit eracy in (ieorgia Is very much higher and the school acconiinod itiotis are very much inferior. There are "i'iO.ihiO children of school ag- in the state of (leotgla, and the average school at tendance Is less than :n.iti i'. The coun try schoolhotises are so poorly built us to be uninhabitable in winter, when the farmers do not neeed the assistance of their children nnd when they would be at liberty to attend school. The state tax now levied does not provide nearly ns much money as is needed, ami the school criinmissioner will ask the legis lature to levy a school tax in each ccainty. He estimates that a tax of one-qimrter of one per cent, would en nble the authorities in nil of the rural counties to build good schoollionses. emidoy competent teachers, and keep schools open nine month In the year. Several counties have alreay voluntar ily tried the system of levying such a special tax us the commissioner ile um tula. " The publication of these facts is dis "Hopkins' Hat" at pleasing to many patriotic Georgia men, ho are not slow In declaring that the luck of school accommodations Is by no means limited to their state, some of them going so far as to add that they have read the same charge against the city of New York, the opu lent condition of the finances of which, they declare, ought to be a guarantee against such lack of accommodation. They further say that the average dur ation of the school year in (ieorgia Is 114 days, uguinst 97 in Florida, K7 in Tennessee, S6 in South Caroline, 75 in Alabama, and 63 In North Carolina the lowest of nil the states. The ratio of illiteracy in North Carolina Is 43 per cent, of the whole population over the age of 10, and is nearly ns large as In the territory of New Mexico. There are S.300 school teachers In North Caro lina, a larger 'number than in any New England stute wiih the singls excep tion of Massachusetts; but for some reason, which does not appear to be en tirely plain, 4,MH) of the school teachers of North Carolina are men, whereas in most of the staters of the country, und notably so in New England nnd the i west, the great majority of school teachers ure women. The salaries paid to male tenchers ure usually larger than those pnld to female tenchers, and it may be due to this fact that North Carolina stands so poorly in respect to school instruction. JiiW.Oofl of the school fund going for teachers' salaries and only Si .a.tion for all otlvr expenses. In Pennsylvania, for Instance, the salaries of teacher.1! of schools amount collec tively to less than one-half of the total school expenditures. (Ieorgia is an other state In w hich, though in a small er ratio, male teachers predominate. 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