SEA-TOSSED NOTE
MAT END MYSTERY
Fate of Crew and Identity of
Owners of 1901 Derelict
May Be Bared.
Mr the Afsoci.trd Press.
NEW YORK, September B.—A mes
sage given up by the seas Saturday at
Bt. Petersburg. Fla., may be a clue In
the 23-year-old mystery as to the fate
of the crew of the Commodore of Phila
delphia.
Tbs message, contained in a rusted
Ma can, which fell apart when handled.
read:
‘•March 21, 1899.
"Send help at once. Our ship, the
Commodore, was wrecked two weeks
ago, send help at once. Longitude 83,
latitude 91. GEORGE EVERETT.”
Longitude 83 is directly off the Flor
ida coast. Latitude 91 evidently was
misread, or blurred from water, for the
Poles are at 90, both North and South.
However, latitude 31 would place the
■hip off the Florida coast, and the up
per loop of the figure 3 might have
taken the appearance of a 9.
Mystery Craft to AIL
The Commodore of Philadelphia,
owners unknown and never traced, was
a mystery ship which rivaled tales of
the ancient mariner.
On April 8, 1901, a two-masted 50-
foot rigger drifted into Brooklyn Har
bor. With a hard bump she struck a
wharf in W. M. Tebo's yacht basin.
She had come In on the tide.
No one could be seen aboard her, and
when the schooner struck the wharf
and rolled about workmen boarded her,
expecting to find her crew had been
killed by midnight harbor pirates and
their ship cut loose to float with the
tide and wind.
To their surprise no sign of life was
found, and there was no evidence of a
Struggle. It could not be determined if
the schooner had been abandoned or
whether her crew had been swept over
board and drowned.
Owners Never Learned.
She bore on her stern the name Com
modore of Philadelphia. Officials of the
Tebo Basin communicated with Phila
delphia shipping people, but were never
able to find the owners.
The Commodore was hauled up to
the wharf and made fast. An investi
gation showed she was of substantial
character, but had sprung a leak and
unless looked after would soon go down.
Pumpers were put to work, and the
•chooner was kept afloat.
Tebo officials expected to hold the
wanderer of the seas until claimed by
the owners. After more than two
Months, during which wages of pump
ers and cost of keeping the schooner
Afloat mounted rapidly, no word was
•eoelved and hope of obtaining salvage
was abandoned. The Brooklyn Dock
Board then was asked to take the sink
ing craft off the Tebo Basin.
Many strange tales gained circula
tion. One was that the schooner braved
a great storm off the New Jersey coast
and was whipped about by wind and
■well for eight days, her crew being
washed overboard, save for one who es
caped to tell the tale. But the identity
of the survivor was as mysterious as
the craft itself, and this story was!
short lived.
No Trace In Lloyd’s Registry.
It might be that the note found yes
terday off the Honda coast is the an
swer to a 29-year-old question. Avail
able shipping records do not list the •
Commodore. Lloyd’s registry of missing 1
ships contains no information of such
craft. Lacking other detail, the theory
could be entertained that the Commo
dore of Philadelphia, in trouble at sea
and believed sinking, was deserted by
all except its master, who conceivably
was the "George Everett” who signed
the note found at St. Petersburg yes
terday.
Perhaps tiring of his two-week vigil,
ha also abandoned ship, leaving the
•chooner to the mercy of the tides.
SUCCEEDS TO PASTORATE
fcer. C. E. Snowden to Follow Bev.
J. F. Newton at Overbrook, Pa.
NEW YORK, September 8 UP). —
Resignation of Rev. Chauncey E. Snow
den as executive secretary of the field
department of the National Council of
the Episcopal Church to become rector
Os Bt Paul’s Church at Overbrook, Pa.,
was anounced yesterday. The resigna
tion becomes effective November 1.
Rev. Snowden will succeed Rev. Dr.
Joseph Fort Newton to the pastorate.
Before entering general church work in
1927 Rev. Snowden was rector of the
Church of the Incarnation at Dallas,
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Motorist's Victim,
Dumped in Alley
f After Crash, Dies
Struck 10 Months Ago,
f Chicagoan Loses Mind
From Paralysis.
By th. Auoclttcd PreM.
CHICAGO, September B.—Charlie
Adams is dead.
He was getting along toward 60 years
of age. He was a poor man, a fellow
who had worked hard for modest wages,
who lived normally, sanely and happily.
That Is, up to last Thanksgiving. Then
he was struck down by a motorist.
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Flyer Dies of Injuries.
NEW MILFORD, Conn., September 8
(JP). —E. R. Booth of New York City,
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night in the hospital here from bums.
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still confined to the hospital with a
broken jaw and numerous minor cuts.
His condition was not serious.
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RHODA HOLMES NICHOLLS,
NOTED ARTIST, DIES AT 76
Was Classed Among Foremost
Painters of Venetian Subjects.
Resident of Stamford, Conn.
STAMFORD, Conn., September 8 (JPV
—Rhoda Holmes Nlcholls, noted artist
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home yesterday. She was 78 years old.
She vu regarded as one of the fore
most painters of Venetian subjects In
this country and wax one of the first
artists to paint colors into shadows,
which gave her work as far back as
1880 the depth and brUliance of mod
em painting.
Bom in Coventry, England, daughter
of the parish vicar in Littlehampton,
she attended the Bloomsbury School of
Art in London and later studied with
Cammerano and Ventunni in Rome.
She married the late Burrh H. Nlch
olls, an American artist, in Venice In
1685 and came to America, where she
soon attracted attention with a Vene
tian study enUtled “Prlma Vera Vene
zia.’ In 1886 her painting, “Those Eve
ning Bells,” won the gold medal at the
New York Prize Fund Exhibition. She
invented the hook stick, a substitute for
an easel, and developed the process of
wetting and stretching water-color pa
per over wet blotting paper. One of
her best known paintings is "The Scar
let Letter,” inspired by Hawthorne’s
story.
BATTLE OF MARNE
ANNIVERSARY HELD
Andre Maginot, French Minister of
War, Regrets Futility of
France’s Sacrifice.
By the Associated Press.
MEAUX, France, September B.—This
city yesterday celebrated the sixteenth
anniversary of the battle of the Marne,
with war veterans and patriotic bodies
holding a service In the Basilica.
The meeting was addressed by Andre
Maginot, minister of war, who said
that since the great conflict France
had made many international gestures
to reconcile the nations that had fought
against one another.
He asserted that in the opinion of
France these gestures were sacrifices,
but that sacrifices dating from even
the recent past did not count for "some
people, or serve only to arouse new
pretensions.” ,
I“^ss atb
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