Show PROP LOOSE Runaway Cannon Caon of Hugos Ninety inet three tee Duplicated d Today Samuel S muel A Wood Wod in Magazine The perils pern of the the tramp trap steaming to the head gales g es lashing the th seas ss into inlo fury fu furnish the marine reporters of ot neatly nearly every Atlantic seaboard board city cHy vory winter with columns of vivid stones The le tramp skipper Is un undaunted undaunted daunted b by the dangers of his underpaId un profession The lle 1 he business of ot the tile sea seals Is the only one he knows anything about and Ind he must mst either risk starvation on shore or boldly face tace the manifold dangers dang rs of a rover of of the oceans of the world which little notes the loss los of f a 3 tramp steamship there here and there thre When a tramp skipper loses IQ his h Job he never naver gives give it I up are a dozen or more mor applications for it i despite despie its perils peris and its it meagre pay pa ps All Al li the smaller tramps tAmps that visit ports without facilities or repair Ing machinery carry car usually on the tho main deck d k aft aff or between decks ek a spare propel propeller ler er he have been several instances in which tramps hese extra propel propellers propellers lers have hava just escaped c pea de prope in n heavy weather A little British Brish tramp trap that came caine ome into New New York from on the Mediterranean nean ea several years yeara asp a had a a a spare pro propeller peller made fast between b l Iro peter een decks d k aft aft One night when she se was w s a few days of ady Hook Hp k and nd rollin In a cyclone the propeller i eller broke lr roIe from Its Us lash lashings lh ings and d began n about a out the deck deck The only fon J aboard ship was wac by means of kerosene k lamps The skipper and several of o se his cow crow wen went down into antO the gloomy space between decks and made an effort elor to check chek the the erratic flight t ht of the th three thre winged winge iron monster hey were armed arme with wooden woden and andiron iron bars and ad pieces pi es of ot dunnage dunna which they tried to use as a levers leves It I was wa dUll difficult cult to keep keen the ships Ship shinS s head UD UP in the She persisted in off of and nd every time she rolled role the e demon deon of ot a pro propeller peller pelier peler rumbled across the steel deck to port or starboard threatening to smash sash through the ships chipS side The Te skipper sent one ot or his men to the bridge to tell tel tho the officer in charge to try to keep the th ships head up the movements of ot the propeller being less leas le dangerous while the ship sip was pitching but she answer her helm The he mass inane mas of ot meta metal stopped at times just long enough to allow alow the skipper and His adventuresome men to get within reach of it it Then The it stirred like a sea sen sentient sn tient tent thing ting and appeared app ared to to spring at them They The saved ve themselves from In Injury Injury jury by jumping aside aide or leaping lopIng over It H At last lat as the ship lurched heavily he to port por the propeller whirled down the in inclined dined deck deK and smashed against the side One of its Is blades went through a plate it i hung for a moment against the rib rb of the ship then loosening itself isef as the th ship hip rolled and heeled to starboard it bowled again a In A fountain of see sea seawater water spurted through the hole mae made by b the propeller blade as the tramp rolled 49 t port again and the propeller slid sUd that way nay A few tew more holes in the side would have caused caused her to take in so much water that hat she would have been in danger of foundering and the skipper began be to wish that the propeller had ha gone all aU the wa way ay through and proper dropped into the sea a There was wa one passenger aboard bod the tramp a stout young fellow who whO had ex ox experience e as a a 1 cowboy on the Texas Tex a plains He had heard the bomi of the spare propeller and he went to the skipper sippe and volunteered to check cheek it in its mad course At first it i revealed itself itel is only dimly cure to him a huge batke shadow under the faint taint and n nd unsteady gk glow w of the kerosene lamps After the cowboy had hd become somewhat accustomed to th tire gloom oom and had ad spent a few moments dodging tho the moment propeller he took a which he made of ot a hawser end and an wih the unerring aim of an expert bull bUl puncher he rung one of the blades with wih the noose noose He made a turn with the he other othe end cad around a mae winch about abut amidships and the propeller was subdued Then the skipper and his bL men fell feW upon it I as if i it i were a living lhing hi thing and nd with wih beams oam and ad bars a and chains and ropes r pe they made nade me it i so fast fat that chans all the th storms of the North Atlantic not al 1 have broken bro en it loose again I |