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Show A SAILOR FOR SIXTY YEARS, Far Hat He Traveled and Many Tiilnp Has He Seen. Capt. Alexander Pollock, of Toronto, Canada, commands a vessel sailing from that port, and apparently has many yean of usefulness yet before him despite the fact that he is 71 years of age and hai sailed the seas both salt and fresh ski his eleventh birthday. It is claimed k Capt. Pollock that he is the oldest mariner mar-iner on Lake Ontario, and quite probably proba-bly it is the case that very few sailor-men sailor-men the world over can match his tern of service. He made his first voyage from St. An- drew's, N. B.. ti a ship called Tct Two Sdsters, anl served his tint in the West India In-dia trade. Afttf getting hisratiii,' as A 1 seamai he visited India. Russia and China, and when 21 years old M the place of fist CAPT. ALEX. POLLOCK.mate on the f lnlnbia, of the famous Black Ball Km. At that time he acquired a title that ha clung to him ever since that of "the hi," mate." Its appropriateness will at one be recognized when it is known tU Capt. Pollock weighs nearly 250 pounds, is considerably over six feet tall and has very broad shoulders. During his long career the captain hu been thrice wrecked and has received over a dozen medals and testimonials for saving life. He is a splendid specimen speci-men of the old time mariner, who believed be-lieved and still believes in wooden wall and a spread of canvas, and has litf pationce with th modern craft whereon a "sailor" Bhovels coal instead of slusli-ing slusli-ing down the foretopmast. |