Show RESCUE OF ABANDONED SHIPS How Sallormen Gamble on Picking Up a Valuable Find The seamans gamble Is described by P T MctJrath lit the Technical World Magazine He tolls the story of huge steamers filled with costly cargoes car-goes which ate abandoned in storms and left to drift altnlebsly upon the ocean To tho vessel which rescues tho waif steamer and brings her into port tho admiralty courts never give less than onehalf of what the boat and her caigo hiring in the open market mar-ket There Is probably not a mariner ou than ocean now but in bin day dreams speculates upon some fortunate chance putting a derelict In his way when he becomes a captain thus enabling bin to lay by a nest egg for u fortune from his shale ot the salvage for getting her safely Into some haven of refuge The author cites an Instance where a little tug canted 39SOO by a lucky trip In another case the Exeter I City eaine lj all expenses and 35000 In addition for saving an American schooner which had been adrift for several months Ho also tells the story of another deiellct which was worth 100000 and which was lost This probably would not have happened hap-pened If wireless telegtaphy had been as far advanced an It IH now And iv t deed many of tho seamans happy daydreams day-dreams of sudden wealth would prove a leullty It practical methods were employed em-ployed In preparing for towage The average shipmaster thinks that only a good Htioiig tope is necessary to pull a derelict Into port but many boats have been jerked loose and lost by diving into a heavy sea when there was nothing to hold them to the rescuIng rescu-Ing ship but a bit of manila rope In any case the seaman Is taking long chances for his money because there IB tho chance of the derelict tdnkluf at any moment nnd dragging the rescuing res-cuing ship down with her |