Show r ti 1 h ir f 4 MAIL MAD F CROESUS L TS DYING jo v A I 1 eccentric new york yachtsman was generous giver hermet of magnificent vessel kept hl his well paid crew in continual turmoil ready to sall sail but never started new york N V Y the weird career of mcivers bayard brown la Is drawing to a close ile he la Is an eccentric alre new yorker who for twenty four years baa led a grotesque existence aboard his bis magnificent yacht tho the val freya anchored in brightlingsea hal harbor the doctors say he Is critically ill ia and likely to die says saya on london correspondent of the now new york evening world the squirt gun with which he gleefully shot ley icy water into the ears ot of sleeping sailors the thick sticks with which he be belabored long suffering members ot or the crew and the iron poter poker with which he be has long delighted to thump the second engineer have all been laid aside the tha beggars who for years yearn have hae gone 0 OU in boats to td the Val freya na wheedled money fromherz from 0 m her str strange nae owner w with ith tales of imaginary in fires in their homes the death 0 of children that never existed and the untimely demise of cows and horses that had bad no existence save cave in fancy are now forbidden to board the yacht brightlingsea la Is despondent over ove r the prospect of losing the odd character who has been tree free with his money after a wildly capri capricious fashion for more moie than two decades twenty tour four years ago the Val treya freya then spick antl anu span and new anchored in the mouth of the colne coins a little river emptying in into to the sea it at the essex coast A new master from was hired with the understanding der that he be must be forever ready to set sail ball at once though A he was told tt it was hardly likely that the anchor ever woud be lifted again at first a crew ot of forty three men wits waa kept aboard the yacht now only halt bait a dozen are there the yacht ia 19 crusted inches thick with barnacles barnacled barn acles today the master has prospered ed lie he owns three ree tugboats tug boats and houses bouses in tho the town but those who know mr drowns browns peculiarities say he has earned the money word long ago reached brightling sea that the yacht owners father was the late alexander speers brown a very wealthy bew ew yorker and bilat that be was a grandson ot the late robert bayard jt it was said cald ilia his cousins AV bayard cutting and R n fulton cutting of nw york managed his estate in america sending him the income which he spent or gave away on n the Val treya freya lie he vald paid his sailors unheard of 0 t with the stipulation that they should never complain of treatment rec received elved lie he got great tun fun out of catching men alone and unawares unaware a and beating them with sticks at other times he would world invite the whole crew to drink ate ale with him and alter after the braught had been disposed of would rall fall to 0 o right and left with his cudgel beating the tha men until weary and la laughing he would sink into a seat lie he particularly delighted to beat jocund engineers with iron pokers jokers these strange propensities on his bis past pait made fiade it difficult to keep men aboard the yacht despite the ridiculously high paid he it also I 1 loved to empty buckets of 0 water on oil sailors no aa they slept and he bo had a two quart syringe of tin with which he squirted water into the ears of jf men slumbering soundly in their hunks sometimes Sone sometimes times all night long he would aranco about the decks on all fours mewing like a ett cat for a period he imagined lie and the ship bad been surcharged with electricity and at un in other time had the hallucination that blue blae devils had st stolen olei his lungs on borne occasions he would adroit admit beg beggars ars who dime came tj in boats out but as joftes ag K otherwise would itrano at the rail and pelt those iti the he boats with potatoes and cabbages berating them with ills lit I angue nwe he le gave parka to veral towns on an the E essex coast and also has lcuy acu several so y eral libraries mr drown brown to 1 a powerfully built man with a jet black beard and fierce countenance ile he la Is known to thol the Bri brighton gliton folks as a woman hater HERRING DIE IN FROZEN DAY over two trillion of them are arc bought I 1 by a sudden freeze up in alaskan waters klapack bay auska alaska probably tho the greatest crea test fish killing ever known took place here her a on prince ot of wales island a short time ago when at one stroke it la is estimated that good sized herring bost their lives capt simon aimon drouen and tho the officers ot of tho the steamship northland had the remarkable experience of navigating their vessel through miles of the dead faill for three days the bay had been full of schools of herring so BO dense that fish were often thrown out of the water A day before batora the northland arrived a sudden freeze caught tho the herring tn ill the narrow necked harbor before they could escape the freeze reazo came with great sudden ness and about six inches of 0 ice fee for formed in on an the th eb arbor millions ot abar ver ner blui bills fighting 1 forlai oriani list aBt t 0 i ba liance de do forgetting getting or fI etting out 6 or tha inalou water detoro frobasen fr 9 z en when captain brunn arrived with the North northland lahd the tide ildo had bid ro receded ceded and to BO 50 feet on the beach and for several hundred feet out into the water for three miles around the harbor barbor lay the frozen fish measurements were made and it was found that the herring lay tightly packer for in an average of three feet the greatest chance in the world for obtaining fresh fish asb without a bit of work was lost the cannery people took all they could but the northland was not equipped to carry them the tear fear now la Is that an epidemic of disease may break out following the decay of 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