Show MAN AND GAT ADRIFT ALONE ON A BARGE TOSSED ABOUT ON THE SEA FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE ODD CREW IS RESCUED nw york after being tossed thre days at sea the barge manhat tan with its crew consisting of carl aarsen and a big tomcat henrek ibsen was picked up off old orchard the cat yowled in accompaniment to the fog horn shoal by the tug edmund moran of the moran towing and company and towed up the harbor the tug colonel J F gaynor with two empty barges in tow on ita way from norfolk to new york ian into a fierce snowstorm before extra hawsers could be passed to the barges the manhattan with aarsen on board broke adrift the gaynor was hav li g all it cold do to make headway without losing the remaining barge and the captain continued on his way trusting to luck that the manhattan would be picked up by some passing tug without the towline fo steady it the lost barge pitched and rolled in con slant danger of turning turtle huge broke over it demolishing the window lights ot the tiny cabin and i threatening to sweep it entirely off the deck henrik ibsen the cat which had seen live years before the mast spread bis sea legs far apart to maintain his balance and yowled dismally aarsen retired to the cabin until the storm cleared he went out only 0 o blow the foghorn when night came on he hung out his lights the tug abony put into bouth am boy with the report that she had spoken the colonel gaynor and that the manhattan was adrift somewhere off the jersey coast two tugs were sent out to look tor the missing barge the moran nosing about the lower bay ran across the manhattan nar sen was in the cabin and ibsen on the roo aarsen was blowing the big horn as bard as his weal ened con dialon would permit he had been without food the greater part 0 three days |