Show r TALES ALES OF DISASTER FOUND III 11 COTTLES Messages Reveal Grim diet dies of 0 the Ocean Reran led en on canvas on shavings on stained spa-stained 1111 leave raves 11 torn from 10 log Ing looks Inks written In and some some- IIII Imp ies In such blood blood such are ore the He messages CI drift ashore In bottles from the sea sen t u. u from tram Iho hose e In danger on all the oceans of 01 the world Tor hundreds of yearn n h wire wire- lees Ils e s made contact with the land nm OilY easy easy seamen hn have o thrown n their bottle battle messages messages mes meso sages trustfully Into the sea Ren Colum bur bul us wrote to his queen in In that lint And today a 0 sen sensed led bottle still con con- Guns sometimes the last of or message 1 A n Impairing despairing crew Many 1 a Ii tragic m mes message message s. s sage tins has been cast Into the sea rea a from many a n stricken vessel Messages te such as All these theRe Captain all nil crew but me John Williams died Hod f yellow lIow fen r. fou-r. r Ship burned burner only me Sam Thomas Thom Thom- as 88 left In boat Whoever hoever picks this up will know barque Caller Ou run rim down by steamer The Tho list of these bottles containing g news of disaster Is III pitifully long ong There was that sad last message message mes meso sage lage from the crew of at the IMP American tank steamer City of or J rett which sank lank with all hands In the Gulf of Mexico during October t 3 It was wan washed up In n bottle at Miami Fla 00 0 days lat later r. r and read S S. S Everett Evrett This Is the Ilie last of us To dear who find this good good-by forever fore and anel ever Father Neptune sometimes takes taken much longer to deliver his mulls rears cars ago a II black cook on board the ship Buckingham murdered the ho master The v vessel sel was oft off the coast of or Bermuda at the time She carried no wireless and the mate tearing earing further violence entrusted hl his hili report of or the tho crime to a bottle It was found 0 miles away on one of or the Shetland Islands Nearly three years had passed A bottle message told the world of the he loss with nil hands of the Atlantic AllanIc Atlan Allan tic Ic liner President She should have reached Liverpool In March 1841 but became long overdue At last a ship at sea len picked up a bottle containing a message from the famous comedian Tyrone Tower Power It said that the vessel yes ves eel sel was sinking slaking In a n gale as he wrote In 1002 1102 the Allan liner left eft Glasgow and disappeared Five years cears later Inter a bottle was washed up by y the t tide on the north coast of Ire Ire- land Its Ita message read A sinning sinking fast last One une side andee under under an- an un un- der dee water Good Good-by mother and Bis ter Charles Charl Charles McFall Bottle messages were produced as BI evidence during an Inquiry into the loss 1089 of the trawler Argus Argue One Ono which reached Norway read Steamship A Argus Argue All hands mu mu- mu tiny Collision with foreign barque After Atter the mysterious loss of or the Australian liner Waratah between Durban and Cape Town many bottle messages were found but these were all believed bellev d to J la ruel fakes takes Seated Scaled botti boltl sl sare ro often set adrift for scientific purposes Many shipmasters ship masters musters are co operating oo with British and American Government 1 departments depart ments meats at the present time by throwing bot bottles lies overboard Tn In this way the direction of or ocean currents may be traced for finders of these bottles are rewarded If they fill till In 10 the card In In In- closed In each I one giving particulars of or the date and place Iaco where It was found Such a 1 bottle east cast Into the sea near Cape Town was picked up upon on a Shetland Shetland Shet land Island bench beach nearly tour four and n a half hair years later Captain Simpson Simpsen F. F R. R S. S who threw j ol ut bottles Into the sea Ia during a oJ rf years yanc reported that 10 per t c were verO found Many of the bottles bottle hh lib drifted drifted drift drift- ed miles mites before reaching land the average rate of or travel work working In out dot ut at half balf a mile an hour bour |