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Show Working a Ship to Death. A curious instance of a craft bolng worked to death Is reported from BaU tlmoro, where thl) schooner Johnnlo Green was seized for claims by tho crow. Thero was duo tho six men tho sum or $193.30, which under normal conditions might be raised by a mortgage mort-gage on the boat. "But she's got enough mortgages on her now to sink her," said Captain White, "and I could not borrow anothor cent. Thero'a $700 or $800 lent on her already." When told that tho Johnnie Green was forty-two years old, and had boon In tho bay service all of that tlmo, Marshal Stockham waa ready to bo-llovo bo-llovo that no moro money could bo borrowed bor-rowed on her. Ho ordered her tnkon in chargo and a watchman put aboard. Nautical Gazette. |