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Show 5 ; i "CAPTAIN KNr.W HIS BUSINESS. atory of ths Bark That Broke Record Around the Horn. "A story of heroism of the soa, rival-Ins rival-Ins that of Gilllat in 'Tho Tollers of tbo Sea,' has Juct boon enacted In the Parl.lc oceai," said Jo'jn. P, Uarncs, a' San Francloso nicrcliant to a Washington Wash-ington Post w.'itcr. "It Is tho story of an Intrepid sea captain who resur-rcr'cd resur-rcr'cd a sunken ship that, had been given up for lest aud put her In such good condition that she has broken all recyr (Is for sailing craft around tho horn. ' i "Tho sea captain lived at San DIo3o until a year or two ago, havlns retired on a modest Incomo. His name Is Thayer. On'o day ho read In tho pa-pes pa-pes of an miction salo of tho hulk of a ship in thy South seas. Ho went to San Francisco, where ho found that tho ship had been valued at $260,000 and had been grounded in a storm, deserted de-serted by tho crow and supposedly pounded Into a -shapeless mass upon tho rocks. Rut he thought ho would tako a clinnco, and so bid her In for $1,100, getting a lawyer lu Oakland to tako a half Interest ' "Dotting together a wrecking crew, ho traveled 7,000 miles to tho Island of Manga Rlva, where, through heroic efforts and after many months, he got tho ship to tho level and towed her back .across smooth summer seas to San Francisco. There the vessel was rebuilt into a threo-masted bark. Captain Cap-tain Thayer came on to Washington and got the government to register the British ship Pyrenees, for that was its original name, as the bark Manga Rlva. Then, after the refitting had been completed, he sent her to Swansea, Wales. The bark made the fattest time ever attained by any sailing sail-ing vessel between . the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Captain Thayer is now enjoying the Income from' his daring, and, his name is being paraded up and down the Pacific coast among marine folk as the modern Qllliat" |
