Show P OF Or GIO GEORGE I Ins IV'S TIME I II II f VISITS 13 BYGONE G HORRORS SHOWN O N 11 I 1 T YZ f r Y S s x r I 4 L ro 4 rte fr ties s r. r y t y-s y 14 1 I R t. t I J 1 J N a j. j xv o i v. fa-v. l b v fi 1 Ii C-Ii V iB S f.-S A x j J j T w C Gat K 2 fv i or ne klets of convict ship in operation to The New York Ma May 10 The rho The other da day sailed there ero sailed Into New Mew York harbor a 0 strange craft Her Tier barkentine rig rIg- bluff blurt bows hl high h poop and forecastle enormous figurehead and great reat square stern contrasted strangely with the modern steel propelled steam d craft which la lay v about her It was W cas easy to believe the thc of or her owner and captain D D. II Smith that she Is the oldest ship afloat On her bluff bow was painted to either side Convict Con Ship Success For years yearB a aryl and d years ear In the earl early part of or the nineteenth century she plied back and forth on the long lone track ocean be between between be- be tW tween England and Australia bearing to the Island continent crowds of or conIct convicts convicts con con- condemned to existence on the Island continent Now ot ow full uIl of mo- mo of the tha horrors she then saw aw she Rhe Is a mus museum um sailing from port to port Made f de' or of teakwood the Iho finest t wood that there is for Cor ships she was laid down at in Burmah In 1790 In those days wh when n she ho was as the crack ship of or the East Enst India trade and later when as a convict con ship she aho was the most execrated vessel essel In tho the world she was vas full rull J rigged d but now for tor convenience convenience conven con lence In handling she has hUM been cut down to barkentine rip rig It was under this rii rig that Captain Smith sailed her from Melbourne to England and md then thon to Boston Providence and New York It H was In that the Suc Success made her first from Portsmouth r voyage to Australia with several It hundred poor poor- men and women who for tor such offenses tI tIto to Cir Ire fire at tire the t first sh sign of f an n uprising as sheep stealing or stealing apples from the squires squire's orchard had been sentenced sen sentenced to penal servitude for life after b by the kings king's merc mercy thc they had h escaped hanging It is said that an average 1 of ot on one one- third the total number of or prisoners usual usually died on the six n months months' O voyage voyage voy voy- t age out and man many more soon after landing of or disease contracted In horrible cells of the Success An And after having ing climbed down the ladders to the gloom of r the tho deck berth or the still more moro terrible hold hol below and seen geen the narrow cells measuring four feet b by seven e and the ponderous Irons In which the miserable prisoners spent their days das and nights thrown helplessly help holp- lessly against the sl side e at every e roll TOU of ot the ship ship ono one wonders not that so many mInY died but that an any r of them sur sur- hc If ones one's nerves neT are weak or 01 If It one Is given to gloomy thoughts lie lw had best sta stay away from the Success She has hns been admirably bly calculated to take talce takeaway takeaway away awa peoples people's appetites for dinner Facsimiles of or the c rif s of or murderers murderers mur mur- and original warrants for tor sentencIng sentencing sentencing sen sen- people veople to transportation are hung hung- on the tho bulkheads In place of ot pictures pictures pic pic- tures together ether with leg yokes cB and ud bUboes every everyone one of n which at one onetime onetime onetime time was worn by a human being Tho most cheerful thing on tho the ship Is the the- quaintly and beautifully carved cd ol old binnacle But on each side is one of or the old ld rut rusty rush used to be loaded tp to the muzzle w with th grape and trained d o oi 01 the main hatch read ready |