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Certain it is that for one Wound- ed ship that survives collision with an iceberg there. are ten that per- ish. As long ago as 18-11. the steamer President, with a hundred and twenty people aboard, crossâ€"- ing from New York to Liverpool, in the month of March, vanished forever from human ken. In March 1854, the City of Glasgow left Liverpool for Philadelphi'l- with four hundred and eighty 1333‘ sengers, and was .never heard of A handful in a line WHEN YOU SWEEP absorbs the dust, brightens the floor, and cleans your carpet. again. In February 1856, .the One Week free trial. Pacific left Liverpool for INC-W York, carrying a hundred and Yours for health, eighty-five souls. and completeh’ disappeared. A similar fate bevfell the City of Boston, which left il\' eW’ York for Liverpool in May, 18‘094 i” with nearly two hundred souls aâ€" board, It has always been con- ‘ I“ Stores, sidered practically certain that all “by the ships mentioned were sunk by l collision with icebergs, And as r {shipping traffic has expanded, the L. i‘losses have grown more frequent. _ .To give some instances: In Febru- iary 1892, the Naronic, from Liver: 0f the. fair sex, “HOW could they pool for New York; in February talk ?” “They couldn’t? lEinapped'issa, the State of Georgia, from the old salt, “That’s what madei Aberdeen for Boston; in February ’61:: wild.’ â€"Judge. l, 1899, the Huroniam, from Liverpool SWEEP absorbs the dust, brightens the floor, and cleans your carpet. One week free trial. Yours for health, 4.4- f 1 "-~P.I :«Mâ€"v q... “.9 9 pct". .30 5;. ‘3‘ .2. 5;. Qt. T‘he appalling disaster to the Titanic emphasizes the fact that the iceberg isan ever-present ter- ror to the mariner of the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most frequent and fruitful causes of accidents is due to the submerged section of an iceberg being caught in the grip of a current, the whole mass moving steadily against wind and sea and crashing into the craft before she can escape, The same circum- stance is also not seldom account- able for the remarkable sight, which is sometimes witnessed, of floes driven one way by the wind, wrhile icebergs cut a wide swath through them in another direction impelled by the currents. It is probable that, where the Titanic sank, the trackless, viewless deep was dotted by icebergs both big and small. And one cannot help realizing what an enormous bene- fit both to the shipping world and to humanity at large would? be some contrivance which would give timely warning of the proximity of these perilous monsters of the sea. Bells, whistles, lights, rockets, and other contrivances, including wireless telegraphy, have done much to obviate the danger of ships colliding with one another. But the peril of the icebergs still remains. And until this has been eliminated, the passage of the At- lantic Ocean must be attended al- ways by a greater or less element of dangerâ€"a danger which calls for the greatest care and caution on the part of the :navigators of vessels, and Wlhich must occesion- ally, even in spite of the utmost vigilance on the part of officers and crews, be responsible for acci- dent and loss of life, such as that at Which the whole world stands aghast to-d'ay. - The lmmensity of Ice- bergs . / Those people ‘who have never seen an iceberg can form’ but a faint idea of the grandly impres- sive splendor of these floating sea castles, endowed with every con- ceivable grace of outline, When viewed from some vantage point of safety, they excite our aweâ€" struck admiration. But fearsome. indeed, are they in the inky black- ness of might, or amid the l_)li.nding fury of a snow squall, or the ghastly shroud of a sudden fog. Woe to the ship. however staunch- ly and stoutly built. which tests her strength against these tower- ing grystai cliffs! icebergs are frequently .500 feet high and half a mile longâ€"indeed there is an auâ€" thentic record of one which Was observed hy Dr; Kane‘s Arctic exâ€" peditionary party, and was found to be two and a hai' miles wide and two and a :half miles in length. And the really amazing: feature in connection with the ‘i is that they .show so little of their real hulkâ€"only one-eighth above water. Hence, even when a colosâ€" sal one is seen, the mind fails to grasp its real significanceâ€"the vast bulk concealed below the ocean level. It is only when an iceberg turns turtle, as it is often apt to do, that one gets an idea of its awful immensity. This occur- rence is usually the result of one iceberg colliding with another. The Titanic Only One of Many to Founder off the Grand Banks T he Fatal Shot THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. thing can be said "of any other ships whose loss, in more recent years, is fresh in the public mind. Between February and May, the North Atlantic is most infested With icebergs, and therefore collis- ion with such .is the most feasible explanation of the loss of the above-named steamers, all well manned and in splendid shape, and! encounteringâ€"apart from icebergsl only storms which scores of other{ ships, not so Well found, braved without the slightest injury, This theory is supported by the accounts given lby many crew$ whose ships have collided With ice- bergs. For it is noteworthy that while in a real collision of the kind, the ship nearly always per- ishes many crews have cheated death whose ships have gone under from contact with icebergs. The Polaris, with sixteen persons a- board, was crusihed by an iceberg off North Greenland in October 1871. And in the following April the survivors of these sixteen were rescued from an iceberg on the Grand Banks by the Newfoundland sealer Tigress, after having been adrift six (months, and having tra- versed sixteen ihundred miles of ocean, on this island of ice. In Mardh 1893, the steamer Diana, res- cued tlh-e crew of the steamer Castlegate, from Dundee for New York. Tlhey were adrift on an ice- berg, their ship having been sunk by collision with another iceberg the previous night. In .May 1897, the crew of the steamer. Windsor Lake, which had also met disaster among the bergs, were taken off by the sealer Labrador, from! their perch on an iceberg. In 1900, the steamer Iceland struck a berg. and (had the marrowest possible es- cape of foundering, :her bow being completely stove in. When the large cargo boat Concordia Was plowing lher way out of Belle Isle Strait for Liverpool, she hit a large berg bow on. and tore a gaping rent in :her forepart big enough to drive a street car through. Only the very hardest of hard work kept her afloat to reach St. john’s. sxgm 1mm the. sen. but never. it is said. :1 more :‘Lstozmdimg specâ€" tacle than the .â€"~\rizonz‘x presented. Her deck and forepru‘t were COV- ered with ice Weighing over two hundred tons, shattered from the iceberg with which she had co!- lided, and {her bows (were com- pletely stove in, the gaping wound being more them twenty feet wide, while her massive antes and ribs "Vere crumpled up like. so many pieces. of cardboard. 'Her iron- work was twisted into fantastic forms; and her beams and stanchâ€" ions were shattered. People wonder to this day how it wasfthat she was not ripped apart and sent to the bottom. ' ' The Portia Climbed a Berg But the story of the Portia is stranger still. She was asteamer that plied between New York and Newfoundland, and (her captain was an experienced navigator from St. John’s. In June, 1893, while off the Newfoundland coast. a‘ huge iceberg was sighted, and, at the request of the passengers. some of whom were anxious to photograph it, the skipper slowly advanced close to it. Suddenly a jar was felt, the ship grated heav- ily, a low, rumbling sound was heard, the berg quivered and split asunder, and to the horror of those aboard, the submerged base of. the berg, being tossed upwards, caught the Portia as in a cradle, and lifted iher clear out of the water. For a moment or two the situation Was critical in lime ex- treme. The ship lay, nearly up- right in a shelving section of the berg, and if this completed its somersault, she and her company The Arizona's Wonderful Escape The Arizona was. in her day. the grey-hound of the Atlantic. and the largest ship afloat, Leaving New York for Liverpool in Novemher, 1879. with over five hundred pas- sengers. she was coursing across the Banks with fair weather. though dark. when. .DPfII‘ midnight. about two hundred 25ml fifty miles»: east [of St. ‘JOlhn’S, and going at full speed, slhe rammed a monster iceberg”. The impact was terrific, and death for all seemed inevitable. But it was found that the forward bulkhead was safe, and the boat was headed for St. John’s, Whither she arrived same thirty-six hours later. That little portâ€"which is called the “crippled ship’s hospi- tal”â€"~has seen many a strange. sight from the sea. but never. it must meet instant destruction. Fortunately, the Weight of hull and cargo checked the upward motion.- and sent the berg settling back again. A huge Wave caused by the cleavage swept over the berg, and launched the Portia back into her proper element, With bottom scarred and bruised, but otherwise The Terror of the Atlantic 'Dhe Wierd and ghastly drama, Which has Lately thrilled the World may always, at any moment, he re- enacted. For the danger of en- counter Witlh icebergs is the special risk Wlhich must ever attend the navigation of the Atlantic Ocean. No other great trade route suffers.- from this perilâ€"the most awesome: which the mariner has to reckonl with. These silent foes of those, who go down to the sea in ships: are so terribly hard [to detect.‘ They are fragments from the hug-3“ Greenland glaciers, forced out of. the Arctic Sea by thousands every summer, and carried south by the. currents. (Phe largest of them ground on the Newfoundland 3coasts and on the Grand Banks, and they often stick fast for Weeks. Hence, in this area, they linger the Whole year round, and form an ever present source of [dange-r. Amd they are thickest in [the path of the steamersâ€"unwarn- ing in their approach and deadly in their contactâ€"Toronto Star Weekly. L. THE SECRET ' of PAUL FARLEY “I had no idea it was prudish not to ask him to stay when there was no- where for him to sleep; and the lie, Felix, was on your account. He was gone then. and I did not want you up set. Jack said you were not to be 'ex- cited or worried, and I meant to carry out his instructions to the letter. I was thinking more of your health than of Mr. Fariey’s comfort." “You could have considered both had you tne wit, as I remarked before. If you were ban; on not disturbing me, consider 1 “Wait-2 have thought Cf thi . I (33d it all 3'. r the best. Felix. l-â€"-“ “Bah! You women are all elite. You commit the most eg'oiiszixz-al ftl‘: , and tlien 52 you did it for the est, It was th;~ best possible. worst you could have done. and why in the name of common sense did you tell him there was no accommodation here? You could have had a fire lighted in this room if you were afraid of his coming upsaairs in the middle of the night. It smears to me you have be- come remarkably pmdish and auda- ciously untruthful all in the twinkling of an eye, and I should like to be made acquainted with the reason of this un- due haste to eject Farley and the-â€" worse than prevaricationâ€"deliberate lie you told? What’s it all about, and whither does it end?” ;an easy c'zza‘r by the fire downâ€"here. would have been preferable. .to. turn- I can’t stay here in the coid answer- ing silly questions." "You will stay here until you have told me. To whom were you speak- ing, Agnes?" “How tires some you are. Felix! It was Paul Farley." “Farley! 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