The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 09, 1921, Page PAGE TEN, Image 10
MOT
A TRIP TO
CHARLESTON
Comic Write-up of Voyage to
the "City by the Sea" Via
. .. Georgetown.
Sunday night, June 3th, 1921, the
good ship Jeanette docked at Con
way. A plank was lowered and eigh
dissheveled, unkempt, unshaven men :
came to shore. Their oyos were
^unk deep into their skulls: linos o I
care and fatigue were on their i
faces; they moved with the unsteady I
gait of men who have suffered I
much. Each imm worp ii mini sfr.Jiin
ed suit of clothes, mud covered paii I
of shoes a?ul a look of care. KacV I
man took his suit case and made his
departure.
Kind hearted citizens interviewed
the leader of the party, a lanky, roan
colored, blaze-faced man, about .^ix
teen hands high, who looked a?though
he might at one time have
been a manufacturer of veneer. AD
that they could get out of him was
"We come from the Yamasee side.
Leave us where you find us." And
the company of stragglers moved
off into the night.
In the hope of finding an explana- |
tion of the mystery which enshroud- j
ed the appearance of these men, the i
kind-hearted citizens boarded the |
Jeanette and found there (he loj;
book of that vessel. The passages |
that follow are tr.ken from the !o*r {
1 book of the Jeanette. Read 'em and
weep:
Tuesday, May !U. 19'21. In charge
of Capta>n .Joe McMillan, First Mate,
Harry Cushman; Deck Hand, Joe
Horry; and Cook, Polly, we left Conway
at ten-thirty P. M. A large delegation
of prominent citizens consist
ing of Ed. Sherwood was on the dock
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broke a bottle on the bow of the
Jeanette and sve were under way.
The bottle was empty before being
broken. Aboard were the following
Shriners headed for Ihc Charleston ;
Convention: D. A. Spivev, Hovt McMillan,
J. E. Dawsey. W. A. Stilley,
W. C. Adams and linn Winstead.
Before we had gotten to Toddville
a terrible thing happened. Mr. Stilley
put 011 his fez. Older heads tried '
to dissuade him from his purpose,
but he said that on a trip like thi
he wanted to have as little on hi 4 ,
mind as possible.' Just to go him one (
better Hoyt McMillan and Dan Winstead
removed their hats so that the .
crowd could see that they had absolutely
nothing on their minds at all.
Wednesday, June 1st. Crossing (
Win yah Bay about sunrise the Jean-1,
ette turned her nose southeast and (
within a few hours was threading',
her way along the tortuous channel ,
of Alligator and Six Mile creeks and ,
on into Santee River. The morning .
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proved an instructive one tor Dr
Adams, who le/^ed, that the two
sides of the ahi/wp^pfc;;t and stern
and not port and Sierry/ lis he had j
supposed. Also that the hatch wa<i
not the place where the cook got
spring chickens and eggs. Before
learning any better lie watched sev-j
oral hours in the hope of seeing the
boat crew shuffle the deck.
During the day Hovt McMillan or-j
ganized a select choir which render- j
ed the favorite old song o!' the sailor, i
"Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's
'Chest, Yo, Ho, and a Bottle of Monkley
Rum." Dan V/in stead was easily
I a star in this selection and ivive* f
| promise of an operatic career. Most
| operatic singers insure their throats. '
This would not be necessary with j
Mr. Winstead, but he ought to take
out a large policy on his nose, since '
he uses that organ almost entirely lt\
hen vv "horal work.
At Cape Romain Point there cairn ;
a Slight rumble from the bottom of (
the vessel, one or two tremors shook:
her frame like the gasps of dying;
men, and the crew announced that the j
Jeanette had gone aground. A large!
I oyster reef blocked further progress.!
Word was passed in to Jeweler Dawsey
and he came up from the bold !
with his sleeves rolled up, his pocket
knife and a cold chisel in one hand
and his teeth bared for action. Motioning
the crowd to stand back and
jjive him room and loosening his bclti
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the man advanmi tu un.
within a half hour ho had oaten a
passageway through the roof and
stood ready and willing to make a ;
forty foot channel if necessary.
Alligator Creek empties into Capo ,
Romain and many of those on hoaid
followed its exampie, if you eet
what we mean.
The light house at Capo Kemain ,
passed into t!io distance and McClellansville,
nestling in its rice fields and ,
garnished by its water oaks and pal- j,
mettos, was left to the rear. For a ! j
matter of ton miles along the marsh j,
hound route the Santee Hunting Club.,
is the only building to be scon. It j
gives one the impression of being},
about as lonesome as a cootie on the .
Statue of Liberty.
And then at four o'clock in the af- i
ternoon, at some place which had ,
never been shown on any map and
novel* been looked on by human eye, ]
which the linos of longitude and lati- j
tude dodge as they pass by, a place)]
toward which any self-respecting j
compass refuses to point, a deceitful, i
ensnaring place where tho water 11
looks doop enough to float the Wool- |
worth building, but is really too shal- (
low for tad poles to live in?at this;]
Annanias of geography, this Bene- .
lict Arnold of topography, the Jean-I*
ctte coughed and twisted and strain- ,
~ ' 1 finullv stnnnprl !,
L'll clliu ^I|uinnv>u "IIVI I <
with her nose rammed deep in the!'
mud. We entered it as a great bay <
miles wide but as the tide went out1:
various reefs and islands and ridges
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stuck their inquisitive heads above
the surface and finally dry land which
raised a pretty good dust was on all
sides, ana one could count the nails
in the keel. We decidcd to go no further
on account of the chance of run-1
ning aground. No bets were made
and none offered that any of the Shriners
on board would grace tomorrow's
parade down the streets of historic
Charleston.
In many homes above the mantel
in t he sitting room between the two |
vases is to be found a picture of a
stag standing in water up to his
knees, while two deer hounds leap
and snap at his nose. The picture
is called, "The Stag at Hay." But
here was a whole stag party at bay.
And the bay was no longer at home j
but was by this time in the Atlantic'
Ocean fifty miles from shore.
There being no wireless on board,
the party took a large piece of pine!
plank and painted on it the distress j
signal of the sailors, "S. O. S."
which, as is well known, means Save
Our Shriners. Night came on and:
the party gathered in the saloon to i
discuss the situation. It was de- j
cided that some one ought to go on
watch. After full discussion, it was
agreed that Mr. Dawsey, being a1
jeweler, should take the first Inger-!
soli and the champion raw oyster
eater of the world went on the bridge.
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gloom which had settled on the party,
began telling some jokes which his?
grandfather had told him as a boy.
It was noticed that a large drove of
horse flics gathered around and Mr.
Sti!ley was forced to quit telling his
stories. The horse laugh was drawing
the flies. The only way that
these flies could he gotten rid of
was to run up the black flag, which
soon drove them off.
An examination of the drinking
water showed that only seventy five
gallons were in the barrel. Would
it last until relief came? That was
the question, and each man on board
showed the real.stulf of his nake up
t>y voluteering to drink no more
water until help arrived. Nor vas
my water drunk until help arrived
and even f< ''nig after tnat time.
It takes great rises like this to show
men at their best. Tn order to catch
my passing breeze volunteers were
sailed for to spread the sails. This,
journal is proud to record the fact
that evel-y man on hoard helped get
three sheets to the wind.
With these precautions taken -ill
i)ut Watchman Dawsev sought then 1
bunks and the iast sound that reached
mr ears before sleep overtook us w?s
lis resonant vo?o3, "Twelve o'clock
and all's swell, ali'i swell. '
Thursday, Jjne 2, 1M21. \t crack
Df dawn tiie crew were on their toe:and
on the toes o?' the passengers, i
The flood tide would be due at five
r)'clock and, as Shakespeare so well
says, the tide never breaks an engagement,
or words to that general
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effect Our hope was to catch the
tide at the flood and make our way
back to the channel. Pretty soon the
jbay began making its way home after
i a night at sea. Dan W instead said
1 that the bay was like some men?you
I never know where they are when
| they go out at night. A small boat
; was put out and carried on ar.chor
'some thirty yards toward the channel,
throwing it overboard.
| All hands were then summoned to
seize the anchor rope and pull in the
hope of sliding the boat along on the
bottom. So that rope was seized and
backs strained and chests swelled
and arms tugged, but the Jea letto
simply settled herself v little .aore
comfortably in the mud, put her
| watch under the pillow, put out the
cat and went to sleep. By and by it
began to dawn on Captain Joe McMillan
that three pairs of hands were
missing from the ropes and a count
of noses showed that D. A. Sp'.vey,
Hoyt McMillan and Dr. Adams were
not among those present. The fearless
captain sought them out and
found Dr. Adams and Hoyt McMillan
standing on the stern engaged in an
earnest discussion of Einstein's
Theory of Relativity. Col. Spivey
was seated in the saloon waving his
arms backward and forward and
wriggling his fingers so rapidly that,
the bones rattled like an empty wood
wagon. He explained that lie was a
believer in the power of mind over
matter and. that lie had several tons
of mental force tugging on the anchor
rope. He made the thing: so j
simple and attractive that \ve all decided
to use only mental force and
rest our hands and the anchor rope
slid into the sea. No man ever yets
corns on his brain from pulling with
mental force on an anchor rope.
P>y and hy there came to our ears
:i steady staccato sound like the rattling
of clods on a coffin. Finally j
the dim outlines of a vessel in the!
channel were discerned and as t he i
mists of morning cleared away men
were seen moving about her deck.
She threw an anchor overboard and
came to a stop. We shouted for help
and the captain of the other vessel,
The Lofton, shouted back some query
which for a long time we could not
understand. With a shift in tho j
breeze we caught his question:)
"What's the matter, tire trouble?"
To make a long story short the
Shriners of the party got in three
-mall boats and made their way to j
The Lofton, Dr. Adams standing in
the bow of the first small boat with
his arms folded, looked like Washington
on the Deleware, Hoyt McMillan
in the second looked like Napoleon j
on St. Helena and Dan Win.stead in
the third looked like Portland Ned
on Probation. And so the Shriners
sailed on to Charleston in time for
the parade which was featured by j
the appearance of Mr. Stilley with a
dominick rooster under each arm.
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jlog book were left on the Jeanette.
! But why continue the narrative?
I The papers have published full ac!
counts of the convention. It was a
full convention. So far as this log
ibook is concerned the veil of silence
,is drawn over incidents which wise
editors thought it well not to print.
! On the full tide of the afternoon
! the Jeanette was drug off the mud
! by a small tug which squeezed her
i way alongside. Six o'clock this af(tcrnoon
we had made twelve miles
toward Charleston from the fateful
jbay and again the Jeanette flew the
coop and settled down peacefully on
ja mud bank. Night came on and the
. tired crew went to their bunks.
(Editor's Note?For several pages
the record can not be deciphered.
The entries for Friday, Saturday and
jSunday are smeared over by great!
j blotches as though a soft shell crab
might have crawled over the pages.
(Every now and then the words "Gib-'
son" and "Yamasee" can be read.
The hand of the writer was shaken
as though by St. Viti?o dance and it
[ is feared that sea sickness must
(have been upon him. As soon as the
icalm waters of the Waccamaw were
: reached on the return trip from
Charleston the record again resumes.)
We have just passed Bucksville
) headed toward Conway. A meeting
of those on board was held and the
following resolution was unanimously
passed:
Resolved: That we hereby petiticfti
our representatives in Congress to1
jr.se their influence to secure a con-j
version of the inland waterway from
| McClellanville to Charleston into a
highway. We believe that by crushing
the oyster shells in the bottom
of the channel a splendid oyster
shell highway can be constructed in
what is now known as the channel. A
few hills in this channel will have to I
be removed and levelled, but there
will have to be no filling anywhere
along the line. It is high enough
alreadv.
We hereby pledge the assistance of
J. K. Wawsey in removing the oyster
reefs along the route.
What appears to ho a channel is
not. The moral of this story is
that all is not cold that shivers.
LEGAL SALESDAY.
Last Monday was salesday but
there was very little doing at the
courthouse. There was one sale of a
tract of land under execution, and j
one small tract in Simpson Creek'
township advertised under the foreclosure
of a mortgage. Kach of the
tracts brought very small sums of
money. There were very few people
in Conway for salesday. One of the
sales was made by the Clerk of the
Court while the other was made by
the Sheriff of the County.
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Eunice McMillan, the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. O. Hoyt McMillan,
suffered a very painful but not
serious accident Wednesday afternoon,
and was immediately taken to
the Burroughs Hospitul for medical
treatment.
From what the Herald reporter
could learn it seems that the little girl ^
in company with several others, was
plaving in front of the home of Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Ambrose, on Fifth
Avenue, and that she was climbing or
had climbed up a small tree by the
side of the street, and was moving
from one limb to another when she
stepped on a rotten limb which sudden
ly gave way, she falling to the ground
breaking one arm and severely bruising
her head, though it was not
thought she suffered a fractured
skull, yet the accident was considered
by those nearby at the time as very
serious.
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Then the Club Adjourned.
Some one told n Rood C g story nnrt
the Inevitable better one followed.
"We hnd n cat at home," related the
quiet man In the corner, "which was
fond of plnylng with the wife's ball of
wool, one any tno <*nt swallowed It,
iiml some months Inter when kittens
were born they were nil wearing Jump*
ers." ?
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Spooking of tips, n (vise recently
came to our nttendon v\ ere n diner
tendered n smart waitress nn ofTer of
marrlaue, Informing her that he culrl
not nITord to tip waiters, hut If ~he
hnil no objection she might tnke himself.
The tip wns accepted.?Boston
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