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ere from the Golden Zone mine
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©re carried four pennyweights of
gold to the ton, it was unprofita
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Era of Swift American Clipper Ships
Engaged in China Tea Trade Was One
Of Most Romantic in Maritime History
Most famous of all of the clipper ships, the Flying Cloud made rec
ords which were never equalled. (From Bettman Archive.)
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
I T WAS the year 1860-
more than three-quarters
of a century ago—and the
place was London, England,
at the docks. Men crowded
the wharf, eyes searching the
channel. They jostled each
other, eager to be the first to
announce the coming of the
ship which they awaited.
In the windows of nearby
buildings other men with field
glasses kept watch. A rumor
swept like wildfire through
the crowd “She’s coming,
she’s coming.” But the ru
mor proved false and the
watchers settled themselves
to wait again. They were
joined by scores of others un
til the dock was packed solid
ly with expectant humanity.
Suddenly a cry went up.
“Thar she be, coming down
the channel. The beauty! ”
Moving with infinite grace the
clipper ship, Falcon, was coming
into port, bearing the year’s first
cargo of tea from Foochow,
China, to London. She had made
the voyage in 110 days, beating
her rivals, Ellen Rodgers, Robin
Hood, Chrysolite and Ziba, into
port and so won a fortune for her
owners. Despite the fact the Fal
con was heading for an English
port, she was American-built and
was one of the great line of clip
per ships, constructed on Ameri
can ways, which made sea his
tory.
There is no more dramatic era
of the sea than that of the clipper
ships, an era which was recalled
a few weeks ago by announce
ment of the Tea Bureau, Inc.,
that for the second time in history
this country’s annual imports of
tea had passed the 100,000,000
pound mark.
During the Nineteenth century
the arrival of the first cargo of
new tea into port meant a for
tune for its owner, and the clip
per ship races bore all the ele
ments of great sporting events.
In fact, the races were recorded
on canvas by noted painters of
the day and have since formed
the theme of many books both
of an historic and fictional nature.
So great was the interest of both
tea traders and citizens of London
in the clipper races that they have
been rivaled only by the famous
English derby. It was, in fact,
the clipper races which inspired
another series of historic con
tests of our own time, the Sir
Thomas Lipton yacht races. Often
only the rise and fall of a tide
separated the winner from her
nearest competitor. Upon one oc
casion a race was won by a mat
ter of 20 minutes. This was the
contest between the Taeping and
the Ariel, which became known
as “the great race of 1866.” It
still remains a favorite topic of
conversation in Mincing Lane,
center of the London tea trada,
and inspired both books and
poems.
Record of Flying Cloud.
Greatest of all of the clipper
ships was the American-built Fly
ing Cloud, which established two
records which were never
equalled. The Flying Cloud was
the second extreme clipper de
signed by Donald McKay, who is
credited with being “the man who
made the clipper ship famous.”
His advance production of a ves
sel of the extreme clipper class
proved a notable contribution to
America’s prestige as a maritime
nation. s
The Flying Cloud was launched
in 1851 and was a vessel of 1,782
tons. Although originally built
for the firm of Enoch Train &
Company of Boston, she was sold
while still on the stocks to Grin-
nell Minturn & Company, of New
York. Longfellow’s well-known
poem, “Building of the Ship” with
its often quoted line, “Sail on, O
union strong and great,” is said
to have been inspired by the
launching of the Flying Cloud.
As did many of the early Cali
fornia clipper ships, the Flying
Cloud had to cross the Pacific to
China to get a cargo home. She
made Honolulu in 12 days. On one
of those days, using skysails and
studsails, she covered 374 miles.
The Flying Cloud later accom
plished the run around the Horn
in 89 days and 21 hours, and three
years later she beat her own rec
ord by 13 hours. These records
were never equalled.
Inspired by Baltimore Clippers.
The early clipper ships were in
spired by the swift privateers pro
duced in Baltimore for the War of
1812, and came into being because
of the demand of tea merchants
for fleeter vessels to bring each
season’s new cargoes of tea. Isaac
McKim, Baltimore merchant, is
credited with being the first to
conceive the idea of a three-mast
ed full-rigged vessel built along
the lines of the Baltimore clippers
lor use in the tea trade with China.
In 1832 Mr. McKim had built a
vessel of 493 tons and 143 feet long
which he christened the Anne Mc
Kim. The vessel proved to be one
of the fastest on the China run,
but her carrying capacity was
much smaller than that of slower
vessels.
However, she well served her
purpose since she inspired two
enterprising marine architects,
John Willis Griffiths and Donald
McKay, to design a type of sail
ing vessel from which was evolved
the extreme clipper.
The Anne McKim was followed
by the Rainbow, designed by Grif
fiths and launched in New York
in 1845. The design was so revo
lutionary that argument became
hot as to whether she would float
or sink. But she exceeded even
the hopes of her designer. She
started her maiden voyage to
China in February and was back
in New York in September, hav
ing paid her cost of $45,000 and
returned to her owners, Howland
and Aspinwall, an equal amount
in profit. She did even better on
her second voyage when she made
the round trip so speedily that she
brought back to New York news
of her own arrival in Canton.
Actually she made the round trip
faster than any other ship could
sail one way, 92 days out and 88
days back.
Interestingly enough, it was the
arrival of a cargo of tea on a clip
per ship in 1859 that paved the
way for our modern system of
chain store merchandising and
distribution which has revolution
ized both production and market
ing. A bewhiskered young New
Englander by the name of George
Huntington Hartford purchased a
few chests of tea from a clipper
ship just in port with a new cargo,
dealing directly with the owner
of the tea instead of with a broker
as was then the custom. At this
time, despite its extensive impor
tation, tea was still a luxury item
beyond the reach of the average
citizen, the many hands through
which it passed before reaching
the citizens being largely respon
sible for this high price.
Mr. Hartford put his tea up in
small packages and sold it from
door to door at a fraction of what
it would have cost had the tea
passed through the usual number
of hands on the way to the con
sumer. The venture was so suc
cessful that he tried it again with
a larger purchase of tea and thus
gained the idea for the system of
mass distribution and merchan
dising upon which the oldest and
largest of the nation’s food chains
was founded. Within eight years
after Mr. Hartford's original ven
ture the price of tea had been
brought down to within reach of
the man earning a small liveli
hood.
Methods used in the distribution
of tea proved so popular with the
consumer that they were later
translated into the sale of all oth
er types of food products. Thus
was established the system of
moving goods direct from pro
ducer to consumer in large quan
tities, making possible substan
tial savings.
‘Captains Courageous.’
Captains and crews of the clip
per ships were as colorful as the
ships themselves. Both played
leading roles in the success of a
voyage and the speed with which
the ocean was spanned. Writing
of famous ships of the clipper era,
Richard C. McKay says, “A sail
ing ship is an exceedingly com
plex, sensitive and capricious cre
ation, quite as much so as most
human beings. Her coquetry and
exasperating deviltry have been
the delight and despair of sea
men’s hearts at least since the
days when the wise, though much-
married, Solomon declared that
among the things that were too
wonderful for him and which he
knew not was ‘the way of a ship
in the midst of a sea’.”
One of the most famous of all
of the clipper ship captains was
Robert H. Waterman, first com
mander of the Sea Witch. Cap
tain Waterman was born in New
York May 4, 1808. At the age of
twelve he shipped on a vessel
bound for China. He became mate
on the Britannia under Captain
Charles H. Marshall and speedily
won a reputation for keeping his
vessel in excellent shape as well
as maintaining order among
steerage passengers and crew. At
the age of twenty-five he was made
a captain and in 1843 took com
mand of the Natchez, one of the
full-pooped New Orleans packet
boats which had been built by
Isaac Webb in 1831.
Although the Natchez was
known as an exceptionally slow
ship, Captain Waterman made the
. voyage from Canton to New York
in 78 days, during which he cov
ered 13,955 miles. Upon his ar
rival in New York he was given
an ovation which in those days
was comparable to a typical New
York welcome in honor of a trans-
Atlantic pioneer in aviation.
The owners of the Natchez,
Howland and Aspinwall, were so
favorably impressed by his feat
that they had built for him the
Sea Witch, which was launched
in 1846 and was one of the fleetest
of the clipper ships. Among the
stories growing out of Captain
Waterman’s feats in beating com
peting clippers into port with tea
cargoes was one to the effect that
he “carried sail too hard” and
then put padlocks on the sails in
order to prevent members of his
crew from cutting it away.
Crews of the American clippers
were a polyglot lot with frequent
ly as many as seven nationalities
represented on one ship. It was
said of them that they “worked
like horses at sea and spent their
money like asses ashore.” In
any event, it was ^ commonplace
occurrence before a vessel sailed
for at least half and often times
more members of the crew to be
lifted aboard like sacks, as the
result of too-prolonged celebra
tions on land. Once on board,
however, they were speedily so
bered up and for the duration of
the voyage they rarely if ever saw
any alcoholic beverages.
A Society Event.
Departure of the clippers was
the occasion for a gathering of
smart New York society at Bat
tery Park, which was then a fash
ionable resort. When the vessels
had finished loading cargo they
would drop down to East river
and anchor off the park, usually
under their own sail as tug boats
were both scarce and slow. New
York society went to the park to
hear the sailors sing their sea
chanties which were an important
part of sea life. Songs gave zest
and cheeriness to life aboard ship.
If the crew knocked off chantey-
ing then something was definitely
wrong and the captain started to
worry. These songs originated
early in the Nineteenth century
with negro stevedores in Mobile
and New Orleans, from whom the
sailors aboard the packet boats
learned them.
Rates these clipper ships earned
from New York to Hong Kong
seem almost incredible nowa
days. In 1859 the Samuel Russell
received $60 per ton of 40 cubic
feet. This clipper was registered
as 940 tons and being a sharp ship
could not carry more than 1,200
tons but her freight cargo would
still amount to $72,000. Today
owners of vessels plying from
New York to Hong Kong regard
$12 a ton as a good price.
Opening of the Suez canal in
1869 rang the knell for the clip
per ships since it gave the steam
ships an advantage they had not
possessed when it was necessary
to watch every pound of coal. As
steamships rapidly replaced the
clippers for tea cargoes, the lat
ter drifted into the Australian
trade, where wool gave them an
other opportunity. But the day
of their glory was finished and
their proud traditions waned un
til they were little more than
worn-out freighters toiling through
seas over which they had oac*
held sway.
New York Symphony
The shiny look of the midtown
area Saturday evenings, when it is
drenched with humanity out for a
good time, making the atmosphere
laugh . . . Ships from Nazi-domi
nated nations anchored in the Hud
son river. A whiff of deep tragedy
surrounded by the peaceful, visual
rhapsody that is the Hudson river
sector. The maze of alleyways near
the East river, reeking with mys
tery in the middle of the night, and
wearing a blaring ugliness during
the day . . . The uptown gym urg
ing that you learn jiu-jitsu, to help
our defense program. The instruc
tors are Japanese . . . The trees
in the city’s parks wearing their
autumn make-up. Featuring a tap
estry of colors that makes your eves
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The orgy of silence cloaking Riv
erside drive at midnight, sprinkled
with lovers slipping into the deep
quiet without hurting it . . . Starv
ing actors making the rounds of
booking agents housed in the mil-
lion-dollar Radio City edifices . . .
The workers in the subway change
booths gripped by the clutches of
boredom, looking into nowhere . . .
The Times building electricks flash
ing the news of the world to a
Broadway that makes • news every
moment.
The cut-rate book shops that sell
classics for two-bits and cheap song-
sheets for the same price . . . The
fame and fortune starved, drinking
in and enjoying the jeweled first-
nighters during intermissions. They
seem to be happier than the first-
nighters they long to be.
Old, posy-selling ladies, wearing
their sadness uncomfortably, desir
ing to brighten your life with a few
of their flowers . . . The entertain
ers in the knick-knack nightclubs,
whose make-believe makes other
people happy, haunting the cafete
rias after work, trying to make-
believe they are gay . . . Doormen
in front of theaters wearing million-
dollar uniforms with lead quarter
jobs, shouting at no one in particu
lar at the top of their voices . . .
The great gabfest continually going
on between Greenwich Village intel
lectuals at musty bars. When they
get done with a subject, it’s a nerv
ous wreck . . . The 14-karat love
lies who came to the city to sit on
the success throne, and are grate
ful to get jobs as waitresses.
Painting the top and bottom cel
lar steps white may save many
falls.
• • •
Apples peeled, cored and baked
in pineapple juice make a new
and tempting dish.
• * *
Mud stains leather and there
fore should be removed from
shoes as promptly as possible.
* * *
Protect the mattress from tear
ing and from dust by a muslin
mattress cover, and by placing a
mattress pad between the spring
and the mattress.
* • •
To brighten aluminum utensils
that have been darkened by water,
fill with water containing one or
two teaspoons of cream of tartar
for each quart of water used, and
boil until pan is brightened.
* • *
Baking soda is one of the best
known agents for cleaning glass
ware.
• • •
If cream is too thin to whip, try
adding the unbeaten white of an
egg.
• • •
Use a clean sheet of wrapping
paper to roll pies and pastry on.
It saves a lot of cleaning up later.
• • *
To clean a soapstone sink wash
with ammonia and let stand for 12
hours. Then rub over with linseed
oil and your sink will be lovely
and bright. If grease accumulates
again, rub over with a strong am
monia solution.
The coffee-pot philosophers, com
posed of cabbies, musicians, wait
ers and other night workers, who
enjoy themselves thrashing out
world problems over a cupacawfee
during the 3-to-5 ayems . . *. The
skyscrapers and the sunrise tinted
with colors of silent music. Na
ture’s thrilling overture to a new
day . . . Cloudy-eyed successes
sprawled across Lindy’s chairs, dis
cussing their worries and troubles.
And the tourists, who see them and
drool with envy—for “such a won
derful existence” . . . The fairy
land skyline, ultra-thrilling when
you see it from the ferry, wearing a
shiny coat of moonglow ... A lone
ly plane racing over the city, its
landing lights looking like moving
jewels against the night-time sky.
The movie theaters around town
giving away all kinds of things to
attract patrons—except entertain
ment . . . The sheer artistry with
which bus drivers maneuver the gi
gantic things through the maze of
downtown traffic . . . The so-whatty
craze that afflicts almost everybody
at this time of the year—guessing
football results . . . The organ
grinder with the monkey that is al
ways in films about New York as
something typical of the city, but
we haven’t seen one for years . . .
The soapboxer down at Union
square making the air shiver from
his growls about the “recession.”
Remember how popular that word
used to be? Why don’t these bores
get a new act?
Broadway at five ayem: When
all its throbbing excitement has
boiled down to a murmuring hush
. . . The new rubber tires on milk
wagons, a blessing to light sleep
ers . . . The antique shop on Third
Ave. It has a picture of Ben Bernie
in the window . . . The continuous
sleight-of-tongue by auctioneers who
blah-blah about a 10-cent item with
as much fervor as if they were run
ning for public office . . . The
whacky intolerance of an uptown
barber shop. They have a sign in
the window announcing that they
don’t give haircuts to red heads.
Ever hear of anything dopier than
that?
The castle-like Fifth Ave. library
reading room filled with unemployec
drinking knowledge . . . Broad
way’s blood-stream—the amazin*
lights that decorate a sector fillef
with the cheapest kind of honky
tonk establishments . . . The eeri<
quiet running wild throughout Get
tral park during the wee hours. 1
is the perfect atmosphere for lov
or crime . . . Poverty-stricken hi
man zeros draping the Bower'
Probably all of them have a valu-
ble novel locked in their lives .
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Bronchitis
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trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem- -
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Beauty and Sadness
Beauty and sadness always go
together. Nature thought Beauty
too rich to go forth upon the earth
without a meet alloy.—George
MacDonald.
For OnlV 10/Now
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Being Contented
To the contented, even poverty
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