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"'Steamer Oregon, southeast bound in, apparently in trouble. KEEGAN.'
"An hour later she changed her course and headed for the beach, flying the British ensign union down at masthead - a signal showing great extremity, and I knew she needed assistance at once. Looking about for some one to go to her aid, I saw pilot boat No. 11 and the schooner Fanny Gorham in the offing and signaled both. The sea was quite smooth, and both at once headed for the disabled Oregon. All were so far down the horizon that I could not see the boats which transferred the steamer's passengers to the schooner, but all were got safely on board. The Oregon kept dropping below the sea line all the morn- ing, but whether she was sinking or only drifting I
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could not tell. Later I saw the steamer Fulda come up and take off the rescued passengers from the schooner. As she passed me she signaled, 'Oregon sunk; passengers all saved and on board,' which I at once reported to the office at New York - the first announcement of the disaster given the public. Pilot boat No. 11 - the Phantom - foundered at sea in the blizzard just a year later, and all on board were lost. I also sent her owners the first news of the stranding of the Scotia, which struck on a shelving bar fifteen miles east of here while nearly at full speed. I first saw her headed for the beach about five o'clock in the morning, with both masts gone. Later I made out her name from her signal flag, which was suspended from between her smoke-stacks, and at once reported her plight to her owners, who sent tugs of the Merritt Wrecking Company to pull her off."
"The Hilton Castle foundered off here, did she not ?" "Yes. I saw her the night before, but being only a freight boat I paid no attention to her. She went down during the night. I saw our life-saving crew go out next morning through the surf and bring in one of her boats with eight men in it, and a little later saw a schooner pick up the other boat. These facts I also reported."
Sometimes the operator's duties are of a more grisly character, as when he jots down and flashes over the wires descriptions of dead bodies thrown upon the
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beach by the sea. The other Sunday Capt. John Wicks of the Life-Saving Station came in and reported finding the body of a man on the beach about a mile east of the station, clad in only a shirt and trousers, which had been in the water some eight days. "A clerk, evidently," said the operator, "for he had in his pockets two elastic bands and an eraser such as are used in offices - a well-dressed man, stout, with fea- tures unrecognizable. We cannot tell where he came from, unless from a passing ship -not from New York, certainly, for the prevailing winds of late have been from eastward. There was nothing else in his pockets except part of a copy of the New York World of July 20. We at first thought the body might be that of Hogan, the missing aeronaut, but as the latter made his ascent on the 16th, the paper of the 20th proved that it was not he."
INDEX
INDEX
PAGE
PAGE
Bromley, Capt. Reuben 173
Brower
72
A. D. O. (artist) 37
Adams, Alderman 33
John, Bust of
33
John Q., Bust of 37
Allen
29
Bullus
29
Ethan
122
Commodore 35
America, Young (clipper)
13
Burr, Col. Aaron 51, 53, 66, 81
Anthony 29
82
Attree, Wm. H.
69
Theodosia 81
B
C
Bancker
29
Cadmus (ship)
200
Ebert A.
30 California Gold excitement 7
Barnum, P. T.
53
Callowhill, Family of 75
Battersby, Col. J. C.
9, 11
Calvin, Portrait of 75
Bayard, Nicholas
111
Carroll, Chas., Bust of
38
Beecher, Dr. Lyman 152, 186
Celestial (clipper)
13
Beekman
72
Christian shore (Conn.)
233
Bennett, Jas. Gordon
69
Church
29
Bergh
29
Circassian, Wreck of 183
Bloodgood
29
Clay, Henry, Bust of 37
Bogardus
29 Clinton, De Witt, Bust of
37
Bonaparte, Joseph Napoleon
75
Cobbett, Wm. 149
Booksellers, Old
54
Columbia, Wreck of 243
Booraem,
29
Contest (clipper) 14
Brewster, Capt. Caleb Rev. Nathaniel
230
Cooper, Jas. Fenimore,
88
Bridgeport
Cooperstown (a visit to) 87
74
Briggs, J. I. N. (merchant)
232
Tomb of
229 10 Coxe Family
6
75
Clipper ships
John I. (artist) 36 et seq. Buell, Rev. Samuel, Sketch of 169
A
250
Index
PAGE
PAGE
Gordon, Lord Adam 137
Gouverneur Family 29
Gouverneur, Sam'l L. 32, 33
Greeley, Horace (quoted) 55
Greene, Rev. Zachariah 234
Greenwood & Sons (ship-
builders) 13
Portrait of
76
Deering, Chas. T.
200
Devoe, Fred
144
Dock, Old City
1
Dunlap (artist)
39
Halleck, Fitzgreene 63
Hamilton, Alex., Bust of 42
Harding, Ephraim, Capt. 127
Henry, Sir (race horse) 50
Herald, N. Y., founded 69
Herkimer 98
Herkimer, John Jost 126
Gen. Nicholas 123, 124,127
Hicks, Willet 142
Hilton Castle, Wreck of 245
Hoffman 29
Hollywood Cemetery 33
Holt 29
"Hook" Ferry 50
Hot Corn Venders
47
Howell Bros. & Hunting
200
Fish Family
29
Floyd, Col. Richard 235
Flying Cloud (clipper) 15
Forrest, Edwin, Bust of 37, 43, 67
Franklin, Benjamin 22, 23
French, H. & S. (merchants) 200
G
Gallatin 29
Gardiner, David, Sketch of 174
Lion, Bible of 192 Grave of 168, 190
Gardiner's Island, Sketch of 190 Gile, Rev. John 234
H
E
Eagle, Commodore
34
Easthampton, L. I., Sketch of 149 et seq.
Easthampton Churchyard 167
Eclipse (race horse)
50
Erskine, Sir Wm. 170
Eternal (clipper)
13
F
Fire Island 236
Howland 29
Huggins, Christopher (clock-
maker) 73
Hunter, Col. Robert 96
Hyler Capt. 81
I
Inman, Henry 44
J
James, Rev. Thomas, Sketch of 168
Cuffee, Rev. Paul
186
Curiosity Shop, A New York 72
D
De Groot
79
Griswold
29
Gross
29
251
Index
PAGE
PAGE
Jans, Aneke 75
Jan (portrait) 75
Jefferson, Thos., Bust of 37, 42
Johnson Hall 129 et seq.
Johnson, John, hanged 45, 46
Sir William, Death of 115
His wife 137
House of 129
Sketch of 131
Jones, John Paul 21 et seq.
Thos., captured 229
Jumel Mansion 77 et seq.
K
Keegan, Peter
240
Kevan 29
208
Kidd, Capt., Relics of
193
Kimball, E. W. & Co. (mer- chants)
10
King, Alderman
41
Kip
29
Klyn, De
29
Kneeland
29
& Slate 200
Sam'l, Sketch of 172
Mumford 33
Murphy, Dr. N. S. 9
Museum, American
51
L
Lafayette, Marquis de 21
Bust of
37 to 41
Landais, Pierre de
18, 21, 23
et seq.
Lee, Arthur
24
Nodder, Andrew A.
183
Priest
221
Wesley
144
Leiter
72
Lenox
29
Littell, Rev. William
233
Livingston, Robert
101
Low
29
M
Madison, Jas., Bust of 37
Mallory, Chas. (ship-builder) 13 Marble Cemetery, The 29 Mariner, Capt. 81 Mastic, Fight at 228
McCready, N. L. & Co. (merchants) 10
Mckay, Donald (ship-buil- der) 13
Mershon, Rev. Stephen L., Sermon of 179
Milton, John, Wreck of 177 et seq.
Minthorn, Phillip, Farm 30
Mitchell, Prof. Sam'l L. 38
Moll, John 73
Monroe, Col. Jas. 33
Pres., James, Burial of 31
Montauketts, The 185 Moor's Indian Charity School 186
Morris, Capt. Roger 79
Morton 29
Gen. Jacob 31,34
Mulford, John, Justice 172
Kockerthal, Joshua
93
Tomb and epitaph 108
Kouwenhoven
72
N
New Rochelle 141
New York City (in 1827) 45
Nichols, Percy 30
North, Prof. Edward
124
Northern Light (chipper)
14
O
O'Brian, Lady Susan 137
Kidd, Capt.
252
Index
PAGE
Ockershausen
29
Q
Occum, Rev. Sampson
186
Ogden
29
Old Field Bay
226
Old Man's Harbor
228
Oneida Historical Society
124
Oppermier, Nicholas
74
Oregon, Wreck of
241
Oriskany Monument
123
Battle of
127
Ridabock 29
Richards, E. & Co. (mer- chants) 10
Richmond Hill
81
Robertson, Archibald (ar- tist) 36
Robinson, Beverly
78
French 114
Settle in Mohawk Val- ley 113
Pacific (bark), Outfit of
201
Paez, Gen.
34
Paff, Michael
52
Paine, Thomas, Last home
141 et seq.
Parkinson, J. W.
43
founded
173
Salters
29
Sandman, The
48
Schermerhorn
72
Schuyler, Col. Philip
136
Mrs. Wm.
75
Scoharie, Valley of
109
Percy, Lord 171
Scotia, Wreck of
245
Setauket
232
Setauket Harbor
227
Phillipse, Mary
78
Seventh Regiment
33
Shinnecock Hills
218
Shinnecock Indians
216 et seq.
Simms, Wm. Gilmore
62
Poe, Edgar A.
60
Port Jefferson
225
Porter, Sir Robert
52
Prevoorst
72
Privateersmen, Whaleboat
225
Southampton, L. I., Tales of
206 et seq.
Sovereign of the Seas (clipper) 13
13
S
Sag Harbor, Whalemen of 197
Sailor's Snug Harbor
Paulding, Bust of
39
Payne, John Howard
152, 174
Pell, Alfred
52
Penn, Admiral
75
Pharaoh's, King, Widow Phillip, Rev. George
184
133
Pierson, C. H. & W. (mer- chants)
10
Pirates
4
Six Nations, Council of
136
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a visit to 86
Smith, Jas. (merchant) 10
PAGE
Quackenbos 29
R
Race Horse (clipper) 14
Reid, Lyman 52
P
Palatines, Story of 91 et seq.
Made prisoners by
Roosevelt 29
Russell, Samuel (clipper)
253
Index
PAGE
Staghound (clipper)
13
Van Antwerp
Stanwix, Fort
127
Stony Brook
229
St. Leger, Col.
126
St. Mark's Church
45
St. Patrick's Churchyard
17
Storm
29
Van Wart, Bust of
39
Sunnyside (home of Irving) visited
89
Van Wyck
72, 74
Surf Hotel
237
Surprise (clipper)
13
Sutton, E. B. (merchant)
10
W
Wardle, Thomas (merchant) 10 Warren, Capt. Peter 131
Washington, George
78
Webb 30
W. H. (ship-builder) 13
Weber
72
Tappan
29
Temple, Charlotte
46
Thames (ship)
200
Ticonderoga, Fort at
118
Tier
29
Tilden, Sam'l J.
39
Wilsie, Capt. John
225
Tillotson
29
Topping, Capt. Thomas 211
Williams, Bust of
39
Wimans 30
Wise, O. Jennings 33
42
Woodworth, Samuel Wynkoop 30
V
Van Alen 29
PAGE 29
Van Cortlandt, Dr. Augus- tus 145
Vanderlyn, John (artist) 51
Van Hardenburgh 72
Van Time 30
Van Westervelt . 72
T
Tallmadge, Col. Benj. 228, 233 Rev. Benj. 233
Tammany Hall
53
Webster, Geo. E. (clipper)
14
Weiser, Capt. Conrad 110
Westervelt Jacob (ship-buil- der) 13
Willett
30
William Henry, Fort 121
Tyler, President John 153, 174
John A., Sketch of 174
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