THREE YEARS AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 23

THREE YEARS AT SEA

Tliveo years after it was cast from tho Bed "Star liner Belgcnland, homeward bouud to America from a cruiso round the world, a bottle bearing a iti(2ssage and directions to its ■ Under was picked up by a woman at Bottle Creek, Caicos, in the British West Indies, reports the "New York Times." Tho ship was in tho Gulf Stream an April, 1930, when speculation on tho nature and direction of tho stream caused a group of passengers to attempt their,experiment. A pmt champagne bottle was used, its cork being driven in and shaved level with tho glass and a thick layer of scaling wax placed over tho cork. The finder sent the following note: — "Sir, I am a very poor woman and have the care of an invalid husband, so you can imagine how glad I was when I picked up this notes and found that I am to receive a reward for it. God in Heaven will Toward you, for He says .that what you give.to the poor you only lend, to Him." . A sum "substantially in* excess of thn promised .reward lias been .forwarded to tho woman, in the' West Indies.