MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12681, 28 October 1909, Page 1

MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP.

• The fate of the missing liner Warataii still remains a mystery, ajid may i never be thoroughly cleared up. One--1 of tiie most thrilling incidents in con--3 nectjou with the lives of those "who 5 go down to the sea in ships and do - business in great water" istheput- ' ting one to sea in vessels which are 3 never more heard of. There is some--1 tiling truly fascinating about such niysteiies of tlio det-p. An interesting . story is told of ;i ivoiiia-n lrliore son [ mads lus first voyage \u ouc such iil- '_ fatol craft. From the day she set, I out from the home-port (nothing more \ was heard of her, and the woman in J question was left to conjecture for tho . remainder of her days as to what had , really been the fate of her sailor son. , From eonsi.an.tly dwelling upon it, tho . conviction had become firmly estab- . lisJied in her mind that the snip was • not really lost, but was roaming or , drifting about somewhere on tho , waste of waters, and would assured- , r ly return '-'some day," bringing her , bo.v to her arms again. Every day sho : : set a plate and knife on the table in ' readiness for his expected return, and ■ ; would remark to visitors. "He (her son) has not arrived yet. but I expect ] to hear from him in a day or two." It was, of course, a mere delusion, but the poor old woman never failed to believe implicitly in it, nor to lay tho plate and knife on her table. As she. la.v dying m her little cottago on the ooeist, with Uor face towards tin? sea, slip pointed across th<? waters, and with her last breath murmured, "Ho is there! I see him !" In connection with the disappearance of the President a weird little, story is told. It will doubtless be remembered that Tyrone Power, the. famous Adelphi comedian, was on board the vessel. A few days after his departure a gasman at the Adelphi, to whom Power had been very Kind, had a strange experience. Both lie and Jus wito wore aroused from then- .sleep one night by a knocking at the lront door. He went down and opened ,t, and there on the step stood the figure of Tyrone Power, dripping wot! Ho fumed back to call his wile and when ho returned to tho door the. figure was gone! The fasman was so impressed with the iTicidoiit that lie next day related it to Benjamin \\ebstor, the then lessee of the Adelplu.