the Editor of the "Nowru-Curna Dairy News!
Suy—Your paper of August 20, containing the amazing experiences of the U.S.S, Asheville in the typhoon, has just been received.
Since reading it I have been wondering who on earth supplied your reporter with the story. Possibly the man who supplied the Knife to "cut away the lines holding the awning."
It ly to be hoped that none of Asheville's officers are responsible for the rendering of this account, for, were I one of them I would blush, and hesitate in telling a newspaper, of having ventured within five miles of the vortex of a revolving storm and neglected to have simply isn't done, and besides, a wooden awning, which could not'be furled, largely contributed to the foundering of the str. Alert many years Is the ting, instrument" nearer to Asheville's bridge than the butcher' knife, in the galley? What then if the sailor had valiantly regained the bridge to report, through a me; phone, above the fury of the storm, cook says, "You can... go to ain't genua get no Lastly, the estimation of the velocity is, I think, a trick In fact, shortly after: the arrival of Asheville T heard, on good authority (2) that the wind was estimated to be at 160° m.p.h.
"Tis a good thing, Mr, Editor, that your reporter did not waste too unch time in going on board.
Your paper does not state when ther or not, the "E" pendant was blown away. If not, then, of the fact that this typhoon has, apparently, utterly defeated the one of 1923 itis not to be congratulat-
Thanking and thanking you just the same if you don't.
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.