Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1915 — BLAMES CAT FOR SHIPS LOSS [ARTICLE]

BLAMES CAT FOR SHIPS LOSS

Captain Saya Feline on Schooner Was Cause of Collision Off Hatters*. Newport News, Va. —Capt. Roland F. Quillen, whose three-masted schooner William J. Quillen, was sunk off Cape Hatteras, after a collision with the Norwegian steamer Laly, never again will take a cat to sea. He attributed the accident, which' nearly cost his life and the lives of the eight members of his Crew, to a gray cat which he had aboard. ‘-I’ve shipped for 25 years, and always have taken along dogs,” Captain Quillen said. “Just before I started from Baltimore for Mayport, Fla., somebody Stole my dog. So I got a cat, a gray cat. Cats are bad luck, I guess. This was my first accident The cat was lost" * -v :