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HONORS MEMORY OF FRIENDAnnual Tribute Provee How 8trong Wat the Attachment Between Two Opposite Characters.No finer tribute to the friendship that existed between two men was ever paid than the silent tribute which Captain Henry C. Hathaway, the veteran whaling skipper of New Bedford, pays each Decoration day to his friend John Boyle O'Reilly, who died In 1890.For 20 years this sea captain has been coming up from New Bedford each Memorial day to lay a wreath on the grave of his friend In Holyhood cemetery. Brookline, Mass., and this year. In company with Judge M. C. Murray, he performed the same duty —for It long ago became a duty with him.It was Captain Hathaway who aided John Boyle O’Reilly to escape from the British penal colony at Bunbury. Australia, In 1869.There Is something romantic and very much out of the ordinary In this friendship of those two men who met as total strangers—O’Reilly, a hunted felon In the Australian bush, and Henry C. Hathaway, first mate of the whaling bark Gazelle from New Bedford. He took his own life In his hands the day he rescued O’Reilly, and he saved the latter from death on two occasions thereafter.
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Ordway New Era
Ordway, Colorado, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1910
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