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A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.

THE FATE WHICH OVERTOOK THE "CITY OF BOSTON."--CAPTAIN MURRAY'S IDEAS
AND EXPERIENCES.

A few years ago, the City of Boston sailed from harbor, crowded with an
expectant throng of passengers bound for a foreign shore.

She never entered port.

The mystery of her untimely end grows deeper as the years increase, and
the Atlantic voyager, when the fierce winds howl around and danger is
imminent on every hand, shudders as the name and mysterious fate of that
magnificent vessel are alluded to.

Our reporter, on a recent visit to New York, took lunch with Captain
George Siddons Murray, on board the Alaska, of the Guion line. Captain
Murray is a man of stalwart built, well-knit frame and cheery, genial
disposition. He has been a constant voyager for a quarter of a century,
over half of that time having been in the trans-Atlantic service. In the
course of the conversation over the well-spread table, the mystery of
the City of Boston was alluded to.

"Yes," remarked the Captain, "I shall never forget the last night we saw
that ill-fated vessel. I was chief officer of the City of Antwerp. On
the day we sighted the City of Boston a furious southeast hurricane set
in. Both vessels labored hard. The sea seemed determined to sweep