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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hero of the Humber, by Henry Woodcock
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+Title: The Hero of the Humber
+       or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
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+Author: Henry Woodcock
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+THE
+
+HERO OF THE HUMBER;
+
+OR, THE
+
+HISTORY OF THE LATE
+
+MR. JOHN ELLERTHORPE
+
+(FOREMAN OF THE HUMBER DOCK GATES, HULL),
+
+BEING A RECORD OF
+
+REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN HIS CAREER AS A SAILOR; HIS CONVERSION AND
+CHRISTIAN USEFULNESS; HIS UNEQUALLED SKILL AS A SWIMMER, AND HIS
+EXPLOITS ON THE WATER, WITH A MINUTE ACCOUNT OF HIS DEEDS OF DARING IN
+SAVING, WITH HIS OWN HANDS, ON SEPARATE AND DISTINCT OCCASIONS, UPWARDS
+OF FORTY PERSONS FROM DEATH BY DROWNING: TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS
+LAST AFFLICTION, DEATH, ETC.
+
+BY THE
+
+REV. HENRY WOODCOCK,
+
+AUTHOR OF 'POPERY UNMASKED,' 'WONDERS OF GRACE,' ETC.
+
+    'My tale is simple and of humble birth,
+    A tribute of respect to real worth.'
+
+
+SECOND EDITION.
+
+
+LONDON:
+
+_S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row; Wesleyan Book Room, 66,
+Paternoster Row; Primitive Methodist Book Room, 6, Sutton Street,
+Commercial Road, E.; and of all Booksellers._
+
+1880.
+
+
+
+
+ALFORD:
+
+J. HORNER, PRINTER,
+
+MARKET-PLACE.
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+THE SEAMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN,
+
+TO WHOSE
+
+SKILL, COURAGE, AND ENDURANCE,
+
+ENGLAND OWES MUCH OF HER GREATNESS,
+
+THIS VOLUME--
+
+CONTAINING A RECORD OF THE CHARACTER AND DEEDS OF ONE,
+
+WHO, FOR UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS,
+
+BRAVED THE HARDSHIPS AND PERILS OF A SAILOR'S LIFE,
+
+AND
+
+WHOSE GALLANTRY AND HUMANITY
+
+WON FOR HIM THE TITLE
+
+OF
+
+'THE HERO OF THE HUMBER,'
+
+IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
+
+WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER
+
+THAT THEY MAY EMBRACE THAT BENIGN RELIGION
+
+WHICH NOT ONLY RESCUED THE 'HERO' FROM THE EVILS IN WHICH
+
+HE HAD SO LONG INDULGED,
+
+AND ENRICHED HIM WITH THE GRACES OF THE
+
+CHRISTIAN CHARACTER,
+
+BUT ALSO GAVE
+
+A BRIGHTER GLOW AND GREATER ENERGY
+
+TO THAT
+
+COURAGE, GALLANTRY, AND HUMANITY
+
+BY WHICH HE HAD BEEN LONG DISTINGUISHED.
+
+THE AUTHOR.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+TO THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+
+Mr. Gladstone, in a recent lecture thus defines a hero: quoting Latham's
+definition of a hero,--'a man eminent for bravery,' he said he was not
+satisfied with that, because bravery might be mere animal bravery.
+Carlyle had described Napoleon I. as a great hero. 'Now he (Mr.
+Gladstone) was not prepared to admit that Napoleon was a hero. He was
+certainly one of the most extraordinary men ever born. There was more
+power concentrated in that brain than in any brain probably born for
+centuries. That he was a great man in the sense of being a man of
+transcendent power, there was no doubt; but his life was tainted with
+selfishness from beginning to end, and he was not ready to admit that a
+man whose life was fundamentally tainted with selfishness was a hero. A
+greater hero than Napoleon was the captain of a ship which was run down
+in the Channel three or four years ago, who, when the ship was
+quivering, and the water was gurgling round her, and the boats had been
+lowered to save such persons as could be saved, stood by the bulwark
+with a pistol in his hand and threatened to shoot dead the first man who
+endeavoured to get into the boat until every woman and child was
+provided for. His true idea of a hero was this:--A hero was a man who
+must have ends beyond himself, in casting himself as it were out of
+himself, and must pursue these ends by means which were honourable, the
+lawful means, otherwise he might degenerate into a wild enthusiast. He
+must do this without distortion or disturbance of his nature as a man,
+because there were cases of men who were heroes in great part, but who
+were so excessively given to certain ideas and objects of their own,
+that they lost all the proportion of their nature. There were other
+heroes, who, by giving undue prominence to one idea, lost the just
+proportion of things, and became simply men of one idea. A man to be a
+hero must pursue ends beyond himself by legitimate means. He must pursue
+them as a man, not as a dreamer. Not to give to some one idea
+disproportionate weight which it did not deserve, and forget everything
+else which belonged to the perfection and excellence of human nature. If
+he did all this he was a hero, even if he had not very great powers; and
+if he had great powers, then he was a consummate hero.'
+
+Now, if we cannot claim for the late Mr. Ellerthorpe 'great powers' of
+intellect, we are quite sure that all who read the following pages will
+agree that the title bestowed upon him by his grateful and admiring
+townsman,--'The Hero of the Humber,' was well and richly deserved. He
+was a 'Hero,' though he lived in a humble cottage. He was a man of
+heroic sacrifices; his services were of the noblest kind; he sought the
+highest welfare of his fellow-creatures with an energy never surpassed;
+his generous and impulsive nature found its highest happiness in
+promoting the welfare of others. He is held as a benefactor in the fond
+recollection of thousands of his fellow countrymen, and he received
+rewards far more valuable and satisfying than those which his Queen and
+Government bestowed upon him: more lasting than the gorgeous pageantries
+and emblazoned escutcheon that reward the hero of a hundred battles.
+
+    The warrior's deeds may win
+      An earthly fame, but deeds by mercy wrought,
+    Are heaven's own register within:
+      Not one shall be forgot.
+
+The scene of most of his gallant exploits in rescuing human lives was
+'The river Humber;' hence the title given him by a large gathering of
+his fellow townsmen.
+
+The noble river Humber, upon which the town of Kingston-upon-Hull is
+seated, may be considered the Thames of the Midland and Northern
+Counties of England. It divides the East Riding of Yorkshire from
+Lincolnshire, during the whole of its course, and is formed by the
+junction of the Ouse and the Trent. At Bromfleet, it receives the little
+river Foulness, and rolling its vast collection of waters eastward, in a
+stream enlarged to between two and three miles in breadth, washes the
+town of Hull, where it receives the river of the same name. Opposite to
+Hedon and Paul, which are a few miles below Hull, the Humber widens into
+a vast estuary, six or seven miles in breadth, and then directs it's
+course past Great Grimsby to the German Ocean, which it enters at Spurn
+Head. No other river system collects waters from so many important towns
+as this famous stream. 'The Humber,' says a recent writer, 'resembling
+the trunk of a vast tree spreading its branches in every direction,
+commands, by the numerous rivers which it receives, the navigation and
+trade of a very extensive and commercial part of England.'
+
+The Humber, between its banks, occupies an area of about one hundred and
+twenty-five square miles. The rivers Ouse and Trent which, united, form
+the Humber, receive the waters of the Aire, Calder, Don, Old Don,
+Derwent, Idle, Sheaf, Soar, Nidd, Yore, Wharfe, &c., &c.
+
+From the waters of this far-famed river--the Humber--Mr. Ellerthorpe
+rescued thirty-one human beings from drowning.
+
+For the rapid sale of 3,500 copies of the 'Life of the Hero,' the Author
+thanks a generous public. A series of articles extracted from the first
+edition appeared in '_Home Words_.' An illustrated article also appears
+in Cassell's '_Heroes of Britain in Peace and War_,' in which the writer
+speaks of the present biography as '_That very interesting book in which
+the history of Ellerthorpe's life is told_. (P. 1. 2. PART XI.) The
+Author trusts that the present edition, containing an account of '_The
+Hero's_' last affliction, death, funeral, etc., will render the work
+additionally interesting.
+
+                    THE WRITER.
+
+     _53, Leonard Street, Hull, Aug. 4th, 1880._
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAP.                                                        PAGE
+
+I.    His wicked and reckless career                            1
+
+II.   His conversion and inner experience                       6
+
+III.  His Christian labours                                    14
+
+IV.   His staunch teetotalism                                  22
+
+V.    His bold adventures on the water                         31
+
+VI.   His method of rescuing the drowning                      44
+
+VII.  His gallant and humane conduct in rescuing the drowning  51
+
+VIII. The honoured hero                                        95
+
+IX.   His general character, death, etc.                      116
+
+X.    The hero's funeral                                      122
+
+
+
+
+The Hero of the Humber.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+HIS WICKED AND RECKLESS CAREER AS A SAILOR.
+
+
+The fine old town of Hull has many institutions of which it is
+deservedly proud. There is the Charter house, a monument of practical
+piety of the days of old. There is the Literary and Philosophical
+Institute, with its large and valuable library, and its fine museum,
+each of which is most handsomely housed. There is the new Town Hall, the
+work of one of the town's most gifted sons. There is the tall column
+erected in honour of Wilberforce, in the days when the representatives
+of the law were expected to obey the laws, and when the cultivation of a
+philanthropic feeling towards the negro had not gone out of fashion.
+There is the Trinity House, with its magnificent endowments, which have
+for more than five centuries blessed the mariners of the port, and which
+is now represented by alms-houses, so numerous, so large, so externally
+beautiful, and so trimly kept as to be both morally and architecturally
+among the noblest ornaments of the town. There is the Port of Hull
+Society, with its chapel, its reading-rooms, its orphanage, its seaman's
+mission, all most generously supported. There is that leaven of ancient
+pride which also may be classed among the institutions of the place,
+and which operates in giving to a population by no means wealthy a habit
+of respectability, and a look for the most part well-to-do. But among
+none of these will be found the institution to which we are about to
+refer. The institution that we are to-day concerned to honour is
+compact, is self-supporting, is eminently philanthropic, has done more
+good with very limited means than any other, and is so much an object of
+legitimate pride, that we have pleasure in making this unique
+institution more generally known. A life-saving institution that has in
+the course of a few brief years rescued about fifty people from
+drowning, and that has done so without expectation of reward, deserves
+to be named, and the name of this institution is simply that of a
+comparatively poor man--John Ellerthorpe, dock gatekeeper, at the
+entrance of the Humber Dock.'
+
+Such was the strain in which the _Sheffield Daily Telegraph_, in a
+Leader (March 17th, 1868), spoke of the character and doings of him whom
+a grateful and admiring town entitled 'The Hero of the Humber.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS NATIVITY.]
+
+He was born at Rawcliffe, a small village near Snaith, Yorkshire, in the
+year 1806. His ancestors, as far as we can trace them, were all
+connected with the sea-faring life. His father, John Ellerthorpe, owned
+a 'Keel' which sailed between Rawcliffe and the large towns in the West
+Riding of Yorkshire, and John often accompanied him during his voyages.
+His mother was a woman of great practical sagacity and unquestionable
+honesty and piety, and from her young John extended many of the high and
+noble qualities which distinguished his career. Much of his childhood,
+however, was passed at the 'Anchor' public house, Rawcliffe, kept by his
+paternal grandmother, where he early became an adept swearer and a lover
+of the pot, and for upwards of forty years--to use his own language--he
+was 'a drunken blackard.'
+
+When John was ten years of age his father removed to Hessle. About this
+time John heard that flaming evangelist, the Rev. William Clowes, preach
+near the 'old pump' at Hessle, and he retired from the service with good
+resolutions in his breast, and sought a place of prayer. Soon after he
+heard the famous John Oxtoby preach, and he says, 'I was truly converted
+under his sermon, and for sometime I enjoyed a clear sense of
+forgiveness.' His mother's heart rejoiced at the change; but from his
+father, who was an habitual drunkard, he met with much opposition and
+persecution, and being but a boy, and possessing a very impressionable
+nature, John soon joined his former corrupt associates and cast off, for
+upwards of thirty years, even the form of prayer.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS LOVE OF THE WATER.]
+
+Ellerthorpe was born with a passion for salt water. He was reared on the
+banks of a well navigated river, the Humber, and, in his boyhood, he
+liked not only to be on the water, but _in_ it. He also accompanied his
+father on his voyages, and when left at home he spent most of his time
+in the company of seamen, and these awakened within him the tastes and
+ambition of a sailor. He went to sea when fourteen years of age, and for
+three years sailed in the brig 'Jubilee,' then trading between Hull and
+London. The next four years were spent under Captain Knill, on board of
+the 'Westmoreland,' trading between Hull and Quebec, America. Afterwards
+he spent several years in the Baltic trade. When the steam packet,
+'Magna Charter,' began to run between Hull and New Holland, John became
+a sailor on board and afterwards Captain of the vessel. He next became
+Captain of a steamer that ran between Barton and Hessle. He then sailed
+in a vessel between Hull and America. In 1845, he entered the service of
+the Hull Dock Company, in which situation he remained up to the time of
+his death.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS YOUTHFUL CAREER.]
+
+Fifty years ago our sailors, generally speaking, were a grossly wicked
+class of men. A kind of special license to indulge in all kinds of sin
+was given to the rough and hardy men whose occupation was on the mighty
+deep. Landsmen, while comfortably seated round a winter's fire,
+listening to the storm and tempest raging without, were not only struck
+with amazement at the courage and endurance of sailors in exposing
+themselves to the elements, but, influenced by their imagination,
+magnified the energy and bravery that overcame them. Peasants gazed with
+wild astonishment on the village lad returned, after a few years
+absence, a veritable 'Jack tar.' The credulity of these delighted
+listeners tempted Jack to 'spin his yarns,' and tell his tales of
+nautical adventures, real or imaginary. Hence, he was everywhere greeted
+with a genial and profuse hospitality. The best seat in the house, the
+choicest drinks in the cellar, were for Jack. Our ships of commerce,
+like so many shuttles, were rapidly weaving together the nations of the
+earth in friendly amity. Besides, a romantic sentiment and feeling,
+generated to a great extent by the victories which our invincible navy
+had won during the battles of the Nile, and perpetuated by Nelson's
+sublime battle cry, 'England expects every man to do his duty,' helped
+to swell the tide of sympathy in favour of the sailor. Under these
+circumstances Jack became Society's indulged and favoured guest; and yet
+he remained outside of it. 'Peculiarities incident to his profession,
+and which ought to have been corrected by education and religion, became
+essential features of character in the public mind. A sailor became an
+idea--a valuable menial in the service of the commonwealth, but as
+strange and as eccentric in his habits as the walk of some amphibious
+animal, or web-footed aquatic on land. To purchase a score of watches,
+and to fry them in a pan with beer, to charter half a dozen coaches, and
+invite foot passengers inside, while he 'kept on deck,' or in any way to
+scatter his hard earnings of a twelvemonth in as many hours, was
+considered frolicsome thoughtlessness, which was more than compensated
+by the throwing away of a purse of gold to some poor woman in distress.'
+Land-sharks and crimps beset the young sailor in every sea port; low
+music halls and dingy taverns and beer shops presented their
+attractions; and there the 'jolly tars' used to swallow their poisonous
+compounds, and roar out ribald songs, and dance their clumsy fandangoes
+with the vilest outcasts of society. 'It is a necessary evil,' said
+some; 'it is the very nature of sailors, poor fellows.' While the
+thoughtless multitude were immensely tickled with Jack's mad antics and
+drolleries. Generous to a fault to all who were in need, Jack's motto
+was:--
+
+    While there's a shot in the locker, a messmate to bless,
+    It shall always be shared with a friend in distress.
+
+[Sidenote: JACK'S FROLICS.]
+
+Amid such scenes as these our friend spent a great portion of his youth
+and early manhood. The loud ribald laugh, the vile jest and song, the
+midnight uproar, the drunken row, the flaunting dress and impudent
+gestures of the wretched women who frequent our places of ungodly
+resort--amid such scenes as these, did he waste his precious time and
+squander away much of his hard earned money. But though a wild and
+reckless sailor, his warm and generous heart was ever impelling him to
+noble and generous deeds. If he sometimes became the dupe of the
+designing, and indulged in the wild revelry of passion, at other times
+he gave way to an outburst of generosity bordering on prodigality,
+relieving the necessities of the poor, or true to the instincts of a
+British tar standing up to redress the wrongs of the oppressed.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+HIS CONVERSION AND INNER EXPERIENCE.
+
+
+When far away on the sea, and while mingling in all the dissipated
+scenes of a sailor's life, John would sometimes think of those youthful
+days--the only sunny spot in his life's journey--when he 'walked in the
+fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost.' Serious thoughts
+would rise in his mind, and those seeds of truth, sown in his heart
+while listening to Clowes and Oxtoby, and which for years seemed dead,
+would be quickened into life. He had often wished to hear Mr. Clowes
+once more, and on seeing a placard announcing that he would preach at
+the opening of the Nile Street Chapel, Hull (1846), he hastened home,
+and, sailor-like, quaintly observed to his wife, 'Why that old Clowes is
+living and is going to preach. Let's go and hear him.' On the following
+Sunday he went to the chapel, but it was so many years since he had been
+to God's house that he now felt ashamed to enter, and for some minutes
+he wandered to and fro in front of the chapel. At length he ventured to
+go in, and sat down in a small pew just within the door. His mind was
+deeply affected, and ere the next Sabbath he had taken two sittings in
+the chapel.
+
+About this time, the Rev. Charles Jones, of blessed memory, began his
+career as a missionary in Hull. He laboured during six years, with great
+success, in the streets, and yards, and alleys of the town; and scores
+now in heaven and hundreds on their way thither, will, through all
+eternity, have to bless God that Primitive Methodism ever sent him to
+labour in Hull. The Rev. G. Lamb prepared the people to receive him by
+styling him 'a bundle of love.' John went to hear him, and charmed by
+his preaching and allured by the grace of God, his religious feelings
+were deepened. Soon after this, and through the labours of Mr. Lamb, he
+obtained peace with God, and I have heard him say at our lovefeasts,
+'Jones knocked me down, but it was Mr. Lamb that picked me up.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS SERIOUS IMPRESSIONS.]
+
+[Sidenote: HIS CONVERSION.]
+
+Being invited by two Christian friends to attend a class meeting on the
+following Sabbath morning, he went. As he sat in that old room in West
+Street Chapel, a thousand gloomy thoughts and fearful apprehensions
+crossed his mind, and casting many a glance towards the door, he '_felt
+as though he must dart out_.' But when Mr. John Sissons, the leader of
+the class, said, with his usual kind smile and sympathizing look:--'I'm
+glad to see you,' and then proceeded to give him suitable council and
+encouragement, John's heart melted and his eyes filled with tears; and,
+on being invited to repeat his visit on the following Sabbath, he at
+once consented. One of the friends who had accompanied him to the class,
+said, 'Now God has sown the seed of grace in your heart and the enemy
+will try to sow tares, but if you resist the devil he will flee from
+you,' and scarcely had John left the room _ere the battle began_. 'Oh,
+what a fool' he thought, 'I was to promise to go again,' and when he got
+home he said to his wife, 'I've been to class, and what is worse, I have
+promised to go again, and I dar'nt run off.' Mrs. Ellerthorpe, who had
+begun to watch with some interest her husband's struggles, wisely
+replied, 'Go, for you cannot go to a better place, I intend to go to Mr.
+Jones' class.' All the next week John was in great perplexity, thinking,
+'What can I say if I go? If I tell them the same tale I told them last
+week they will say I've got it off by memory.' On the following Sabbath
+morning he was in the street half resolved not to go to class, when he
+thought, 'Did'nt my friend say the devil would tempt me and that I was
+to resist him? Perhaps it is the devil that is filling me with these
+distressing feelings, but I'll resist him,' and, suiting his action to
+his words, in a moment, John was seen darting along the street at his
+utmost speed; nor did he pause till, panting and almost breathless, he
+found himself seated in the vestry of the Primitive Methodist Chapel,
+West Street. He regarded that meeting as the turning point in his
+spiritual history, and in the review it possessed to him an undying
+charm. There a full, free, and present salvation was pressed on the
+people. The short way to the cross was pointed out. The blessedness of
+the man whose transgression is forgiven was realized. The direct and
+comforting witness of the Holy Spirit to the believer's adoption was
+proclaimed. And there believers were exhorted to grow richer in holiness
+and riper in knowledge every day. And while John sat and listened to
+God's people, he felt a divine power coming down from on high, which he
+could not comprehend, but which, however, he joyously experienced. He
+joined the class that morning and continued a member five years, when he
+became connected with our new chapel in Thornton Street. Around these
+services in the old vestry at West Street, cluster the grateful
+recollections of many now living and of numbers who have crossed the
+flood. How often has that room resounded with the cries of penitent
+sinners and the songs of rejoicing believers?
+
+[Sidenote: VISITS HIS MOTHER.]
+
+Soon after our friend had united himself with the people of God he paid
+a visit to his mother, who was in a dying state. It was on a beautiful
+Sabbath morning, in the month of June, and while walking along the road,
+between Hull and Hessle, and reflecting on the change he had
+experienced, he was filled 'unutterably full of glory and of God.' That
+morning, with its glorious visitation of grace, he never forgot. His
+soul had new feelings; his heart throbbed with a new, a strange, a
+divine joy. Peace reigned within and all around was lovely. The sun
+seemed to shine more brightly, and the birds sang a sweeter song. The
+flowers wore a more beautiful aspect, and the very grass seemed clothed
+in a more vivid green. It was like a little heaven below. 'As I walked
+along,' he says, 'I shouted, glory, glory, glory, and I am sure if a
+number of sinners had heard me they would have thought me mad.'
+
+But was he mad? Did not the pentecostal converts 'eat their meat with
+gladness and singleness of heart, praising God?' Did not the converts in
+Samaria 'make great joy in the city?' Did not the Ethiopian Eunuch,
+having obtained salvation, '_go on his way rejoicing_?' And Charles
+Wesley, four days after his conversion, thus expressed the joy he felt--
+
+    I rode on the sky so happy was I,
+      Nor envied Elijah his seat;
+    My soul mounted higher in a chariot of fire
+      As the moon was under my feet.
+
+And surely God's people have as much right to give utterance to their
+joy as the dupes of the devil have to give expression to theirs; and
+though the religion of the Saviour requires us to surrender many
+pleasures and endure peculiar sorrows, yet it is, supremely, the
+religion of peace, joy, and overflowing gladness.
+
+Mr. Ellerthorpe was never guilty of proclaiming with the trumpet tongue
+of a Pharisee, either what he felt or did, and though he kept a
+carefully written diary, extending over several volumes, and the reading
+of which has been a great spiritual treat to the writer of this
+book,--revealing, as it does, the secret of that intense earnestness,
+unbending integrity, active benevolence, and readiness for every good
+word and work by which our friend's religious career was
+distinguished,--yet of that diary our space will permit us to make but
+the briefest use. Take the following extracts:--
+
+'January 1, 1852.--I, John Ellerthorpe, here in the presence of my God,
+before whom I bow, covenant to live nearer to Him than I have done in
+the year that has rolled into eternity.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS PIOUS RESOLUTIONS.]
+
+Resolutions.
+
+'1st. I will bow three times a day in secret.
+
+2nd. I will attend all the means of grace I can.
+
+3rd. I will visit what sick I can.
+
+4th. I will speak ill of no man.
+
+5th. I will hear nothing against any man, especially those who belong to
+the same society.
+
+6th. I will respect all men, especially Christians.
+
+7th. I will pray for a revival.
+
+8th. I will guard against all bad language and ill feeling.
+
+9th. I will never speak rash to any man.
+
+10th. I will be honest in all my dealings.
+
+11th. I will always speak the truth.
+
+12th. I will never contract a debt without a proper prospect of payment.
+
+13th. I will read three chapters of the Bible daily.
+
+14th. I will get all to class I possibly can.
+
+15th. I will set a good example before all men, and especially my own
+family.
+
+16th. I will not be bound for any man.
+
+17th. I will not argue on scripture with any man.
+
+18th. I will endeavour to improve my time.
+
+19th. I will endeavour to be ready every moment.
+
+20th. I will leave all my concerns in the hands of my God, for Christ's
+sake. All these I intend, by the help of my God, diligently to perform.'
+
+That he always carried out these resolutions is more than his diary will
+warrant us to say. He sometimes missed the mark, and came short of his
+aim. He suffered from a certain hastiness of temper, and ruggedness of
+disposition, which, to use his own words, 'cost him a vast deal of
+watching and praying. But the Lord,' he adds, 'has helped me in a
+wonderful manner, and I believe I shall reap if I faint not.' The
+following extracts from his diary will give some idea of his inner
+experience:--
+
+[Sidenote: HIS DIARY.]
+
+[Sidenote: HIS INNER EXPERIENCE.]
+
+'_January 1850. 5th._--I feel the hardness of my heart and the
+littleness of my love, yet I am in a great degree able to deny myself to
+take up my cross to follow Christ through good and evil report.
+_7th._--I feel that I am growing in grace and that I have more power
+over temptation, and over myself than I had some time since, but I want
+the witness of full sanctification. _8th._--What is now the state of my
+mind? Do I now enjoy an interest in Christ? Am I a child of God? It is
+suggested by Satan that I am guilty of many imperfections. I know it,
+but I know also if any man sin, etc. _Feb. 18th._--I feel my heart is
+very hard and stubborn, that I am proud and haughty and very bad
+tempered, but God can, and I believe he will, break my rocky heart in
+pieces. _March 3rd._--This has been a good Sabbath; we had a good prayer
+meeting at 7 o'clock, a profitable class at 9, in the school the Lord
+was with us, and the preaching services were good. _4th._--Last night I
+had a severe attack of my old complaint and suffered greatly for many
+hours, but I called upon God and he delivered me. _16th._--I am in good
+health, for which, and the use of my reason, and all the blessings that
+God bestows upon me, I am thankful. I am unworthy of the least of them.
+O that I could love God ten thousand times more than I do; for I feel
+ashamed of myself that I love him so little. _19th._--I am ill in body
+but well in soul. The flesh may give way, and the devil may tempt me,
+and all hell may rage, yet I believe the Lord will bring me through.
+_April 6th._--To-day, in the haste of my temper, I called a man a liar.
+I now feel that I did wrong in the sight of God and man. I am deeply
+sorry. May God forgive me, and may I sin no more. _May 6th._--O God make
+me faithful and give to thy servant the spirit of prayer. Like David, I
+want to resolve, "Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth"; like Mary I
+want to "ponder these things in my heart"; like the Bereans I want to
+"search the scriptures" daily and in the spirit of Samuel to say "Speak,
+Lord; for thy servant heareth." _May 20th._--I am at Hessle feast, and
+thank God it has been a feast to my soul. I have attended one prayer
+meeting, two class meetings, three preaching services. Bless God for
+these means of grace. My little book is full and I do trust I am a
+better man than when I began to write my diary. _29th._--My dear wife is
+very ill, but the Lord does all things well. I know that He can, and
+believe that He will, raise her up again and that the affliction of her
+body will turn to the salvation of her soul. _30th._--I am now laid
+under fresh obligations to God. He has given me another son. May he be a
+goodly child, like Moses, and grow up to be a man after God's own heart.
+_July 3rd._--This day the Victoria docks have been opened. It has been a
+day of trial and conflict, for I ran the Packet into a Schooner and did
+L10 damage. It was a trial of my faith, and through the assistance of
+God I overcame. _August 20th._--Sunday.--How thankful I am that God has
+set one day in seven when we can get away from the wear and tear of life
+and worship Him under our own vine and fig tree none daring to make us
+afraid. It is all of God's wisdom, and mercy, and goodness. _September
+11th._--To-night I put my wife's name in the class book; may she be a
+very good member, such a one as Thou wilt own when Thou numbers up Thy
+jewels. _October 11th._--I did wrong last night, being quite in a
+passion at my wife, which grieved her. Lord help me and make me never
+differ with her again. _12th._--I feel much better in my soul this
+morning and will, from this day promise in the strength of grace, never
+to allow myself to be thrown into a passion again: it grieves my soul,
+it hurts my mind. 1851. _January 7th._--Five years this day I entered my
+present situation under the Hull Dock Company. Then I was a drunken man,
+and a great swearer; but I thank God he has changed my heart.
+_18th._--This has been a very troublesome day to my soul. I have been
+busy with the sunken packet all day and hav'nt had time to get to
+prayer. My soul feels hungry. _29th._--This has been a day of prayerful
+anxiety about my son; he has passed his third examination, God having
+heard my prayer on his behalf. _Feb. 24th._--I have been to the teetotal
+meeting and have taken the pledge, and I intend, through the grace of
+God, to keep as long as I live. _March 1st._--The Rev. W. Clowes is
+still alive. May the Lord grant that he may not have much pain. While
+brother Newton and I were in the room with him we felt it good; O the
+beauty of seeing a good man in a dying state. May I live the life of the
+righteous and may my last end be like Mr. Clowes's. _2nd._--The first
+thing I did this morning was to go and inquire after Mr. Clowes. I found
+that life was gone and that his happy spirit had taken its flight to
+heaven. _4th._--I am more than ever convinced of the great advantage we
+derive from entire sanctification; it preserves the soul in rest amid
+the toils of life; it gives satisfaction with every situation in which
+God pleases to place us.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS RELIGIOUS WARMTH.]
+
+Sailor like Mr. Ellerthorpe was earnest, impulsive, enthusiastic,
+carrying a warm ardour and a brisk life into all his duties. He did not
+love a continual calm, rather he preferred the storm. He did not believe
+that because he was on board a good ship, had shaped his course aright,
+and had a compass never losing its polarity, that he would reach port
+whether he made sail or not, whether he minded his helm or not. He knew
+he couldn't _drift_ into port. With waterlogged and becalmed Christians
+or those who heaved to crafts expecting to drift to the celestial
+heaven, he had but little fellowship. Such he would cause to shake out
+reefs and have yards well trimmed to catch every breeze from the
+millenial trade winds.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+HIS CHRISTIAN LABOURS.
+
+
+Having become a subject of saving grace, Mr. Ellerthorpe felt an earnest
+desire that others should participate in the same benefit. Nor was there
+any object so dear to his heart, and upon which he was at all times so
+ready to speak, as the conversion of sinners. He knew he did not possess
+the requisite ability for preaching the gospel, and therefore he sought
+out a humbler sphere in which his new-born zeal might spend its fires,
+and in that sphere he laboured, with remarkable success, during a
+quarter of a century. I now refer to the sick chamber.
+
+During all that time he took a deep interest in the sick and the dying;
+and for several years after his conversion, having much time at his
+disposal, he would often visit as many as twenty families per day, for
+weeks together. When Cholera, that mysterious disease, with its sudden
+attacks, its racking cramps, its icy cold touch, and its almost
+resistless progress, swept through the town of Hull, in the year 1849,
+leaving one thousand eight hundred and sixty,--or one in forty of the
+entire population,--_dead_, our friend was at any one's call, and never
+refused a single application; indeed, he was known as a great visitor of
+the sick and dying, and was often called in extreme cases to visit those
+from whom others shrank lest they should catch the contagion of the
+disorder. The scenes of suffering and distress which he witnessed
+baffled description. On one occasion he entered a room where a whole
+family were smitten with cholera. The wife lay cold and dead in one
+corner of the room, a child had just expired in another corner, and the
+husband and father was dying, amidst excruciating pain, in the middle of
+the room. John knelt down and spoke words of Christian comfort to the
+man, who died in a few moments.
+
+[Sidenote: HE VISITS THE SICK.]
+
+For years, he was in the habit of accompanying Mr. Jones, when visiting
+the miserable garrets, obscure yards, and wretched alleys in Hull, and
+was considered his 'right hand man,' in helping to hold open-air
+services. They often went in company to such wretched localities as
+'Leadenhall Square,' then the greatest cesspool of vice in the Port,
+and, well supplied with tracts, visited every house. During the
+intervals of public worship, on the Sabbath day, when he might have been
+enjoying himself in the circle of his family, on a clean hearth, before
+a bright fire, he was pointing perishing sinners to the Lamb of God.
+When our new and beautiful chapel in Great Thornton Street was
+discovered to be on fire, at noon,--March, 1856, he was at the bedside
+of an afflicted woman, Mrs. Wright, speaking to her of her past sins and
+of a precious Saviour. He had spent some time with her daily for months,
+but just at this time he became Foreman of the Victoria Dock and could
+no longer pay his daily visits to the sick, which greatly distressed
+Mrs. Wright and others; but duty called him elsewhere and he obeyed its
+voice. He says, 'I durst not make any fresh engagements to visit the
+sick, and up to the present time (1867) I have rarely been able to
+visit, except on the Sabbath day, all my time being required at the dock
+gates. But on the Sabbath I love to get to the bedside of the sick;
+nothing does me more good; there my soul is often refreshed and my zeal
+invigorated.'
+
+Those who are most averse to religion in life, generally desire to share
+its benefits in death. Their religion is very much like the great coats
+which persons of delicate health wear in this changeable climate, and
+which they use in foul weather, but lay aside when it is fair. 'Lord,'
+says David, 'in trouble they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when
+thy chastening was upon them.'
+
+[Sidenote: ACCOMPANIES MR. JONES.]
+
+Nor would we intimate that none truly repent of their sins and obtain
+forgiveness, under such circumstances. Though late repentance is seldom
+genuine, yet, as Mr. Jay remarks, genuine repentance is never too late.
+God can pardon the sins of a century as easily as those of a day. Our
+friend was the means, in the hand of God, of leading many, when worn by
+sickness and at the eleventh hour of life, to the Lamb of God. His
+carefully kept diary records many such instances. We give one. He says,
+'I remember one Sunday coming from Hessle with the Rev. C. Jones. Our
+"hearts burned within us as we talked by the way," and when we got to
+Coultam Street, a number of well-dressed young men overheard our
+conversation, and began to shout after us and call us approbrious names.
+Mr. J. talked with them, but to no purpose. Four months after, Mr. Jones
+and myself went, as usual, to visit the inmates of the infirmary; Mr. J.
+took one side and I the other, and when I came to a person who needed
+special counsel and advice, I used to call my friend to my aid. Well, we
+met with a young man who burst into a flood of tears, and casting an
+imploring look towards Mr. Jones, he said, "O sir, do forgive me."
+"Forgive you what?" said Mr. J. "what have you done that you should ask
+_me_ to forgive you?" "Sir," said he, "I am one of those young men who
+were so impertinent to you one Sunday when you were returning from
+Hessle; do forgive me, sir." "I freely forgive you," replied my friend,
+"you must ask God to forgive you, for it is against him you have
+sinned." We then prayed with him, and asked God to forgive him. He was
+suffering from a broken leg, and I often used to visit him after our
+first interview. He obtained pardon, and rejoiced in Christ as his
+Saviour. He was a brand plucked from the burning.'
+
+[Sidenote: SICK-BED REPENTANCE.]
+
+But Mr. Ellerthorpe also tells us that though he visited, during
+twenty-five years, hundreds of persons who cried aloud for mercy and
+professed to obtain forgiveness, on what was feared would be their
+dying beds, yet, he did not remember more than five or six who, on
+being restored to health, lived so as to prove their conversion genuine.
+The rest returned 'like the dog to its vomit, and the sow that was
+washed to her wallowing in the mire.' The Sabbath-breaker forgot his
+vows and promises, and returned to his Sunday pleasures. The swearer
+allowed his tongue to move as unchecked in insulting his Maker as
+before. The drunkard thirsted for his intoxicating cups and returned to
+the scenes of his former dissipations; and the profligate, who avowed
+himself a 'changed man,' when health was fully restored, laughed at
+religion as a fancy, and hastened to wallow in the mire of pollution. He
+had scarcely a particle of faith in sick-bed repentances, but believed
+that in most instances they are solemn farces.
+
+Deeply affecting and admonitory are some of the instances he records. He
+says, 'One night an engineer called me out of bed to visit his wife, who
+was attacked with cholera. While I was praying with _her_, _he_ was
+seized with the complaint. I visited them again the next day, when the
+woman died, but the husband, after a long affliction, recovered. He
+seemed sincerely penitent and made great promises of amendment. But,
+alas! like hundreds more whom I visited, he no sooner recovered, than he
+sought to shun me. At length he left the part of the town where he
+resided when I first visited him, as he said, "_to get out of my way_."
+But at that time, I visited in all parts of the town, and I often met
+him, and it used to pain me to see the dodges he had recourse to in
+order to avoid meeting me in the street.'
+
+He also records the case of a carter who resided in Collier Street. He
+was attacked with small pox, and was horrible to look at and infectious
+to come near, but being urged to visit him, 'I went to see him daily for
+a long time,' says John. 'One day when I called I found him, his wife,
+and child bathed in tears, for the doctor had just told them that the
+husband and father would be dead in a few hours. We all prayed that God
+would spare him, and spared he was. I continued to visit him thrice a
+day, and he promised that he would accompany me to class when he got
+better. At that time he seemed as though he would have had me ever with
+him. One day, as I entered his room, he said, "O Mr. Ellerthorpe, how I
+love to hear your foot coming into my house." I replied, 'Do you think
+it possible that there will come a time when you will rather see any
+one's face and hear any one's voice than mine?' "Never, no never," was
+his reply. I answered, 'Well, I wish and hope it may never happen as I
+have supposed.' Now, what followed? He went once to class, but I could
+not attend that night, having to watch the tide, and he never went
+again. I have seen him in the streets when he would go anywhere, or turn
+down any passage, rather than meet me; and when compelled to meet me he
+would look up at the sky or survey the chimney tops _rather_ than see
+me.'
+
+[Sidenote: ADMONITORY INSTANCES.]
+
+'On one occasion, when visiting at the Infirmary, going from ward to
+ward, and from bed to bed, I met with a young man, S. B----. He was very
+bad, and was afraid he was going to die. I talked with him often and
+long, pointing him to the Saviour, and prayed with him. With penitential
+tears and earnest cries he sought mercy, and at length professed to
+obtain salvation. He recovered. One Sunday, when at Hessle, visiting my
+dying mother, I met this young man, and I shall never forget his
+agitated frame, and terrified appearance, when he saw me. He looked this
+way and that way; I said, 'Well, B----, are you all right? Have you kept
+the promises you made to the Lord?' A blush of shame covered his face. I
+said 'Why do you look so sad? Have I injured you?' 'No, Sir.' 'Have you
+injured me?' 'I hope not,' was his reply. 'Then look me in the face; are
+you beyond God's reach, or do you think that because he has restored
+your health once, he will not afflict you again? Ah! my boy, the next
+time may be much worse than the last. And do you think God will believe
+you if you again promise to serve him? He looked round him and seemed as
+though he would have leaped over a drain that was close by.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS CHARITY.]
+
+Conscience is a busy power within the breast of the most desperate, and
+when roused by the prospect of death and judgment, it speaks in terrible
+tones. The notorious Muller denied the murder of Mr. Briggs, until, with
+cap on his face and the rope round his neck, he submitted to the final
+appeal and acknowledged, as he launched into eternity, 'Yes, I have done
+it.' But the cries of these persons seem to have arisen, not from an
+abhorrence of sin, but from a dread of punishment; they feared hell, and
+hence they wished for heaven; they desired to be saved from the
+consequences of sin, but were not delivered from the love of it. Need we
+wonder that our friend had but little faith in a sick-bed repentance?
+Scripture and reason alike warn us against trusting to such repentance,
+'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that
+shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh
+reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
+reap life everlasting.'
+
+While our friend felt that he would have been unworthy the name of a
+Christian had he not felt more for the spiritual than for the temporal
+woes of his fellow creatures, yet the latter were not forgotten by him;
+and it sometimes grieved him that he could not more largely minister to
+the temporal wants of the poor, the fatherless, the orphans, and the
+widows, whom he visited.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS SELF-DENIAL.]
+
+And perhaps one of the most painful trials a visitor of the sick endures
+is, to go moneyless to a chamber that has been crossed by want, and
+whose inmate is utterly unable to supply his own necessities; but when
+the visitor can relieve the physical as well as the spiritual
+necessities of the sufferer, with what a buoyant step and cheerful heart
+he enters the abode of poverty and suffering! And his words, instead of
+falling like icicles on the sufferer's soul, fall on it as refreshing as
+a summer rain, warm as the tempered ray, and welcome as a mother's love.
+Such a visitor has often chased despair from the abode of wretchedness,
+and filled it with the atmosphere of hope.
+
+[Sidenote: GIVES UP TOBACCO.]
+
+Hence, that he might participate in this joy, and have wherewith to
+relieve the needy, Mr. Ellerthorpe abstained from the use of tobacco, of
+which, at one period of his life, he was an immoderate consumer. One
+Sabbath morning, while he and Mr. Harrison were visiting the sick, they
+met two wretched-looking boys, fearfully marked with small pox (from an
+attack of which complaint they were beginning to recover), and crying
+for a drink of milk. Their father, who was far advanced in life, could
+not supply their wants. John's heart was touched, and he thought, 'Here
+am I, possessed of health, food, and raiment, while these poor children
+are festering with disease, but scantily clothed, and not half fed. A
+sixpence, a basin of milk, or a loaf of bread, would be a boon to them.
+Can I help them?' He gave the old man sixpence, while he and Mr.
+Harrison told the milkman to leave a quantity of milk at the man's house
+daily, for which they would pay. It was with a radiant face, and a
+tremble of glad emotion in his voice, that our friend, in relating this
+circumstance to us one day, said:--'I felt a throb of pleasure when I
+did that little act of kindness, such as I had never felt before,' when,
+quick as lightning, the thought crossed his mind, 'Why I smoke six
+pennyworth of tobacco every week!' and there and then he resolved to
+give up the practice. On the next Friday, when Mrs. Ellerthorpe was
+setting down on paper a list of the groceries wanted, she proceeded, as
+usual, to say, 'Tea--Coffee--Sugar--_Tobacco_--,' 'Stop,' said her
+husband, 'I've done with that. I'll have no more.' Now, Mrs. E. had
+always enjoyed seeing her husband smoke; it had often proved a powerful
+sedative to him when wearied with the cares of life, and the numberless
+irritations of his trying vocation, and therefore she replied,
+'Nonsense, you will soon repent of that whim. I shall get two ounces as
+usual, and I know you'll smoke it.' 'I shall never touch it again,' was
+his firm reply, and ever after kept his word.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS TEETOTALISM.]
+
+A world full of misery, both temporal and spiritual, surrounds us, and
+which might be effectually relieved, were all Christians, many of whom
+are laggard in effort and niggard in bounty, to manifest a tithe of the
+self-denial which Mr. Ellerthorpe practiced. 'What maintains one vice,
+would support two children.' Robert Hall says:--It is the practice of
+self-denial in a thousand little instances which forms the truest test
+of character.' Mr. Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, was on one occasion
+driven close for means to discharge the claims of the poor, when he said
+to his wife, 'O Polly, can we not do without beer? Let us drink water,
+and eat less meat. Let our necessities give way to the extremities of
+the poor.' And at a meeting held the other night, a donation was
+announced thus:--'A poor man's savings from tobacco, L5.' And are there
+not tens of thousands of professors who could present similar offerings
+if they, in the name and spirit of their great Master, tried? Do we not
+often come in contact with men who complain that they cannot contribute
+to the cause of God and humanity, who, at the same time, indulge in the
+use of snuff, tobacco, or intoxicating drinks; all of which might be
+laid aside to the gain of God's cause, and without at all lessening
+either the health, reputation, or happiness of the consumer? And are
+there not others, of good social position, who do not give as much to
+relieve the temporal sufferings of their fellow creatures, during twelve
+months, as it costs them to provide a single feast for a few well-to-do
+friends? The merchant who sold his chips and shavings, and presented the
+proceeds to the cause of God, while he kept the solid timber for
+himself, is the type of too many professors of religion!
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+HIS STAUNCH TEETOTALISM.
+
+
+Perhaps no class of men have suffered more from the evils of
+intemperance than our brave sailors, fishermen, and rivermen. Foreigners
+tell our missionaries to convert our drunken sailors abroad, and when
+they wish to personify an Englishman, they mockingly reel about like a
+drunken man. And what lives have been lost through the intemperance of
+captains and crews! The 'St. George,' with 550 men: 'The Kent,' 'East
+Indiaman,' with most of her passengers and crew: 'The Ajax,' with 350
+people: 'The Rothsway Castle,' with 100 men on board, with many others
+we might name, were all lost through the drunkenness of those in charge
+of the vessels. Of the forty persons whom our friend rescued from
+drowning, a very large percentage got overboard through intemperance. We
+read that on the morning following the Passover night in Egypt, there
+was not a house in which there was not one dead, and it would be
+difficult to find a house in our land, occupied by sailors, in which
+this monster evil has not slain its victim, either physically or
+morally.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS DRUNKEN FATHER.]
+
+Our friend, speaking of his own family, says:--'I owe my Christian name
+to the favour with which drunkenness was regarded by my relatives. Soon
+after I was born, one of my uncles asked, "What is the lad's name to
+be?" "Thomas," replied my mother. "Never," said my uncle, in surprise,
+"we had two Thomas's, and they both did badly; call him John. I have
+known four John's in the family, and they _were all great drunkards, but
+that was the worst that could be said of them_." 'So it appears,' said
+our friend, 'that at that time it was thought no very bad thing for a
+man to get drunk, if he was not in the habit of being brought before the
+magistrate for theft, &c.' John's father was one of the four drunkards.
+In early life he became a hard drinker, and he continued the practice
+until a damaged constitution, emptied purse, a careworn wife, and a
+neglected family, were the bitter fruits of his inebriation. 'He drank
+hard,' says John, 'spending almost all his money in drink, and was at
+last forced to sell his vessel and take to the menial work of helping to
+load and unload vessels. At length he went to sea, and for a long time
+we heard nothing of him; nor did my mother receive any money from him.
+In old age he was quite destitute, and while it gave me great pleasure
+to minister to his necessities, it often grieved me to think of the
+cause of his altered circumstances.'
+
+Nightly, when ashore, John, the elder, went to the public house, and it
+was his invariable rule never to return home until his wife fetched him.
+Often, when Mrs. Ellerthorpe was in a feeble state of health, and amid
+the howling winds and drenching rains of a winter's night, would she go
+in search of her drunken husband, and by her winning ways and kind
+entreaties induce him to return home. She was known to be a God-fearing
+woman, and often on the occasion of these visits, her husband's
+companions--some of whom were 'tippling professors' of religion--would
+try to entangle her in religious conversation, but to every entreaty she
+had one reply, 'If you want to talk with me about religion come to my
+house. I will not speak of it here; for I am determined never to fight
+the devil on his own ground.'
+
+[Sidenote: IMITATES HIS FATHER.]
+
+And was this Christian woman wrong in calling the public house the
+devil's ground? We have 140,000 of these houses in our land, and are
+they not so many reservoirs from whence the devil floods our country
+with crime, wretchedness, and woe? Is it not there that his deluded
+victims, in thousands of instances, destroy their fortune, ruin their
+health, and form those habits which wither the beauty, scatter the
+comforts, blast the reputation, and bury once happy families in the tomb
+of disgrace? And is it not at the public house that the sounds of
+blasphemy, cursing, and swearing, sedition, uncleanness, laciviousness,
+hatred, quarrels, murders, gambling, revelling, and such like, are
+begun? And you might as reasonably expect to preserve your health in a
+pest-house, your modesty in a brothel, and high-souled principles
+amongst gamesters, as to expect to preserve your religious character
+undamaged amid the impure atmosphere of a public house. Can a man go
+upon hot coals and his feet not be burnt? One hour spent around the
+drunkard's table has often done an amount of harm to the cause of God
+and the souls of men which the devotion of years could not undo.
+
+[Sidenote: BECOMES A DRUNKARD.]
+
+A youth, on being urged to take the pledge, said, 'My father drinks, and
+I don't want to be better than my father.' And, alas! for our friend, he
+early imbibed the tastes and followed the example of his father, for
+drink got the mastery of him. Speaking of his boyhood, he says, 'I
+remember a man saying to my father, "Your son is a sharp lad, and he
+will make a clever man, if only you set him a good example, and keep him
+from drink." To which my father replied, "O drink will not hurt him; if
+he does nothing worse than take a sup of drink he'll be all right; drink
+never hurt anyone." But, alas! my father lived to see that a "little
+sup" did not serve me, for I have heard him say with sorrow, "The lad
+drinks hard." But he was the first to set me the example, and if
+parents wish their children to abstain from intoxicating drinks, they
+should set the example by being abstainers themselves. The best and most
+lasting way of doing good to a family is for parents first to do right
+themselves.' But with such a training as John had, what wonder that he
+became a 'hard drinker.' For years previous to his marriage his
+experience was something like that of an old 'hard-a-weather' on board a
+homeward-bound Indiaman, who was asked by a lady passenger, 'Whether he
+would not be glad to get home and see his wife and children, and spend
+the summer with them in the country?' Poor Jack possessed neither home,
+nor wife, nor chick nor child; and his recollections of green fields and
+domestic enjoyments were dreamily associated with early childhood. And
+hence a big tear rolled down his weather-beaten but manly cheek as he
+said to his fair questioner, 'Well, I don't know, I suppose it will be
+another _roll in the gutter, and away again_.' Our friend was for years
+a 'reeling drunkard,' and often, during this sad period of his
+existence, he literally 'rolled in the gutter.'
+
+But when he experienced a saving change he at once became a sober man,
+and began to treat public houses after the fashion of the fox in the
+fable--who declined the invitation to the lion's den, because he had
+observed that the only footsteps in its vicinity were towards it and
+none from it. He further saw that to indulge in the use of intoxicating
+drinks, and then pray, 'Lead me not into temptation,' savoured less of
+piety than of presumption. He attended a temperance meeting at which the
+Rev. G. Lamb spoke of the importance of Christian professors abstaining
+for the good of others, as well as for their own safety. John felt that
+his sphere of action was limited in its range and insignificant in its
+character; yet he knew he possessed influence; as a husband and father,
+and as a member of civil and religious society, he knew that his
+conduct would produce an effect on those to whom he was related, and
+with whom he had to do. 'No man liveth to himself.' He knew how to do
+good, and not to have done it would have been sin. And that thought
+decided him. At the close of the meeting, persons were invited to take
+the pledge of total abstinence, but not one responded to the invitation.
+John saw, sitting at his right hand, a man who had been a great
+drunkard, and whose shattered nerves, unsteady hand, and bloodshot eyes,
+told of the sad effects of his conduct. Placing his hand on this man's
+shoulder, he said, 'Will you take the pledge?' 'I will if you will,' was
+the man's reply. 'Done,' said John, and scarcely had they reached the
+platform, when about twenty others followed and took the pledge.
+
+[Sidenote: SIGNS THE PLEDGE.]
+
+His Diary contains this record, 'February 24th, 1851. I have been to the
+Teetotal Meeting, and I have taken the pledge, and I intend, through the
+grace of God, to keep it as long as I live.'
+
+From that night John became a practical and pledged abstainer from all
+intoxicating drinks, and induced many a poor drunkard to follow his
+example. No man stood higher than he in Temperance circles. He adorned
+_that_ profession. In his extensive intercourse with his fellow men, he
+proved himself the fast friend and unflinching advocate of total
+abstinence, having delivered hundreds of addresses and circulated
+thousands of tracts, in vindication of its principles.
+
+A few years before his death, he was travelling from Hull to Howden, by
+rail; the compartment was full of passengers, and he began, as usual, to
+circulate his tracts and to speak in favour of temperance.
+
+[Sidenote: THE AGED CLERGYMAN.]
+
+An aged clergyman present said, 'I always give you Hull folks great
+credit for being teetotalers.' 'And why the people of Hull more than the
+people of any other place?' asked John. 'Because your water is filthy
+and dirty, and I never could drink it without a mixture of brandy.'
+'That our water is dirty I admit,' said John, 'but I have drank it both
+with brandy and without, and if you felt as I feel, I am sure, sir, you
+would discontinue the practice of brandy drinking.' 'Oh, I suppose you
+are one of those men who get all the drink you can and when you can get
+no more you turn teetotaller,' was the rejoinder. 'You are mistaken,
+sir; for I can call most of the persons present to witness, that I laid
+aside the intoxicating glass when I possessed the most ample means and
+every opportunity of getting plenty of drink, and at little or no cost
+to myself. But I saw that I should be a safer and happier man myself,
+and a greater blessing to others if I abstained, and therefore I signed
+the pledge; and you must pardon me, sir, when I say, that if you felt as
+I feel, you would, as a minister of the gospel, pursue the same course.'
+'O!' said he, with indignation lowering in his countenance and
+thundering in his voice, 'I have taken my brandy daily for years, and it
+never did me any hurt.' 'Granted,' replied our friend, 'but if you can
+drink with safety, can others? Have you never seen the evil effects of
+tampering with the glass? Have none of your acquaintances or friends
+fallen victims to drunkenness? Let me give you a case, sir. One of my
+former employers had a son who, up to the twentieth year of his age, had
+never tasted intoxicating drinks. But he had a weak constitution and a
+slender frame, and the doctor ordered him to take a little brandy and
+water twice a day. He did so, and began to like it. He soon wanted it
+oftener, and told the man to make it stronger, and the man did as he was
+told. One day he had put but a few drops of water into a large glass of
+brandy, but the young gentleman said, 'Did'nt I tell you to make it
+stronger? Let the next glass be stronger.' He soon called _for the next
+glass_, and having swallowed it, said, in a rage, 'What a fool you are.
+I told you to let me have it stronger.' 'Sir,' said the man, 'you can't
+have it stronger, for the glass you have just drank was "neat" as it
+came from the bottle.' 'And is that a fact,' exclaimed the young
+gentleman. 'Has it come to this? Am I to be a slave to that liquid?
+Never! Take it away, and from this day I'll never drink another glass.'
+This statement was listened to with marked attention by all the
+passengers, and when the train arrived at Howden station, they gave
+forth a spontaneous burst of applause. The clergyman sat ashamed and
+speechless, and, on leaving the train, refused to shake hands with our
+friend who had administered to him this well-timed and well-merited
+rebuke.
+
+[Sidenote: ADVOCATES TOTAL ABSTINENCE.]
+
+I have stated that our friend spoke at hundreds of temperance meetings,
+and his bluntness of manner, curt style of address, and nautical
+phrases, won for him a ready hearing. Whenever he rose on the platform
+eyes beamed and hearts throbbed with delight. Not that his hearers
+expected to listen to an eloquent speech, or to be amused by
+laughter-exciting and fun-making eccentricities, but he rose with the
+influence of established character, combined with an ardent temperament,
+a ready wit, and a face beaming with the sunshine of piety towards God
+and good-will to men. Besides, there was a just appreciation of his many
+deeds of gallantry, some of which he occasionally related, and which
+rarely failed to fill his hearers with admiration for the brave heart
+that could prompt and the ready skill that could perform them. Hence, he
+was listened to in the town and neighbourhood of Hull with an amount of
+sympathy, attention, and respect which no other advocate of total
+abstinence, possessed of the same mental abilities, could command.
+
+[Sidenote: FORMS A BAND OF HOPE.]
+
+The _Band of Hope_ had a warm friend and powerful advocate in the person
+of Mr. Ellerthorpe, and it was in connexion with its services that he
+found his most congenial employment. 3,000,000 of the inhabitants of
+our country are now pledged abstainers from intoxicating drinks, and
+this number includes upwards of 2,000 ministers of the Gospel. But
+thirty years ago this cause was regarded with disfavour even by the
+religious public. Hence, when Mr. Ellerthorpe and others sought to form
+a Band of Hope in connexion with the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School,
+Great Thornton Street, Hull, they met with much opposition from several
+members of the Society, and also from some of the teachers in the
+school, who were 'tipplers,' and could not endure the idea of a Band of
+Hope. But the Band was formed, with Mr. Ellerthorpe as president, and it
+soon numbered three hundred members. Before his death he saw upwards of
+thirty of these Juvenile Bands formed in Hull. He attended most of their
+anniversaries, throwing a flood of genial merriment, just like dancing
+sunlight, over his young auditors. Hundreds of these 'cold water
+drinkers' sometimes listened to him on these occasions, and as he
+related some of the scenes of his eventful life, their young hearts
+throbbed and their eyes filled with tears.
+
+We cannot close this chapter of our little book without asking, Were the
+motives which led our friend to sign the pledge, right or wrong? The
+celebrated Paley lays down this axiom, 'That where one side is doubtful
+and one is safe, we are as morally bound to take the safe side as if a
+voice from heaven said, "This is the way, walk ye in it."' And is not
+total abstinence the only safe side for the abstainer himself? Some men
+have a strong predisposition for intoxicating drinks, and they must
+abstain or be ruined. Naturalists tell us that in order to tame a tiger
+he must never be allowed to taste blood. Let him have but one taste and
+his whole nature is changed. And the men to whom I refer are humane,
+upright, chaste, kind to their children and affectionate to their
+wives, while they can be kept from intoxicating drinks, but let them
+taste, only _taste_, and their passions become so strong and their
+appetites so rampant, that they are inspired with the most ferocious
+dispositions, and perpetrate deeds, the mere mention of which would
+appal them in their sober moments. And where is the moderate drinker who
+can point to the glass and say, 'I am safe?' As that dexterous murderer,
+Palmer, administered his doses in small quantities, and thus gradually
+and daily undermined the constitution of his victims, and, as it were,
+muffled the footfalls of death, so strong drink does not all at once
+over master its victims; but how often have we known it gradually, and
+after years of tippling, lead them captive into the vortex of
+drunkenness.
+
+[Sidenote: TOTAL ABSTINENCE.]
+
+But admitting, for the sake of argument, that you can drink with safety
+to yourself, can you drink with safety to others? 'No man liveth to
+himself.' We are all a kind of chameleon, and naturally derive a tinge
+from that which is near us. Our friend attributes his early drunkenness
+to the influence and example of his father. You should view your
+drinking habits in the light of these passages of Scripture, 'Look not
+every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of
+others.' 'It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
+anything whereat thy brother stumbleth or is made weak.' So that you may
+look at Paley's saying, in its application to the use of strong drinks,
+again and again; you may examine it as closely as you like, and
+criticise it as often as you please, still it remains true, that to
+drink is _doubtful_, while to abstain is _safe_, and that we are as
+morally bound to choose the latter as if a voice from heaven said, 'This
+is the way, walk ye in it.' 'Let us not, therefore, judge one another
+any more, but judge this rather that no man put a stumblingblock or an
+occasion, to fall in his brother's way.'--Rom. xiv. 13.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+HIS BOLD ADVENTURES ON THE WATER.
+
+
+[Sidenote: SWIMMING ADVOCATED.]
+
+That swimming is a noble and useful art, deserving the best attention of
+all classes of the community, is a fact few will dispute. 'Swimming,'
+says Locke, 'ought to form part of every boy's education!' It is an art
+that is easily acquired; it is healthy and pleasurable as an exercise,
+being highly favourable to muscular development, agility of motion, and
+symmetry of form; and it is of inconceivable benefit as the means of
+preserving or saving life in seasons of peril, when death would
+otherwise prove inevitable. Mr. Ellerthorpe early became an accomplished
+swimmer; he often fell overboard, and but for his skill in the art under
+consideration he would have been drowned. He also enjoyed the happiness
+of having saved upwards of forty persons, who, but for his efforts must,
+to all human appearance, have perished.
+
+To a maratime nation like ours, with a rugged and dangerous coast-line
+of two thousand miles, indented by harbours, few and far from each
+other, and with a sea-faring population of half a million, it seems as
+necessary that the rising generation should learn to swim as that they
+should be taught the most common exercises of youth. And yet 'this
+natatory art' is but little cultivated amongst us. On the Continent, and
+among foreigners generally, swimming is practised and encouraged far
+more than it is in England. In the Normal Swimming school of Denmark,
+some thirty years ago, there were educated 105 masters destined to teach
+the art throughout the kingdom. In France, Vienna, Copenhagen,
+Stockholm, Berne, Amsterdam, &c., similar means were adopted, and very
+few persons in those countries are entirely destitute of a knowledge of
+the art. But so generally is this department of juvenile training
+neglected by us as a people, that _only one in every ten who gain their
+livelihood on the water_ are able to swim.
+
+[Sidenote: HULL SWIMMING CLUB.]
+
+Mr. Ellerthorpe, in a characteristic letter, says: 'I think no
+schoolmaster should regard the education of his scholars complete unless
+he has taught them to swim. That art is of service when everything else
+is useless. I once heard of a professor who was being ferried across a
+river by a boatman, who was no scholar. So the professor said, "Can you
+write, my man?" "No, Sir," said the boatman. "Then you have lost one
+third of your life," said the professor. "Can you read?" again asked he
+of the boatman. "No," replied the latter, "I can't read." "Then you have
+lost the half of your life," said the professor. Now came the boatman's
+turn. "Can you swim?" said the boatman to the professor. "No," was his
+reply. "Then," said the boatman, "you have lost the whole of your life,
+for the boat is sinking and you'll be drowned." Now, Sir, I think that
+if those fathers who spend so much money on the intellectual education
+of their children, would devote but a small portion of it to securing
+for them a knowledge of the art of swimming, they would confer a great
+blessing on those children, and also on society at large. I would have
+every one learn to swim females as well as males; for many of both sexes
+come under my notice every year who are drowned, but who, with a little
+skill in swimming, might have been saved. Not fewer than forty men and
+boys were lost from the Hull Smacks alone during the year 1866, of whom
+twenty per cent, might have been saved had they been able to swim.'
+
+[Sidenote: HE LEARNS TO SWIM.]
+
+Mr. Ellerthorpe was, for many years, Master of the 'Hull Swimming Club,'
+and also of 'The College Youth's Swimming Club,' and his whole life was
+a practical lesson on the value of the art of swimming. He contended
+that the youths of Hull ought to be taught this art, and pleaded that a
+sheet of water which had been waste and unproductive for twenty years
+should be transformed into a swimming bath. The local papers favoured
+the scheme, and Alderman Dennison, moved in the Town Council, that L350
+should be devoted to this object, which was carried by a majority. The
+late Titus Salt, Esq., who had given L5,000 to the 'Sailor's Orphan
+Home,' said at the time, 'I think _your corporation ought to make the
+swimming bath_ alluded to in the enclosed paper; _do ask them_.' 'The
+private individual who gives his _fifty_ hundreds to a particular
+Institution,' to use the words of the _Hull and Eastern Counties'
+Herald, Oct. 10th_, 1857, 'has surely a right to express an opinion that
+the municipal corporation ought to grant _three_ hundreds, if by so
+doing the public weal would be provided. If the voice of such a man is
+to be disregarded, then it may truly be said that our good old town has
+fallen far below the exalted position it occupied when it produced its
+Wilberforce and its Marvel.'
+
+For upwards of forty years Mr. Ellerthorpe was known as a fearless
+swimmer and diver, and during that period he saved no fewer than forty
+lives by his daring intrepidity. In his boyhood, he, to use his own
+expression, '_felt quite at home in the water_,' and betook himself to
+it as natively and instinctively as the swan to the water or the lark to
+the sky. 'This art,' to use the words of an admirable article in the
+_Shipwrecked Mariners' Magazine_ for October, 1862, 'he has cultivated
+so successfully that in scores of instances he has been able to employ
+it for the salvation of life and property. Perhaps the history of no
+other living person more fully displays the value of this art than John
+Ellerthorpe. Joined with courage, promptitude, and steady
+self-possession, it has enabled him repeatedly to preserve his own life,
+and what is far more worthy of record, to save not fewer than
+thirty-nine of his fellow creatures, who, humanly speaking, must
+otherwise have met with a watery grave.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS RECKLESS DARING.]
+
+It is but right to state that, in the early period of his history, a
+thoughtless disregard of his own life, and an overweening confidence in
+his ability to swim almost any length, and amid circumstances of great
+peril, often led him to deeds of 'reckless daring,' which in riper years
+he would have trembled to attempt. Respecting most of the following
+circumstances he says, 'I look upon those perilous adventures as so many
+foolish and wicked temptings of Providence. I have often wondered I was
+not drowned, and attribute my preservation to the wonder-working
+providence of God, who has so often 'redeemed my life from destruction,
+and crowned me with loving kindness and tender mercies.'
+
+And certainly we should remember that heroism is one thing, reckless
+daring another. Two or three instances will illustrate this. A few years
+ago Blondin, for the sake of money, jeopardized his life at the Crystal
+Palace, by walking blindfolded on a tight-rope, and holding in his hand
+a balancing pole. In so doing he was foolhardy, but not heroic. But a
+certain Frenchman, at Alencon, walked on one occasion on a rope over
+some burning beams into a burning house, otherwise inaccessible, and
+succeeded in saving six persons. This was the act of a true hero. When
+Mr. Worthington, the 'professional diver,' plunged into the water and
+saved six persons from drowning, who, but for his skill and dexterity as
+a swimmer, would certainly have met with a watery grave, he acted the
+part of a 'hero;' but when, the other day, he made a series of nine
+'terrific plunges' from the Chain Pier at Brighton--a height of about
+one hundred and twenty feet--merely to gratify sensational sightseers,
+or to put a few shillings into his own pocket, he acted the part of a
+foolhardy man. Can we wonder that he was within an ace of losing his
+life in this mad exploit? And when John Ellerthorpe dived to the bottom
+of 'Clarke's Bit,' to gratify a number of young men who had 'more money
+than wit,' and struggled in the water with a bag of coals on his back,
+he put himself on a par with those men who place their lives in imminent
+danger by dancing on ropes, swinging on cords, tying themselves into
+knots like a beast, or crawling on ceilings like some creeping thing!
+But when he used his skill to save his fellow creatures, he was a true
+hero, and was justified in perilling his own life, considering that by
+so doing the safety of others might be secured.
+
+We shall close this chapter by recording a few of his deeds of reckless
+daring.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: JOHN'S FIRST ATTEMPT AT SWIMMING.]
+
+'My first attempt at swimming took place at Hessle, when I was about
+twelve years of age. There was a large drain used for the purpose of
+receiving the water from both the sea and land. My father managed the
+sluice, which was used for excluding, retaining, and regulating the flow
+of water into this drain. It was a first rate place for lads to bathe
+in, and I have sometimes bathed in it ten times a day; indeed, I regret
+to say, I spent many days there when I ought to have been at school. I
+soon got to swim in this drain, but durst not venture into the harbour.
+But one day I accidentally set my dirty feet upon the shirt of a boy who
+was much older and bigger than myself, and in a rage he took me up in
+his arms and threw me into the harbour. I soon felt safe there, nor did
+I leave the harbour till I had crossed and recrossed it thirty-two
+times. The next day I swam the whole length of the harbour twice, and
+from that day I began to match myself with expert swimmers, nor did I
+fear swimming with the best of them. Some other lads were as venturesome
+as myself, and we used to go up the Humber with the tides, for several
+miles at once. I remember on one occasion it blew a strong gale of wind
+from S.W., several vessels sank in the Humber, and a number of boats
+broke adrift, while a heavy sea was running: I stripped and swam to one
+of the boats, got into her, and brought her to land, for which act the
+master of the boat gave me five shillings. During the same gale a keel
+came ashore at Hessle; I stripped and swam to her and brought a rope on
+shore, by the assistance of which, two men, a woman, and two children
+escaped from the vessel. The tide was receding at the time, so that they
+were enabled, with the assistance of the rope, to walk ashore. There are
+several old men living now who well remember this circumstance.
+
+[Sidenote: SWIMS ACROSS THE HUMBER.]
+
+'Soon after this occurrence, I remember one Saturday afternoon, going
+with some other boys of my own age, and swimming across the Humber, a
+distance of two miles. We started from Swanland Fields (which was then
+enclosed), Yorkshire, and landed at the Old Warp, Lincolnshire. Here we
+had a long run and a good play, and then we recrossed the Humber. But in
+doing so we were carried up as far as Ferriby Sluice, and had to run
+back to where we had left our clothes in charge of some lads, but when
+we got there the lads had gone, and we didn't know what to do. We sought
+for our clothes a full hour, when a man, in the employ of Mr. Pease told
+us that the lads had put them under some bushes, where we at last found
+them. We were in the water four hours. This was an act of great
+imprudence.
+
+'On another occasion myself and some other lads played truant from
+school, and went towards the Humber to bathe, but the schoolmaster, Mr.
+Peacock, followed us closely. He ran and I ran, and I had just time to
+throw off my clothes and leap into the water, when he got to the bank.
+He was afraid I should be drowned, and called out 'If you will come back
+I won't tell your father and mother.' But I refused to return, for at
+that time I felt no fear in doing what I durst not have attempted when I
+got older.
+
+[Sidenote: SWIMS IN HESSLE HARBOUR.]
+
+'On several occasions some young gentlemen, who were scholars at Hessle
+boarding school, got me to go and bathe with them. They had plenty of
+money, and I had none; and as they offered to pay me, I was glad to go
+with them. One day while we were bathing, the eldest son of Mr.
+Earnshaw, of Hessle, had a narrow escape from drowning. I was a long way
+from him at the time, but I did all I could to reach and rescue him. He
+was very ill for some days, and the doctor forbade him bathing for a
+long time to come. This deterred us from bathing for awhile, but we soon
+forgot it. We agreed to have a swimming match, and the boy that swam the
+farthest was to have _sixpence_. We started at three o'clock in the
+afternoon from the third jetty below Hessle harbour, and went up with
+the tide. One of the boys got the lead of me and I could not overtake
+him until we got opposite Cliffe Mill, about a mile and a half from
+where we started. He then began to fag, while I felt as brisk as a lark
+and fresher than when I began. I soon took the lead, and when I got to
+Ferriby Lane-end, I lost my mate altogether. However, I knew he was a
+capital swimmer, and I felt afraid lest he should turn up again, so I
+swam as far as Melton brickyard, and fairly won the prize. I had swam
+about seven miles, and believe I could have swam back without landing.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS EXPLOITS ON THE WATER.]
+
+'When I was about fifteen years of age a steam packet came to Hessle,
+bringing a number of swimmers from Hull. Soon alter their arrival a lad
+came running to me and said, "Jack, there's some of those Hull chaps
+bathing, and they say they can beat thee." I didn't like that; and when
+I got to them, a young gentleman said, pointing to me, "Here is a lad
+that shall swim you for what you like." One of them said, "Is he that
+Ellerthorpe of Hessle?" "No matter who he is," replied the young man,
+"I'll back him for a sovereign," when one of the young gentlemen called
+out, "It is Jack Ellerthorpe, I won't have aught to do with him, for he
+can go as fast feet foremost as I can with my hands foremost, he's a
+first-rate swimmer." By this time I was stripped, and at once plunged
+into the river. I crept on my hands and knees on the water, and then
+swam backwards and forwards with my feet foremost, and not one among
+them could swim with me. I showed them the "porpoise race," which
+consisted in disappearing under the water, and then coming "bobbing" up
+suddenly, at very unlikely spots. I then took a knife and cut my
+toe-nails in the water. The young gents were greatly delighted, and
+afterwards they would have matched me to swim anybody, to any distance.
+And I believe that at that time I could have swam almost any length; for
+after I had swam two or three miles my spirits seemed to rise, and my
+strength increased. When other lads seemed thoroughly beaten out, I was
+coming to my best, and the longer I remained in the water the easier and
+faster I could swim.
+
+[Sidenote: SWIMS TO BARROW.]
+
+'It will be remembered by some who will read these pages, that about ...
+years ago a Mr. Burton was returned, as a member of Parliament for
+Beverley. He was a wild, drunken, half-crazy fellow, and I remember he
+came to Hessle about two o'clock one afternoon, and drove full gallop,
+with postillions, up to my father's house. At that time my father was
+ferryman, and Mr. Burton wanted a boat to take him to Barton. "But,"
+said my father, "there is no water," when the Member of Parliament said,
+"Won't money make the boat swim?" "I'm afraid not," was my father's
+reply. At that time, however, there was a ballast lighter at Cliffe, and
+my father and I went to see if we could borrow the lighter's boat; we
+succeeded, and as it was a great distance from the water (the tide being
+low), my father asked the Cliffe men to help in launching it, when about
+thirty of them came to his assistance. Mr. Burton left a guinea to be
+spent in drink for the men. We then started in the boat, and took Mr.
+Burton to Barrow, there being no _usable_ jetty at Barton. I was to run
+to Barton for a post-chaise, but before we got to the shore the boat ran
+aground, so out of the boat I jumped, and away I ran, until I came to a
+pool of water, about twelve feet deep. Almost mad with excitement, I
+sprang into it, and small as I was, soon crossed it and was ashore. Mr.
+Burton saw me in the water, and he was afraid I should be drowned, and
+when I returned with the chaise he gave me a sovereign, the first I ever
+had, so you may be sure I was mightily pleased. I found my father and
+the men drunk, and they gave me some rum. On being asked, "What Mr.
+Burton had given me," I evaded the question by saying "A shilling," for
+I was of opinion that if my father had known I had got so much as I had,
+he would have taken most of it to spend in drink. So I hastened home and
+gave the sovereign to my mother, and we were both highly delighted to
+possess so large a sum of money.
+
+'The following amusing circumstance took place in 1836-7, when I
+belonged to the Barton and Hessle packet. One day we had put on board
+the "tow boat" a great number of fat beasts, belonging, if I remember
+rightly, to Mr. Wood, of South Dalton. The "tow boat" was attached to
+the steamer by a large thick rope. We had not got far from Barton when
+the boat capsized, and we were in an awful mess. The boat soon filled
+with water; some of the beasts swam one way and some another, while
+several got entangled in the rails attached to the boat's side, and were
+every moment in danger of breaking their legs. So seizing an axe I
+jumped into the water and cut away the rails, and then went in pursuit
+of the oxen, heading them round in the water and causing them, by shouts
+and gestures, to swim for the land. Most of them were driven back to
+Barton and landed safely, others swam across the Humber and were landed
+at Hessle. I was up to my chest in water and mud for nearly three hours
+swimming backwards and forwards after the beasts; sometimes I had hold
+of their tails, and anon had to meet them and turn them towards the
+shore. There are lots of people now living at Barton who saw the affray,
+and who could describe it much better than I have done.
+
+[Sidenote: JOHN AND THE BEASTS.]
+
+'A similar incident took place in 1844. I was captain of a ferry-boat
+plying between Winteringham and Brough. One Sabbath-day I was taking a
+load of beasts from Brough to Winteringham, and when we had got about
+half way across the Humber, the boat upset, and the beasts were thrown
+into the water. I was afraid they all would be drowned, and, in spite of
+all I could do, some of them were. I jumped overboard and drove some of
+them back to Brough, while others swam to the Lincolnshire side of the
+river. I was swimming about after the beasts for five hours, chasing
+them backwards and forwards, turning them this way and that, and doing
+what nobody but myself would have done. At length, several men came to
+our assistance, and when we had got the poor animals out of the water,
+we hastened to the public-house at the harbour-side, and got drunk. I
+kept my wet clothes on until they dried on my back. This was one of the
+most wretched days of my life. My anxiety about the beasts, the
+exhaustion brought on by my efforts to get them safe to land, and the
+sense of misery and degradation I felt when I thought of the plight I
+was found in on the blessed Sabbath-day, I shall never forget.
+
+'On one occasion I was helping to load the "Magna Charter," and being
+half drunk, I fell into Hull harbour, with upwards of eight stones of
+coal on my back, but through foolish bravado I refused to let the bag
+drop into the water. After being in the water several minutes, I swam
+to the landing with the coals on my back, amid the deafening shouts of
+scores of spectators. I look back on this act of temerity with feelings
+of shame and unmixed regret.'
+
+[Sidenote: HE IS CAST OVERBOARD.]
+
+When sailing from Hull to Barton, one night in the year 1842, John was
+thrown overboard. The night was dark, the wind was blowing a heavy gale
+from the west, and every moment the spring-tide, then at its height,
+carried him further from the packet, which soon became unmanageable. The
+boat was launched, but the engineer, who had charge of it, became
+greatly agitated and much alarmed, and uttered the most piteous cries.
+'I felt more for him than I did for myself,' says John, 'and though one
+moment lost in the trough of the sea, and the next on the crest of the
+billows, now near the boat and again fifty yards from it, I cried out,
+'Scull away. Bob, scull away, thou'll soon be at me.' After being in the
+water half-an-hour I reached the boat in safety. All this time I had on
+the following garments, made of very stout pilot-cloth: a pair of
+trousers, a double-breasted waistcoat, a surtout coat, and a heavy great
+coat, which came down to my ancles, a thick shawl round my neck, and a
+new pair of Wellington boots on my feet. I had in my pockets the
+following sums of money: L25 in bank notes; 25 sovereigns; L4 16s. 6d.
+in silver, and 8d. in coppers; also a tobacco-box, a large pocket knife,
+and a silver watch and guard. I made an attempt to throw off some of my
+clothes, but the thought of losing another man's money checked me.
+Besides, the suit of clothes I had on was bran-new, and being a poor
+man, and only just earning a livelihood, I could not brook the thought
+of having to get a new "rigging." When a wave carried me a great way
+from the boat, I unbuttoned my coat and prepared to throw it off, that I
+might more easily swim to land. And when it seemed certain I should have
+to make this attempt, I felt for my knife, that I might cut off my
+boots, and I believe I could have done it; but, after a desperate
+effort, I approached within a few yards of the boat, when I again
+buttoned my coat. I felt confident I could have reached the shore--a
+distance of one mile--had I been compelled to make the trial. My
+Wellington boots had nearly cost me my life, as they were heavy and
+difficult to swim in, and I never wore a pair after this fearful night.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS SKILL AS A DIVER.]
+
+There is another department of the art now under consideration, in which
+our friend greatly excelled, namely, that of diving. There are few
+divers who do not feel a kind of exultation in their power over the
+element, and in their ability to move under the surface of the water
+with ease and pleasure. Half a century ago, diving was a difficult and
+dangerous art, demanding great skill and endurance; but modern science
+has given the professional diver an almost perfect accoutrement, by
+means of which he can literally walk down to the bottom of the sea, and
+telegraph for as much air as he requires. Hence, it has been utterly
+deprived of all dramatic element. Properly managed, the thing is as easy
+as going up in a balloon, or going down a coal pit; but our friend
+excelled in 'real naked diving.'
+
+[Sidenote: HE DIVES IN 'CLARK'S BIT.']
+
+His first attempt at fetching anything from under water took place when
+he was about sixteen years of age. The vessel in which he then sailed
+was being painted at 'Clark's Bit,' Castleford, when John accidentally
+let his brush fall overboard, and it sank to the bottom. The Captain was
+furious for about an hour, when, having handed the lad another brush, he
+went into the town. John could not brook the hour's grumbling to which
+he had been subjected, and hence, scarcely had the Master left the
+vessel, when he threw off his clothes and dived to the bottom of the
+'Bit,' a depth of twenty-six feet, and brought up the brush. He hastily
+put on his clothes, and when the Master returned, John held up the
+brush, and with that comical twinkle of the eye and humorous expression
+of the countenance, so common with sailors, said, 'Here's your brush.
+Sir.' 'What brush?' asked the Master. 'The brush I lost overboard an
+hour ago,' said John. 'That's a lie.' replied the Master, 'how could you
+get it?' 'I dived to the bottom and brought it up,' was the lad's
+response. Now Clark's Bit, in those days, was supposed to be of fabulous
+depth; indeed, the Master, using a common expression, said, 'You can't
+have fetched it up from the bottom, for there is no bottom to Clark's
+Bit.' John was unabashed by this charge of falsehood, and with honesty
+beaming in every feature of his face, he answered with untrembling
+tongue, as he handed the brush to the Master, 'Throw it in again. Sir,
+and I'll fetch it up.' The Master refused to test the lad's honesty at
+the risk of losing his brush. However, several witnesses came forward
+and declared they had seen him plunge into the water and bring up the
+brush. From that time John was famous in the neighbourhood, as a great
+diver.
+
+'At the time of this occurrence,' he writes, 'a number of young
+gentlemen were being taught, at a school at Castleford, by the Rev. Mr.
+Barnes. They had plenty of money, and I had little enough, and they
+would often, for the sake of seeing me dive to the bottom of the "Bit,"
+throw in a shilling, and sometimes half-a-crown. To gratify them, and
+for the sake of money, I often dived to the bottom, and never, that I
+remember, without bringing up the money. I got at last that I would not
+go down for less than a shilling, and I have sometimes got as much as
+five shillings a day. I have dived to the bottom of Clark's Bit hundreds
+of times, and there are numbers of people at Castleford, at the present
+day (1868), who recollect these youthful exploits, which took place
+upwards of forty years ago. And I may add that, I have often had the
+impression that but for that paint-brush I should never have been the
+diver I afterwards became. God overruled these foolish acts, for good,
+and what I did for mere pleasure and gain, prepared me to rescue
+property and human life in after years.'
+
+[Sidenote: HE DIVES INTO A SUNKEN VESSEL.]
+
+We will mention one instance of his prowess in saving property, which is
+well worthy of being recorded. 'The barque "Mulgrave Castle," says the
+writer of the article in the _Shipwrecked Mariners' Magazine_, 'laden
+with timber from the Baltic, was waterlogged in the Humber; there was in
+the cabin of the vessel a small box containing money and papers which
+the captain was anxious, if possible, to secure. Ellerthorpe dived into
+the cabin, groped his way round it, and after two or three attempts
+succeeded in bringing up the box and its contents.' This was in the year
+1835. The writer of this sketch received the fact from an eye witness.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+HIS METHOD OF RESCUING THE DROWNING.
+
+
+For acts of pure, unselfish daring, in rescuing human life, the annals
+of our friend need not shun comparison with those of any other man
+within Her Majesty's dominion. It appears that, amid his wicked and
+wayward career, he had a 'deep and unaccountable impression' that one
+part of his mission into the world was to save human life. Beyond
+dispute, one of the best swimmers of his time, he was never, after his
+boyhood, satisfied with swimming as a mere art. It was naught to him if
+it did not help to make his fellow men better, safer, and braver. It
+will be seen that the first person he rescued from drowning _was his
+own father_, and that event ever afterwards nerved him to do his best to
+save his fellow-creatures. Indeed the desire to rescue the drowning
+burnt in his soul with all the ardour of an absorbing passion. It was
+the spring of his ready thoughts; it controlled his feelings and guided
+his actions; it prompted him to face the greatest difficulties without
+the least fear, and when in the midst of the most threatening dangers,
+it enabled him to summon up a calmness and resolution that never failed.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE WATER.]
+
+The writer in _The Shipwrecked Mariners' Magazine_ says, 'Ellerthorpe's
+exploits in saving life date from the year 1820, and from that time to
+the present it may be safely asserted that he has never _hesitated_ to
+risk his own life to save that of a fellow-creature. The danger incurred
+in jumping overboard to rescue a drowning person is very great. Many
+expert swimmers shrink from it. Ellerthorpe has encountered this risk
+under almost every variety of circumstance. He has followed the
+drowning, unseen in the darkness of the night, in the depth of winter,
+under rafts of timber, under vessels at anchor or in docks, from great
+heights, and often to the bottom in great depths of water, and what is
+very remarkable, never in vain. _Fortuna fortes favet_ (fortune favours
+the brave), is an adage true in his case. He never risked his life to
+save another without success.'
+
+Even to an experienced swimmer and diver, like our friend, the task of
+saving a drowning person is not easy, and the grip and grapple of some
+of those whom he rescued, had well nigh proved a fatal embrace, and it
+was only by the utmost coolness, skill, bravery, and self-control that
+he escaped.
+
+[Sidenote: HE CARRIES THE DROWNING IN HIS ARMS.]
+
+But he shall tell _his own_ simple, noble tale. 'During the last
+forty-eight years I have done all that lay in my power to rescue my
+fellow-creatures, when in drowning circumstances. By night and by day,
+in darkness or in light, in winter or in summer, I was always ready to
+obey the summons when the cry, "a man overboard," fell on my ears. And I
+have had to rescue the drowning in widely different ways. Sometimes I
+seized them tightly by the right arm, and then, hold them at arm's
+length, soon reached the land. In some instances they seized me by my
+shoulder or arm, when, leaving hold of them, and, throwing both my hands
+into the water, I managed to reach the shore. In other instances I found
+them so exhausted that they were incapable of taking hold of me, and in
+these cases, I had to carry them as a mother would carry her child. And
+in two or three instances, I thought they were dead, and, with feelings
+easier imagined than expressed, I bore them up in my arms; when
+suddenly, and with great strength, they sprang upon my head, and oftener
+than once, under these circumstances, I was on the point of being
+drowned. Some of those whom I saved were much heavier and stronger than
+myself, and when they got hold of me I found it difficult, and sometimes
+impossible, to shake them off. When I rescued Robert Brown, the night
+was pitchy dark, and for some time I could not see him; and when I got
+to him he clutched me in such a manner as to prevent my swimming. When I
+seized the young Woodman, I thought he was dead, but, after a few
+moments, he made a great spring at me, and clutched hold of my head in
+such a way as to prevent me swimming for some seconds. When pinioned
+closely, I generally adopted this plan, which proved to be the best
+under the circumstances:--I threw myself on my back and pushed the
+drowning person on before me, and in this way I managed to keep them up
+for a time, and with comparative ease to myself. I often said to persons
+in a drowning state, "Now, hold fast by me, and don't exert yourself,
+and I'll make you all right." It was not often I could persuade them to
+act thus, but whenever they could, they got upon me; for "a drowning
+person will catch at a straw." I believe I have fetched out of the water
+not fewer than fifty drowning persons, and, with scarce an exception,
+they tried to seize me, and thus rendered their deliverance a matter of
+great difficulty. In fact, it would be comparatively easy to fetch a
+drowning man out of water if he would just take hold of one's arm, and
+thus keep himself from sinking, and let one tow him ashore.
+
+[Sidenote: HE SEARCHES FOR THE DROWNING.]
+
+'In many instances, as will be seen, I had to run a great distance, and
+when almost out of breath, I have plunged into the water, and in that
+state had to struggle with those on the point of drowning. I remember
+that, on one occasion, when staying at a public house in America, the
+landlord came running into the room, and cried out, "a man overboard." I
+ran 200 yards, and on reaching the spot I was out of breath, when in I
+plunged, but soon found I could not stay under the water for more than a
+few seconds. The water was clear and fresh, with long grass at the
+bottom; but alas! I could not find the young man, and he was drowned. I
+arrived too late to be of any service, for it was found afterwards that
+he had pulled himself on the bottom of the river with the long grass to
+a distance of fifty yards from the spot where he fell in.
+
+'My first object, after I had plunged into the water, was to catch a
+sight of the drowning person, and if I could once do that, I always felt
+confident I should soon have him in my grasp. It is a most difficult
+thing to search for a drowning person, especially in muddy water. I had
+to make this attempt again and again, and sometimes the fear has crept
+over me that my exertions would be in vain, when I made the most
+prodigious and exhausting efforts. And that I have never failed, in a
+single instance, is to me a source of great gratitude to God, "in whose
+hand my breath is, and whose are all my ways."'
+
+[Sidenote: AN INSTANCE OF HIS PLUCK.]
+
+'I remember once I had my leg crushed between our packet and the pier,
+and for some days after I could not walk without the aid of crutches.
+One day I got down to the South End, but soon felt tired, and returned
+home; but after a short rest, I again went to the pier, when I was told
+that, during my short absence, a cabman, named Sharpe, had fallen into
+the harbour and was drowned. I was filled with indescribable distress at
+the news, and said, "If I had been here I would have saved him, despite
+my broken leg. At least I would have tried." A man, who professed to be
+a great swimmer, was present, and he answered, "O, I can swim as well as
+you can," when my muscles began to quiver, and my blood to throb, and I
+replied, in no very good temper, I assure you. "I dispute that, unless
+you mean now that I have my broken leg. Why did'nt you try to save him?"
+I always felt that I would much rather have the satisfaction of having
+tried to save a drowning person and fail, than have the miserable
+satisfaction of shaking my head and shrugging my shoulders and saying,
+"Oh, I knew it would be of no use trying to save him; it was foolish to
+try." "I could have done it," never saved a drowning man. "I will try,"
+has enabled me, under God, to save fifty of my fellow creatures.
+
+'I do not wish to intimate that every man who sees a fellow creature
+drowning, ought to plunge into the water to rescue that person. Indeed,
+I have seen two or three instances where men, who could not swim
+themselves, have jumped into the water to save the drowning, and in
+every instance the consequences have nearly been fatal. Before a person
+makes such an attempt, he should have tested his own ability to swim. If
+he can float himself and believes he can save the drowning person, he
+ought to make the attempt, and God will help him. This is not mere
+theory, but what I have felt again and again. Ever after my conversion
+to God, I used to pray, when plunging into the water, "Lord help me,"
+and knowing as I did, that prayer melts the heart and moves the arm of
+Jehovah, I felt confident he would help me; and so he did; for I often,
+when in the water, felt a sweet consciousness that God was with me. He
+taught my hands to war with the waters, and my fingers to grasp my
+precious freight. When struggling with the boy Woodman, these words came
+forcibly into my mind, and I repeated them in the water:--
+
+    "When all thy mercies, O my God,
+      My rising soul surveys,
+    Transported with the view, I'm lost
+      In wonder, love, and praise."
+
+[Sidenote: HIS GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GOD.]
+
+'I always felt it my duty, after rescuing a drowning person, to go to
+the house of God at night, and return public thanks to the Almighty.
+Ministers in the town, and especially the Wesleyan ministers, have often
+returned thanks to God from the pulpit, on the following Sabbath. On the
+morning following the deliverance, I generally went to see the rescued
+person, and sought to improve the event by impressing their mind with
+the uncertainty of life and with the importance of being prepared for
+death.
+
+[Sidenote: JOHN'S STATEMENT.]
+
+'In the following list I have given, as far as my memory and knowledge
+enabled me, a true and faithful account of the persons whom I have
+rescued from drowning. Extracts from newspapers, and letters from the
+parties themselves, and also from many who were eye-witnesses of their
+deliverance, have been freely used. There are several whom I have, at
+different times, saved from a watery grave, not included in this list,
+but as these events produced but little impression on my mind at the
+time of their occurrence, and as I am utterly unable to give either the
+names of the parties, or the time when I saved them, I can make no
+reliable mention of them at present, _though I hope_ to be able to do so
+at some future time. I sincerely believe, however, that if I had kept a
+strict account of all these deliverances, instead of having to record
+thirty-nine cases, I should have been able to have recorded upwards of
+fifty. I regret now that I did not keep such a record. Every now and
+then I meet with persons who greet me as their deliverer. Two young men
+have done so within the last four months. And very pleasant to my mind
+it is to meet a fellow creature whom I have been the means, in the hands
+of a wonder-working Providence, of saving from a watery grave. But all
+the cases mentioned in the following chapter, except William Earnshaw
+and Captain Clegg, have been signed by living witnesses, and most of
+them were reported in the local newspapers, at the time of their
+occurrence. Many of these persons are still living; some of them I see
+almost daily, and _they_ can speak for themselves. If I have made a
+mistake in spelling their names, or in relating the time when, or the
+circumstances under which, I saved them, I shall be glad to be
+corrected. And if I have offered an unkind reflection on any of my
+fellow creatures, or recorded a boastful sentence respecting what my
+fellow townsmen have been pleased to call my "deeds of daring," I hope
+to be forgiven by God, whose I am and whom I serve. Finally: as a large
+circle of my friends are anxious to have a true record of all the lives
+I have saved, I shall be highly pleased if any whom I have rescued, but
+whose names I have not recorded, will send me a few lines that may add
+to the interest of this little book, should a second edition be called
+for.'
+
+[Illustration: Signature of John Ellerthorpe]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+HIS GALLANT AND HUMANE CONDUCT IN RESCUING THE DROWNING.
+
+
+_First._--JOHN ELLERTHORPE.[1] (1820.)
+
+He was my father, and I was not more than fourteen years of age when I
+saved him. At the time he managed the ferry boat from Hessle to Barton.
+It required two persons to conduct the boat across the Humber, and as it
+cost my father a shilling each time he employed a man to assist him
+across, he often took me with him instead of a man, and thus saved the
+shilling. One morning, he took Mr. Thompson, corn miller, to Barton, and
+engaged to fetch him back at night; and there was this agreement between
+them, that my father was to receive the fare whether Mr. T---- returned
+or not. He did not return that night, though we waited for him until
+nine o'clock. The snow was then thick on the ground, the wind was
+blowing strong, and the waves were beginning to rise high in the Humber,
+and I was sitting, half-asleep, at the corner of a comfortable hearth,
+before a bright fire, when my father called out, 'Come, my boy, we'll be
+off.' We were soon in the boat, but had not got many yards, when my
+father fell overboard. I remember crying out most piteously, 'Oh, my
+father is overboard,' when I instantly plunged into the water and soon
+had fast hold of him. He had sunk to the bottom, a depth of sixteen
+feet, for when he came up he was covered with mud. We came up close to
+the boat's side, and, making a tremendous spring, I got hold of the
+boat's gunnel, and after a few moments my father also got hold of it
+with both his hands. He was a heavy man, weighing about fifteen stones,
+and could not swim. I said to him, 'Now, father, can you keep hold
+while I fetch the Hull horse-boatmen?' whom we had left at the
+water-side house, when he replied, 'Yes, but be very sharp, my lad.' I
+then swam to the house, and called out, 'My father is overboard;' and
+when I returned with the men, I was glad to hear him shout, 'I'm here.'
+John Thrush, captain of the horse-boat, and Luke Dixon, soon got him
+into the boat, while Mr. Wood, the landlord, brought him a glass of
+brandy, which he drank. We could not persuade him to leave the boat, so
+we again started for home, and as a brisk wind was blowing at the time,
+in about fifteen minutes, we were safe in Hessle harbour. My mother met
+us there, and I said, 'Mother, my father has been overboard, fetch
+somebody to help him out of the boat.' He was stiff and cold, but with
+the aid of Mr. Wright we got him ashore. Mr. W. brought him some mulled
+ale and a glass of rum, which I then thought very good. We then wrapped
+him in several thicknesses of warm clothing. I was much perished at the
+time, but soon felt all right. Not long before this, my mother had given
+me a severe flogging for bathing so often; so I looked into her face and
+said, 'Mother, I think you won't flog me for bathing again, will you?'
+to which she replied, 'Oh, my lad, it was a good job that thou was
+there;'[2] when my father faintly added, 'Yes, if he had not been there
+I should never have come to the top of the water.' And if he had he
+would have been drowned, for he could not swim a yard; and had he
+shouted, no one was near to render him assistance. But, thank God, I was
+there, and answered the end of a gracious Providence, and that was
+enough. Now, my father never liked to have this circumstance named,
+though I have often heard him say, 'That lad saved my life.' Afterwards,
+my mother never liked him to cross the Humber after dark, unless I was
+with him; so I often had to accompany him when I would much rather have
+been at a warm fireside, or asleep in bed. _Witnesses_--John Thrush,
+Luke Dixon.
+
+[Footnote 1: Those marked with a star distinguish the cases for which
+Mr. Ellerthorpe received the special medal of the Royal Humane Society.]
+
+[Footnote 2: John seems to have loved his mother with a tender, intense
+affection. In a letter dated October 14th, 1867, he says: 'It is
+fourteen years this day since my poor (but I trust now rich) mother was
+buried at Hessle. The Lord knows I was her darling son; but, alas! for
+many years I was no comfort to her. But years before her death Christ
+washed me from my sins in his most precious blood, and now I entertain a
+hope of meeting her in heaven.']
+
+
+_Second._--WILLIAM EARNSHAW.* (1820.)
+
+There were two brothers, Robert and William, sons of Mr. Earnshaw, of
+Hessle. They were about my own age, and, like myself, they were very
+fond of bathing. Their mother used to blame me for taking them into the
+water so often; but it was less my fault than theirs, for they used to
+fetch me from school--and I have known them give the schoolmaster a
+shilling to let me go with them. One day, we went to bathe in the drain,
+and fearing our parents might see us, we went a long way up the bank and
+then began to swim; at length I heard some one call out 'William
+Earnshaw is drowning!' I was then a hundred yards from him, but I
+hastened to the bank and ran as fast as I could, until I got opposite
+him, when I again plunged into the drain and swam to my young friend's
+rescue. His brother was weeping, and said, 'All is over with him,' and I
+thought so too. I could but just see the hair of his head, when I darted
+at him and gave him a great push, but he was too far gone to take hold
+of me, so I shoved him on and on, until his brother could reach him,
+when we put him on the bank and thought he was dead; but he soon began
+to breathe, and, after a while, came round. At that time I was in great
+disgrace with Mrs. Earnshaw, and afraid lest, if we told of William's
+narrow escape, she would never let us go together again, we vowed to
+keep the affair a profound secret. Soon after this the two brothers were
+taken ill, and poor William died, and the doctor said this illness was
+brought on by their too frequent bathing. They didn't bathe half so
+often as I did, but it was evident their constitution could not bear the
+water so well as mine. Mr. Earnshaw was a rich man and very liberal,
+and, I believe, if he had known the real nature of the case, as I have
+described it, so far from blaming me, he would have rewarded me for what
+I did for his son. I kept the promise I made to William for upwards of
+forty years; but as Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw and their sons are dead, and
+as a large circle of my friends are wishful to have a list of the lives
+I have saved, I think I am not doing wrong in recording William's
+deliverance in this history of my life.
+
+
+_Third._--ROBERT PINCHBECK.* (1822.)
+
+This case was very similar to the one I have just described. Robert, who
+was about fifteen years old, was a companion and schoolfellow of mine,
+and was fond of imitating my exploits in the water. One day he told some
+boys that he could swim across Hessle Harbour; but, in making the
+attempt, he nearly lost his life. I was about forty yards ahead of him,
+when I heard some boys cry 'Bob Pinchbeck is drowning.' He had gone down
+thrice, and was quite exhausted when I got to him, and he was saved, as
+it were, by the skin of his teeth. I feared he might seize me, and,
+therefore, I did not take hold of him, but pushed him before until he
+reached the long grass on the harbour bank. He could not use his limbs,
+and I thought he was dead, but he soon revived a little. We took him to
+my father's house and sent for his mother and a doctor; but when they
+arrived, he was breathing nicely, and after a few hours, he walked home.
+His father, though vexed by his son's disaster, said to me, 'You must
+teach him to swim.' I tried hard to do so, but the water always
+frightened him, and he never made much out at swimming. A few years
+after this he died of the typhus fever, and I believe his soul went to
+heaven. _Witnesses_--John Campbell, Francis Pinchbeck.
+
+
+_Fourth._--HENRY IBOTSON.* (1824.)
+
+Henry, myself, and others had been bathing in Hessle Harbour, and I had
+just left the water and dressed, when a cry was raised, 'Ibotson is
+drowning.' I sprang to him, when he seized me so tightly and closely,
+that we had a narrow escape from being drowned together. At length I got
+myself clear, and took him to the bank, amid the shouts and cheers of a
+great many spectators. We had great difficulty in walking home, and when
+we got there we had to be put to bed. Mr. Booth, gardener, of Hessle,
+and who was the next person I rescued, says: 'You may have forgotten,
+but I well remember, that a few days previous to your saving my life,
+you saved the life of H. Ibotson. It had well-nigh cost you your life,
+as he closed in upon you, and took you to the bottom.' A few days after
+Henry came and thanked me most sincerely for what I had done, and wished
+me to teach him to swim. I began at once, and he soon got that he could
+swim across the drain; but it was a long time before he durst venture to
+swim across the harbour, in which he had so nearly been drowned.... Now,
+I would ask, why did not some of these spectators render help in this
+time of need? Could nothing have been done when they saw us sink
+together, again and again? Within fifty yards there was a boat, with
+boat-hooks and staves, and could no use have been made of these, to
+lessen, the peril in which myself and the drowning youth were placed? I
+am convinced that great numbers of people are drowned through
+spectators not making a little effort at the time. _Witnesses_--George
+Twiddle, Robert Riplington.
+
+
+_Fifth._--GEORGE BOOTH. (1825.)
+
+He was bathing in the drain at Hessle, when a large tide was being taken
+in, and he began to sink fast. I was at a great distance when the alarm
+was given, but I ran to his assistance, plunged into the water, and soon
+brought him safe to land. Mr. Booth's gratitude has given me the
+greatest satisfaction. I had not seen him for many years, and had
+forgotten the circumstance altogether, until I met him at the funeral of
+R. Pease, Esq., when he said, 'I'm glad to see you once more, Mr.
+Ellerthorpe. Don't you remember when you leaped into the drain forty
+years ago, and saved my life?' And in a note I got from him, dated July
+31st, 1867, he says, 'Under the blessing of Divine Providence you were
+instrumental in saving my life. I was sixteen years of age, and in July,
+1825, I was bathing in Hessle drain, when a very large tide was being
+taken in. I shall ever have cause to thank you, as the instrument in
+God's hands, of saving me from a watery grave.'--George Booth.
+
+
+_Sixth._--ROBERT CLEGG. (1825.)
+
+He was both owner and captain of the keel 'Ann Scarborough,' the vessel
+from which I lost the brush at Clark's Bit. He went one dark night to
+Moreton, and as he did not return at the time expected, I felt very
+uneasy about him, and at last I went on the bank of the Trent, in search
+of him. When I got near Moreton-bite, I thought I heard a groan; and
+after a long search I found my captain, drunk, half in the water and
+half on the bank. The tide was half flood, and was then rapidly rising,
+and had it risen a foot and a half higher, he must have been drowned, as
+nothing could have saved him. I struggled with him for three quarters of
+an hour, and after great exertions, I got him fairly on the bank. We
+were then a mile and a half from our vessel, and did not get on board
+until three o'clock next morning. A doctor had to be got, and soon the
+captain began to recover. But the keel was delayed two days. He was
+afraid lest his wife should get to know the cause of this delay, and he
+bound me to keep the affair a profound secret. But he often said,
+afterwards, 'Jack saved my life.' And I am quite sure I did, as no one
+came near us, and there was no other chance of his being rescued. I
+never allowed this case to be put in the list of those whom I have
+saved, but having given a true statement of the case, I think I shall be
+pardoned for giving it a permanent record here.
+
+
+_Seventh._--NAME NOT KNOWN.* (1826.)
+
+[Sidenote: THE COACHMAN.]
+
+He was a coachman, but his name I never knew. He was conducting some
+ladies on board the 'Sir Walter Scott,' when, being drunk, he fell
+overboard, between the smack and the wharf, Irongate, London. There were
+but seven feet depth of water, and I had to leap from a height of at
+least sixteen feet; but I succeeded in preserving him from what seemed
+certain death. He was covered with mud, but was soon washed, and got on
+some dry clothes. After I had changed my clothes, and drank a glass of
+whisky, I returned to the vessel, and the ladies and gentlemen gave me a
+thousand thanks. The captain's name was Nisbet, and ever afterwards he
+would have given me almost anything; whenever I met him in London, he
+used to call the attention of his passengers to me, and tell them what I
+had done. Many a time has he sent for me on board his vessel, and given
+me as much drink as I would take, and he used to say to the passengers,
+'See! this young man jumped over our ship's rail, when there was not
+more than seven feet of water, and made a rope fast to a man when
+there was no other way of his being saved. If I had not seen it I
+could not have believed that any man could have done it.' He often
+said, 'Whenever you want a berth come to me and I will give you one.'
+_Witnesses_--Thomas Macha, Richard Boras.
+
+
+_Eighth._--CHARLES HIMSWORTH.* (1828.)
+
+At this time, Himsworth and myself belonged to the brig 'Jubilee,' of
+Hull. We were bosom friends, and very fond of spreeing about, and spent
+much of our time when ashore in dancing parties and in ballrooms.
+Whether at Hull or in London, if we could but find a place where there
+was plenty of noise and a fiddle going, that was the place for us. We
+have often spent many days' hard earnings in a few hours, amid such
+scenes. On this occasion he fell from the bows of the 'Jubilee' while a
+strong ebb tide was running. I jumped in after him, and we both went
+under a tier of vessels that were hung at the buoy, Battle Bridge,
+London. We came to the surface, but were soon carried under another tier
+of vessels, and had not the mate have come to our assistance we should
+have gone under a third tier, but he came at the last extremity and
+saved us. Charles belonged to a very respectable family living at
+Snaith, where I once called to see his mother, who was a widow. Her son
+Thomas and I became intimate friends, after I had rescued Charles, and
+he often said he thought as much of me as he did of his own brother.
+Alas! the two brothers met with untimely deaths. On the morning of
+January the 25th, 18--, I saw Thomas put out to sea, and in about half
+an hour the boat capsized, and he and five other men were drowned.
+Charles got married, and became master of a vessel, but alas! he and
+the crew were drowned. _Witnesses_--William Howarth, Joseph Johnson.
+
+
+_Ninth._--JOHN KENT.* (1828.)
+
+He was a native of Hull, and a shipmate of mine on board the
+'Westmoreland.' While in a state of intoxication he jumped overboard
+into the Diamond Harbour, Quebec, intending to swim to land, but sank at
+a distance from the vessel. A boat, manned with foreigners, was passing
+at the time, and Captain Knill called to them to pick up Kent. They
+pulled the boat towards him, but Kent, in trying to lay hold of it,
+missed his grasp, and the next moment he was under the boat. The captain
+then called to us on the stage, and said, 'Be sharp with your boat, or
+_the man_ will be drowned.' We did not then know who _the man_ was, but,
+with the quickness of true sailors, we were in the boat in a minute. By
+this time he had been carried to a great distance from the ship, as the
+ebb tide was running strong and fast. I was forward in the boat, and on
+reaching the spot where he was last seen, I plunged under the water, and
+in a moment I saw the man, and was surprised to find it was my friend,
+John Kent. I dived to a depth of twenty-five feet, and had him right
+above me; I soon had hold of him, and though I had to swim against the
+ebb tide, we were soon at the boat's side, when I said to the men,
+'Never mind me, pull him into the boat,' but he had such fast hold of my
+arm that they had to pull us in together, and even then it was with
+great difficulty they broke his hold of me. He was so far gone that for
+a long time we did not know whether he was living or dead. At length he
+showed signs of life, but recovered slowly, and did not work for several
+days. After twenty-five years' separation, I met Kent in the streets of
+Hull, and he remembered, with every mark of gratitude, his wonderful
+deliverance. My arm was much bruised, and almost as black as a coal. I
+could not lift it as high as my head, and I said to the captain, 'I am
+afraid I shall not be able to work to-day,' when he kindly said, 'Never
+mind the work, surely thou's done enough for one day; take care of thy
+arm,' and he gave me something with which to rub it. It remained stiff
+for a long time, and gave me great pain. I hope to be pardoned for
+adding that, I was a great favourite with Captain Knill, and spent many
+hours with him ashore when I ought to have been aboard taking in timber.
+He was a kind man and a good captain, and often, after my drunken
+sprees, he would call me down to the cabin and there talk to me as a
+father would talk to his son. And these friendly counsels produced a
+deep impression upon my mind, and did me far more good than a 'blowing
+up' would have done. Through respect for him, I used to guard against
+drink, but alas! I was often overcome. I cherish an undying respect for
+the memory of my dear Captain Knill. _Witnesses_--Captain J. Knill, John
+Hickson.
+
+
+_Tenth._--GEORGE WILLIAMS.* (1830.)
+
+He was a sailor on board the ship 'Rankin,' belonging, I think, to
+Gilmore and Rankin. He fell overboard with a timber chain round his
+neck, and went under a raft of timber. Some men saw him fall overboard,
+and called for me. I ran as fast as I could, and had to step from one
+piece of floating timber to another; however, I soon reached him, and
+brought him up with the chain round his neck. He was completely
+exhausted, and it was half an hour before he could walk. This man's
+captain sent for me to give me some money for rescuing one of his crew;
+but fearing he might stop the sum out of the man's wages, I refused to
+go; for I did not want anything for what I had done. He was offended,
+and when ashore told Captain Knill of my refusal. So to please my
+captain, I went on board the 'Rankin,' when the captain shook hands with
+me, and said, 'Captain Knill tells me you won't take any money for
+saving one of my crew. I think you ought. Had you saved my life I would
+have given you twenty pounds, and I think you ought to take a sovereign
+for what you have done. Now take it, and I will make him pay me back.'
+He then sent for the man, who looked wretched and seemed to think I had
+gone for money; and when his captain said, 'Now, what are you going to
+give this man for saving your life,' he replied, 'I have nothing to give
+him.' I didn't want the poor man's money, nor would I have taken any if
+he had had his pockets full. I then went forward to the crew, when the
+captain sent us what sailors call 'a mess pot.' I drank a great deal of
+rum that night, for I had to sup first with one and then with another,
+and each drank to my good health, and when I left they gave me a good
+hearty 'English cheer'--such a cheer as only 'jolly sailors' can give.
+Captain Knill was pleased that I had been so firm in refusing to take
+any money from the poor man, and it was enough for me that _he_ was
+pleased. And I can declare, most solemnly, that hitherto I have not
+received so much as a halfpenny from any of those whom I have saved. I
+have got many a glass of grog, but never any money. _Witnesses_--Captain
+J. Knill, John Hickson.
+
+
+_Eleventh._--MARY ANN DAY.* (1833.)
+
+She was a little girl, a native of Ulceby, in Lincolnshire, and fell
+from the 'Magna Charter' steamer into New Holland harbour. I sprang in
+after her while the paddle-wheels of the steamer were in motion, and
+brought her ashore, though at a great risk of losing my own life. The
+noise of the paddle-wheels, the screams of the girl's mother, and the
+confusion and shouts of the passengers, made this a very exciting scene,
+but it was very soon over, and the little girl, having got some dry
+clothes on, her mother brought her to me, and said to her, 'Now what
+will you give this gentleman for saving your life?' when she held out
+her little chin and, with a full heart, said, 'A _kiss_.' She gave me a
+kiss, and O, what a kiss it was. I felt myself well paid for my trouble;
+indeed, I made the remark at the time, that I was never better satisfied
+than when that child kissed me. 'It is said that Cicero had two
+courtiers on whom he wished to bestow favours. To one he gave a golden
+cup, and to the other a kiss. But the one that got the cup was very
+dissatisfied. He said, 'In the kiss I see something more than the cup,
+though that is valuable, but in the kiss there is affection, and it
+betokens better things.' And I am sure I felt a greater sense of
+delight, and higher satisfaction at the moment when that grateful child
+kissed me, than I did when my fellow townsmen, with their wonted
+generosity, presented me with one hundred and thirty guineas, and other
+mementoes of my doings; all of which I prize most highly, and which I
+trust will be preserved as heirlooms in my family, as long as the name
+of Ellerthorpe shall continue. I have been told that this girl is
+married and has a large family, and that she is now living between
+Beverly and Hull. Whether this is true I cannot say, but I know she has
+never paid me a visit, which I think she might have done, supposing the
+above statement to be correct. Should this meet her eye, it may refresh
+her memory, and I assure her she would meet with a hearty welcome from
+her former deliverer, now living at the Humber Dock-gate, Hull.
+_Witness_--Captain Oswald James Teny.
+
+
+_Twelfth._--HENRICH JENSON.* (1833.)
+
+He was a foreigner, about forty years of age, and fell into the Humber
+Dock basin, one dark night, in the month of November. I was walking on
+the dock side at the time, when I heard a splash in the water, and in
+less time than it takes to write these few lines, I plunged in after
+him, and found him in a drowning state; I seized him, and with the
+assistance of some bystanders, soon had him safe on land. He rapidly
+recovered and I heard no more of him for years, when a man, a foreigner,
+called at my house and gave me the man's name and thanked me for saving
+his life. He said, 'If ever Jenson comes to Hull again, you may rest
+assured he will call and see you, and give you personal thanks.' I said
+I should be glad to see him, but that I should not take anything from
+him for the little service I had done him. This case was fully reported
+in the local papers at the time, and gave rise to a great deal of talk
+in the town of Hull, and its vicinity, as many well remember. John
+Barkworth, Esq., timber merchant, of Hull (who had known me from a boy),
+in company with some other gentlemen, met me one day, and said, 'Well
+John, you have saved another man,' and turning to those with him, he
+said, 'Here is a man that never stops, whatever kind of weather blows,
+but in he plunges and fetches the drowning person out. Look at his last
+case! On a dark cold night in November, he hears a splash, and in he
+goes and saves a man. Gentlemen, the town ought to do something handsome
+for him.' He gave me half-a-crown, and each of the other gentlemen gave
+me the same sum. As these gentlemen had plenty of money, and as none of
+them had any connection with the man I had saved, I accepted their
+gifts, and felt pleased that my services had been acknowledged in the
+manner I have described. _Witness_--James Smith.
+
+
+_Thirteenth._--ASHLEY TAYLOR.* (1833.)
+
+He was seventy-five years of age, and fell from the landing place of the
+Grimsby packet, opposite ----street, Hull. At that time I belonged to
+the New Holland steamer, and having lost my tide at four o'clock, p.m.,
+I went down to meet the packet which arrived at seven o'clock at night.
+Mr. R. Curtis, Mr. Lundie, and myself, were walking near where the boat
+was expected to land, when we heard a great splash in the water, but
+could not see anything. We ran to the corner of Pier-street, and there
+we saw something in the water, but nothing stirred. At length Mr. Lundie
+said, 'I believe it is a man overboard.' I then looked more closely, and
+sure enough it was a man. He had on one of those old fashioned great
+coats, with three or four capes, and which were worn by gentlemen's
+coachmen and boots, forty years ago; and as the capes were blowing about
+in all directions, it was with great difficulty I found his head. I had
+to turn him up and down, to the right and left, topsy-turvey, before I
+could get his head clear. I took him to the 'Piles,' and held him there,
+until a young man, who now drives a cab in Hull, came to our assistance
+with a boat. We took the old man to the Humber dock watch-house, and
+sent for Dr. Buchan, who used the Royal Humane Society's apparatus, and
+also gave the old man a steam or vapour bath. I stayed with him in my
+wet clothes till he spoke, and then I went home and got on some dry
+raiment. During my absence, they took this old man to Mr. Hudson's
+lodging house, in Humber-street. The night was cold, and the old man had
+had a warm bath, and to expose him to the night air under such
+circumstances was enough to kill him. When I arrived from New Holland,
+at nine o'clock next morning, a person met me and said, 'The old man is
+dead.' _Witnesses_--Richard Curtis, Richard Lundie.
+
+
+_Fourteenth._--RICHARD CHAPMAN.* (1834.)
+
+Unlike the last case, Richard was a fine boy, only seven years old: he
+was the son of the late Mr. Chapman, pilot, and also brother of Mr.
+Chapman, painter, of Hull. He fell into the water from the Hull Dock
+Pier. At the time, I was on the deck of my packet, smoking a pipe, when
+I heard some one call out, 'A boy overboard.' I sprang from the deck,
+ran to the spot, plunged into the water, and in a few moments I had the
+boy safe ashore. I then hastened home, got on some dry clothes, and in
+less than half an hour I had started with the packet for New Holland.
+When I returned, Mr. Chapman met me and said, 'John, was it you who
+saved my boy?' 'I can't say, but I know I saved somebody's boy, is he
+yours?' I replied. 'Yes,' said the rejoicing father, 'I'm glad you were
+there, what am I in your debt?' 'Nothing, Mr. Chapman. I am as pleased
+as you are, and you are quite welcome to what I have done,' was my
+reply. He then said, 'Come in here and have something to drink,' when we
+went to the Minerva Hotel. Mr. Chapman pulled a handful of sovereigns
+from his purse and said, 'Now do take something for saving my boy,' but
+I again refused, though I believe to this day he would gladly have given
+me L10 if I would have taken that sum; but I never did take anything
+from anyone whom I have rescued, though often urged to do so. I think it
+was on this occasion that I received L1 from the Hull Royal Humane
+Society. Mr. Collinson, a gentleman, was on the pier when I saved Master
+Chapman, and he came and asked me what was my name, to what ship I
+belonged, where I lived, &c. Soon after, I was called by some gentlemen
+into the Minerva Hotel, where Dr. Wallis shook me by the hand and said,
+'I have often heard of you, and it gives me great pleasure to see your
+face and hear your voice.' He gave me a note to take to the Trinity
+House for L1, which I got, and another which I took to Watson and
+Harrison's bank, where I got another sovereign. I felt pleased with
+these acknowledgments of my services, and oftener than once after this I
+was sent to the same places, and got L1 each time, after I had rescued a
+human life. The funds of the Trinity House were soon exhausted, and
+several gentlemen requested me to prepare a list of the persons I had
+saved from drowning at Hull, New Holland, Barton, and Hessle, and to get
+it signed by living witnesses. The persons saved by me, for which I had
+received no public acknowledgment, numbered five, and they gave me L5.
+Altogether I have received eleven sovereigns from the Hull Humane
+Society for those I rescued in the Humber, and at Hull.
+_Witnesses_--William Collinson, Thomas Spence.
+
+
+_Fifteenth._--ROBERT LEESON.* (1834.)
+
+He was a young gentleman returning from a musical festival, at York. He
+fell into New Holland harbour; some said he was in a state of
+intoxication. I swam to his assistance and soon saved him. He was very
+ill, and I believe a doctor was fetched from Barrow. When I returned,
+next morning, he had gone, but had left me _sixpence_ with which to get
+a glass of rum, which I hastily swallowed. My captain was provoked by
+(what _he_ thought) this man's niggardly gift, and said, 'John, why did
+you drink it? I would have given you a glass of rum without your being
+indebted to him.' I am told that this gentleman is often in Hull; if he
+is, I am sorry he has never had gratitude enough to give me a call. I
+saved his life and he must know it. I may add that a man who could not
+swim, jumped overboard to rescue this gentleman, and I had almost as
+much trouble in saving him as I had in saving Leeson. _Witnesses_--James
+Oswald, James Sorry.
+
+
+_Sixteenth._--JOSEPH CRABTREE. (1834.)
+
+At this time I belonged to the 'Magna Charter' steamer, and was watchman
+for the night. When I went on board I was not quite sober, and I lay
+down on the forecastle. After a while I thought I heard something fall
+overboard, when I ran on to the deck, but could not see anything. I
+listened with bated breath, but not a sound could I hear; at length I
+shouted, but there was no answer. A plank had been put from the 'Ann
+Scarborough,' into our 'Taffelrail,' and as this plank had fallen down,
+I thought it was its fall I had heard and nothing else. I got a boat
+hook and pulled the plank on board our vessel. But after a few moments I
+thought I heard something stir, and on taking a light I saw Crabtree,
+who was engineer of the 'Ann Scarborough,' stuck in the mud, for the
+vessels were dry. I put down a ladder and went to help him, but he was
+so fast in the mud that I could do nothing with him. So I ran to
+Lawson's tap-room and got, I think, Robert Hollowman and two other men,
+to help to get C. out of the mud. He was dead drunk, but we soon got him
+ashore, gave him some brandy, and he was very little worse. The case was
+kept a profound secret at the time, and for this reason--Crabtree was
+afraid that if his master should get to know of the affair, he would
+lose his situation, and as we all thought the same, we promised not to
+tell any one of it.
+
+
+_Seventeenth._--WILSON.* (1835.)
+
+This boy fell into the Humber Dock basin, and sank between the 'Calder'
+steamer and the wall. It was about three o'clock one Sabbath afternoon,
+and hundreds of people were passing to and fro in search of pleasure. I
+was one hundred yards from the boy when the alarm was given, but I ran
+as fast as I could, and when I got to the spot, I found great
+difficulty in getting near because of the press of the people who were
+anxious to see the drowning youth. Some one said, 'He went down just
+here,' and in I went, but I had a task to find him because of the
+thickness of the water. At last I saw him, and brought him up on one
+side of the packet, and caught hold of the paddle-wheels, when the
+people, who crowded the deck, rushed to see us, and gave the packet such
+a 'lurch over' that we were again dipped overhead in the water. I was
+never nearer being drowned than at this moment; but 'mercy to my rescue
+flew,' for the captain, who had been asleep in the cabin, rushed on
+deck, and seeing our peril, called out, 'You are drowning them,' and got
+them to stand on the other side of the vessel, which lifted us right out
+of the water. A man then came into the paddle-wheel and took us both
+out. I was then completely exhausted and quite insensible. When I came
+to myself I was in the watch-house of the Humber Dock Company, and a
+doctor was watching over me and administering suitable medical
+treatment. I cannot tell how long I was in this state, but I had all my
+clothes pulled or cut off, and I was dangerously ill for several days.
+The boy was thought to be worse than I was, and in his case they used
+the Royal Humane Society's apparatus for restoring animation to drowning
+persons. He soon recovered, but who he was or where he came from I never
+knew. I remember the doctor told me his name was Wilson. This was
+regarded by the public as an act of great skill and bravery, and was
+much talked of at the time. Mrs. Daniel Sykes sent me, through the
+medium of the editor of the Rockingham newspaper, L1 10s., and I think
+one of the clubs subscribed _threepence_. _Witnesses_--Isaac Johnson, S.
+Bromley.
+
+
+_Eighteenth._--SARAH HARLAND.* (1835.)
+
+Mrs. H. was a person of great strength and bulk of frame, weighing
+fourteen stones; she fell from the pier into the water. Our packet had
+just arrived from New Holland, and I was forward making the ... rope
+fast, when our engineer called out 'Jack, Jack, there is a woman
+overboard.' He ran aft as fast as he could, and when he got there, he
+saw me overboard. He often used to say, 'I don't know how that little
+fellow got past me, for I ran as fast as I could, and yet when I got
+there he was overboard.' I seized this woman with a firm grip, and bore
+her to the pier, amid the applause of crowds of people who witnessed the
+whole occurrence. Some of them said I swam as fast with this big woman
+in my arms as I did when I went towards her; this I think was
+impossible, seeing I was but a little man, and that she was such a big
+heavy woman. Isaac Whittaker, Esq., who saw me rescue her, gave me
+half-a-crown to get some grog with. But what pleased me far better was,
+the gratitude of Mrs. H. She resided, if I remember rightly, in Blanket
+Row, and on going to see her, next morning, I found her ill in bed. She
+seemed full of gratitude, and that gave me great pleasure. I have often
+seen her since, and she always acknowledges me as saving her life.
+_Witness_--Robert Todd.
+
+
+_Nineteenth._--ROBERT BROWN.* (1835.)
+
+He was a sailor, from North Shields, and fell overboard, near the
+Victoria Hotel, Hull, while on watch. It was the first night of Dacrow's
+Circus appearing in Hull, and Brown's mates had gone ashore, either to
+see the performance inside, or to hear the music in the streets. I was
+watchman that night on board the 'Magna Charter' steamer. A heavy gale
+was blowing from the north, accompanied with sleet storms. While closing
+the cabin door for the night, I heard a splash, and running aft, I
+called out, 'Is anyone overboard?' But there was no answer, for the
+pier was deserted, the people having thronged to the circus. I could not
+see anything; but at last I thought I heard a voice, and plunging into
+the water, I soon found poor Brown; indeed he seized me before I was
+aware of him, and got upon me in such a way that I could not swim, and,
+I must confess, I was in a great passion. At length I got one arm at
+liberty, and made for the shore. I turned round and round a great many
+times, and, at last, after a desperate struggle, which I shall never
+forget, we reached the steps at the end of the pier. Brown took hold of
+the rail, walked up the steps, and seemed as if he didn't care about me;
+I was quite exhausted, and had to hold by the railings for several
+minutes before I could recover my breath. I then sat down on one of the
+steps and felt very ill, and I thought I should have died on the spot. I
+remember seeing the lights, and hearing the music from the shore, but
+there was no one near to render me any help. Bye-and-bye I recovered a
+little and _crept_ to the top of the steps, where I found poor Brown,
+crying most piteously. Two men, Joseph Crabtree and John Young, came
+from Lawson's tap-room, and I asked them to get some drink for the
+youth, who was in a distressing state, and I would pay for it. They then
+took him to Mr. Lawson's, while I tried to make my way home; but
+scarcely had I started, when a great trouble stared me in the face, it
+was this: Around the circus were thousands of people, and I
+thought,--what shall I do? I cannot get through that crowd, and if I
+once fall, I shall never get up again, and I felt that I had not
+strength to walk round the other way, and I didn't know what to do.
+However, I had not gone far when, who should I meet, but Joseph Spyby,
+our engineer. I said, 'O Joe, do help me home, do; I have been overboard
+saving a young man, and I can scarcely stand. I feel very bad.' He
+replied, 'Yes, thou has to be drowned, and the sooner the better. There
+never was such a fool as thou art. Does thou think anybody but theeself
+would jump overboard a night like this? No! there is not another such a
+fool in England!' Now, Joe was a kind-hearted, humane man, and the first
+to help a poor fellow in distress; but such was the way in which he
+expressed himself as he helped me along the street that terrible night.
+He took hold of me and got me through the crowd as well as he could. We
+went to the Humber Tavern, where I got a glass of brandy, and then Spyby
+took me home. I got a change of raiment and a little rest, and strange
+to say, I soon felt well again. For this case I received the Royal
+Humane Society's silver medal, with their thanks on vellum. The case
+created considerable excitement in Hull, and the late Mr. Loft (father
+of our late mayor), offered to become one of twelve persons to allow me
+L2 per week to walk round the pier and docks, so as to be ready to
+rescue any who might fall into the water. _Witness_--Robert Todd.
+
+
+_Twentieth._--ROBERT TETHER. (1836.)
+
+This young man, who is at present second engineer of the steam-ship,
+'Dido,' belonging to Wilson and Sons, Hull, shall describe his own
+deliverance. He thus writes:--'About thirty years ago, and when I was
+about ten years of age, I was on board of a vessel whilst being launched
+from a ship-yard on the Humber bank. By some means or other a check rope
+belonging to the vessel broke, and dragged me into the water. There was
+no means of my being saved but by the noble "Hero," who immediately
+jumped into the water, with all his clothes on, and brought me to the
+shore, which was done at a great risk of his own life. I remember, also,
+that there was immense shouting and cheering, and that a band of
+musicians who had been playing at the 'launch,' when they saw Mr.
+Ellerthorpe bearing me ashore, began playing, "See the Conquering Hero
+comes."--Robert Tether, July 24th, 1867.'
+
+
+_Twenty-first and Twenty-second._--GEORGE EMERSON* AND ANN WISE* (1836.)
+
+Emerson, a porter, was conducting Miss Wise, from the 'Magna Charter,'
+over a plank, when the plank slipped, and both were precipitated into
+the water. The wind was blowing very strong, and the river was extremely
+rough at the time. I had just gone into the cabin to change my clothes,
+when, hearing such a screaming as I had never before heard, I sprang
+upon the paddle-box, and saw Emerson, but knew nothing of the woman who
+had also fallen into the water, and whose mother was uttering the most
+heart-rending shrieks. I leaped from the paddle-box to save the man,
+when, to my surprise, I found I had thrown my legs right _across the
+woman's shoulders_! Of course my _first object_ now, was to save _her_.
+I hastily dragged her to the side of the packet, and having put her hand
+round a piece of iron, I said to her, 'Now hold fast there, for you are
+safe.' I then went to a distance in search of Emerson, and having made a
+rope fast round him, I was able to hold him up with ease. But the
+shouting was as great as ever, and I thought,--surely there is some one
+else overboard! The fact was, the people could not see the woman holding
+by the iron, and in my efforts to save the man, they thought I had
+forgotten her; hence their wild shouts. The engineer came to the
+vessel's side and shouted, 'There is the woman yet,' when I replied,
+'She's all right, come down to the paddle and take hold of her.' He came
+and took her out, when she had a basket on her arm and a pair of pattens
+in her hand, just as when she dropped into the water. She suddenly
+disappeared from the crowd, and I heard no more of her for seven years.
+Mr. G. Lee, editor of the 'Rockingham, advertised the case in his paper
+for several weeks, asking the woman, from sheer gratitude, to let him
+know her name; but there was no response. When I was master of the 'Ann
+Scarborough,' sailing between Barton and Hessle, I had to fetch (one
+Sunday afternoon) a gentleman's carriage from Barton to Hessle. We had
+scarcely started, when a young woman, who was a passenger, said to me,
+'You don't know me, Sir, but I know you.' 'And for what do you know me,
+something good or bad?' 'O good, Sir; don't you remember jumping
+overboard and saving my life, at Hull? I shall never forget you, and I
+have come here on purpose to thank you.' I then told her how we had
+advertised for her name, but could never hear a word of her, when she
+said, 'My mother and I were strangers in Hull, and as soon as I had got
+some dry clothes on, we had to start by coach, for Bridlington.' This
+woman's brother was gardener for Mr. Graborn, solicitor, Barton, and we
+afterwards became very intimate friends. I have not heard from Ann Wise
+for many years, but if she is yet living in any part of England, it
+would gladden my heart to have one more acknowledgment from her. In
+relating this case at Temperance meetings, I have sometimes created a
+little mirth, by remarking, 'I went in search of a man, and lo! and
+behold, I found a woman.' _Witness_--Robert Todd.
+
+
+_Twenty-third._--JOHN BAILEY.* (1836.)
+
+He was fourteen years of age, and while playing at the Hull ferry-boat
+dock, he fell overboard and had a very narrow escape from being drowned.
+When I first heard the cry, 'A boy overboard,' I was near the Minerva
+Hotel, and I at once ran to the scene of the disaster. He had been down
+twice, when I got there, but in a few moments I had hold of him, and
+brought him ashore, amid the cheers and shouts of hundreds of
+spectators. I narrowly escaped being drowned. Bailey is now a labouring
+man in Hull, and I believe the father of a large family. I often meet
+him, and he always seems glad to see me.
+
+I may here ask, Was it not strange that amongst the hundreds of people
+who saw this drowning youth, not one was found to render him the least
+assistance? I do not write boastingly when I say this:--If I could run
+from the Minerva Hotel to the pier, and save this youth, after he had
+sank in the water twice, surely those who were near him at the moment
+when he fell in, might have rendered him some assistance? Indeed some
+present said, 'We could have swam to him if we had tried.' Then I would
+ask, 'Why didn't they make a venture?' The conduct of these spectators I
+regard as being monstrous and unmanly. Englishmen are generally thought
+to have a fair share of personal courage, but it is nevertheless a fact,
+that scores of them watched the struggles of this drowning youth, _but
+took care to watch them only from the shore_. Can we wonder that
+hundreds are drowned every year along our coasts, if people act as these
+spectators did. _Witnesses_--Joseph Crabtree, John Young.
+
+
+_Twenty-fourth._--RICHARD LISON.* (1836.)
+
+He was a boy, seven years of age, and fell into the Junction dock, Hull.
+When the alarm was given, I was at the other side of the present ...
+dock, a great distance from where the boy was, but I ran with all speed
+over the bridge, and when I got to the drowning child, I found he had
+sunk the third time, and I thought, O, what shall I do? I went in search
+of him; I dived here, and I dived there, and at length I found him. A
+cry of joy was raised by the spectators when they saw me fetch him from
+a great depth, and then carry him towards the shore, on reaching which,
+some of them received him, and took him to his mother. I heard no more
+of him until he had grown to manhood; since then he has manifested the
+warmest gratitude, and treated me with the utmost kindness and respect.
+For years he was in the employ of the Hull dock company; I had many
+opportunities of watching his conduct, and always found him a faithful
+and trusty servant, doing his duty as well in his master's absence as in
+his presence. This made me think much of him, and I always felt a deep
+interest in his welfare. He is now in the employ of Martin, Samuelson
+and Co., Hull. _Witness_--John Lundie.
+
+
+_Twenty-fifth._--GEORGE RICKERBY.* (1836.)
+
+He was a youth, and while playing on the east pier, Hull, he fell
+overboard. I ran a great distance, and in an almost breathless state
+leaped from a height of fourteen feet, into seven feet depth of water. I
+had scarcely touched the water, when he clutched me firmly, and dragged
+me down, again and again, but I was eager to rescue him, and, thank God,
+I succeeded. He had fallen upon one of the buoys, and cut his head,
+which bled profusely, and before I got him ashore I thought he was dead.
+He continued to bleed for some time, and a doctor was sent for. There
+was great cheering by the spectators as they saw me bearing through the
+waters, this bleeding, but still living youth, and some ladies and
+gentlemen, who had been watching me from the Minerva Hotel, threw out of
+the window, several shillings and half-crown pieces. If my memory serves
+me rightly, I got L1 10s. I thought myself handsomely rewarded; but what
+pleased me more was the gratitude of the boy's mother; for I have always
+considered gratitude the richest reward I could receive: more than
+grateful thanks for what I had done, this poor woman would have found
+it difficult to have given me, but most grateful she was, and I felt
+both satisfied and delighted. But let me explain: On going to see the
+boy, next morning, I found him very ill in bed, and his mother, thinking
+I had gone for something for saving her child's life, said, 'I have no
+money to give you, Sir, but my husband's half-pay will be due in a few
+days, and I'm sure you shall have half of it.' I replied, 'I'm sure I
+have not come for anything you have, my good woman, for I never take
+money from those I save, or from their relatives.' She seemed
+overwhelmed with grateful feelings, and I had some difficulty in
+persuading her that I did not want money, and that I would not
+take it if offered me, and I believe, to this day, that if I had
+said to her, 'You must give me your eight-days' clock and your
+chest of drawers,' she would willingly have given them to me
+there and then. _Witness._--Richard Curtis.
+
+
+_Twenty-sixth._--MISS HILL. (1836.)
+
+This young woman, when landing at New Holland, ran down the plank, when
+her foot slipped and she fell into the water, at the low side of the
+jetty. I sprang to her assistance, but she was fast among some pieces of
+timber. We were both in great peril, the tide was coming in, and had it
+reached a foot higher, we should both have been drowned. We were so
+placed as to be compelled to dive under water before we could reach the
+shore. I told her that there was no other way of our being saved, and
+that the attempt must be made at once, and without waiting for her
+consent, I grasped her in my arm, and under the water we went. The
+people thought we should have been drowned, but we soon got clear of the
+jetty; some threw us one thing and some another; at length James
+Nicholson got into a boat, took us in, and landed us safe ashore. I
+went to a public house, where I got a glass of brandy, and borrowed the
+ostler's clothes, and I ailed nothing afterwards. The young woman
+remained at New Holland all night, and took her departure next morning,
+without leaving behind her even a single expression of verbal gratitude
+for what I had done for her. For some time it was reported that she was
+the daughter of Sir Rowland Hill, post-master general, but I wrote to
+that Knight, and found that she did not belong to his family. She made a
+fine appearance and was well dressed, but when I think of the shabby way
+in which she left the scene of her distress, I can't call her a lady. I
+am devoutly grateful that I was the means of saving her, but the case
+would not have been made thus prominent, had not several gentlemen of
+Hull, who were present on the occasion, refused to let the case slip.
+_Witnesses_--Robert Todd, Captain Thomas Oswell.
+
+
+_Twenty-seventh._--HANNAH WEBSTER.* (1837.)
+
+This I regard as a most wonderful deliverance. Some said she fell,
+others that she jumped, from the Barton horse-boat into the Ferry-boat
+dock, Hull. Thomas Spencer, who was working at what was then called 'The
+knock-em-down jetty,' saw the woman drop into the water, and called out,
+'A woman overboard.' I hastened to her and soon got her ashore, when she
+was completely exhausted, and we sent for a doctor. A gentleman came to
+me and said 'Did you fetch yon woman out of the water?' 'Yes, Sir,' was
+my reply, when he made this strange and unaccountable remark--'If you
+had let her stop in I would have given you half-a-crown, but as it is, I
+shall not give you anything.' 'Thank you, Sir, but I'm glad she's out,
+notwithstanding; and I would rather save that woman than I would have
+all the half-crowns in Hull,' was my indignant reply. I never stood to
+ask whether a drowning person was rich or poor, friend or foe, drunk or
+sober. If a person was overboard I did my best to rescue that person
+from drowning. We took this poor, despised woman to a house in
+Humber-street, and I gave my word that all expenses should be paid. She
+lodged in Mill-street, and was a widow, thirty seven years of age, and
+had two children. I went to see her next morning, but she had gone, so I
+had all expenses to pay. I have always thought this woman was one of
+those poor, unfortunate, and despairing ones, so touchingly described by
+Hood:--
+
+    'Mad from life's history,
+    Glad to death's mystery
+    Swift to be hurled,
+      Anywhere, anywhere,
+    Out of the world.'
+
+_Witnesses_--William Taylor, George Horsefield.
+
+
+_Twenty-eighth._--MISS ELLGARD.* (1837.)
+
+This young woman, who, there is reason to suspect, was a similar
+character to Mrs. Webster, fell from McDonald's wharf, into Toronto Bay,
+America. I had in charge at this time a vessel belonging to Mr.
+Garsides, and when walking down to the wharf, one cold night, in the
+month of October, I heard a heavy splash in the water, and the next
+moment a loud scream. I ran to the place and saw this woman struggling
+in the water. She was very difficult to get at, but at last I caught
+hold of her, and soon landed her on the wharf. A man was waiting to
+receive her, and they instantly walked off. A few days after, however,
+she called at Mr. Baker's, 'Black Swan' Inn and asked for me, and on
+going to the door she told me that I had saved her life, and that she
+was twenty-nine years of age. Now there had been some strange reports
+about her and the man who met her; indeed it was commonly believed, in
+Toronto, that he had pushed her overboard. But she said, 'The report is
+false. I _fell_ overboard.' She thanked me very kindly; I urged her to
+tell me her name, which she did, after I had promised not to tell
+anyone; this made me suspect that there was something wrong in
+connection with her being overboard. She urged me to accept some money,
+but I would not for I am sure her gratitude amply satisfied me for what
+I had done for her. _Witnesses_--Thomas Thomas, John Baker.
+
+
+_Twenty-ninth._--JANE GOUGH.* (1843.)
+
+When seven years old, she fell into Hessle harbour; her mother gave the
+alarm, and in a few moments I was in the water and saved her. I remember
+but little about _this case_, but the girl's father often says, when
+referring to myself, 'That man saved my child's life twice, and the
+second time was as good as the the first.' I will explain the second
+case. Miss Gough, many years after her deliverance, married Mr. Shaw, a
+captain, and together they have brought up a family of children, in
+respectable circumstances. Mrs. Shaw knew me well, but I had not seen
+her for many years, when this strange event took place:--I was captain
+of the Dock Company's steamer, and on going one dark night into the
+Victoria Dock, I found a deep timber-laden vessel, with her stem upon
+the bank and her stern in the channel, and she was rapidly filling with
+water. I at once went to her assistance, and having fastened a strong
+rope to her, and then to my packet, I tried, first in one way and then
+in another, to pull her off, but she seemed immoveable; and I began to
+fear I should not accomplish my object. But I always believed in that
+little catch,
+
+    'Have you not succeeded yet?
+      Try, try again.'
+
+and _we did_ try again; and after trying many ways but in vain, we put
+the tow-rope on board, and running our packet at full speed, off the
+vessel came. All this time there was no person on board except the
+captain's wife and her children. So I put them ashore, and went on board
+the vessel myself, and let go the anchor. Now, I did not know who the
+woman was until she offered me a sum of money, for what I had done. I
+told her I did not want aught, and that she was heartily welcome to the
+timely service I had rendered her. She then said--and I shall never
+forget it--'Mr. Ellerthorpe, you don't seem to know who I am?' I said,
+'No, I don't;' when, to my surprise, she answered, 'I am that little
+girl, Jane Gough, whom you saved from drowning in Hessle harbour.' My
+feelings were indescribably pleasant and joyous. _Witnesses_--Jane Shaw,
+John Gough.
+
+
+_Thirtieth._--WILLIAM TURNER. (1844.)
+
+This deliverance took place one dark night, when we were rounding
+Flambro Head, and while a strong wind was blowing and a heavy sea
+rolling. Turner, while doing something at the main sheet, fell over the
+vessel's side. I caught him, and got him on board, with a quickness that
+has always surprised me. Mr. Turner, who is at present foreman of the
+Humber Dock Company, Wharfage department, thus writes:--'I am one of the
+persons whom Mr. Ellerthorpe has saved from a watery grave. In the year
+1844, and during a voyage from Scarborough to Hull, in the yacht,
+"Gossamer," I fell overboard while crossing Burlington Bay. He sprang to
+my assistance and saved me, otherwise I should have been drowned. I
+remember also, when coming over the Humber Dock Bridge, one night, about
+nine o'clock, I saw an old lady fall from a height of about twenty feet,
+into the lock-pit. Soon after I heard a tremendous splash, and to my
+surprise, I found it was "Our Hero," who had plunged his carcase into
+the lock to rescue the old lady from her perilous position, which he did
+manfully. I also saw him rescue John Eaby. In the great and terrible
+struggle which took place in the water, Mr. Ellerthorpe bore up with the
+greatest coolness imaginable, although at a great risk of losing his
+life.--William Turner.'
+
+
+_Thirty-first._--JOHN ELLERTHORPE. (1846.)
+
+He was my son, and first-born child. Mr. G. Lee, the gentleman who first
+gave me employment in connection with the Hull Dock Company, had engaged
+me to teach his son the art of swimming. We went to the Stone Ferry
+Baths, for that purpose, and wishful that my own sons should learn this
+invaluable art, I took John with us. When we got to the baths, I found
+the water was too warm to bathe in, so Mr. Lee and myself went into one
+of the adjoining rooms and had a long conversation about swimming, while
+the two boys were left behind. At length I went to test the temperature
+of the water, it was remarkably clear, and, to my horror, I saw my son
+prostrate at the bottom of the bath! My feelings can be better imagined
+than described. Instantly, and without either throwing off a single
+garment or putting my watch from my pocket, I plunged into the bath and
+brought him up. He was full of water, and frothed at the mouth, and was
+very ill for a long time after. _Witness_--Mr. G. B. Lee, Jun.
+
+
+_Thirty-second._--THOMAS ROBINSON.* (1846.)
+
+He belonged to a schooner, lying in the Junction Dock, Hull. I was
+walking near the dock, when I saw a great many people running from every
+direction, and was soon told that a man had fallen overboard. I ran to
+the spot, and for some time I could not ascertain the nature of the
+case. At length the captain of the schooner, said, 'He went down close
+to the vessel, and has been seen twice.' Instantly I dived to the bottom
+of the dock, but could not see him. I swam to and fro for some time, and
+at last saw him under the vessel; he seemed quite dead, but I seized him
+and brought him up. They were busy with the grappling irons, but as he
+was under the vessel, the probability is he would never have been got
+out of the water alive. I went home and got some dry clothes on, and
+when I returned and inquired how he was, I was told he rapidly
+recovered. I have never seen this young man, or heard a word of him from
+that day to the present. He was a sailor, and may have been in Hull
+since then, but if he has, he never made himself known to me.
+_Witnesses_--John Moody, John Kidd.
+
+
+_Thirty-third._--WATSON.* (1846.)
+
+While going on the Humber bank, to Hessle, I passed some youths who were
+bathing, but took little or no notice of them until I had got about 300
+yards past them, when I saw some men running from a field close by, and
+heard a youth call out, 'A boy is drowning.' I ran back, and swam to the
+lad, and soon brought him out and laid him on the bank. I drank a glass
+of grog and smoked a pipe, and then returned to Hull, for a change of
+raiment. I caught a severe cold on this occasion, for I had got half way
+to Hessle when I saved this boy, and had on my wet clothes for nearly
+three hours. I have never, that I am aware of, seen that boy since. Nor
+am I quite certain about his name; some one said they called him Watson;
+but a man who saw me save him told me he would let me know the boy's
+right name, but he never did. Somebody disputed my saving the lad, so I
+got a paper signed by a man who witnessed the whole affair, and whose
+name was Johnson. _Witness_--Mr. Johnson.
+
+
+_Thirty-fourth._--SAMUEL DAVIS. (Nov. 6, 1850.)
+
+He was employed on board a 'mud tug' that was used for removing mud from
+Hull Harbour into the Humber. I saw this tug in a sinking state, and
+called out to the men to escape from her at once. All left her and got
+into a boat, except Davis; he was rather lame, but had time enough to
+make his escape as well as the rest. The men had not left the 'tug' more
+than five minutes, when she capsized, and Davis was thrown into the
+water. I was on board a 'tow boat' at the time, and between the drowning
+man and myself, there lay three heavily-loaded ballast lighters. I
+turned my steamer astern, and by jumping from one lighter to another, I
+soon reached Davis. I felt confident I could save him, and having a mud
+scraper in my hand, I threw the end of it to him, and said, 'Now, don't
+be afraid, you'll soon be all right.' I did save him, but alas!--and my
+hand trembles while I write it--the first utterance that fell from his
+lips was a fearful oath, 'D---- my eyes!' O, how grieved I was to hear a
+man, just at the point of death, utter such an expression. We soon got
+him on board of our packet, and put him in some warm and dry clothes. On
+Friday night, December the 6th, 1867, a fire broke out in Hull, and my
+son Joseph, was there, and sprung the rattle, giving the alarm, and the
+first man that came to the spot was Davis. One of my son's companions
+called out, 'Ellerthorpe!' when Davis said, 'Is John Ellerthorpe that
+young man's father?' 'Yes,' was the reply. 'Ah!' said Davis, 'he saved
+my life, and but for him I should not have been here to-night.' I trust
+the Lord will yet save him, and that I shall meet him and others whom I
+have rescued, at the right hand of the great Judge.
+
+
+_Thirty-fifth._--A BOY--NAME UNKNOWN.* (1850.)
+
+At this time I was captain of the Hull Dock steam tug. One night, about
+eleven o'clock, the railway goods station was on fire, and I was
+summoned from my bed to go and remove our packet, which was moored close
+to where the fire had broken out. In the space of two hours, three men
+fell overboard, all of whom I rescued, with the assistance of others.
+Soon after I had to take the Dock Company's fire-engine on board our
+packet, as they could not find enough water on shore. The wind was
+blowing a heavy gale, and before I could get the packet to a convenient
+place, sufficient water had been found, and the engine was not needed.
+While I was busy with the packet, a man was drowned, and I felt greatly
+distressed on his account. So I went and sat down on the paddle-box and
+placed a boat hook at my side, to be ready should any one fall into the
+water. I had not sat many moments when I saw a youth, about seventeen
+years of age, fall overboard. I jumped from the paddle-box on to the
+dock wall, and ran as fast as I could to the spot. While the fire was
+blazing before me I could see the boy distinctly, but when I got past
+the fire it was pitchy dark, and I lost all trace of the drowning youth.
+Thousands of people were thronging and shouting in every direction, and
+I lost all hopes of saving the youth, who was now submerged in the
+water. But when I could not get any further, for the press of the
+people, I threw in the boat hook; it was eighteen feet long and the tide
+was very high. I knelt with one knee on the wall, and felt the boy at
+about fifteen feet under water. The hook caught the bottom of his
+waistcort, and I felt him take hold of it with both his hands. I never
+could ascertain the boy's name, but the whole case was fully reported in
+the local newspapers at the time, and hundreds, yea, thousands of people
+now in Hull, well remember it. Witnessed by thousands.
+
+
+_Thirty-sixth._--GEORGE PEPPER.* (1852.)
+
+George was the son of my shipmate, who witnessed the whole affair. He
+was a scholar in the Trinity House school, but it being Easter Monday,
+he had a holiday, and came to spend the afternoon on board, with his
+father. The packet started suddenly, and the rope by which she had been
+fastened to the pier, struck the boy, and overboard he went. The packet
+was in motion, but I leaped into the water, while George's father went
+to fetch a boat hook, but it is my opinion the boy would have been
+drowned had I waited for the hook. The boy's father was a good swimmer,
+but he has often told me that he always wanted to think a few moments
+before he durst leap into the water. However, I saved his son in a few
+moments, and without much difficulty; indeed, when his mother said to
+him, 'George, what did you think when you was in the water?' he replied,
+'O, mother, I hadn't time to think, for Mr. Ellerthorpe caught me
+directly.' Next morning, George was ready for school and I was ready for
+my work, and scarcely any one knew aught of the affair. The fact was,
+both Pepper and myself were to blame in not warning the boy of the
+danger that had nearly cost him his life. George is now a young man, and
+sails, I believe, from the port of Hull, and he seems to think as much
+of his deliverance now as he did fifteen years ago. _Witness_--Henry
+Bolton.
+
+
+_Thirty-seventh._--ROBERT WOODMAN.* (1854.)
+
+He was a youth belonging to the brig 'Janet,' of South Shields, which
+was leaving the Victoria Dock, Hull, and he had the misfortune, while
+unfastening the check-rope, attached to the 'Dolphin,' to fall
+overboard. For some time he struggled in the water, helpless, and it was
+apparent that he was drowning. At the time I was on board the Dock
+Company's tug, which was about thirty yards from the spot, when,
+fortunately, I happened to see the youth, and I immediately sprang into
+the water with all my clothes on. I succeeded in seizing the boy as he
+was sinking, and placed him in such a position as enabled me to keep him
+above the water, when I made the best of my way to the brig's boat, a
+few yards off. The poor lad, in his almost insensible state, got upon my
+head and clung to me tightly, and in a few moments, so entwined himself
+around my arms as to render me almost incapable of swimming, and the
+probability at that time was, that both of us would be drowned. I saw
+and felt my perilous position, as he threatened to draw me again into
+the water, by his desperate struggles; but at last, with the strength
+and force of desperation, I managed to reach the painter of the boat,
+which fortunately being 'taut' from the ring, enabled me to raise myself
+and the youth out of the water, and we were both got into the boat,
+though in a most exhausted condition; indeed I had to be conveyed home.
+The boy soon recovered and left the dock the next tide, and I never saw
+him again. But I wrote to the captain of the ship, and received this
+beautiful letter from the youth's father:--
+
+     My Dear Sir,--The captain of the brig 'Janet' has sent me the very
+     kind letter from you, wishing to know the age and name of my boy,
+     which I am glad to tell you. His name is Robert Woodman, and he is
+     seventeen years of age. I live in London, and I am very sorry to
+     tell you that it is not in my power to give you anything or I would
+     most gladly have done so. But do accept my sincere thanks; and I do
+     hope, Sir, that if it should please God to spare my son to manhood,
+     that he will in some way present you a proof of his gratitude for
+     the great deed of daring that you have done for him; for the
+     captain said the boy could not have been saved had it not been for
+     you. Please to accept my most grateful thanks for your great
+     kindness to my poor boy. Yours truly, Woodman.
+
+Now, I can truthfully say, that this letter paid me well for the great
+risk I had run, as it gave me great pleasure. Some time after, the
+'Janet' returned to Hull, and I went on board to see if I could find the
+youth, but the bird had flown, for the captain told me he had run away
+from his ship, and that he had no idea where he was. The captain was
+glad to see me and wanted me to have a glass of grog, but I refused,
+having become, a short time before, a pledged abstainer from all
+intoxicating drinks.
+
+
+_Thirty-eighth._--ANN MARTIN.* (1860.)
+
+While the Humber Dock gate was being closed, this woman, who was
+forty-eight years of age, came up to the bridge, and refusing to wait
+until the proper time for passing, she attempted to step from one half
+of the bridge to the other, and in making the attempt, she fell, head
+first, into the water below. It was high tide at the time, and she was
+rapidly carried away by the stream. The night was dark and I was very
+ill, but when I heard that a woman was overboard, I ran to the spot; but
+alas! I could not see her, and for a moment I thought there was no
+chance of saving her. But knowing that assistance must be immediately
+rendered or the woman would be out of sight, and beyond the reach of
+help, I plunged into the water and soon brought her to the bridge. They
+let down a boat hook to which we both clung, and then a ladder, up which
+to ascend. But I told them I would rather have a boat, which was soon
+brought and we were landed in safety. While clinging to the hook, the
+woman, as might be expected, was full of alarm, but I knew she was safe
+enough, so to allay her fears, and wile away a few moments of painful,
+but unavoidable waiting, I jocosely said to her, 'Hold fast now, Missus.
+You are as safe now as though you were watching the pot boil over.' She
+afterwards told me that the most pleasant sensation she ever experienced
+in her life, was at the moment when she felt some one had hold of her in
+the water. This woman has manifested the liveliest gratitude for what I
+did for her, and she never crosses the bridge without calling at my
+house to enquire after me, and she often says, to my good wife, 'You
+know I aint right if I don't see the master about.' She was very poor at
+the time I saved her, but on the following Christmas she brought me a
+_duck_ for my dinner. I refused to take it, for I knew she could not
+afford to give me it; but she said, 'You must take it; I meant giving
+you a Goose, but I could'nt afford to buy one. Now do take the duck, do,
+Sir.' I saw it would grieve her if I refused, so I took it; _and this is
+the first, and only occasion that I have taken aught from those whom I
+have rescued_. And I am sure in this case, it was more blessed to give
+than it was to receive, for the woman was both satisfied and delighted.
+The gratitude of this poor woman, and also that of her family, seems
+unabated. _Witness_--William Turner.
+
+
+_Thirty-ninth._--JOHN EABY.* (July 30, 1861.)
+
+Police Constable Green, 69, was on duty at the South-end about half-past
+ten o'clock, on the morning of the above date, and about one hour before
+high water, when he saw Eaby, in a fit, fall from the quay into the
+Humber Dock basin. He immediately called out, 'A man overboard,' and
+with the assistance of another man, got the grapplings and caught hold
+of Eaby by his clothes, but he being of great weight, they tore asunder,
+and he again dropped into the water. Green then called for further
+assistance, when our friend ran to the rescue, and urged by Eaby's
+fearful condition, and the benevolent feelings of his own noble spirit,
+he immediately jumped into the water and seized the drowning man. From
+the effects of the fit, the man struggled desperately. Our friend tried
+to get a rope round him, but could not; he got his hand into his
+preserver's mouth, and would have drowned him, had not Mr. Ellerthorpe
+had so many opportunities of trial in such cases. Eaby's first
+expression on coming out of his fit was, 'What are you doing here?' when
+his deliverer replied, 'Havn't I as much right here as you have?' then
+Eaby went off into another fit. By this time a boatman, named John
+Tickells, came to our friend's assistance, and was joined by Robert Ash,
+gateman, Humber Dock, who slipped the grappling rope into the boat. They
+then both seized Eaby, and got him into the boat and tied his legs,
+otherwise, so desperate was he, he would have split the boat up. They
+then assisted our friend into the boat. Eaby struggled so desperately
+that the men had great difficulty in holding him in the boat. He was
+taken to his house, 20, Dagger Lane, where he was attended by Mr.
+Lowther, surgeon, accompanied by policeman Green. He soon escaped,
+without clothes, and, followed along the street by a crowd of people,
+ran into No. 11, Fish Street, and got into one of Mr. Alcock's beds. He
+was thirty-seven years of age, and had been subject to fits for years,
+which were often very violent. _Witnesses_--William Turner, William
+Steadman.
+
+This rescue--the last of a large number that Mr. Ellerthorpe was the
+honoured instrument of achieving--was witnessed by hundreds of
+spectators, who were filled with admiration and wonder. These were seen
+in their countenances and heard in their shouts of applause, as he
+struggled with this poor unfortunate man. Not only so, but it led the
+public to raise a subscription for Mr. Ellerthorpe. Two working men, Mr.
+William Turner, and Mr. William Steadman, who witnessed the humane and
+heroic conduct of their fellow townsman, took the initiative, and how
+hard they worked, and how nobly they accomplished their object, will be
+seen from our next chapter.
+
+The above list of thirty-nine persons saved by our friend, contains
+_three little girls_, _fifteen youths_, _six women_, and _fourteen men_,
+in the strength and vigour of their days; and _one old man_ burdened by
+the weight of seventy-five years.
+
+They were saved at the following places: (America,) Quebec, _two_;
+Toronto, _one_; Barton, _one_; Castleford, _one_; Humber Bank, _one_;
+Burlington Bay, _one_; London, _two_; New Holland, _three_; Hessle,
+_five_; Hull, _twenty-two_.
+
+These deliverances took place in the following years: 1820, _two_; 1822,
+_one_; 1824, _one_; 1825, _two_; 1826, _one_; 1828, _two_; 1830, _one_;
+1833, _three_; 1834, _three_; 1835, _three_; 1836, _seven_; 1837, _two_;
+1843, _one_; 1844, _one_; 1846, _three_; 1849-50, _two_; 1852, _one_;
+1854, _one_; 1860, _one_; 1861, _one_.
+
+But though Eaby was the last person our friend actually rescued, his
+readiness to imperil his own life, that he might save the lives of
+others, did not expire on that ever memorable occasion. A clergyman
+called to see him, and amongst other things, said, 'Now Ellerthorpe,
+your work is done; God has honoured you above most men, be satisfied;
+remember the old adage, "the pitcher goes often to the well, but gets
+broken at last."' Our friend shook his head and said, 'Do you think,
+Sir, I could see a man overboard and not plunge in after him? No, Sir.'
+And though upwards of sixty-one years of age, and suffering acutely at
+times from his oft exposures in the water and cold, he yet thought as
+deeply and felt as strongly as ever for his drowning fellow creatures;
+and on two or three occasions his old zeal rose to furnace heat. In
+proof of this we give the following extracts from the Hull papers:
+
+[Sidenote: A SAILOR DROWNED.]
+
+     A Sailor Drowned.--On Monday last, an inquest was held at the
+     Parliament-street Police-station by Mr. P. F. Thorney, the borough
+     coroner, on view of the body of Thomas Bates, who had been a seaman
+     on board the screw steamer 'Irwell.' On Saturday evening, about
+     eight o'clock, the deceased fell from the forecastle deck of the
+     above-named vessel into the Humber Dock lock pit. Mr. John
+     Ellerthorpe, the foreman at the gates, immediately jumped in after
+     him, and though both were taken out within five minutes, by the
+     dock gateman, Bates was pronounced to be dead by Mr. Lowther,
+     surgeon, who was summoned to the spot. A verdict of accidental
+     death was returned.--_Hull News, Feb. 14th, 1863._
+
+Respecting this case our friend says, 'Mr. Bates spoke to me in the
+water, and said, "I shall soon be all right," and I thought he would
+too. The water was piercingly cold, and I went and changed my clothes,
+and when I returned to see how the poor man was, Dr. Lowther had
+pronounced him dead. I never felt such a sense of distress as I did at
+that moment; I did my very best to save him; indeed, Mr. Lowther says,
+"The man died in an apoplectic fit." It was deeply distressing to see
+the poor widow, when her husband was pronounced dead; she was overcome
+by the suddenness of the stroke, and Mr. Dale Brown kindly sent her home
+in a cab. This man, and Ashly Taylor (aged 75 years), are the only
+instances out of upwards of forty I have rescued, of death taking place
+in consequence of their being in the water.'
+
+     A Man in the Humber Dock.--Yesterday a man, named George Taylor,
+     who is frequently employed in connection with the landing of fish,
+     &c., and who resides in the 'Trippett,' while in a fit fell into
+     the Humber Dock, at the South-west corner, near to where the
+     'Alster' steam vessel was lying. His fall was seen by some men who
+     were standing near at the time and they at once got some boat-hooks
+     to draw him out. Mr. Ellerthorpe, the foreman of the Humber Dock
+     Bridge, whose humanity and gallantry in saving people from
+     drowning, has won for him the title of the 'Hero of the Humber,'
+     was ready to plunge in after the poor fellow, had he not been
+     readily recovered by the hooks. On being got on shore, he was
+     brought into the Bridge watch-house and properly attended to.
+     Before recovering he had several fits. He was eventually sent home
+     wrapped in blankets.--_Eastern Morning News_, December 13th, 1866.
+
+     Man Overboard.--About two o'clock on Saturday, whilst Mr. John
+     Ellerthorpe was busy at the Mytongate Bridge passing a vessel
+     through, he heard something splashing in the water, which he
+     thought was a dog. He called out to a lighterman, named George
+     Woolass and another man who were on board of the vessel, to bring a
+     boat and get the animal out. A boat was obtained, and the splashing
+     was found to be caused by a man who had fallen overboard. On
+     getting him out it was found he belonged to one of the fly-boats,
+     and had he remained many seconds more in the water he must have
+     been drowned.--_Hull Advertiser_, March 2nd, 1867.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS EFFORTS IN THE WATCH-HOUSE.]
+
+We have seen in several instances, that our friend, after having rescued
+the drowning, remained with them until all fears of immediate death were
+totally dissipated. Indeed his kindly ministrations in the watch-house
+of the Humber Dock Company, have been scarcely less remarkable than his
+exploits in saving the drowning from the water. In that room is the
+'Royal Humane Society's apparatus for the recovery of persons apparently
+drowned or dead, accompanied with directions for the proper treatment of
+such cases.' And there our friend stood for hours together, in his wet
+clothes, during the piercing cold of winter and the oppressive heat of
+summer, endeavouring to restore suspended animation. He says, 'I always
+felt very anxious about those I had rescued, and in dangerous cases
+generally remained with them until they came round. By remaining in my
+wet clothes on these occasions I have often seriously damaged my health;
+but I felt so anxious about them that I often forgot altogether my own
+wet state. Dr. Henry Gibson says I have seriously injured my
+constitution by these long exposures in wet clothing, and I am afraid he
+is right, and that it will shorten my days.'
+
+[Sidenote: A REMARKABLE INSTANCE.]
+
+We give one instance of his ministrations in this watch-house:--
+
+About three o'clock on the morning of July the 23rd, 1865, he suddenly
+awoke out of a profound sleep, and thought he heard a boy call out,
+'There is a man overboard.' He sprang from his bed, threw up the window,
+but not a person could he see, not a sound could he hear, not a ripple
+on the water could he discern, to indicate danger. He concluded he had
+been dreaming, but when about to leave the window he saw one of his
+fellow workmen running with the grappling iron. The old Spanish proverb
+says, 'that when a man's house is on fire he does not stay to consider
+if the shoe pinches,' and so absorbed was our friend by the fear that
+some one was drowning that, without shoes on his feet, and with nothing
+but his night shirt to cover him, he ran down stairs, leaped over two
+chains, thrown across the bridge, and in a few moments he was beside the
+man with the 'grapplings,' who had also heard the cry but could not tell
+whence or from whom it had come. The surrounding waters lay calm and
+undisturbed by a single ripple, and there was nothing to indicate that
+anyone had sunk. At our friend's request, his companion sprang into a
+boat, and let down the grappling iron, and, strange to say, brought up
+Mr. Thomas Hogg, of Ulceby, Lincolnshire. They at first pronounced him
+dead, but after cleansing his mouth and nostrils he was thought to
+breathe; he was at once taken to the watch-house, where our friend, with
+fresh anxiety and awakened hope, applied the Royal Humane Society's
+apparatus, and with complete success. The process was continued till six
+o'clock, when scores of persons were gathered round the watch-house. The
+man then said to Mr. Ellerthorpe, 'Come master, it is time you were in
+your own house; you're not fit to be here amongst all these folks.' It
+was not till the man thus spoke that our friend was aware of his
+half-naked state. All did well on this occasion, but Mr. Ellerthorpe's
+conduct was exceptionally noble.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF THE BRAVE.]
+
+The last to claim recognition and reward for his own humane and gallant
+deeds, Mr. Ellerthorpe has ever proved himself the first and foremost in
+securing them on behalf of others. The following letter, received in
+answer to an urgent appeal which he made on behalf of an aged and
+destitute couple, will illustrate what I mean:--
+
+                    Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
+                         Marine Department,
+                              _Whitehall, 16th January, 1863_.
+
+     Sir,--I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
+     for Trade, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th
+     ult., calling attention to the fact that the late Charles Anderson,
+     who lost his life in endeavouring to save the lives of others from
+     shipwreck, has left a father and mother unprovided for, and to
+     inform you that my Lords have this day forwarded to the Receiver of
+     Wreck, at Hull, an order for the amount of five pounds (L5) to be
+     paid to the parents of the deceased.
+
+                                        I am, Sir,
+     John Ellerthorpe, Esq.,                 Your obedient servant,
+       Humber Dock Gates, Hull.                   JAMES BOOTH.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS APPEAL TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.]
+
+In December, of the same year, he made a similar appeal to the Board of
+Trade, on behalf of some Hull seamen, and received the following
+answer:--
+
+                                        Board of Trade, Whitehall,
+                                             _4th February, 1864_.
+
+     Sir,--I am instructed by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy
+     Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
+     16th December last, calling their Lordships' attention to the
+     services rendered on the 4th December, by some fishermen of Hull,
+     to the crew of the schooner 'John Thomas,' of Carnarvon, and I am
+     to inform you in reply, that my Lords have presented the sum of
+     five pounds (L5) to be divided amongst the crew of the 'Washer,' as
+     a mark of their appreciation of their gallant conduct, and ten
+     pounds (L10) to the owners of the smack as compensation for loss of
+     time, &c.
+
+     The Receiver of Wreck has received instructions to pay the
+     above-mentioned sums to the parties in question.
+
+                                        I am, Sir,
+     John Ellerthorpe, Esq.,                 Your obedient Servant,
+       Humber Dock Gates,                         J. H. FARRER.
+         Kingston-upon-Hull.
+
+The following letter explains itself:--
+
+                                        Humber Lock Gate, Hull.
+                                             _February 17th, 1863._
+
+     _To the Secretary of the Royal Humane Society._
+
+     Sir,--I take the liberty of addressing you in consequence of an
+     accident having occurred, last week, in the Lock Pit of the Humber
+     Dock Gates, of this town. A man fell from a steamer going out of
+     the Dock, whom I followed into the water in the hope of being able
+     to save his life; but although he was not more than a minute and a
+     half in the water, and he spoke to me when I had hold of him, the
+     surgeon pronounced him to be dead when taken to the men's
+     watch-house close by. A similar instance took place about three
+     years ago. I wish to know if, in a case of this kind, a surgeon is
+     justified in pronouncing life to be extinct without having
+     previously used the means for restoring suspended animation. We
+     have the Royal Humane Society's apparatus always close at hand, but
+     rarely used. Having the honour to hold the Society's silver medal,
+     as well as its testimonial on vellum, and also a silver medal from
+     the Board of Trade for saving life from drowning on many occasions,
+     I feel much interest in this subject; and I shall feel much obliged
+     if you will give me instructions how to proceed in the event of a
+     similar case taking place. I believe the Royal Humane Society issue
+     printed instructions how to treat cases of suspended animation. If
+     you will send me some of them I shall feel greatly obliged to you.
+
+                                        I am, Sir, with respect,
+                                             Your obedient servant,
+                                                  JOHN ELLERTHORPE.
+
+Our friend received the following answer:--
+
+                              Royal Humane Society,
+                                   Office, No. 4, Trafalgar-square, W.C.
+                                        _February 18th, 1863._
+
+     Sir,--In reply to your note of the 17th, I beg to say that in the
+     course of ten days or so, I will send some of the instructions
+     issued by this Society for the treatment of those who are
+     apparently dead from drowning, and you can place them in your room.
+     Of course I am unable to give an opinion as to whether the medical
+     man called in, in the case you refer to, was or was not right, as I
+     am not cognizant of the whole state of the case; but I will suggest
+     that, in all future cases which you may have to treat, you will
+     persevere in your attempts at recovery for at _least_ half-an-hour
+     before you give up the patient as dead.
+
+                                        Yours faithfully,
+                                                  LAMBTON J. H. YOUNG,
+     Mr. J. Ellerthorpe.                               Secretary.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+THE HONOURED HERO.
+
+
+[Sidenote: THE HONOURED HERO.]
+
+No labour is ever lost that seeks to promote the welfare of men. At the
+outset there may be difficulties and opposition, but patience and
+perseverance will in the end bring their reward. And if the warrior
+rejoices in the number of his victories, the patriot in the extension of
+his country's liberties, the statesman in the success of his peculiar
+polity, and the philanthropist in the mitigation of human woes, how much
+purer and stronger must be the joy of the man who has been the means of
+saving the lives of his fellow-creatures? Alexander, Emperor of Russia,
+whose armies had won many a victory on the field of battle, once rescued
+a man from drowning, and he ever afterwards said that _that_ was the
+happiest day of his life. As no living individual, perhaps, has saved so
+many lives, on so many separate and distinct occasions, and under
+equally perilous circumstances, as our friend, so we may infer that his
+personal joy was proportionately great. He always did his best to save
+human life, having made that one of the chief objects of his existence,
+and he reaped a rich recompense. He says, 'I always thought it as much
+my duty to try and save the drowning, as it was their duty to try and
+save themselves; and I always felt myself amply recompensed, and highly
+satisfied, when I got them out of the water and saw they were all right.
+Physically, I often felt much exhausted by the efforts I had made, and
+could eat no food, nor could I take rest, for hours after rescuing the
+drowning. But I was filled with a pleasure I could not describe;
+sometimes my feelings found vent in tears, and at other times in loud
+and hearty laughter; and when questioned as to my feelings, I could only
+say, "I can't tell you how I feel." I had this thought and feeling
+running through me, throbbing within me, "I have saved a fellow creature
+from drowning." And that imparted to me a happiness which no amount of
+money, and no decorations of honour, could have given me; a happiness
+which no man can conceive, far less describe, unless he has himself
+snatched a fellow creature from a watery grave.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS PERSONAL JOY.]
+
+[Sidenote: THE GRATITUDE OF THOSE WHOM HE RESCUED.]
+
+Our friend also reaped a rich reward in the gratitude of many whom he
+had the pleasure of saving. And we have seen that he could receive no
+higher gratification than this. King Charles, the First, had such an
+unhappy manner that, even in granting a favour, he often grieved those
+whom he obliged. And we know that almost as much depends upon the manner
+of doing a kindness, as upon the act itself. Indeed, in some instances,
+even a frank and positive refusal will give less pain than an ungracious
+and grudgingly bestowed favour. Now, we hesitate not to say that, what
+Mr. Ellerthorpe did, was kindly and generously done. And he always felt
+that the cheers of the multitude as he bore the rescued to the shore,
+and the spontaneous thanks of those whom he had saved, surpassed in
+value any tribute of money which could have been placed in his hands.
+Wordsworth, referring to the overflowing gratitude which had gone beyond
+the worth of the trivial favours bestowed, says:
+
+    'Alas; the gratitude of men
+    Hath oftener left me mourning.'
+
+But our friend performed the noblest deeds, and grateful returns were
+always as pleasant to him as cold water to a thirsty soul. He says, 'I
+was always well satisfied if they manifested gratitude, but I must
+confess, that when they never came near me, nor in any way communicated
+with me, as was the case with some whom I have saved,--for instance, Mr.
+Leeson and Miss Hill--I was not satisfied. My pleasure at the
+remembrance of what I did for them is mixed with pain. It may be a
+weakness of mine, but an ungrateful man is, in my opinion, one of the
+biggest sinners in the world. I hate ingratitude, and I can affirm, that
+no rewards I have received from societies and individuals have ever
+given me half the pleasure that the gratitude of some of those I rescued
+gave me.'
+
+And can we wonder that he should thus write? Shakespeare says:--
+
+    'I hate ingratitude more in a man
+    Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
+    Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
+    Inhabits our frail blood.'
+
+Ingratitude for favours conferred is a most unnatural disposition, and
+is reproved even by the brute creation; for they manifest a strong
+instinctive feeling of gratitude towards their benefactors. 'The ox
+knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib.' Some time ago, a
+steamer sunk beneath the surging wave, with upwards of two hundred souls
+on board. The captain, who was as noble a man as ever steered a vessel,
+sank with the rest of the passengers and crew. Fortunately, however, he
+came up again, and seizing a plank, he clung to it until rescued by a
+vessel that happened to be passing. 'Ah,' said he, on telling the story
+afterwards, 'If my heart's affection ever clung to anything besides my
+wife, and my mother, and my child, it was to that plank; it saved my
+life.' And yet, some forgot our friend, whose skilful hand and brave
+heart bore them through the foaming waters to land.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS SERVICES RECOGNISED BY THE GREAT.]
+
+All did not. 'You shall lodge in my heart, and I will never ask you for
+rent,' said a grateful Irishman to one who had done him a favour. And
+our friend found a welcome and a home in the warmest affections of many
+of those whom he rescued. The blessing of many who were literally ready
+to perish came upon him. W. Turner, whom our friend saved in Burlington
+Bay, says, 'What a mercy it is that God has provided such a man as Mr.
+Ellerthorpe, to render assistance when assistance is required at his
+hands; for he is ever willing at any moment, and at the first call, to
+risk his life. I question whether there is such another man in the
+world. He has a good and kind heart, and in his general conduct displays
+kind feelings towards all and everybody. I hope he will remain long with
+us, and that at last we shall meet him in heaven, never to part again.'
+Robert Tether, speaking of his deliverance, says, 'Some one said to me
+on the occasion, "My boy, you ought ever to remember that man," and I
+do remember him and will never forget him. If I had but a shilling in
+the world, John Ellerthorpe should have half of it, if he needed it. I
+can say that from the time he delivered me I have always liked to see
+him, and I never think the place is right if I do not see him there. He
+shall never want if I can help him. May he live long, and always have
+plenty.' These, and similar expressions of gratitude, recorded on former
+pages of this work, were more valuable, in our friend's estimation, than
+stores of gold.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS INTERVIEW WITH LORD WENLOCK.]
+
+Though Mr. Ellerthorpe never urged his claims to public recognition, yet
+we rejoice to state that his humane and gallant deeds were not permitted
+to pass unnoticed and unrewarded. Persons of high distinction, and of
+great authority in the social world, spoke to him words of greeting,
+commendation, and encouragement. Lord Wenlock, having had recounted to
+him some of the incidents recorded in the last chapter, said, 'How
+pleasant it is, Ellerthorpe, to have the satisfaction, while living, of
+having done our fellow creatures good.'
+
+Captain Wilson, whose gallant conduct enabled him, during the American
+War, to re-capture his ship, 'Emile St. Pierre,' from a greatly superior
+force, and who received, for his valorous deed, a silver tea and coffee
+service from 170 merchants of Liverpool, and also 2,000 guineas from the
+owners of the 'Emile St. Pierre,' paid a visit to Hull, and requested to
+have an interview with Mr. Ellerthorpe. In company with Captain Hurst,
+he went to the Humber Dock Gates to see him. They shook each others hand
+for some time; at length, Captain Wilson said, 'I'm glad to see you. I
+have often heard of your bravery in saving your fellow men from
+drowning, and I have sometimes wished I could see you; you are what I
+call a brave, clever fellow. They say I have done a clever action, but I
+may never do another. But your life has been crowded with deeds of
+gallantry. Go on and prosper, my good fellow, and may God bless you; and
+rest assured if I again come near where you are, I shall come and see
+you.' It must have been a pleasing sight to have seen these two men, of
+brave hearts and noble deeds, grasp hands in recognition of each others
+services.
+
+Towards the close of the year 1835 the following statement appeared in
+the Hull newspapers:--
+
+     'We understand some gentlemen are interesting themselves in favour
+     of Ellerthorpe by representing his repeated exertions in the cause
+     of humanity, and sending the particular cases to the Royal Humane
+     Society. We shall be ready to receive any subscriptions for the
+     purpose of rewarding one so highly deserving recompense from his
+     fellow men. Ellerthorpe is married and has two children.'--_Nov.
+     23, 1835._
+
+The appeal to the Royal Humane Society was sent, and Mr. Ellerthorpe
+received the following response:--
+
+                                        Society's House,
+                                             _January 21st, 1836._
+
+     The Secretary of the Royal Humane Society is directed to inform
+     John Ellerthorpe that at an adjourned general court of the
+     Institution, held on the 18th inst., the Honorary Medallion of the
+     Society was unanimously conferred on him for his courage and
+     humanity in saving the lives of nine persons at different times.
+
+     John Ellerthorpe,
+          Barrow, near Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln.
+
+[Sidenote: THE MEDALLION OF THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.]
+
+The Medallion bears this inscription:--
+
+[Illustration: HOC PRETIUM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT
+
+_J. Ellerthorpe_,
+
+SIT OB SOW
+
+DOVO DAT
+
+_Soc. Reg. H.V.M._
+
+1836.]
+
+[Sidenote: ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S THANKS ON VELLUM.]
+
+The following testimonial, inscribed on vellum, accompanied the
+medallion:--
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Royal Humane Society,
+
+INSTITUTED 1774.
+
+FOR THE RECOVERY OF PERSONS APPARENTLY DROWNED OR (DEAD).
+
+_Patron_--The King.     _Patroness_--The Queen.
+
+_President_--His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At a General Court holden at the Society's House, Chatham-place,
+Blackfriars, on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1836.
+
+Colonel Clitherow, _Vice President_, in the chair, it was resolved
+unanimously--
+
+    That the noble courage and humanity displayed by
+
+    JOHN ELLERTHORPE,
+
+    a Seaman of the New Holland Steam Packet, on the 19th of November,
+    1835, in jumping overboard to the relief of a Sailor, named Robert
+    Brown, at Hull, whose life he saved; and the repeated heroism which
+    Ellerthorpe has on former occasions manifested for the preservation
+    of human life, wholly regardless of the risk he himself incurred,
+    and by which he saved eight persons from drowning, has called forth
+    the most lively admiration of this General Court, and justly
+    entitles him to the Honorary Medallion of the Institution which is
+    hereby unanimously awarded him.
+
+                                        Northumberland, _President_.
+                                        Besleley Weshopp, _Secretary_.
+                                        James Clitherow, _Chairman_.
+
+[Sidenote: APPEALS ON BEHALF OF MR. ELLERTHORPE.]
+
+In the year 1846, a number of merchants and gentlemen sought to secure
+for our friend the highest rewards the Royal Humane Society could
+bestow; but to their application they received the following answer:--
+
+                              Royal Humane Society,
+                                   Office No. 3, Trafalgar Square,
+                                        _8th July, 1846_.
+
+     Dear Sir,--In reference to your letter of yesterday's date, I beg
+     to inform you that the pecuniary rewards of this Society are
+     limited to London and its environs. But honorary rewards are given
+     for cases which may occur at any distance, upon the particulars
+     being well authenticated by persons who witnessed the exertions of
+     the claimant.
+
+     Should John Ellerthorpe have risked his life on the occasion you
+     now allude to, and thereby merit an _Honorary_ Testimonial from the
+     Society, I shall be most happy in submitting the particulars to the
+     committee, on their being forwarded agreeably with the enclosed
+     instruction paper.
+
+                                        I remain, dear Sir,
+     H. D. R. Pease, Esq., J.P.              Yours very obediently,
+       Hesslewood, near Hull.                     J. CHARLIER, _Sec._
+
+A second application was made to the Royal Humane Society, in 1852, when
+the following reply was returned:--
+
+                              Royal Humane Society,
+                                   Office No. 3, Trafalgar Square,
+                                        _28th September, 1852_.
+
+     Dear Sir,--In reply to your letter of yesterday's date, I beg to
+     inform you that the cases alluded to in the statement of John
+     Ellerthorpe are all _out of date_ for any reward from this Society.
+     Perhaps you are not aware that he has already received the Silver
+     Medal of this Institution for the case in 1835, which was laid
+     before the committee at the proper period, viz., within one month
+     after the occurrence.
+
+     I therefore beg to return you the statements, and remain, dear Sir,
+     yours obediently,
+
+                                                  J. CHARLIER,
+     Jas. R. Pease, Esq., Hesslewood, Hull.            _Sec._
+
+[Sidenote: LARGE CONGRATULATORY MEETING IN HULL.]
+
+In the year 1861, and soon after our friend had rescued John Eaby from a
+watery grave, the people of Hull made an effort to reward their brave
+and gallant townsman, who had rescued from their own docks and around
+the pier, not fewer than twenty-three persons. A committee was formed,
+under the presidentship of Mr. John Symons, a member of the Town
+Council, and a man of untiring energy and philanthropic disposition. Mr.
+Symons thus states the origin and success of this movement:--
+
+                                        'Hull, _Sept 13th, 1867_,
+                                             72, Queen Street.
+
+     Dear Sir,--I must apologise for my seeming neglect in not complying
+     earlier with your request respecting Mr. Ellerthorpe: the fact is,
+     my public duties allow me but little leisure for writing. However,
+     I will try to refresh my memory as to the way in which that kind,
+     humane, undaunted man, received recognition. In July, 1861, the
+     local papers contained an account of a young man named Eaby, who,
+     while in an apoplectic fit, fell into the dock basin; the tide was
+     running down rapidly and the wind was blowing strong. Mr.
+     Ellerthorpe, while on duty at the dock gates, saw the man
+     struggling and beating the water into foam; he immediately plunged
+     from the wall, and after a fearful struggle between the two, the
+     young man being violently affected, both were saved. This act was
+     witnessed by several people, amongst whom were two warm-hearted
+     working men, named Steadman and Turner. The following day they
+     called upon me, with a written list of twenty-nine lives saved by
+     Mr. Ellerthorpe. The account savoured of romance, but then it was
+     signed by living witnesses, who corroborated the truth of the
+     statements made. The men asked me to assist them in getting up some
+     public demonstration in favour of Mr. Ellerthorpe. I told them I
+     would lend my humble aid, but they must obtain some man of mark for
+     their chairman, to take the initiative. They applied to several
+     gentlemen, but in vain, all refused. They pleaded hard that I would
+     act as chairman, and sooner than allow the thing to die away, I
+     consented, although, at the time, entirely unused to address large
+     public audiences. The mayor, W. Hodge, Esq., granted us the use of
+     a large room at the Town Hall, and then we issued large placards
+     calling upon the people to attend and publicly congratulate Mr.
+     Ellerthorpe on his recent narrow escape, and likewise to open a
+     subscription for presenting him with a testimonial. The meeting was
+     a crowded one, but principally composed of working men. I was not
+     in the least disheartened by this; for long before I had got
+     through the list of persons saved by John Ellerthorpe, the large
+     county-court room rang with cheer after cheer pealing forth ever
+     and anon. When, for the first time, was enrolled the long,
+     distinguished list of lives saved from drowning by the hitherto
+     obscure and humble servant of the Humber Dock Company, such heroism
+     and bravery 'touched' the souls of a few present who could afford
+     to subscribe.
+
+     [Sidenote: COUNCILLOR SYMON'S ACCOUNT OF THE MEETING.]
+
+     The following letter from Dale Brown, Esq., was then read:--
+
+                                    Pilot Office, Hull, _Aug. 8, 1861_.
+
+       Sir,--Having made an engagement for Friday evening before I knew
+       of your meeting, I cannot possibly attend.
+
+       Had one of our townsmen returned from India or the Crimea, after
+       destroying half as many lives as Mr. Ellerthorpe has been
+       instrumental in saving, he would have been considered a 'hero,'
+       and rewarded accordingly. Surely it is more blessed to save than
+       to destroy. Should the object of the meeting be to raise a fund
+       for acknowledging Mr. Ellerthorpe's gallantry, I shall gladly
+       contribute my mite. I am, Sir, yours obediently,
+
+       Mr. John Symons.                           DALE BROWN.
+
+     I then recounted the interview with Mr. Ellerthorpe before
+     attending the meeting, when I asked him 'what he wished in the
+     matter,' when he made this reply, Sir, I feel sufficiently rewarded
+     in my own breast, without receiving any reward excepting the
+     approbation of heaven, and the satisfaction of having won for
+     myself the gratitude of my fellow townsmen.' This was responded to
+     by loud and long cheering. I then called upon Mr. W. Turner to move
+     the first resolution, and Mr. Steadman to second it, because they
+     were the pioneers of the movement. _Just at this crisis of the
+     meeting John Eaby came forward and publicly thanked Ellerthorpe for
+     what he had done_, which called forth the most exciting cheering.
+     Then the late Rev. Charles Rawlings (Wesleyan) rose from amongst
+     the people, and, in a sententious speech delivered with a
+     stentorian voice, asked, 'How much does the meeting feel towards a
+     testimonial,' and offered the first donation as a proof of _his
+     feeling_ for Mr. Ellerthorpe. Our fears were then scattered to the
+     wind; the vessel I saw was well launched. Another gentleman, Mr.
+     Henry Taylor, came forward and said, in anticipation of a
+     subscription being made towards a testimonial to Mr. Ellerthorpe,
+     he had already collected a nucleus of L35. A committee was then
+     formed of which I was chosen chairman, Mr. E. Haller, secretary,
+     and Mr. Taylor, treasurer. Three cheers were then given for the
+     success of the 'Testimonial Fund,' and when I rose and christened
+     John Ellerthorpe, 'The Hero of the Humber,' and 'Champion Life Buoy
+     of England,' the people rose _en masse_ cheering in the most
+     enthusiastic manner. The next morning found the Humber Dock foreman
+     a household word. I will not weary you with recapitulating the
+     result of our labours. From the Premier of England down to the
+     humblest dock labourer, all vied with each other in subscribing to
+     the homage of this valorous, humane man.
+
+     And, sir, I think a moral may be drawn from this,--that no person,
+     however humble he may be in his circumstances, but has it in his
+     power to bless the world. One man can do so by deeds of valour,
+     another by hard and plodding industry, and a third by thought and
+     mental efforts. It has been well said, 'they build up a loftier
+     population making man more manly.' It is evidently our duty to lend
+     a helping hand in the hour of need, either by our wisdom, power, or
+     benevolence. This thought should act as an incentive, more or less
+     powerful, on each person, and make him restless until he becomes
+     satisfied that he is doing something to ameliorate the condition of
+     his fellow men. Men should thus fulfil their mission until called
+     to receive their reward, namely, 'Rest for their souls under the
+     tree of Life.'
+
+                              I am, dear Sir, yours respectfully,
+     Mr. H. Woodcock.              JOHN SYMONS.
+
+[Sidenote: A WORKING MAN'S LETTER.]
+
+The following letter, addressed to Mr. Symons, is given as a specimen of
+the feeling with which the working men of Hull regarded this movement:--
+
+                                        Hull, _Aug. 9th, 1861_.
+
+     Mr. Chairman,--I cannot let the present opportunity pass without
+     thanking the committee for the movement they have taken in this
+     affair. It shows that such acts of humanity may appear to slumber
+     for a time in the breasts of Englishmen until they can bear it no
+     longer, then out it must come; and permit me to add that the moment
+     I heard of the movement to present some token of respect to Mr.
+     Ellerthorpe, it put me in mind of the time when I was a boy about
+     eight years of age: I was sailing a small boat aside of the steps
+     of what is commonly called, Sand South End, in the old harbour,
+     when I over-reached myself and fell in. A boy was with me at the
+     time who ran up the steps and shouted out, 'A boy overboard.' A
+     gentleman, who then lived in Humber Street, was sitting in his
+     front room, he immediately ran out, leaped into the water, took
+     hold of me just as I was going down for the third time, and saved
+     my life from a watery grave. I have always reverenced that
+     gentleman ever since. His name is Mr. Bean, and he was for several
+     years an alderman for the borough. What, then, must be the feelings
+     of the thirty-nine who have been saved at the eminent risk and
+     peril of Mr. Ellerthorpe's life? We may help each other in a
+     pecuniary point of view, but very few amongst us have the nerve,
+     power, and ability to leap into the ocean and render assistance to
+     our fellow men. I have therefore great pleasure in subscribing
+     five shillings towards anything you may be disposed to present Mr.
+     Ellerthorpe with.
+
+                         I am, my dear Sir, your obedient servant,
+                                   WM. ALLEN.
+
+[Sidenote: POETIC TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO 'THE HERO.']
+
+Our friend's name had become familiar as a household word in all circles
+of society, in the town and neighbourhood of Hull, and great numbers
+lent their influence to this effort to acknowledge the unequalled
+bravery of their fellow townsman, whom we must, henceforth acknowledge
+as the 'Hero of the Humber.' The 'Hull Daily Express' contained the
+following poetic tribute of respect to our 'Hero.'
+
+    'Amid all changes evermore unfolded
+    By mental throe, by accident of time,
+    Mankind shall venerate the men who moulded
+    Heroic actions with an aim sublime!
+    O! ye who shine along life's desert places,
+    Who've lived for others' good to help and save,
+    Affection hails ye with profound embraces
+    And bows before a brother truly brave!
+    One whose gallant deeds in noble brotherhood,
+    Nobler far than warrior's valiant strife,
+    Have found their own reward in others' good
+    And proved a blessing in preserving life.
+
+    And WHO IS HE of whom this land is proud,
+    Whose name we honour and whose worth is known?
+    He's one who does his duty in the crowd,
+    A worker there--and yet he stands alone!
+    Without pretension, who by deeds endears
+    His name afar beyond his native strand,
+    A son of toil--yet one of Nature's peers!
+    Whose worth's acknowledged in his native land!
+    His is the praise well won for gallant action
+    In saving life along our Humber shore,
+    And there are many hearths where recollection
+    Returns to him in blessings evermore!
+
+    And he is worthy!--for in his soul implanted
+    There is a noble usefulness--his choice
+    For others' good, which bards of old have chanted
+    To those who, like him, have made hearts rejoice.
+    O! should these lines be found in after days--
+    A tribute to his fair and honoured name--
+    Let such accord to him the meed of praise,
+    Tell of his bravery and his worth proclaim!
+    All honour to thee, Ellerthorpe, and thine,
+    And as duty calls thee to thy post each morn,
+    May good attend thee and its graces shine,
+    And lead thee upward and thy name adorn.'
+
+[Sidenote: VOTE OF THANKS FROM THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.]
+
+The following petition, signed by W. Hodge, Esq., Mayor, and upwards of
+sixty of the leading ministers, merchants, and gentlemen of Hull, was
+forwarded to the Royal Humane Society:--
+
+     To the Honourable the Court of the
+         Royal Humane Society.
+
+     We, the undersigned, members of the municipal corporation, the
+     Trinity House, and the Dock Company at Kingston-upon-Hull, and
+     merchants of that borough, beg most respectfully to submit to the
+     consideration of your honourable court, the services of John
+     Ellerthorpe, now a foreman in the service of the Dock Company of
+     this borough, who, during the course of the last forty years has,
+     by the providence of God and his own intrepidity, rescued from a
+     watery grave no fewer than twenty-eight persons, often at the great
+     risk of his own life, as may be seen from the statement of
+     particulars hereto annexed.
+
+     On a former occasion, on the 18th of January, 1836, you were
+     pleased to award to Ellerthorpe a medallion and certificate on a
+     representation being made to the society of his having saved eight
+     persons from drowning while employed as a mariner in the New
+     Holland Ferry.
+
+     Considering that the number of persons he has now saved amounts to
+     twenty-eight, we take the liberty of bringing Ellerthorpe's further
+     claims before your notice, believing that you will think with us
+     that his further successful exertions in the cause of humanity, in
+     saving so many persons from drowning, merit some additional mark of
+     your approval.
+
+                         We are,
+                    Your honourable court's most obedient servants.
+
+In response to this appeal the society awarded to our 'Hero' an especial
+vote of thanks, of which more _anon_.
+
+The following appeal was made to Lord Palmerston:
+
+                    Yarmouth and Rotterdam Steam Packet Office,
+                         Kingston-upon-Hull,
+                              _30th August, 1861._
+
+     My Lord,--The enclosed documents relate to a series of, perhaps,
+     unequalled acts of daring on the part of an inhabitant, a working
+     man, of this borough, in rescuing persons from drowning. He has
+     succeeded, at the repeated risk of his own life, in saving no fewer
+     than twenty-nine persons from a watery grave.
+
+     The Court of the Royal Humane Society having, in respect of the
+     twenty-ninth case, and in reply to the enclosed petition, awarded
+     him their 'Thanks on Vellum,' a committee of his fellow townsmen
+     has been organised to ensure for him some more substantial award.
+
+     From your lordship's well-known appreciation of heroic benevolence,
+     the committee has ventured to lay his case before you, in the hope
+     that you would deem it worthy of your distinguished patronage.
+
+     I have the honour to be, on the part of the committee,
+
+                         Your Lordship's
+                              Most humble and obedient servant,
+                                   EDWARD HALLER,
+                                _Hon. Sec. 'Ellerthorpe Testimonial.'_
+
+[Sidenote: RECEIVES L20 FROM THE ROYAL BOUNTY.]
+
+In reply, _His Lordship_ forwarded from the _Royal bounty_ the handsome
+donation of L20. The following is the letter announcing this gift:--
+
+     13632 Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.,
+        61 17th _September_, 1861.
+
+     Sir,--I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners to Her Majesty's
+     Treasury to acquaint you that, upon the recommendation of Viscount
+     Palmerston, the Paymaster General has been authorised to pay you
+     the sum of L20, as of Her Majesty's Royal bounty.
+
+                              I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
+                                   GEO. W. HAMILTON.
+
+     Mr. John Ellerthorpe, Kingston-upon-Hull.
+
+The Board of Trade was next appealed to as follows:
+
+                                        Hull, 8th _August_, 1861.
+
+     _To the Right Honourable Thomas Milner Gibson, President of the
+     Board of Trade, London._
+
+     Honourable Sir,--I beg most humbly to lay before your honourable
+     Board the case of John Ellerthorpe, foreman of the Humber Dock
+     gates at this place, who saved the life of John Eaby under most
+     trying circumstances, and at great risk of his own life.
+
+     On the 30th of July last the said John Eaby was seized with a fit
+     and fell into the dock basin, a depth of nearly twenty feet from
+     the top. John Ellerthorpe, hearing his cries for assistance,
+     spontaneously leaped into the water, and after struggling with the
+     man in that dangerous condition, eventually succeeded in saving his
+     life.
+
+     I likewise humbly beg to inform your honourable Board that this is
+     the twenty-ninth person's life the said John Ellerthorpe has been
+     the exclusive means of saving from a watery grave.
+
+     If your honourable Board should deem his actions of humanity worthy
+     of your honourable Board's notice, a committee of the working men
+     of this town is in formation to present him with a memorial, and if
+     your honourable Board consider him worthy of any remuneration, I
+     will communicate the same to the chairman of the committee, who
+     will forward any information your honourable Board may require.
+
+          I remain your most humble and obedient servant,
+                                             THOMAS RAWLINSON.
+
+     2, Wellington-street, Hull.
+
+[Sidenote: RECEIVES A SILVER MEDAL.]
+
+In answer to this appeal, the Board of Trade, through Sir Emmerson
+Tennant, struck a silver medal to the honour of Mr. Ellerthorpe.
+
+The Sovereign having awarded our 'Hero' with a gift of L20, and the
+Royal Humane Society and the Board of Trade having decorated him with
+their marks of honour, it remained for the inhabitants of Hull to show
+their appreciation of the humane and gallant deeds of their fellow
+townsman. Such deeds as our 'Hero' _had_ performed are not less heroic
+than feats of valour on the battle-field, and well deserve _public_
+recognition as well as reward from private associations.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Sidenote: PRESENTATION MEETING IN HULL.]
+
+The long-looked-for presentation took place in the Music Hall, Jarratt
+Street, Hull, on Wednesday evening, November the 6th, 1861. Upwards of
+four hundred persons sat down to tea, and the local papers state that
+greater enthusiasm was, perhaps, never witnessed than during this
+remarkable meeting. The room was gaily decorated with bannarets, and
+suspended over the chair was a large flag, bearing the following
+motto:--
+
+'LONG LIVE ELLERTHORPE, THE HERO OF THE HUMBER!'
+
+Grace having been chanted and justice done to the sumptuous tea, the
+public meeting began. Mr. John Symons occupied the chair, and he was
+surrounded on the platform by a large number of ministers, gentlemen,
+merchants, mechanics, and working men.
+
+[Sidenote: CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.]
+
+     The Chairman said:--It was a common custom of persons not novices
+     situated similarly to himself, to preface their remarks by saying
+     that some person of higher local distinction ought to occupy the
+     honourable position as chairman, and that was his request to the
+     committee. But as such a person was not secured, he felt proud of
+     the position he occupied amongst them. He little thought that the
+     movement would have proved so successful when he embarked in it,
+     for with but little effort we have received the free-will offerings
+     of L170. Of course printing, advertising, and other incidental
+     expenses were incurred, and cannot be dispensed with in order to
+     succeed in similar objects. The Royal Humane Society had awarded to
+     Ellerthorpe an especial vote of thanks; the Board of Trade, through
+     Sir Emmerson Tennant, had struck a silver medal in his honour; and
+     last, but not least, the popular Premier of England had forwarded
+     from the royal bounty the handsome donation of L20. Thus the
+     movement so humbly began, resembled the 'little spring in the
+     mountain rock,' which became a brook, a torrent, a wide rolling
+     river. By narrating the lives saved by Ellerthorpe's unprecedented
+     bravery, they had struck a chord in the innermost recesses of the
+     heart of the benevolent portion of the people. He was surprised to
+     find that no one had recognised Ellerthorpe's heroism before.
+     During a period of forty years he had saved the lives of upwards of
+     thirty persons. But however tardily it may appear to some,
+     ultimately, eternal justice will assert itself. John Ellerthorpe
+     never required, never expected any public recognition of his
+     services. The only praise sought by him was--
+
+         'What nothing earthly gives or can destroy,
+         The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.'
+
+     in being the means of saving so many lives from premature death by
+     drowning. Never let it be said the days of chivalry were over in
+     England while we have such a nobleman as a Lord Beauclerc[3] of
+     Scarborough, and a commoner called Ellerthorpe at Hull. He believed
+     with those who say that the men who dares the 'tempests' wrath,'
+     and the 'billows' madden'd play' on the errand of saving life, to
+     be as great heroes as those who 'seek for bubble reputation at the
+     cannon's mouth.' He would rather be a bearer of thirty blessings
+     than the hero of one hundred fights. No true history of Hull could
+     be written which did not contain the record of Ellerthorpe's name,
+     and the glorious deeds he had performed. Nor could he conclude
+     without expressing the heartfelt hope that the 'Hero of the Humber'
+     might long live to enjoy the splendid gifts about to be presented
+     to him, and when disease shall overtake him in his declining days,
+     may the contents of that purse procure for him the means whereby
+     his pillow of affliction may be smoothed and softened.
+
+          *       *       *       *       *
+
+     The Rev. C. Rawlings then expatiated, in a most powerful address,
+     on the life-saving labours of Mr. Ellerthorpe, which was listened
+     to with a rapt attention, and when he resumed his seat it was
+     amidst a tempest of applause.
+
+          *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Mr. Taylor, the treasurer, then presented the gold watch and guard,
+     and a beautiful purse containing one hundred guineas. The Watch
+     bears the following inscription:--
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+                        PRESENTED TO
+                      JOHN ELLERTHORPE,
+       _(By Voluntary Subscriptions) together with a_
+           Purse containing One Hundred Guineas,
+     He having saved Twenty-nine Persons from Drowning.
+                    Hull, Nov. 6th, 1861.
+
+     [Sidenote: RECEIVES A PURSE OF ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS.]
+
+     THE PURSE BEARS THIS INSCRIPTION:--
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+                            THIS PURSE,
+                            CONTAINING
+                      One Hundred Guineas;
+                             ALSO, A
+                       GOLD WATCH & GUARD,
+                         IS PRESENTED TO
+                        JOHN ELLERTHORPE,
+               _Foreman of the Humber Dock Gates_,
+                   BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS,
+     HE HAVING SAVED TWENTY-NINE PERSONS FROM BEING DROWNED.
+                   _Hull, November 6th, 1861._
+
+     Mr. Alderman Fountain, amid loud applause, and in a few appropriate
+     words, then presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe the following vote of
+     thanks, inscribed on vellum, from the Royal Humane Society:--
+
+     [Sidenote: ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S THANKS.]
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+                         Royal Humane Society,
+                            INSTITUTED 1774.
+                  Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
+                     _Patron_--Her Majesty the Queen
+     _Vice Patron_--H. R. H. The Duke of Cambridge, K.C., G.C., M.G.
+             _President_--His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T.
+
+          *       *       *       *       *
+
+     At a Meeting of the Committee of the Royal Humane Society, holden
+     at their Office, 4, Trafalgar Square, on Wednesday, the 21st of
+     August, 1861.
+
+     Present--Thos. Eld. Baker, Esq., Treasurer, in the chair. It was
+     resolved unanimously--
+
+     That the noble courage and humanity displayed by
+
+               JOHN ELLERTHORPE,
+
+     Foreman of the Humber Dock, in having on the 30th July, 1861,
+     jumped into the Dock Basin at Hull, to the relief of John Eaby, who
+     had accidentally fallen therein, and whose life he saved, has
+     called forth the admiration of this Committee, and justly entitles
+     him to its sincere thanks, inscribed on Vellum, which are hereby
+     awarded, he having already received the Honorary Silver Medallion
+     of this Institution for a similar act in 1835.
+
+               Argyll, _President_.
+               Lambton J. H. Young, _Secretary_.
+               Thos. Eld. Baker, _Chairman_.
+
+[Sidenote: MEDAL FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE.]
+
+The medal, which is said to be a fine specimen of artistic beauty and
+elegant workmanship, bears the following device:--One side of the medal
+represents a group on a raft. One of the men is seated on a spar, waving
+a handkerchief, as a signal to a small boat seen in the distance;
+another is supporting a sailor who appears in a drowning state. There is
+also a female holding a child in her arms, the sea having a stormy
+appearance. The group forms a most interesting allegory. On the obverse
+side is a large profile of Her Majesty, the border bearing the following
+inscription:--
+
+     'Awarded by the Board of Trade for Gallantry in Saving Life.--V.R.'
+
+Engraved round the edge are the following words:
+
+     'Presented to John Ellerthorpe in Acknowledgment of his repeated
+     Acts of Gallantry in Saving Life. 1861.'
+
+It is enclosed in an elegant Morocco case, the lid of which has
+inscribed upon it, in gilt letters:--
+
+     'Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, Awarded
+     to John Ellerthorpe.'
+
+In presenting this handsome testimonial, Mr. Brown said:--
+
+     He quite agreed with the Chairman that the last great day alone
+     would reveal the consequences of Ellerthorpe's bravery. He had to
+     present to him what he might fairly call a _national testimonial_,
+     as it was from a branch of our national institutions--the Board of
+     Trade. He had very great pleasure in presenting it to him, and he
+     earnestly prayed that none of his children might ever have to do
+     for him what he had done for his own father. He wished him long
+     life to wear the _medal of honour_.
+
+     [Sidenote: THE HERO'S ADDRESS.]
+
+     Mr. Ellerthorpe then advanced to the front of the platform, and
+     with a heart throbbing with hallowed feeling and eyes filled with
+     tears, he said; I cannot find words with which to express
+     adequately the gratitude I feel at so much kindness having been
+     extended to me, not only by the attendance of the large audience I
+     see before me, but by the numerous testimonials that have been
+     presented to me. I never expected any reward for what I have done,
+     and I have before now refused many offers of rewards that have
+     been made to me by the friends of many whom I have been the means,
+     in the hands of God, of rescuing from a watery grave. I do,
+     however, feel proud at receiving these testimonials, and I trust
+     they will be preserved by my children, and by my children's
+     children, as mementos of my country's acknowledgments of the
+     service I have rendered my fellow-creatures; and yet I feel that I
+     derive far more satisfaction from the consciousness that I have
+     done my duty to my fellow-creatures, in their hour of danger, than
+     I do from the splendid presents you have made me. I hope I shall
+     ever be ready in the future to do as I have done in the past,
+     should circumstances require it of me.--He was greeted with loud
+     applause both at the commencement and conclusion of his speech.
+
+     A vote of thanks was then passed to the Treasurer and Secretary,
+     Mr. Taylor and Mr. Haller, who responded. The Rev. J. Petty also
+     spoke.
+
+     Mr. Pearson (ex-Mayor) then moved a similar vote to the committee.
+     In doing so, he said that it was most remarkable that they had
+     allowed a man like Ellerthorpe to have saved so many as thirty
+     persons from drowning before any public recognition of his services
+     had taken place. As it was, a hundred guineas were far below his
+     merits, and he was sure that the merchants of the town had been
+     remiss in their duty in respect to this matter.
+
+     Mr. Rufford returned thanks on behalf of the committee.
+
+     Rev. C. Rawlings proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, shaking
+     him warmly by the hand, and congratulating him on the part he had
+     taken in this noble movement.
+
+     The Chairman, in responding, said, he had merely done his duty in
+     the matter; his work had been a pleasure to him, and he had
+     received many valuable lessons, the good impressions of which he
+     hoped would endure in his mind through life. Seeing that we live
+     surrounded with water, and that casualties are occurring almost
+     weekly, he thought it was the duty of the people of Hull to
+     stimulate others to follow Mr. Ellerthorpe's example. He should
+     always look back with pride and pleasure to that evening's meeting.
+
+        'When time, who steals our years away,
+          Shall steal its pleasures too,
+        The memory of the past will stay,
+          And all its joys renew.'
+
+     He then called upon the audience to close the present meeting as
+     they did the inaugurating meeting, by cheers for the 'Hero of the
+     Humber and England's Champion Life Buoy,' which was responded to by
+     the company rising, _en masse_, cheering most tumultuously.
+
+     The National Anthem was then sung. Mr. Morrison, organist, and a
+     party of vocalists, enlivened the proceedings, which were very
+     liberally interspersed with enthusiastic applause on every mention
+     of the 'Hero's' name.
+
+[Sidenote: LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.]
+
+It is but right to state that the entire sum collected towards the
+'Ellerthorpe Testimonial Fund' amounted to L197 10s., and that about
+L133 in cash was handed over to the 'Hero of the Humber.'
+
+Mr. Hudson, artist, Queen St., presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe a photograph
+portrait.
+
+[Footnote 3: This brave nobleman was at Scarborough during one of the
+most fearful and disastrous storms that ever swept the Yorkshire coast.
+He had no sleep on the previous night on account of the storm, and on
+Saturday he said to a friend 'I shall have a sound sleep to-night.'
+Alas! before he closed his eyes in sleep, and while nobly endeavouring
+to rescue a number of drowning sailors, a huge wave carried him out to
+sea, and he perished in the 'mighty waters.']
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+MR. ELLERTHORPE'S GENERAL CHARACTER, DEATH, ETC.
+
+
+In physical stature, Mr. Ellerthorpe was about five feet seven inches
+high, and weighed about ten stones. His build was somewhat slender for a
+sailor. He stood erect. His countenance was hard and ruddy, and
+indicated long exposure to weather. His ordinary expression was
+indicative of kindness, blended with great firmness. When spinning his
+yarns, or describing his exploits, his eye kindled, and his face, lit up
+with smiles, was expressive of intense sympathy.
+
+To his wife (who has just followed him to the skies, July, 1880,) he
+proved himself a kind and provident husband, _i.e._ _houseband_, as
+Trench renders the word. Even during his wicked and drunken career he
+never forgot his matrimonial vow, to 'love, honour, and cherish' the
+partner of his life; and hence, he never but once took any portion of
+his regular wages to spend in drink, and the sum he then took was about
+fifteen shillings.
+
+Of fourteen children, but four survive their parents, two sons and two
+daughters. The father strove hard to give them what is beyond all
+price--a good education. His eldest son, (who has long been on the
+Metropolitan newspaper staff,) when a boy displayed a strong instinctive
+love of learning, and when, on one occasion, his father urged him to
+devote less time to his books, and to form the companionship of a a
+certain youth, he replied, 'No. He spends as much money in cigars as
+would buy a library, and consumes as much time in smoking them as would
+enable him to learn half a dozen dead languages.'
+
+[Sidenote: HERO'S GENERAL CHARACTER.]
+
+Mr. Ellerthorpe proved himself a good servant, discharging his duties
+faithfully and honourably. During fourteen years he occupied the
+responsible position of foreman of the Humber Dock Gates, Hull. And when
+it is borne in mind that Hull is the third port in the kingdom, and that
+it is annually visited by 30,000 seamen in connection with its foreign
+and coasting traffic, and that, in the same time, about 20,000 small
+vessels, connected with the inland navigation, enter and leave the port,
+it will be seen that the duties of our friend were numerous and
+important. But the force and transparency of his character, his
+undoubted honesty, his indefatigable industry, and his unwearied
+attention to the duties of his office, won for him the confidence and
+respect of his employers, the esteem of his fellow workers, and the good
+opinion of the merchants of the port. Dale Brown, Esq., says:--
+
+                                        Dock Office, Hull,
+                                             _Sept. 11th, 1867_.
+
+     Sir,--I have known Mr. John Ellerthorpe as an active, energetic,
+     Christian man, for upwards of eighteen years, and during the past
+     six years he has been under my immediate control.
+
+     His wonderful daring and success in saving the lives of drowning
+     persons, have now become matters of history, and have been fully
+     recognised by the late Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, the Royal
+     Humane Society, and the local officials in Hull, by whom he is best
+     known and valued.
+
+                              I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
+                                   DALE BROWN, _Supt. Dock Master_.
+     Rev. Henry Woodcock.
+
+The following appeared in the Hull newspapers, November the 9th, 1864.
+
+[Sidenote: PRESENTATION TO THE HERO.]
+
+     'Presentation to the 'Hero of the Humber.'--On the 6th of November,
+     1861, a public presentation of a gold watch and a purse containing
+     upwards of 100 guineas, was made to Mr. John Ellerthorpe, of Hull,
+     known thenceforth as the 'Hero of the Humber,' on account of his
+     having saved twenty-nine persons from drowning. To commemorate that
+     interesting event, as well as to add another to Mr. Ellerthorpe's
+     well earned honours, a few friends met last Evening at Mr.
+     Rawlinson's, 'Sykes Head,' Wellington Street. After a well-served
+     supper, Mr. Councillor Symons, who, in the absence of Mr. Alderman
+     Fountain, presided, called upon Mr. John Corbitt (of the Air and
+     Calder Company), who presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe a purse
+     containing twenty-three and a half guineas, subscribed by the
+     leading shipping firms of Hull.
+
+     'Mr. Corbitt said:--The subscription was proposed by Mr. W. Dyson,
+     sen. (Bannister, Dyson, & Co.), and has been most warmly and
+     heartily taken up by all the leading firms, who were most ready and
+     forward to mark their sense of the obligations of the shipping
+     interest to Mr. Ellerthorpe's assiduous attention to duty, obliging
+     disposition, and untiring activity at his post night and day
+     (Applause). All present knew how valuable those services were, and
+     how much the dispatch of business depended upon them. It had been a
+     pleasing duty to himself to receive the subscriptions, they were
+     tendered in such a willing and hearty spirit (Cheers). Mr. Corbitt
+     then presented to Mr. Ellerthorpe the purse, which contained the
+     following inscription:--
+
+     [Illustration]
+
+                     THIS PURSE,
+             CONTAINING 23-1/2 Guineas,
+     _Subscribed by Trading Merchants of Hull_,
+         Was presented by Mr. J. Corbitt to
+               MR. JOHN ELLERTHORPE,
+
+     For his unwearied zeal and attention to the requirements of the
+     Trade of the Port by Penning Vessels in and out of the Humber Dock.
+
+     Nov. 8th, 1864.
+
+     'Mr. Ellerthorpe suitably acknowledged the presentation, and
+     thanked Mr. Corbitt and the subscribers for their kindness. As for
+     himself, he had certainly striven to secure the interests of the
+     port, but he had only done his duty, as he hoped he ever should be
+     able to do, without the prospect of any such reward as that. It,
+     however, gave him unfeigned pleasure to find that anything he had
+     done could be so highly appreciated. He hoped to live to advance
+     the interests of the town and of commerce.--Several loyal and
+     complimentary toasts followed, and the proceedings throughout were
+     of a most pleasant and agreeable character.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS DECLINING HEALTH.]
+
+To the eye of a stranger, our friend's cheerful countenance and erect
+form, during the last few years of his life, indicated a robust state of
+health, giving the promise of a green old age. Such, however, was not
+the case. His employment as Foreman of the Humber Dock Gates, was very
+arduous, exposing him to all kinds of weather, day and night, according
+to the tides, and he found it telling seriously upon his health. His
+frequent plunges into the water, in storm and in calm, at midnight as
+well as at midday, in times of chilling frost as well as in times of
+warmth, sometimes top-coated and booted, and at other times undressed,
+also helped to sap his naturally strong frame.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS LAST AFFLICTION.]
+
+In a private note he remarked, 'It is with difficulty I can talk, at
+times, and my breathing is so bad, that I am now unable to address the
+Band of Hope children. The other night, and after I had been in bed
+about three hours, I was seized with an attack of shortness of breath
+which lasted four hours, and I thought I should have died in the
+struggle. But it pleased the Lord to restore me, and since then I have
+felt a little better. I now suffer greatly from excitement, and need to
+be kept still and quiet, but my present situation does not allow me much
+quiet. In fact, I am afraid, at times, that I shall be forced to leave
+it, for I think, and so does Dr. Gibson, that the watching, night after
+night, let the weather be as it may, is too much for me. But I leave
+myself in the hands of God, knowing that he will never leave me nor
+forsake me.'
+
+Dr. Gibson, his medical attendant, wrote the writer thus:--
+
+                                        Hull, _26th Sept., 1867_.
+
+     Dear Sir,--I received your letter this morning, respecting John
+     Ellerthorpe, a man well known for many years past, and greatly
+     esteemed by the people of Hull, on account of his great daring, and
+     humane and gallant conduct in saving such a large number of human
+     lives from drowning.
+
+     As his medical attendant, I regret to say, that his frequent
+     plunges into the water, at all seasons of the year, and long
+     exposure in wet clothes, have seriously injured his health and
+     constitution.
+
+After the 'Hero's' death the same gentleman wrote:--'Mr. Ellerthorpe had
+generously attempted to save the lives of others at the expense of
+abridging his own life.'
+
+Mr. Ellerthorpe knew the great source of religious strength and
+salvation, and trusting entirely in the merits of Jesus Christ, he found
+a satisfying sense of God's saving presence and power to the very last.
+He would often say, 'my feet are on the Rock of Ages. I cannot sink
+under such a prop, as bears the world and all things up.' His
+affliction, water on the chest, and an enlargement of the heart brought
+on by his frequent plunges into the water, and exposure to wet and cold,
+was protracted and very severe. He found great difficulty in breathing
+and had comparatively little rest, day or night, for five months. Dr.
+Gibson said to him on one occasion, 'Mr. Ellerthorpe, you cannot live
+long unless I could take out your present heart and give you a new one.'
+'Ah,' said he, with the utmost composure, 'that you cannot do.' Often
+after a night of restlessness and suffering he would say to his dear
+wife:--'Well, I have lived another night,' to which she would reply, 'O
+yes, and I hope you will live many more yet.' 'No,' he would say, 'I
+shall not live many more; I feel I am going, but it is all right.'
+
+[Sidenote: HIS TRIUMPHANT DEATH.]
+
+During his last illness he had, as was to be expected, many visitors,
+but he loved those best who talked most about Jesus. He seemed pained
+and disappointed when the conversation was about the things of earth,
+but he was delighted and carried away when it was about the things of
+heaven. When his medical adviser gave strict orders that visitors should
+not be allowed to see him, his pale face and lack-lustre eyes grew
+bright, and he imploringly said, 'Do let those come who can pray and
+talk about Jesus and heaven.'
+
+The ministers of his own denomination, the Revs. G. Lamb, T. Ratcliffe,
+T. Newsome, J. Hodgson, F. Rudd and others often visited him, and would
+have done so much more frequently, but for the nature of his complaint
+and the orders of his medical attendant. Mr. John Sissons, his first
+class leader, Mr. Harrison, his devoted companion and fellow labourer in
+the work of God, and others of his lay brethren, frequently visited him,
+and all testify to the happy state of soul in which they found him. The
+Rev. J. Hodgson, in one of his visits, found him in great pain, but
+breathing out his soul to God in short ejaculatory prayers. His old
+passion for the conversion of souls was strong in death. Mr. Hodgson
+told him of some good missionary meetings they had just been holding.
+'And how many souls had you saved?' was the ready inquiry. 'You will
+soon be at home,' said Mr. Harrison, during his last visit, to which he
+replied, 'Yes, I shall, my lad.' During the Rev. T. Newsome's visit Mr.
+Ellerthorpe expressed himself as wonderfully happy and anxiously waiting
+the coming of his Lord. Toplady's well known verse was repeated by the
+preacher:--
+
+    'And when I'm to die,
+    To Jesus I'll cry;
+    For Jesus hath loved me,
+    I cannot tell why;
+    But this I can find,
+    We two are so joined,
+    He'll not reign in glory
+    And leave me behind.'
+
+'Ah,' said the dying man, now rich in holiness and ready for the skies,
+'THAT IS IT.' He soon afterwards expired in the full triumph of faith,
+on July 15th, 1868.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE HERO'S FUNERAL.
+
+
+The following account of the 'Hero's' funeral is taken, unabridged, from
+_The Eastern Morning News_.
+
+[Sidenote: HIS FUNERAL.]
+
+[Sidenote: THE FUNERAL PROCESSION.]
+
+All that was mortal of John Ellerthorpe, 'The Hero of the Humber,' was
+on Sunday consigned to the grave. Well did his many noble actions
+entitle him to the proud and distinguished title by which he was so
+familiarly known. It may be questioned whether his career has any
+individual parallel in the world's history. The saviour of forty lives
+from drowning, during sixty-one years' existence, could not fail to be
+exalted to the position of a great hero, and the worship which was paid
+to his heroism assumed no exaggerated form, though it was intense and
+abiding. He bore his honours meekly, and his funeral partook of the
+character of the man, unpretending, simple, earnest. No funeral pomp, no
+feverish excitement, but a solemn, subdued spectacle was witnessed. The
+highest tribute which could be paid to departed worth was accorded to
+the memory of the Hero of the Humber. Thousands of his fellow-townsmen
+followed the funeral _cortege_ on its way to the Cemetery, and when the
+procession reached the last resting-place of the deceased, the number
+swelled into vast proportions, and a perfect consciousness of the
+solemnity of the event appeared to influence the conduct of the vast
+multitude. The silence was deep, and almost unbroken by any sound save
+the frequent exclamations of sincere regret. No man, however
+distinguished, has had more solemn homage paid to him than John
+Ellerthorpe. There were many features of resemblance in the burial of
+Captain Gravill, and in the Cemetery, not far from each other, now lie
+the remains of two men whose moral attributes and actions will ever
+stand conspicuous in the history of men.
+
+The announcement that the _cortege_ would leave the residence of the
+deceased at half-past twelve drew many hundreds to the house, anxious,
+if possible, to obtain a look at that which contained the body of him
+whose acquaintance numbers of them had esteemed it an honour to possess.
+At the time appointed the body was placed in the hearse, and the family
+and friends of the deceased, as they entered the coaches, were watched
+by hundreds who sympathised in no common degree with their deep
+affliction and irreparable loss. The coaches were followed by the
+gatemen of all the docks and others who had been associated with the
+deceased. Mr. Dumbell, the Secretary of the Dock Company, Mr. Dale
+Brown, Superintendent Dock Master, and Mr. Gruby, headed the procession,
+thus evincing the deep respect they entertained for Mr. Ellerthorpe.
+Contrary to expectation, the procession proceeded to the Cemetery by the
+following route:--Railway-street, Kingston-street, Edward's-place,
+Waverly-street, Thornton-street, Park-street, and Spring-bank. It had
+been expected that the procession would have gone along the Market-place
+and Whitefriargate, and thence to the place of interment, and the
+streets were thronged with an anxious multitude. The disappointment was
+very great.
+
+When the _cortege_ reached Thornton-street, part of the congregation of
+the Primitive Methodist chapel at which the deceased had been in the
+habit of worshipping when in health, joined the procession, and at once
+began to sing. Nothing could exceed the impression of the scene from
+this point. As the lowly strains arose tears were trickling down many a
+hard, rough face, whilst a spirit of holy quietude appeared to pervade
+others. Few funerals have been characterised by greater impressiveness.
+All the avenues at the cemetery were crowded, and hundreds had been
+waiting or a long time to meet the procession.
+
+The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. George Lamb, for whom the
+deceased had long cherished a great affection, and it is needless to say
+the reverend gentleman was greatly affected. The coffin having been laid
+in the grave, and the burial service having been read, Mr. Lamb spoke as
+follows, amidst profound silence:--
+
+[Sidenote: REV. G. LAMB'S ADDRESS.]
+
+'We have come here to-day, my friends, to perform the last duties over
+the body of the dear friend who has passed away, we doubt not, to a
+brighter and a better world. The Hero of the Humber, the man who has
+saved a large number of human beings from a watery grave, who has made
+many a family rejoice by his heroism, has himself succumbed to the hand
+of death. But, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ he was not
+afraid to die. I have been frequently comforted as I have conversed with
+him during his last illness, and have heard him rejoice in the prospect
+of that hour, and seen his anxiety--yes, his anxiety to leave the
+present world because he had blooming hope of a brighter and better
+inheritance. My dear friends, you and I will soon finish our course. The
+great question we ought to ask ourselves individually is "Am I prepared
+to die? If my corpse were here, where John Ellerthorpe lies, where would
+my soul be? Am I prepared for entering the mansions of everlasting
+bliss?" Many of you know he lived a godless, prayerless and sinful life
+for many years, but by the gospel of the grace of God his heart became
+changed. He abandoned his evil ways, consecrated himself at the foot of
+the cross, to be the Lord's for ever, and by God's saving mercy, he was
+enabled to hold on his way to the last, rejoicing in the prospect of
+that hour when he should leave the bed of affliction and this sinful
+world, to be carried into that clime and those blessed regions where he
+would be with the saved for ever. That God can change your hearts, my
+dear friends. Oh, by the side of this open grave, may some here to-day
+be yielded to God; may you now consecrate yourselves and become the
+saved of the Lord. God grant his blessing may rest upon the mourning
+widow and the bereaved family, and that they after the toils of the
+warfare of earth, may with their dear husband and father be found before
+the throne of God. May those who have long enjoyed the friendship of our
+departed brother be ultimately numbered with the blessed in in the
+kingdom to come.'
+
+[Sidenote: FAREWELL HYMN.]
+
+Before the mourners departed, the beautifully affecting hymn, beginning
+with
+
+    'Farewell, dear friends, a long farewell,'
+
+was sung.
+
+We may state that most of the ships in the docks indicated respect by
+hoisting colours half-mast high.--_Eastern Morning News._
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+J. HORNER, PRINTER, ALFORD.
+
+
+
+
+_WORKS BY THE REV. H. WOODCOCK._
+
+WONDERS OF GRACE;
+
+_Or, the Influence of the Holy Spirit manifested in upwards of 350
+remarkable conversions. 2/-; 2/6._
+
+     'Favourably as Mr. Woodcock is already known by his previous
+     writings, the present work will, we are persuaded, add to his
+     reputation and increase his usefulness. The substance of the work
+     is rich and precious almost beyond praise, and its literary
+     workmanship bears unmistakable evidence of industry, intelligence,
+     and judgment. Its multitudinous facts, drawn from a variety of
+     sources, are skilfully marshalled, are narrated in a lively and
+     agreeable style, and the spirit with which it is animated is deeply
+     religious. It is an exceptionally excellent book, as full of
+     interest as a novel, and yet as religious as a liturgy. People of
+     all ages and conditions will find in its pages a mass of pleasant,
+     instructive, and wholesome reading, fitted in an eminent degree to
+     promote their spiritual growth, and to nourish in their hearts an
+     interest in revivals of evangelical religion.'--Introductory note
+     by the Rev. C. C. M'Kechnie, Connexional Editor.
+
+     'Facts stranger than Fiction stud the pages of this volume, and
+     shed light upon the various ways in which God is pleased to draw
+     men to himself. The work is written in a clear felicitous style,
+     and affords about as agreeable readings as anyone can desire, while
+     its rich illustration and forcible presentation of Gospel truth,
+     cannot fail but prove a blessing. It is in fact, as full of
+     interest as a novel, and yet as religious as a
+     liturgy.'--_Christian Ambassador._
+
+LONDON: S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row; Wesleyan Book Room, 66,
+Paternoster Row; Primitive Methodist Book Room, 6, Sutton Street,
+Commercial Road, E.; and of all Booksellers.
+
+
+
+
+Fifth Thousand. 356 pages, cloth, 2/6; gilt edges, 3/-
+
+POPERY UNMASKED:
+
+BEING THIRTY CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MR. DAYLIGHT AND MR. TWILIGHT.
+
+     _In which the peculiar doctrines, morals, government, and usages of
+     the Romish Church are truthfully stated from her own duly
+     authorised works, and impartially tried by God's Word, the only
+     unerring rule of doctrine and duty._
+
+
+Notices and Recommendations.
+
+     'This book is decidedly the best thing of the sort that has yet
+     appeared. Its range is comprehensive of the whole of the mighty
+     subject, and it is literally crammed with fact and argument. Every
+     section is a species of moral demonstration. We defy Cardinal
+     Wiseman and all his cardinals, archbishops and bishops, and clergy
+     to boot, to refute this volume. In 350 pages we have a species of
+     encyclopaedia. We know of no human hand from which Popery has
+     received a more powerful, death-dealing blow. Would that a copy of
+     this well crammed and very cheap volume might find a place in every
+     British household.'--Rev. J. Campbell, D.D., in the _British
+     Standard_.
+
+     'This is a very admirable and seasonable book, displaying much
+     reading and the soundest views. It sets forth, with much detail and
+     in a popular and picturesque style, the many evils of Popery' and
+     the present danger of Britain from this insidious foe. It would be
+     difficult to find a better text-book for popular lectures and young
+     men's classes, on the subject, and we cordially recommend
+     it.'--_Protestant Bulwark._
+
+     'A sensible, smart, and clever exposure of Popery, with its
+     irrational assumptions, and soul-destroying errors. The work is
+     timely, and its circulation will do good.'--Rev. W. Cooke, D.D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE BRAVE YOUNG SUFFERERS, 6d.; cloth, 9d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE THREE SOLDIERS, 6d.; cloth, 9d.
+
+     'The stories are full of pathos and moral beauty, and are in every
+     respect likely to draw the hearts of the young to the love of God
+     and goodness. We hope our Sunday School managers will keep this
+     little book in mind when providing their Anniversary prizes.--Rev.
+     C. McKechnie, _Primitive Methodist Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+STUDENT'S HANDBOOK TO SCRIPTURE DOCTRINES, 7s. 6d.; gilt, 8s. 6d.
+
+
+
+
+_WORKS BY SOPHIA WOODCOCK._
+
+SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS. 160pp., limp cloth, 1s.;
+boards, 1s. 3d.; gilt edges, 1s. 6d.
+
+Contents:--The New Heart; Prayer; True Happiness; The Right Motive; For
+Christ's sake; Stretch it a bit, or True Charity; Mutual Forbearance;
+Right Words; Perseverance; The Little Boy and his Lost Shilling; The
+Bible better than Gold; The Little Cripple; The Patient Sufferer, &c.,
+&c.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN LEADING ADULTS TO CHRIST. 160pp., limp cloth, 1s.; boards, 1s.
+3d.; gilt edges, 1s. 6d.
+
+Contents:--Christ for evermore; Children leading Adults to Christ; The
+happiness of Children leading Adults to Christ; Praying Children leading
+Adults to Christ; Casual remarks of Children leading Adults to Christ;
+Kind Words of Children leading Adults to Christ; Children leading
+sorrowful Adults to Christ; Singing Children leading Adults to Christ;
+Influence of good examples leading Adults to Christ; Dying Children
+leading Adults to Christ.
+
+     'Miss Woodcock's charming little volumes are everything that could
+     be desired. It would be difficult to find collections of stories
+     and lessons at once so well suited to the tastes and capacities of
+     children, and so likely to plant and foster right principles, and
+     to mould and build up a good and noble character.'--Rev. C. C.
+     M'Kechnie.
+
+     'Our respected author is scarcely _fair_ in presenting this capital
+     collection to the young of her own denomination only, as indicated
+     in her preface. The excellence of her work commends it to the young
+     of all denominations.'--_The Christian Age._
+
+     'This little book is remarkably well adapted to convey moral and
+     religious instruction to boys and girls from six to ten years of
+     age. The stories are just of such a sort, and told in such a way,
+     as are most likely to interest and impress the heart when the heart
+     is most susceptible of impression.'--_Christian Ambassador._
+
+     'Our children are delighted with 'Gems,' and we sincerely hope that
+     it will have the large sale that it deserves.'--_Dr. Lamb, Hull._
+
+     'I can truly say of 'Gems' that it is one of those books,
+     interesting, pleasing, and profitable, that need multiplying to
+     prevent youthful readers from getting an appetite for that
+     senseless, vicious literature now so temptingly offered to them. If
+     it be read as extensively as it deserves to be, by our young
+     people, the authoress, I am sure, will be abundantly
+     encouraged.'--_Rev. Joseph Wood, M.A., Secretary of the Sunday
+     School Union._
+
+LONDON: Wesleyan Book Room, 66, Paternoster Row: Primitive Methodist
+Book Room, 6, Sutton Street, Commercial Road, E.; and of all
+Booksellers.
+
+
+[Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Contractions are inconsistently used, such as both "did'nt" and
+"didn't," and have been retained as in the original in both cases.
+
+There were many printers errors and typos in this book. The obvious
+ones have been silently corrected. Others that might be cases of
+old spellings have been retained.
+
+Page 19--I suspect "of" is missing in the phrase, "that he would have
+been unworthy (of) the name of a Christian" but I did not change it
+in the text.
+
+Page 120--The paragraph that begins "After the 'Hero's' death" was
+originally included in the preceding blockquote, but it doesn't seem
+to be part of the quoted letter, so I moved it out into the surrounding
+text.]
+
+
+
+
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