The Evening Herald

A HARD MAN TO KILL.

A Sailor Who Bobs Up Serenely From All Kinds of Accidents.

The Bucksport correspondent of the Bangor News tells of a sailor hailing from that town whose thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes would fill a volume. He is known to fame as George A. Jordan. He has fallen overboard, been thrown overboard and jumped overboard. He has fallen from the mainmast head, foremast head, mizzenmast head and down the hatch times innumerable. He has been caught in the main sheet, knocked senseless by thrashing blocks and first mates and picked up for dead on 27 different occasions. He has been slashed up in fights ashore and jammed up in the dock, has been wrecked a dozen times and has floated without food or water for a week or more on several occasions.

When skipper of the banker J. J. Cowell, on the Grand Banks, his cable was caught by a whale, and the vessel was towed for several hours at lightning speed, with the bow almost under water.

In spite of all these little incidents Jordan is still tough and hearty and furnishes interesting newspaper items occasionally. Last fall he was mate of the schooner Waterloo, was knocked overboard by the boom and was in the water some time without support till the vessel could come about and pick him up. His last escape occurred at Rockland on a recent Sunday. The crew of the schooner Pearl had a drunken carousal during the absence of the captain and in some way set the vessel on fire. Jordan was one of the crew, and with his clothes on fire was on the point of jumping overboard when he was captured and the fire extinguished. He will be on deck again soon, ready for more adventures.