National Republican., 1880-09-11
ON THE RAGING CANAB.
Tho Log OF the Good Craft Evening stnt''--
New Hands shipped for the Cruise.

| Evening STAR will sail Friday evening
September 10. at seven bells, from her wharf
at st. Cloud building, corner Of Ninth and +
| streets northwest. All aboard BY order Of
the captain. WILL A. SHORT. Steclsman."
Such was the notice that called together the
| Towpaih club last evening, and the crew
climbed over the sides Of the good craft,
| coilcd up tho ropes, took twist in tho tail Of
the starhoard mule, soon had everything
looking bright and ship-shnpc, ard the order
| was given TO weigh anchor. Captain A. J..
! Barber stationed himself on the quarter deck
with First Mate Richards on the starbonrd,
| Second Mate Hopkins on the larboard,
md Stcorsluan Short Mt tho helm. Lookout
| McNabb was ordered aloft, while Toll.taker
Bartlett hunted through the hold for any mis-.
crcart who had shipped for the cruise and
| neglected to pay his toll. The lookout having
| reported all clear ahead the crew assembled on
| the roop-deck. Captain Barber congratulated
his mcssmates on the Roodly attendance, and,
| like good captain, at once ordered the crew
| TO lay TO and proceed to business. The stcc.s-
man read tho log book, which was approved.
| The following names of persons who desired
| TO ship for the cruise as deck hands were pro.
| poscd and they were elected Judge G. $.
| Bundy, General C. Z. Hovey, Colonel S. 8.
| Burdotte, r. S. Graham, H. L. Oflcy, w. O.
| Boomo Arthur Shepherd, John Long, W. II.
| Mason, NJ. d. Helm, Judge T. p. CufIy, l.. B.
| Cutler, g. \. Dalton, G.. ~ Bond, f. l.. Camp.
bell and X. VI. Barr
Some Of the new recruits being present aud
bavng their sca-legs on, signed the shipping
articles, paid their toll aud were at once
| initiated by tho able scamon into the mys.
ferries Of recfing mules tail, taking obserya.
| tions with quadrant, slivcrng the mainiop
and throwing the spauker.boom overheard.
| First Mate Richards. having exhibited an ig-
norsnce which would be discreditable TO the
veriest and.lubbcr us to which was the star.
board sio of the craft Toil.Taker Bartlett
| shifting his quid to the larboard side and Civ.
| ing hitch to his trousers suggested
| to his shipmntcs that the titles OF
/ the officers were not in exact accordance with
| the canal lingo. He thought that II would
| be more appropriate to say first bOwsman ana
second bowsman instead Of first mate and Sec
ond mate, aud to say "hcol-patl" and TOW.
| path" instead Of larboard and starboard. He
remarked that he had once taken u canal tIip
| to the Great Falls and knew what he was
talking about lie made n motion that COM
| mittee be appointed to revise the titles. Deck
| hand Ford, known ashore as Colonel
! L. {. Foyd, called the attention of
the crew TO the fact that they had no
cook, an officer which he considered
very important to wel-rcgulated canal
| boat Lew Clements, who besides his long as
suciation with marine matters, as custom
| house officer, claimed to have lived eleven
years near canal, and, therefore, to know
| something about it, remarked that If the crew
! proposed to con6ne themselves strictly to
| canal phraseolopy they would have only five
oihcers-the captain, the mulc, the driver,
the cook aud the captains wife After
some discussion it WAS decided to
refer all motions contemplating a change in
titles to the mule, or in other words lay them
on the table, aud to affirm the constitution Ms
| already adopted Dcck-hand Pelham there
upon offered a resolution, which was adopted
and noted on the log.book, that the first officer
| or deck hand that made speech Oh the con-
| stitutiOn. or attom mpts to open discussion on
parliamentary questions, should he mmedi-
ately thrown overheard and kicked to death by
the mule. The captain then pped all hands for
ward aud the crew having been ranged in lire,
took solemn compact to use their best efforts
to organize other crews for n similar purpose in
other towns and cities. The captain read Il
letter from Mr.. Edward Ssltcr approving the
organization Of 'rowpsth clubs" and sug-
gcsting that they would be very popular in
communities where the people were devoted
10 ship.bulding, etc.
The captain also designated the following
watches" each to be under the command OF
the officer named Captains watch, to ar.
| range forms for opening and closing, pass.
word, grip, ETC., Deck-hauds Ford aud Clemou IS;
first mates watch, 10 obtain u boat for use
when the crew paradcs Deck hands Barrett
aud Kennedy; second mates watch, on badge,
ck-han6s Doolittle and Dutton steermam's
watch order of exercises, Deck hands Hamill
aud Whitaker; toi-takcr's watch, music, Deck
hands Chase, Cross aud Siebold; ookouts watch
banner, Deck-hands Worrol aud Goodwin;
captains clerks watch, on organization Of
new clubs Deck.hauds Mullicau aud Lang.
, don Master Barton, the little son of Cap.
tain's Clerk Barton, having distinguished him
self by his activity In distributing circulars
among the members of the crew, was uuani-
mously elected cabin boy Deck hand 1rucs
ng Muiur al lui
the TowpSlh club should raise $1,000 TO send
to Indiana snd offered 10 give 800 provided
the club would raise ~ ,000 He said that the
business men were deeply interested in the
coming election, aud the business men In the
club should subscribe to this fund
While Major Truestel WAS speaking several
of the crew buried below, and when they
were brought mp by sergeant of marines,
, said they thought the lookout had cried "low
J bridgeW Second Mato Hopkins remarked
that he would subscribe $50, aud Captain Bar.
ber not 10 he OutdOns by members of his
crow, said his firm was good for another 800.
Tho business Of drafting a subscription paper
was left with n watch" composed Of Captain
Barber, First Mate Hopkins, Stecrsnan Short,
and Deck hand Trucsdell.
, An invitation from the Garfield and Arthur
club of Hyattsvillc, Nd, TO attend aud take
part in 4 mass meeting to he held in their
h, town on the 25th instant, was accepted. \
'HbEN '''N" '"' '''NN W A'NNN'hUHN A'"lIGAl
to appoint press'gang lOr the purpose Of got.
ting recruits Iron the enemy, but 10 action
YSs taken. The good craft was then tied up
5 until next Thursday evening, and tho merry
marines skipped over the gang'planll and dis
persed 10 their homes well satisfied with their
voyage.
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