New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-19

avail vou see" returned the mariner, shifting both
,er, n tho ,ae side of the barrel and settling down for
yarn there amt much trouble getting hands enough
for small craft ike this ERE We only carry seven men
oil told and 70 Savannah tand back amt Tar enough i
em TO uind coming But vessels going long Voy
it's different Men don't care about shipping ior oD
and five months or II they do care about IL one oAy
the chances are they change their minds the next anu
disappear with their advance pay. Consequence Us
shpmasters have TO get their men aboard how they can
and when they ian. and tho sooner they take ei on
before sailing the less time there Is for em to get on
again Folks think that taking men on board drunk y.
against their viii and only an odtme lck anu
4. never played now. But along o. some o these Dig
boats there is almost much OF 1t as ever there was
Sometimes too q master gets his full crew ana the
vessel ia going TO sail next day Then mt night one
these runners the chaps that tout for the boarding
masters-oomes aboard and gets half OF em-or may
the whole crew--to desert again and go BACK 10 'ne
boarding house So the snpmaster has to get the St
Of these chaps and II he get them on board ias
thing at night and sail early next morning why 'ne
runner don't get chance. Especially the MASTER GA.
Get 'em aboard drunk enough to prevent em coming
round TIL thew are safe out Sometimes howsever Tue
maser comes bit too sharp, and gets men aboard ne
don't care about. And this is how 1t was with Jim.
He only wanted one TO fill up. but that one man
he wanted badly So he took two hands along WIN MN
and went ashore night afcre she were to SAIL and
get i'm aboard by midnight sure as my names Ions
Jim was his words, and on he went
at were nigh on TO midnight, hows'ever. afore he
turned but when he did the he'd KEEP hif
word, for behind him walked the two men carrying
chap between 'em IN plank An mortal drunk that
chap looked he was brought On board; never stir
ing finger whatever happened and With good reason
"a it arterward turned out Howsever he slowed
away In bunk with his faoo TO the sde and then tht
master went and told the captain that IL all right
The last man may be bit drunk; but he'll te all rgh
before morning, he says; and 80 at dsybreak they pu
out
An hour OF so afterward OF the mates sent mar
do gn 20 see this chap awake. but he ano
said he hndnr moved and diGn take notice when he
shook him. he'd let him be-. Well, no more notice
was taken hun until and then another chap wa
sent ana told TO get him up anyway. minute or two
arferward he came tumbling up bn deck white as
sh vet The hadn't been long at sea-, and Great GodF be
cried out, he's dead.
And dead he was. And dead he had been for soIn'
timesince afore he were brought on board anyway.
Nsithar Jim nor either OF the chaps went with min
would ever say where they got him ron an they didn
dare TO make COS they had right to bring mel
aboard drunk. No ever knew how that man go
killed or where he from who he was; but jim
Co.'s probably the only master a. over tried TO maj
a ship 18th oorpses. aud II any man wanted his heaG
broken he had only got up to Jim and say DEAD
or alive III bring him aboard before midnight