The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-23
LANES sHANeHA1 FAaM.
Not Place for resdinR Poultry as It's
Name Might Seem TO imply.
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Not Place for Breeding Poultry as Its
Name Might Seem TO imply.
From the Oakland Morning. Times.
A few people in Oakland will no doubt be
greatly interested in knowing that there is
Shanghai farm" within q few hundred
miles of them. Very few people have any
idea of the manner in which a man is abb
Quoted and put on board vessel in the
stream, aud fewer still have anv idea that a
great deal of such work is done from the
Oakland side, because there is no water
front patrol here.
The manner of shanghaing is very simple.
When captain requires q crew, the law
demands that he shall sign them before a
proper officer. This is done, and each man
is asked if be is satisfied with the manner in
which his account has been settled by the
boarding master. The answer is invariably
in the affirmative, and the captain leaves
the shipping Office. He knows That If he has
signed twelve men, twelve men will be- put
on board his ship when he is on the eve of
sailing, but he also knows by experience
that If he gets one-half OF the actual
men he engaged he will get more
than the average. The other half
are the partners Of the boarding
master, who have probably been before the
same shipping master twice in the same week.
men who are shanghsied, the latter Being,
In many instances, so unlike sailors that 1t
is considered advisable to keep them out OF
sight. It is quite a common occurrence for
| three or four of the crew, after they have
recovered from their stupor, to have to go
to thu mate and find out the name under
which they are sailing.
Additional light has been thrown on the
matter by the publication of a story 10 IA
Santa Rosa Journal of the existence OF q
Shanghai farm" located near that town.
! There is one industry it says, "located
near Santa Rosa of which most people have
no knowledge, 1t is a shanghai farm A
clever mortal OF San Francisco, by name
Lane, who has various interests in water
front boarding houses and is under con-
tract to furnish sailors to shipmasters, is
the proprietor of this industry.
1.-The retreat Is located in the hills over in
Rincon valley, about five miles from town.
There is plenty of whisky kept on tap, and
all who enter therein are invited TO drink
to their hearts content. In most every
town between here and San Francisco the
Shanghai farm is in COLLISION with some
beer joint proprietor. This is the way the
| scheme is conducted: The victim has been
at work, and on Saturday night comes to
town with his earnings. He Is in for a
good time, and joins convivial crowds
wherever be finds them. He finally gets
! gone, but still he is given drink. He is told
OF the joys and comforts of mountain
home near by. owned by philanthropic
| friend of the barkeeper, where the
weary may rest from their labors
and drink good whisky. lie is fasoi-
mated. He is kept In a nasty reeking drunk
all night. Next morning he wants to sober
| up on whisky. He is half daZed. He is in
vited to take a ride in a blackboard by a
| friend who appears on the scene, and CRATE
fully accepts the offer. They drive to the
| shanghai retreat. A big barrel of whisky
stands sparkling in the cellar. A half dozen
vagabonds are lying around. The victim
gets thoroughly drunk and 80 remains I'M
til a new vessel arrives at the San Francisco
port, when the proprietor comes up and
escorts the bevy and places them aboard
the vessel. When the victim realizes his
whereabouts he is sailing over the bounding
main.
| 4"Mr. Lane is now up here making a
roundup, and every once in a while his
! blackboard may be seen conveying some
victim up in the hills. Mr.. Lanes resort Is
called the Mariners home, aud is located
at 404-406 Davis street, across the bay.n
| There is a man living in Oakland whose
| pleasure it was to pass three weeks in Mr.,
Lanes retreat under rather peculiar cir
cumstances. He was detailed by d San
Francisco daily to 60 and live in water
front boarding house, for the purpose Of
exposing the methods OF the men who fatten
on "olood money, properly so called. The
story was published at the time, and led
indirectly to the retirement of Capt. S swan
mack from the superintendenoy of the
sailors home.
THE shanghai ranch was not then in %.
Grafton" said the person referred TO last
night, although heard great deal about
the Santa Rosa property. 1t had not then
degeDerated into the kind OF place described
in the article that have just read. Occa-
sonallY sailors who boarded with him were
sent up to the ranch to work till ships came
in, but | never remember seeing any Of
| them return. It is only reasonable to sup
| pose that they were shanghaied."
Another unmistakable instance was the
case of John DAILY who claimed to be an
ex priest, and mysteriously disappeared
| from Oakland for week, was found in a
dazed condition on the water front across
the bay.
| The reverend gentleman said that he had
been drugged and beaten and that an at
tempt had been made to take him to a
waterfront resort. His subsequent recov>
cry from his serious attack and his mar
| riage to the lady who nursed him in the
hospital are still fresh in the public mind
He had previously been leUturing against
| what he termed 1.-THE evils and abuses Of the
Roman Catholics" and claimed that they
| had retaliated by attempting TO kill him.
| Such an absurd story, however, was be-
lieved by nobody, and it is now regarded
as certain that he was the victim of shang-
| haiers.