St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-02

OuflnH the Dog W aUCn-hOW
the Rest of the Day Is Spent
Eight Bells Rise and Shine.
"Way-ay-ay-ay there. you sleepers!
Eight bells! Rise and shine!" With
some such yell as this is Jack reused
fIom slumber when his watch has to go
on deck, says the New York world.
The hour is 4 o'clock in the morning
and he Immediately tumbles out of his
bunk, and within fifteen minutes from
the time he was called he is on deck
keeping his watch, hoping for o'clock
to come, when he will take his hook pot
to the galley and get cup of swarm
coffee.
Ordinarily there is never any work
done on board ship before $50, except
ing, of course, such as is necessary for
to wash down." The men take brooms
and buckets along, two men 60 to the
pump, and then begins the first work OF
the day, plenty of water being used land
those with brooms scrubbing the deck
as they go from the poop to the fo'c's'le
head. The scrubbing is done with
thOrOughneSS that would shame the
best housewives.
By O. clock the deck has been washed
down, after which various ropes that
have been put out of the way during
the operations are cOiled down clear
for any emergency: for one of the most
important things on shipboard is that
every rope should be in such shape
that when it is let go 1t should run with
out getting any kinks in it, which in
some cases might have rather disastrous
consequences.
Jack Goes to WORK.
Jack is then put 10 work at such
small jobs as are necessary. so that his
time may be occupied until eight bells
Is o'clock). when he once more goes
below for his breakfast and four hours
rest.
Meanwhile at seven bells C:30) the
watch below has been calleu to get
breakfast. Jacks breakfast, even in
the best of ships, is far from elaborate.
1t generally consists of coffee without
milk, "hard tack" and scraps of meat
lett over from the previous days dinner.
Jack is now off duty till noon. After
he has had his breakfast he generally
has some little odds and ends Of things
to do for himself, and they keep him
busy till about 10 O'Clock, when he
turns in and sleeps till IL 80. his dinner
hour.
At ~ he is on deck again till
o'clock. The four hours time from
p. m. to s p. m. is divided into two
watches. known as dog Watches"
though the dog watch is always reck-
oned as the watch from to s.
When all the men are together they go
in for their skylarking, music and dane
ing and for having good time general
ly. This is the time when Jack is seen
at his best, when his spirits are at the
highest, when he is congenial and has
not word to say against anybody, not
even against the cook, who may have
spoiled his dinner that day.
Even Watches.
The object of this division is to make
an uneven number of watches in the
| tWenty-four hours, so that there will be
| daily change; for example, the watch
| that goes below one day at noon Will
| the next day come on deck at that hour.
| AT $50 he has supper and at 6 he is on
duty once more. At s he goes below to
| sleep till midnight, when he has again
| to be on duty till O'Clock.
/ This is fair specimen of the monot-
ony of the sailors life at sea. Except
for the changing of the weather occa-
slonally and for slight difference In
the work that has to be done, one day is
exactly like another, with the same
| faces around, the same outlook on the
broad ocean, the same food-in dill
things with sameueSS that is monOto-
nous in the extreme.
Jack is nothing if not a grumbler,
reputation he has had in all ages.
Chronic complaining about everything
and every body seems to be his one great
amusement. Of course, there is always
some ground for this.
Take, for instance, the question of
food. The rations of sailor are about
as follows: One pound of hard biscuit.
IL pounds salt beef, II pounds salt
pork, u ounce of coffee, d ounce
of tea and quarts OF water
daily; a pound flour made into
bread, . pint of peas made into soup.
three times week: q pint rice. and
IL ounces of sugar weekly. In many
ships the odd quarter of a pound of
pork and half pound of beef are kept
back, and instead Jack gets one pound
of butter weekly. At dinner each dav
the meat is served. aud the meat. used
for other meals is what is left over
from dinner.
signals at Sea,