The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-08
CHINAMEN FR0ZE TO DEATH.
THE MAN WHO WAS SMUGGLING
THEN WENT AFTER A DRINK.
Forgot thnt His Cargo WINS Con-
ccaIed In an Ice-Chcst.

one OF the best stories told on the
Pacific coast is that OF Jones, the
pirate. man with one leg and bad
breath. saws the Chicago Herald. He
is well known around the water front.
though where he got his title is by no
means revealed. 1t has been some years
since he retired from active piracy on
the Spanish Main. where all good pi-
rates hold forth. but he has lost little
Of the bad reputation pirate may en-
Joy when in active service. Ten or
twelve years ago he was In the service
Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
as steerage steward on a China liner
He was well qualified to I'LL the position.
as he could discourse in eighteen
Chinese dialects AMI had lost the sense
Of smell.
Jones, the pirate. soon found there
were better ways OF making money
than the hackneyed one OF smuggling
opium. besides which, they were not
contrary to law: for be II known that
since Jones had left OF piracy and his
right leg he was an upright citizen,
when sober. He turned his attention
10 the smuggling of Cinnamon. for
there was then no Exclusion act. and
the Celestials were received without
cisco. Every trip he brought over from
six to ten Cinnamon, whose passage
money never reached the Golfers of the
steamship company. Joness Pacific
headquarters at Hong Kong and San
Francisco-or, in fact, wherever Jones
was.
He had one failing which has proved
the undOlnE OF mAnN great he
fore and since He loved strong liquor
The stronger II was the better he loved
IT. He didn't care whether II was dis
pensed in the form OF red-eyc by Flani-
gan. on Brannan street, in San Fran
cisco. or san shu on the quay at Hong
Kong. 1t was all good to him. pro-
OF IL.
OF course. H. had charge OF all the
stores with which to feed the almond
eyed immigrant, so II was an easy task
extra passengers till the ship was we'll
out on the blue waters OF the Pacific
when he would turn them loose among
their 1900 cousins on board, all OF
larly stipulated fashion. one trip-and
It was his last-Jones had six Mon
golians without excess baggage in his
ships, ice-box. which was well forward
and deep down In the hold. Some OF
their friends who came to the wharf
to see the ship OF left several bottles
or san snu with Jones, VINO falthfully
promised to deliver II to the stowaways.
1t ia needless to say that they did
not taste the liquor. for Jones promptly
proceeded to get drunk, succeeding SO
well that 1t was three days before he
recovered. The ice-box had . not been
entered. He Immediately started to see
about his six passengers. They werS
right where he had left them-but Frozen
| stin.
Here was a quandary. He could no,
| report the matter to the ships officers
| for he could not explain their presence
in the lce-boN without telling a lie and
that Jones would not do. But, like
another great man who scorned false,
| hood, Jones was a man OF resources
! Armed with cieaver, which he had
| surTeptitiously borrowed from tn,
! butcher, he returned to his silent pas
| sengers in the dark recesses of tbs
| forehold. tndismayed by their unin
| tentionally chilly reception. he pro
ceeded to disrobe them. taking care
| nothing OF value in their ,,othes SHOULD
! be overlooked, and then-well. then
| that night Jones stumped twelve time.
up the companionway and dumpet
twelve big gunny sacks into the Pa
| cifc Ocean.
Then he went back to the storeroon
| and drank the rest of the san shu
| While in state of coma which fol
lowed the drinking some inquisitiv,
| officer invaded his realm and found
| the six suits OF clothes and the Cleaver
| So, when the ship reached San Fran
| cisco, Jones. the pirate. was discharged
| without the Gust omary letter OF recon-
mendation.