The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-16
ANYTHING BUT PLEASURE.
Lewiston Mans Experience on Cattle
Steamer.

He Wanted to Go to Europe and Having no
Money Shipped from Portland as a Cat
tie Tender-Trip was Hardly satisfac-
tory.
a Holland street, Lewiston, young man
says the Journal. has an.experisncessto tell
concerning trip to Euorpe recently. He
was crazy to go and had no money for
the trip. After winter passed in Lew
iston printing office and month in an
Auburn shoe shop. he could wait no long
er for adventures and started for Port
land, where he found man hiring green
hands to ship as cattle tenders on q
steamship line. He was hired out was
to tend cattle all the way over and get
$40 and his passage if he was not sick.
II he was sick he was to get rs cents q
day.
The ship was loaded with cattle. The
deck sounded like western ranch yard
at watering time when the ship started
out, but just outside the harbor, where
the long sweep of the waves struck them
all was hushed. Men and cattle alike felt
the old ocean throbbing under them, and
the Lewiston hoy made up his mind that
he wanted to go below and lie down lust
q little WHILE He followed the inclina-
tion and soon after experienced the suffer
ings Of the whale that swallowed Che old
time preacher. Then he heard the voice
of the mate swearing and calling In
IOlyG unina fOr ffthot
land-lubber. A man came below, found
him and ordered him on deck to help tie
up steer that had broken loose. He said
that he could not get on deck. The man
went up and laughingly explained to the
mate that the Lew iston chap had swal-
lowed Jonah.
"Then take couple of buckets and
wet him down. the mate said. Soon
after his bunk was treated to a shower
bath and he, wet and dizzy turning in
side out with steady regularity all the
time, was dragged between decks and
made to help bed down some oagtle. He
was mortally sick, but was kept on the
jump all day. That was the mates way
of curing him.
The next morning he got up and found
that storm had set in, and that same
storm kept up for two days. On the SEQ
ond day it became necessary to tighten
ship. and sixteen beeves were hoisted out
and turned into yard fixed on deck.
When they were all up a long spar was
put into the hands of oil the deck hands
and the poor creatures were showed over.
board to perish. One big steer objected
to the operation, and getting his head
and horns under the spar made dash at
the crowd of seamen. All but one es-
capped. He was tossed against the cabin
door and leg was broken.
The steer kept on across the deck and
went out of port hole into the sea like
shot,
The storm increased and the vessel car
eened wildly, soaring the Lewiston young
man decidedly. The captain came on
deck and ordered that small piece of
canvas alofb be taken in. The men hest
tated q second-only O second, but the
captain didn't wait.
He pulled revolver from his pocket
eA0 hAA15 q GAAOe olhOAB lAo bClI16u
shouted: Come! Of the deck with
sou, or I'll give the Colt to the last
man." They didn't wait, for the bullet
that went over their heads was wonder
fully persuasive.
The storm died away and the mato was
sorry that he had thrown the cattle over.
board. He vented his sorrow on the
crew.
One night two quarts of whiskey got
among the crew in SONS way and the
roughs had free fight, in which knives
and clubs were used, and razors were
fiourished in way to make the tryos
hair curl. The mate remarked that he
wishedterltheydkild 'em all.''
A bout this time the Lewiston young
man got over his seasickness enough to.
want to sleep and became conscious that
the bunk held other fellows than himself,
When he got up in the morning his skin
as purple with the bites of his bedfellows.
When be mentioned it to the crew they
replied by pouring three buckets of salt
water over him after he had gone to bed.
He arrived in Liverpool genuinely
tough and was glad to ship back on a
Dominion Royal Line freight as freight
hand. He had nothing to do compare
tively, on his way back, but had to lie
In quaran tine before landing at Quebec.
He came home by way of the Grand
Trunk railroad, and now says that unless
you can travel "in shape" tits better to
stay at home.