The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-01-01
SOME QUEER TOURISTS.


They Go Abroad ~ Cattle Tenders and
Return as swells.
While hosts of people look over the pas
senger lists of the lucky ones who are able
to go abroad and envy them way down In
their hearts, there Is class of men who
make frequent trips across the ocean which
would hardly excite envy, excepting by
reason of their peculiar privileges. This
GLASS is bumorously called cattle cham
bermaids," because Of the fact that those
who belong to IL give their attention to
the live cattle that are exported from this
country to Europe. The men who do this
are the riffraff of the world, and when
here find IL difficult to earn more than
enough to keep body and soul together.
But when they are lucky enough to get
one of these "chambermaid" jobs they
feel like millionaires, for they get more
money day for the trip than they could
get on shore In week.
There are number OF, Chicago stock
yards men who do large business export
ing cattle, and they always have gang of
fellows around waiting for the first chance
to go out with cargo. The average time
of these trips from Chicago to London is
about IA days, and the price paid the at
tendants is $50 in gold. The chambernlaid
Is at no expense whatever. He is fed, but,
oh, such feed! 1t Is worse than that Of the
animals he looks after. There Is always
gang boss, and he it is who dispenses the
grub. Ordinarily this is boiled fat pork
and bread, with only water to drink. The
pork comes from the kitchen In great
pot or tub. The boss stabs chunk of SOL
Id fat with the long handled fork, almost
q pitchfork, in fact, and hurls 1t at one Of
hot alma n
Of billinRsgate 1t is caught much az dog
catches a chunk of meat In his mouth, and
no attention 10 paid to the liquid grease
| which flies In every direction. The fat
pork n followed by hunk Of stale bread,
and drink of water finishes the repast.
But Whist care these fellows for the fars
and the labor going overf They know there
| will b JOY and pleasure when their desti-
nation IL reached. Once landed In Liver.
| pool or Southampton they are given their
$50 in English gold and return ticket
good for 80 days from date.
| Then at once begins season OF riotous
living. The first thing Is fiashy suit of
clothes and a walking stick, and then of
| for London. The old hands know better
than to elbow in" their money on expen-
| sive eating. They have become familiar
| with the coffee places" to be found all
over London, where they get an imperial
| quart of coffee for penny and bun,
equal in size to an average loaf Of bread,
and thus for twopence they buy all they
can possibly eat. On certain days, when
they feel like luxuriating, they may per-
haps spend threepence on some dainty like
| dozen shrimp, but even with that extrava-
| gance INDUCED in every two or three days
the $50 will last a long time and give plen-
| ty of time to soak themselves with 'alf
| and 'alf.
These chaps always stay until their
money Is about gone, and then back they
come to Chicago, where the glory of their
London clothes soon becomes dimmed as
they loaf around the cattle pens at the
stockyards while waiting for another
chance to act as chambermaids to drove
| of cattle.-Chicago Chronicle.