The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-23

and only count money and time and be-
sides, I've been on the docks all my life
It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks
There goes Character as you call
them" suddenly said Daddy, pointing 10
a big man slouching across the docks
They call him Red. Don't know his
name. He's an ugly chap when he's in
liquor. and that's most all the time You
might get him TO talk II he is not drunk
II he is I would leave him alone IL / were
In your place.
went after Red. while Daddy wen.
home. and an ugly customer | found him
sure enough. He well deserved his name.
for his face, eyes. hair and hands were all
Of different shades OF red. created by ma
ture or caused by whisky ana exposure.
In as mid and persuasive manner as I
could scommand asked him to tell me
something about longshoremen. He
turned the guns Of his wrath and indig-
nation on me in a second. and in a minute
had left me-. fgurativeiy speaking moth
Ing but heap Of biood-stained ruins
fed To the Waysde Mission which faces
the wharyes feeling sure that Il would be
the one place Red would not come pro-
viding he took II into his head TO chastise
me FOR my imaru3ence, I asked about<the
mission and its work among longshore-
men and In answer 10 what luck / had
had story hunting. confessed that Il
seemed Ike writing up the patients In an
asylum for ineoriates
That IA the trouble the one trouble >,
said the man in charge THE Iongsh0re-
men viii drink and then YOU can do moth
ing wish them. Bu. few 81 them VIII read
even a daily newspaper and more OF them
/ regret 80 say. would rot understand
what they read. even Il they would give
their tine to Il Bat We ara working RICH,
along ard doing good that know and
We Aope - do more and more
II was after six. The warehouses were
closed and Tire wharyes deserted hut every
saloon on thu front was flied as II il rad
been busy day among the ships and b.
sides there was work ahead tomorrow
So there need be- no saving OF tire wages
earned. asked saloon man just one
question
mo yea keep slate FOR these men,
Nary a slate, The man that would
keep a slate for that ouffi, would sell out
sa the sheriff IN shoot month No sir.
Trey pay SPOT cash for all they get Some
times 40 give a man ! drink q he "a n god
customer bar never Deunv's worth 81
credit We woGl3 lose hts trade and what
nc ow@d os too. - We did. That is the
way those fellows are pat mp
Thinking - The steep incline from the
Sold Of the veassi Ia fae top ~ ths, deck
2nmEsA0re-raH had toiE~s NJ il daring rhs.
day. dragging or pushing hix truck inaHa4
aeaSi.y ss9augh FOR "a horse - araw. won
aered hos a man could I've tie lives they
i've by Gay ard nlsai and keep OF. o. TIE
clutches 81 dis%ase ard death aui thsu I
thcughr hnw IL k.Giw1a Markham aaa
charged IN h5a famous Essers he one vs,-s.
'Fho@ " and ia tts S.ss5 written truck hs
roQi8 have described \ lAfecrew II tAe ma
tar''y - seaaen and DECEASED as ever was
she ran Mile, painted.
Mess who lave devoted their uves to TIE
ssaay ~ thsir fellow men. and c~snasrg7l,
gssts - every country agree thaE taker, ns
wao}e there is 20 class - saaorers SO
9sesaAG gae& 6T drunkenness angf other
forms - vice. ~ crime as tas lanxghave-
aae1- ia explanation 81 this a famous
hnSsss1 writer 81 ertEasna,cxy says: The
deessQch@ty, drunkenness and erigne which
seems to Es&AEk tie masses @. lanss-rrs cal.