The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-01
sHARKEY's ADVENTURES,
The Sailor Tells Of His Early Life and
Varied Experiences.

Varied Experiences.
Denver May Tom Sharkey, who is
in Denver to fight Russell, told the sport
ing editor of the Post the ups and downs
Of his life the other day:
Il was born in Dundalk, you know" he
commenced 'Dundalk, IN county 1AOWt1s
a geezer as the old sod ever produced.'
He smiled as he spoke and his blue eyes
I s'pose. though didn't pear ~ VIZ ~
toward nObOdy-just liked TO kinder let
not the boy to be trod on, and as there s
allus some duck that feels that way MS
ment ror me, and well ] enjoyed it
i was years old and had licked every
When I siSipped out from home and went
aboard sailing vessel as cabin boy Il
hard and treated tough, but didn't mind
MILESTONE England, ran away l LroA
my job and shipped aboard another boat
This first schooner was called the queen l
of the Usk, but she gave me Raro lines
and was glad TO snake her. me snip /
bound for India We had a rough voyage
storms all the way and work day ana
up my mind that when / got to Galeutta
I'd give her the slip, and 70 I did Wait
i ran away from the ship the hour. she
touched Calcutta, and for two months
sand and eating whatever the natives
would give me: But got good rest;
j
another ship and went to Hong hong,
where I got paid on. fooled around
then shipped in a bark belonging to New
York and sailed for the Caroline islands
AN OLD FASHIONED sHIPWRECK.
Il was a seaman. now. and as husky q
a good thing I was or this trip would
have done me for fair. The vessel went
worst storms / ever saw, and we were
three days floating around In an open
people, and all the rest were Cinnamon.
We had nothing to eat and only small
key of water A Chinese ship picked US
up. and I want to tell you was near
vessel I was SO weak / could hardly walk
a1d nnngFyi say X e rslt LIS fo oolsied dT
went sick as q dog got over It. though
and finally made my way back to Eng
the Sailors home in London and stayed
there about q month, got RECRUITED up
Next I shipped on a three master and
we sailed down southwest and went to
at this. During that time never wore q
shoe or a pair of trousers We We're all OF
Ny feet spread out like palm leaf fans,
and when We finally went into port at
"a have 10 an s9op s e%er D block and take
them of and rest my feet
After 1 got through with my whirl
and my money, too, went aboard an
Zealand and back to England. I was now
about 10 years old. and 1 concluded |
wanted to see something of America. so I
signed with the captain OF park tnstt
was in the lumber trade, bound for St:
Johns, New Brunswick. I made several
trips at $50 a trip. I struck heavy storm
on one of these trips. too. Our ship
fOundered off Newfoundland, and we were
three days in the boats before we got
picked up-Hello. old man-yeS. I'm all
right, getting back to my old form, you
see
4 big man with a brown moustache. Il
wide Waistcoat and a heavy Watchchain
had waddled in and grasped Sharkey's
Where was I?'' sharkey asked when
he had finished welcoming his friend /
oh, yes, the wreck. 1t was the Bulgaria
that picked US up. and she took me PACK
to Liverpool. I had had my fill Of sail
ing vessels, so when ] shipped again it |
Mar Mar On in tn the SOUTH American America trade.
cruised in her for about four months, ana J
then got back to Liverpool, ana shipped 4
China trade. / was at Foo Choo, Annoy 1
and all of them places and away up in |
the interior parts of China, where only /
How about the Chinese. Tom2'' some
s0h. they are all right if you let 'em
alone They amt looking for no trou-
BILE. We were in the tea trade and we /
handled lot of the stuff.
Well when l got back to Liverpool I l
shipped aboard q whaler bound for the
Behring sea- That was the hardest cruise
and we out in all the weather there was
was all up and down the Alaska coast
to Sitka. and say. I was up IN the kon-
klondike.
I'm the course Of time landed in New
York in 1891 and shipped aboard a Nor
gan line steamer and went to New Or
country when the Corbett-Su1livan fight
put all my money Sullivan. for
thought he was sure winner. I always