The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-06

wouldn't trust a statement of my own
sooner.
Neither would /"
Let me take you by the hand. Is
Clancy trustworthy? Why. it would make
everybody in the ship smile to hear you
say that Patrick Clanc-"
is he experienced? Is he calm. unex-
citable; does he know the boat well?"
Knows her like a book! Knows every
inch Of her hundred and twenty-seven
feet: knows every ton of her four hun
dred: can tell by the fiutter of her screw
/ when she's making her Sabbath-day go
revolutions and when she's on the war
path and turning out four thousand 4
minute. Does Patrick Clancy know the
/ Kanawha? Why, man. he's been in her
! ever since he was a little thing not thirty
/ feet long and couldn't make ten miles an
hour; he told me 50 himself"
! DO YOU own the Kanawha?
well no. l don't exactIy own her. I
+ only help to run her. Mr.. Rogers owns
/ her
( DO you command herr"
! We'll. no. not exactly I only superin-
( tend"
+ by request"
/ We'll. ! wouldn't put it quite as strong
as that: but ! do a good deal of work.
. YOU know: in fact the important part OF
/ it, experimenting is more important
( than commanding and more worrying
and fatiguing. you know, because you
have 10 be everywhere and attend TO ev-
erything experimenting Is much the
most exacting function on board ship
and requires more varied talent and alert
ness and more patience and calmness
under explosions Of resentment and in
subordina1ion than any other in the serv-
ice. There are but few really good SUI
perintendents.
The salary must be very larger"
No. there isn't any salary: all person
gets is neglect and ingrstitude. II su-
uerintendent conscieutiously does hts
whole duty. there's never anything going
on but mutiny and instruction. If I have
ever had an order obeyed without being
requested 10 mind my own business. 1
have no recollection of it II is just
dogs life and that is the best You can
say about it.
why don't YOU resign
Resign? How can 7 resign when I
haven't been appointed? II I could set
appointed / would resign IN a minute
Is there no way to
TO what No. there isn't. When You
are superintendent. there you are and
You can't help Yourself Sometimes 1
wish vas dead"
IT does seem TO be a sor-owful voca-
ton.
Funerals is hilsrity compared to 1t.
Daily and hourly your feelings are hurt
Hurt by diSobedierce: YES. and almost
always accompanied by remarks which
why let ne sive you an instance You
remember that drst day when we were
racing with those stesmrockets the Cor
ssir and the Revolution and the Hauoli
and Mr Iced : Clipper and hanging their
scalps up there or the rnizzenforetopgal-
liant halyards 10 dry ore by oae9 found
the second mate or his base and ordered
him into irons for a lesson. and he told
re to 90 to-never mind where he told
me 10 &c bui how would you like TO De
treated Ike that. and you doing the best
you conIdg
All. that gives ne an idea Il would
/ be just Ike such a man as tha, 10 keep
/ croSsiny the Nonuouths bow the way the
Kanawha did Saturday IN the race home.
. Il vas scanlslous Was he steering
Its getting late. lets talk about some
thing else. was at the wheel myself
Are yoa incorporate? Would you lik.
| somesalAs? So would / Push the but