New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-15
SHANGHAI GERMAN BOY.
HE JUMPS OVERBOARD.
Rescued IN S1cash Channel By Cre1C
of Wrecbing Tug.

Shanghaied from the North German Lloyd
steamship Bremen on Wednesday. lured to
Brooklyn by two men. and placed on board the
British tank steamer Narragansett, IN a stoker.
from which he escaped by leapng into the
waters of the Ship Channel and being rescued
by the crew of dredging tug. make up the ex-
periences of Carl Schluttmann. sixteen-year-
old German. who reached this port on Tuesday.
The boy was brought 10 this city on the Mer
ritt-Chapman dredging tug Hustler last evening.
having been rescued near the junction of the
Swash and Ship channels about O'Clock i'm the
morning. He was landed at Pier l. North River.
in charge of Frank Johnson. the superintendent
of the dredging work which is being done in the
Swash Channel by the Merritt-Chapman Com
pany. Johnson who lives at No. 30 Macon-st.,
Brooklyn. was highly incensed at what he de-
clared was one of the bOldest cases of shang-
haing he had ever heard of. and which he de-
clared was a disgrace to a civilized seaport.
I'VE were at work on the Swash Channel
said Mr.. johnson. when the NarTagansett
steamer passed through the Ship Channel, about
a hundred yards away. We boy running
back over the deck toward the stern A couple
of men chased him. but he beat them 20 the
rail. and with his clothing under his arm. dived
into the water crowd of the people on the
shin gathered at the stern and watched him
struggling. The ship kept on out to sea Cap
tain Risedorf of the Hustler, went out in the
small boat and brought the boy on board
There was a man at Pier 1 waiting for the
Hustler to land. AS soon as Johnson came
ashore with Schluttmann he rushed up to him
and demanded the boy.
you have the lad oft the Standard Oil steamer.
haven't your" he said Hes the boy you picked
I'D down in the Lower Bay. want to take him
and give him a nights lodging represent the
Standard OIL"
I'D kuOy JVhO
was. and the stranger handed over a card bear
ing the name Watson & Kerrigan, Shipping
Agents, "a Pearl-st"
Johnson refused TO hand over the boy saying
that he was going to send him back to the
Bremen. in Hoboken. where he wished to go.
The party went into the station house OF the
Harbor Police at Pier a. and Johnson explained
TO Sergeant Scheffler that the boy had been res
cued, and that he was going to send him back
to his ship. The stranger, who said he was MT
Kerrigan. of the shipping agency, said that all
he wanted to know was that the boy had not
been drowned and would be taken care of. The
boy was sent to Hoboken in charge of John
Knuteson. of No 1.751 First-ave.. wrecker in
the employ of the Merritt-Chapman Company.
Knuteson landed the boy at the North German
LLOYD docks in Hoboken, where he explained to
an officer on the Bremen that the boy had been
shanghaied
schluttmann told his story after landing
through an interpreter. He is a typical German
boy we'll grown for his age. He said;
The Bremen came here on Tuesday was a
kitchen boy on board. 1 stayed on board the
ship the day arrived, but the next day left
the ship in the early afternoon, and went into
Hoboken. Three men stopped me. and asked me
in German if was a sailor. and answered
was a kitchen boy on the Bremen. Then they
told me 1 should get bigger wages and told me
that they could get me job on a trip to Eng
land
suddenly they caught hold of me and said Run,
will miss the boat" and almost before
knew it was on the ferry with the three men
The men took me to a house in Brooklyn they
put me in a room where slept Then they took
me out and we went around to a number of
places until 1 completely lost was then
put on board the Narragansett.
was awakened early in the morning and had
to stoke the furnaces. | saw the captain. how
ever, and asked him how much was to get for
wages. He said, You will get no wages. Your
wages have already been paid. Now get below
= Then / made up my mind to escape. and I
managed to slip away from the stoke hole and
jump overheard
Schluttmann said that when he first taken
on board the Narragansett he was asked his
age. Il told the captain that 1 was sixteen
years old" said Schluttmann. He looked at
me hard and said: mo. you not sixteen
years old. You are nineteen years old That is
what said to me in German. L did not I'M
derstand then what they meant but see it
was because / was too young to be made fire
man"
Mr.. Johnson said that II was clearly case
of shanghaiing. though as to the guilty party
he could draw conclusion. He said probably
the ships officers were not to blame. but the
men who shanghaied the boy probably got $40
for the job, and no questions asked. He said
that the way the game was played in this
port.
Il will see this matter through" he said. Il
am going to put the matter before the port
officials and keep at ii until l am certain / can
do no more TO have the matter sifted and in
vestigated 1t is outrageous that such practices
should be permitted to exist in this city"