New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

club; his dirner end his poking at the blazing
logs with them are to him uncommonly sweet COM
munion: 10 them. his report is always interesting.
and sometimes. II he mas BEEN wanderer. absorb
ing.
such wanderer casually dropped in at the B
Club. In West Forty-fourth-st.. last Friday even
ing. His report ran quite like this:
II tried rancking in Wyoming at first" he said.
but after a year digging irrigation bitches
couldn't get any water. So sold my ranch. and.
after a summer cOwpunching. horse wrargiing,
managing hotel. Joining board OF trade. sorv-
ing volunteer fireman and editing weekly
newspaper-an In summer-I ran across Tom
my jerks. IS. whose father. you know. IS one of
tho biggest cattlemen IN ST. Louis. We decided 10
leave the West altogether AMI 20 20 abroad. event
ually 90 around the world. before settling down
10 business for life. SO went TO st. Louis. and
there I met jerks. ST. who didn't like plan
bit and wouldn't give Tommy cent. My 500
a pretty slim allowance for two men pledged
put through 27oOO mile trip but we thought
could do it on that amount
jerks. ST. outwtted by getting his manager
90 hire drovers to take $50 head OF cattle
from Boston 20 Glasgow British tramp. the
Southland $50 tons. $50 foot.
There were three other drovers besides Tom and
myself Two days before called Tom tele-
graphed his father whle we were doing. and gra-
ciously enough. the latter. relenting. wired he'd
allow $500 apiece besides wages. II got
his cattle safely You see. it the win
ter season. the shipment was practically an ex-
pertinent and known TO be pretty dangerous. but
we would be in England with over $1,000 If sue
Ceeded.
I! was my first experience at sea. The $50
head OF cattle. freight at 30 shtllings head, cash
paid In advance filled all the available deck room.
both forward and aft. Each steer. according to
and feed under deck suficient. we thought TO Keep
them up 10 their average shipping weight OF close
seemed to me mostly cotton. wheat and foodstuns
bound. like the beef for the stomachs OF British
Fourteen hours out rough weather came on.
shipped heavy seas lost our starboard weather rail-
and II wasn't long before lot Of the cattle stalls
washed overheard. In the morning we found
others drowned on DECK ana many more be aS
tmbers from the pens and by rolling against one
Ing, couldn't get deck TO feed or water them,
and they died all the faster.
was IN command and we saw n use OF objections
tie still living. lie said. too. he thought they'd
tangle up his rudder deck chains. over they all
tected forward by the fOrecastie hood.
ION the 10Th, when the weather slackened and
them went the 500 a piece which Tom and were
Alter seeing England and Paris we got enough
OF round the world plan and started home
shipped again. just for forms sake Tom as super
S5 ao oq as 9Dg M each oS Gs PAYING
SO for our passage and berths In the captains
sixteen days out we passed the Bahamas and
green of the coral beds when Tom hrstled ont OF
bed stE. hot morning TO show me what proved
to be- away off i'm the haze. a burning bark ashore
on reef The sea was smooth. and that settled
from the captain OF the tramp's 'pramS."
solid Norwegian fshboat he'd found years before
i'm the Baltic, and awav sailed, on salvage bent.
for the bark. The thing promised excitement and
to add to my list of professions and trades that
of a wrecker surely worth while.
Six hours brought to the bark. which
smoking fore and aft. All except the poOpdeck had
fallen in. The boat was deserted. and we hacked
down her foremost. the only thing standing and
cut two holes I'm her sides to let her fill She was
burned to the waterline. but we were anxious 70
get into her hold. Luck was with US: she settled.
rested fairly easy. and We got the fire out.
1--WE found four hundred bales OF cotton I'm her
hoid-cOtton that was all our own II could
save IL.
1--WE put her anchors out to keep her from drift
ing in a storm then brewing. and which looked
like bad times for US. Then in shore
Travelling overland found hshermen's huts.
hired six smacks and crews the promise of
good percentage. returned to the reef and found
bark split up and the cotton down I'm five
fathoms Of water.
I'VE had good weather. and stayed there. or and
on. two weeks. By means OF dragging and naked
diving we saved three hundred bales. These we
sold later in Florida town. paid our men or and
realized splendidly find We found out
later that the bark lost her route because her
captain didn't know a light nearby had been in
creased from lens lantern TO fifth order light
supposed at first he'd beached her because OF
the fire in his hold
what are You and Tommy jerks going to do
now?'' the speaker was asked: hogs. lard. cattle
wrecking or WHAT?
seat on the Cotton Exchange in New Orleans
We got in when the market down. and we've
done our little part in keeping IL up ever since
You see" he added. half apologetically. tom
OF for week so that could take the little
Il Har Wit M