The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-06
ON THE CATTLE LINER
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to Glasgow.

meal to do duty until the following
morning. and then to breakfast.
Breakfast over, at 0 a. M, we gave
each beast pailful of meal, and then
cleaned out the alleyways. and were
then (11 a. m.) free until 3, when we
went through the same performance
again. finishing off by G O'clock each
evening. Sunday was a great day with
us on account of n change of diet, each
man receiving for dinner a raisin and
currant pudding, and for tea a one.
quarter pound tin of plum jam. Each
day saw us through exactly the same
routine of work, and occasionally in
the evenings we were invited down by
the steerage passengers to their con-
certs.
The $50 cattle We're decked in four
rows extending fore and aft, two rows
to port and two rows to starboard
with aleyways separating the port
rows and the starboard rows. A fore
man and five cattlemen worked the aft
lot, and foreman and four men the
forward division. 1t was very good
fortune to work forward, and we used
to pity the other gang. for they had no
soft job in the early morning, with a
rough sea, cropping their way past the
engine room up to the deck The hay
and meal We're stored in the fore and
aft holds. and were got mp daily by
pulleyS. The water was stored in
large barrels, filed daily from the
engine room. The worst part of our
work was the sweeping and cleaning
Of the alleyways. and those who es-
capped seaslckness, among them myself.
Were often a bit below par from the
smell of the cattle. But custom is a
good mate. and in my own case l am
willing to travel as cattleman again, if
necessary.
Our foremen We're very decent fell
lows, one being an American and the
, other an Irlshman. They were treated
as second-class passengers, having a
joint cabin and Il steward. After the
first three days, by means of Il little
"greasing," / succeeded in feeding with
them not to avoid my fellow cattle
men, for they were all good fellows,
but to escape their grub, which was
not 80. X" Among my mates were q
violinist from a Newport GU. S. A.
! band, wet" from Toronto, a farmer
from Manitoba, a bushman (Scotch),
and four other Scotchmen. all stone
masons. going home with three or four
hundred dollars apiece. To complete
the picture l must add that the ship
carried four saloon passengers, four
teen secondclass and twenty-three
steerage, all Scotch, and one was an
enthusiastic bagpiper, who piped at
night with an utter disregard for the
weary cattlemen. He and the violin
ist We're, however, in great request for
the steerage dances.
And so time passed away until, on
the following Sunday, we sighted Tor
rey Island, off the north of Ireland.
might say that for some hours before
we sighted land the cattle We're very
restless, and my foreman told me that
they knew they were nearing land.
on Monday at noon we anchored at
Birkenhead, where, in the space of an
hour and a half, we had got all the
cattle off, and also about $50 bales of
hay that remained over, and were once
more on our way to Glasgow, where
we We're to be paid off.
Never shall l forget that morning
when we steamed up the Clyde to
Greenock, Ben Lomond in the distance,
its peak covered with snow and the
sunshine on it, and around us lot of
boats waiting for the tide to take them
on. Then we gradually drew away
into civilization, with all its smoke and
dirt.
We were paid off that afternoon,
each man receiving 5s. and his dis
charge a deduction out of this being
made for any tobacco supplies during
the voyage, which, in my case, left me
only IS. in hand.
Each cattleman, in addition, is en-
titled TO a free passage back by the
next boat, but, on application at the
steamship office you can, on payment
of f2, prolong your visit to this coun-
try for three months, which enables
you to return to Canada in the spring,
when the snow and frost have broken
up and life is making a fresh start in
the new country and all good labor is
in demand.-Pall Mall Gazette.