The San Francisco call., 1906-08-08
SON OF CAPITALIST
A STOWAWAY.
Irving Goodall Deserts
Ship at Guaymas and
Hides on Curacao
TIRES OF THE SEA

Irving Goodall, the 16-year-oi son of
Captain Minor Goodall. the capitalist,
ship owner and one of the main piIiars
in Oakland's most exclusive society,
arrived here on Saturday from Mexico
stowaway on the steamship Curacao.
He had deserted the ship Jabez Howes
at Guaymas, boarded the Curacao as
she lay at anchor in the bay there and
crawled into the sail locker He did
not report his arrival on board until
the Curacao was half way to Topolo-
bampo homeward bound, and it was
only by the exertion of all his elo-
quence that he persuaded Captain Paul
sen, the Curacao's master, not to send
him back.
Nothing was more natural than that
young Goodall should have a taste for
the sea. His father was a sailorman,
so were his uncles and his grandfather.
For generations back the fortunes of
the Goodalls have been linked with the
sea, and If ever youth had the sea in
his blood it was Irving Goodan The
sea to him was a field of endless and
romantic adventure where he might go
forth and gather material for tales as
absorbing as the yarns spun for his
delectation by the grown-up with
whom his home life had been associat-
ed and whom he had worshiped as he
roes for as long as he could remember.
Captain Minor Goodall knew the sea
as 1t is, and when young Irving spoke
of being a sailor the father did all ne
could to change the youngsters. bent.
The virus of the other kind of sea
story had done its work, however, and
the boy was immune against the new
treatment.
TRIES HEROIC CURE.
Why should he go to school any
longer? Why waste time after that
going to college with lot of landlub-
bers when the sea was calling him?
The sea had not hurt his grandfather.
His father was about as tne a dad as
could be found anywhere. 1t was wrong
to abuse the sea. If he could not go
to sea with his fathers consent lie
would run away.
Captain Goodall recognized the symp-
toms and realized that the cure must
be heroic
"All right, young man; to sea you
may CO." he told the boy, and made
arrangements to ship him before the
mast on the American ship JabeZ Howes,
Captain Clapp. Just what Captain Good
all told Captain Clapp does not yet ap-
pear, but it is certain that he made
no request that life on shipboard be
made easy for the youngster.
The Sabez Howes, with Irving Good
all on board, left here on June 2. 1905,
for Tacoma to load lumber for Cape
Town. She left Tacoma on August
and December left Cape Town for
Newcastle, Australia. She left New
castle March 13 for Guaymas, Mexico,
with a cargo, of coal, and June Is ar
rived at the hottest corner Of the Gulf
of California and was still there when
the Curacao arrived about two weeks
ago.
The day the Curacao reached Quay
mas was one of the warmest of the
season. Likewise it was Captain Ciapp's
busy day. Back and forth across the
little harbor under the almost perpen-
dicular sun he was rowed in one of
the Jabez Howes' heavy lifeboats. Irv-
ing Goodall did all the rowing, and the
more he tugged at the heavy oars the
hungrier he grew for fatted calf and
the more homesiok for the cool shade
of his beautiful home in Oakland.
FATHER UNRELENTING.
He had written to his father asking
for money and permission to come
home. 1t was good news to Captain
Goodall, but he wanted TO make GER
tain of the cure and wrote back:
You have made your bed and must
lie on 1T for the present. Finish the
voyage"
And then the Curacao pushed her
white, familiar nose around the cor
ner and in few minutes was at an
chor not far from the Jabez Howes
Irving's father tor many years. as a
member of the firm of Goodall, Per-
kins & Co., had virtually owned the
Curacao, and the sight of the vessel
on which. as a very little chap, he had
so often been petted by officers and
men was too much for young Goodall.
He decided there and then to swallow
the anchor" which in sea parlance
means quit the sea-"
Taking advantage of an extra long
call Captain Clapp was making on
board another American ship. young
Goodall tied his boat to a lighter and
In another boat, in company with some
sick sailors being sent home on the
Curacao, reached the little white liner
and speedily lost himself in the sail
locker.
He left the Curacao as soon as she
touched the wharf on Saturday and
hastened to Oakland. He found the
house locked up, the family and ser
wants being at Santa Barbara. He has
not reported since at the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's Office, but it is
supposed that he is staying with
friends until Captain Goodall returns.
when the ex-sailor will make formal
acknowledgment that after all the
old man" does know a thing or two
and place himself unreservedly under
the "old mans" guidance.
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