The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15

would. The neN. chaps with the cooled bdt
deep sea smhis would do that hand oVtc.
hand scRfnpe@tfom the bMttleshipa AZ tho
American port in such numbers that they'd
look like an oversstimRtsd school 81 nor
poises, and ths gang Of them that would yet
absent minded while on liberty and Quite
forget that they'd ever been aboard Of q
gliardo for recruiting purposes would be
something mournful for Rcbley to con
template. .a. sns
cts oil the ooaling. That's ths nsin
thing that gets en-. Coalinx ship O. the
stunt chat makes Il hard for all OF the
schemes and devices framed up by GRATIS
recruiting officers to keep the navy mp to
lite fun or anything like its full snIthted
The fellows who ship are not such
sOItieA as to suppose that they've
going to have a snap in the navy; notnlnx
Ike that. But they rarely have thes 81 ghtest
advance understanding of the meafneeH
and divvieishnesa Of coaing a man-o'-waF,
and their first experience at that stunt reta
them ON the raw and CAUSES many Of lhem
quickly TO make up their mindF TO make
the fOrget-it jump mt the very first decent
opportunity. Their point OF view in that
they've been ccnned. as they usually call IL.
They say thai they never understood thar
they'd have 10 poke through such nteahlv,
bedinged labor as coating ship comes 20
Tor all hands, or they snevoT would have
shipped. And 30 awav they 20.
nj he ,i,,s, n1rr made NV , shi,, vr;sb" . 49,
crew Hardy. rIrvad fslloUa j,ns~Ion
before thew ahiD in me navy M coaI hsss~,s
Ihnt, thev've GOT 3 pretty GOOD ;Jea IN what
they're going an against and thew 1sTr..
that fhey can endnre II. iS only FOR IhS 49,
on ire additional money thai tbsn wsks
over and above tbe pay dished out to laads-
men Jhsbher deckhandsl who ship az the
same time with them. But thew rarely
slow susfcientlv for the roisery az The
coal heavcr's bilIe,, Thev oarst usss,hiv
aDprshend the gloom and sweating lr,n~
and choking -xretchedness OF those fo,r-
cry. that work is enough to take the hear.
out Of the spiniest kind Of chars. and Il
]oee. That's why the black rang m a
m~an-o'-war is rarely kept up 10 "a. hlIl
enlisted strength A large urorortIon "a
the hanoN Of the black rang simuIv siN
not stiok- ~ ~
Pretty soft. then. for Bob Evans 10 have
his little route map so Nfxsd an. thaG hia
crews'n lust have TO stick Tor the entire
hike. And he'll probably have nrettv
GOOD hhck in hanging ON IN the onna IN
cined to desert even after he makes the
harbor OF San Francisco. OF course. wages
are high out in San Francisco now. and an
like Ehaf-sbut they've not a little wav in
that town Of keeping ont tutters-in. The
already-ins want to keen WAGES I'm. and
they mean 60. and they know how to.
They've got WAYS and means OF making II
hot for interiopers-fOr any outsiders.
that is, who drift in, either by a land on
sen route. with the idea of sharing I'M the
rood wages and things.
And 30 there wont be much OF a dis
position on the part of the Hhipa' com
panies Of the battIeship feet TO hon Ehip
nj San Francisco. Thew find oxt pretty
quick, IL they don't know already. that
they'V rot a little way of surrendering
deserters out that way that makes ahip
iumpinR unwholeeome work. MorAovar
the guiding impulse OF a ship jumper 10 TO
gel back home. Him for the simple life
back home IL he can OnAy make Il. The
homes OF most OF the enlisted fellovys at