Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06
GOOD LUCK OF SAILORS

A veteran naval officer whose experience
goes back long before the old navy disap-
peared from the seas was recounting the
other night the success that certain enlisted
men within his knowledge have met with
when. after many years Of service. they
finally abandoned the seattle veteran OF
fcer's experience being in opposition to the
maxim, ''Once a sailor. always sailor"
"A few winters ago." said the veteran Of
ficer "a party of officers from one of our
ships anchored in the harbor Of Marseille
entered an exceedingly nch-looking and
tastefully decorated cafe on one of the lead
ing thoroughfares Of Marseille for lunch
con. The luncheon was perfect, the wines
Of the very best vintages. the prices I'M
usually moderate and the service OF the
highest grade. The cafe was filled with a
high class of patrons. couple OF tne
officers noticed. when they were about
through with their luncheon, broad-shoui-
dered young man Of thirty-five or SO, with
a decidedly Irish face, engaged In giving
directions to employe who wore the
general look of a steward. Each officer
gave a start of SURPRISE and one Of them
sent the waiter to the Irish-looking man,
who was attired like a finished bouae-
warbler, to request him to come over to
their table. He came, and smiled and sa-
luted when he recognized couple of the
older officers.
Why. hello O'Loughran.' said one of
the officers to the Irishman, when did you
get into port, and why aren't you in uni
form, according to regulations?
-"O'Loughran, ex-quartermaster OF an
American man-o'-war, smiled easily and
saluted again.
Shure, I've been in port foive year
now, more's tn JOY av it., he replied. on
was paid off here at tn finish av me last
cruise.
We'll. O'Loughran. you look prosper
ous.' said one of the officers; and you must
be prosperous to be dining in this place.
"O'Loughran scratched his head and
grinned
own establishment. dye moind. can't he?
That was a sumner. all right. The for
mer auartermaster tickled the palates OF
his one-time official superiors with some
stock before they left. He told them that
he had invested the savings Of his nine
years OF naval service in small cafe In
an obscure street Of Marseille nearly five
years before. The venture had been go
from the start. thanks 10 the patronage OF
itinerant Americans and Englishmen who
discovered that O'Loughran knew how to
serve up a chop steak In the right
way. and a year before he had moved into
his present swell establishment
land Olive got more money than o.
know anything about observed OLaush-
ran in his matter-of-fact tone.
What would you sell this place out
for?' inquired one Of the officers.
- Divil sou under 100000 francs was
the eX-tar's matter-of-fact reply.
Another case: former chief bo'suns
mate of the American navy is even now one
of the wealthy men of FillefrancEe. France.
About twenty years ago. during his frst
cruise in the Mediterranean-he was then
rated simply seaman-he married
young woman belonging to a good middle
class French family. The young woman
was thrifty and frugal. and she took the
best care of the young saiiorman soo
month when he was promoted to the rating
Of chief bo'sun's mate. On account or ms
marriage and his excellent record he was
permitted by the Navy Department to
transfer from ship to another on the
Mediterranean station. and he has never
been in the United States since he first
went out to that station in an American
man-o'-war.
He invested the savings of couple of
three-year cruises in a high-grade MILL
merry establishment, which his wife con-
Quoted to their mutual enrichment AFTER
another cruise he bought out wholesale
wine house. He put in one more cruise,
and then quit the navy. He now owns
MANY hundreds of acres of the choicest
vineyards in France, any amount OF real
estate, has managers to carry on his two
brlsinesses-the millinery house and the
vineyard and wine stablishment-and lives
handsomely, with large income, surround
ed by his large family One of his daugh-
tiers recently married a very wealthy mer-
chant of Lyons. He has two boys at Ok
ford and when they get through there they
are going to be packed off to the United
States to learn seif-reilance anu tne at. VI
hustling. ,
Two gunners mates. Luke Shugrue and
Edward Simmons, took their discharges at
Cape Town from one of the old warships
about twenty years ago. Ihey invested
their Joint savings in an eight-bullock out
fit and started up country to engage In the
business of freighters. They made money
in that business. and they happened to be
ped out In the Transvaal. They located
claims side by SIDE and struck 1t rich.
Both of them at this day have got more
money than they can eyer think OF spend
ing Shugrue bought a splendid estate for
his folks in Ireland that had always lived
in huts, and couple of years ago he ran
over to this country to see some OF his
old shipmates on the receiving snip al the
severe heads among his shipmates during
his stay near the Brooklyn navy yard. l
assure you.
About fourteen years ago a young bank
note engrayer named Carlson, who drifted
into the American navy because he hadn't
acquired the art of behaving himself
ashore, got paid OH from his first cruise at
Buenos Ayres. Carlson was an expert at
the note engravins business. and he had
not the least trouble in getting work at
his business at Buenos Ayres at the rate
of $40 day. He saved his money. gained
the confidence OF the people he met by
sticking to business and keeping out OF
the fast set OF English-speaking chaps
who make Rome howl down that way
about 80 nights 4 year, dho WHICH Sho
government invited bids for paper money
and stamps Carlson got the contract, and
this only a couple Of years after he had
quit the naval service. Now he has an I'M
mense engraving establishment of his own
down there and is richer than cream.
"A down-east Yankee man-o'-wars man
named Zeke Bingford put In two cruises
solely for the sake of the wages and the OPP
portunities for a level-headed man to save
his wages. He was a chief gunner's mate
during his final cruise. His shipmates
guyed him for saving practically every
cent excepting his trifiing mess bills. but
he let them guy and followed his path. At
the end of his second cruise he quit the
service at Yokohama with 5000 in saw
ings He employed dozen skillful Jap
anese men to make curios for him. paying
them wages that were purely nominal He
had them make portraits Of George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln, about foot
wide and high, in fancy-colored small
feathers, and he sold them by the score at
90 yen, or S25. apiece to the very memo
wars men who had ridiculed him for his
saving propensities. Then he branched
out and had his largely amplihed force OF
feather workers devise the flags of all ma
lions out of the tiny feathers. These, too.
he would sell for big money to the sailors
ON the ships Of all nations in the harbos OF
Yokohama, merchantmen and naval. ~
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