Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03
Turk Gets Himself Shanghaied


quent and righteous homily upon the heishness
thereof
Only black hearted fends in human form, this
speaker set forth, would shanghai helpless victim,
not seaman, aboard ship and compel him, at the
end of rope the point of a marnspke, to work
like dog Lascar in an environment wholly I'M
known to him He invited us to consider the fright
full state of mind of poor wretch who: ruthessly
grabbed from the waterfront by the callous souled
crimps, awoke the next morning IN the foul smelling
70 cse Che called it foreCastle) of ship that al
ready had left behind the last vestige of a sight of
land awoke to find the hobnailed boots OF the
bo'sn Che called it boatswan) in his face. Just
imagine the agony of spirit, the-er-the-
He broke off suddenly when he heard, what the
rest of had heard several moments previously,
the chuckles of Turk O'Fallon who, seated on
three-egged stool by window was swaying from
side side, trying to keep the chuckles audible
"Oh, go ahead and gurgle for yourself like hy-
email broke out the eloquent one, glaring sheep
ice cream socable for the benefit of the Old Ladies
Home. Blame it all! l shouldn't be surprised but
what you've figured in shanghaiing proceed
ings yourself, and"
''Thats what have, son" softly observed Turk
twisting about his stool and making Intellectual
effort to look guilty and hangdog. - sure have
There's evading or tagging it. I've been mixed
up in shanghang, and no mistake
WE'LL" acclaimed the eloquent one, Il should
think you'd be ashamed to sit there and own up to
it. You ashamed, aren't you!
Turk who knows the purlieus of Tobolsk as we'll
as he knows the bay indentatons of Tampa, and
Uttered with tattooing devices needed into his
cutcle in his needless youth-Turk grinned with in
grained affabeness and suddenly turned the tables
on the accusatory one Yes he said refectively,
IS mixed up in shanghaiing game once, sure
enough. l was the shanghaied one
"Oho! Now will you be good! we all beloved,
of course at the eloquent one
mot only that" mildly observed Turk, Il got
myself shanghaied
''Tommyrot!' snorted the one who so hated the
thought of the shanghaing business.
Not Onlv that again, calmly cut 1uTk, L
liked it-iked being shanghaled.
Listen to him rave!' grouched the who
hated shanghaiing
We suppressed him by of things throwabe,
however, and after some Fostering induced Turk
O'Fallon to tell why he got himself shanghaed,
and why, if he had really meant that remark he had
enjoyed being shanghaled
THEY call Hawaii" said Turk the Land of the
Always Afternoon. Ill not battle for the
Afternoon part of it; but Hawaii once looked to
like as if it enough the Land of the Always
Meaning by that that it seemed to me at that time
as if l was always going to stay there.
In a way of speaking, was marooned in Hawaii
If you call 1t being marooned when you re fool
ing around with houseboat parties in Pearl Harbor
taking in lawn teas under Tapping marques in
Honolulu gardens, frivoling away the darker hours
with midnight bathing parties on Waikiki Beach,
sitting the edge of the kilauea crater with Peter
Lee his Volcano House porch, playing a leetle
poker at the Merchants Club listening to the Royal
Hawaiian Band concerts the statue of Kane
hameha and more and other kinds of all that. Tell
a gladsomer place to be marooned in from
Spitzbergen to the Straits of Sunda than Honolulu
on the Island Of Oahu in the Hawaiian group, and
I'll 60 there Tuesday week and see whether you're
right or not.
"Nevertheess. there were some things calling
away from Honolulu and the fact that had to
sit under the fronds at night and dig and dope at
some way of getting away from Honolulu, shows
that l marOOned all right | might have been
lawn partying around Honolulu yet. and wearing
gold dragon kimonos at stag entertainments given
by the Japanese Club if it hadn't been for this little
Shanghallng institution that sonny boy here looks
upon with such unqualified disfavor.
You see, the Hawaiian law going away back to