The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-02

be paid out of the debtors hide" or his wages.
 Boarding masters Of this class were petty ras- calls. They dealt i'll men at retail The brothers John and Peter Sherman, of Iryington on the Pa eifc coast. were of another type. They dealt in men wholesale shipped entire crews Their boarding houses were licensed by the govern ment, Captains bargained with them openly The shipping commissioner of the port winked at their devious ways. A crowd of thugs. run ners and hangers-on served them and thrived by their favor. They were men of substance and owned or controlled part of their business ev- cry saloon, dance hall and resort in the crooked streets and dark alleys about the wharYes. Upper Iryington drew a deadline about the waterfront and seldom ventured over it outside of business hours. Jack and Pete Sherman were kings of IrviDgton's sailortown.
 Every autumn big fleet of wind jam mers"-ships of 2,000 to 1000 tons register-lying off Irvington. The wheat of the northwest was in their holds, consigned to ports in Europe or India by way of the six-months' journey round the Horn The wheat feet Irvngton called it, and when the wheat fleet came, upper Irvington stirred itself. saortown reused to vicious life and the sailortown kings reaped a harvest of blood money.
 No captain shipped from Irvngton un- til he had done business with the kings and paid their price. Captain Brown, of the bark Carmar- lancashire, learned that to his cost. He put into Irvington for cargo at a time when ships plenty and men hard to get. He cerned for his men had been shipped in England and would not be discharged until the home port was reached. Captains of deep-laden vessels ly- ing in the stream eyed the Carmarthaenshire's crew enviously. Jack Sherman quietly sent a man or two aboard the 'limejuicer' to visit and smuggIe in forbidden whisky. By twos and threes Captain Browns left him and hidden about sailortown. The Irvngton police were asked to bring them back, but however hard they looked for deserters they didn't find any
 Then one dark night the rest of the crew ished over the side, to the last man, after knock ing the breath out of Captain Brown and tricng the mate up to the main fferail. And before the astonished captain could recover breath enough to roar for law Jack and Pete Sherman had his men shipped in one of the waiting vessels and away Next day the captain was waited on by the kings who blandy offered to find him new crew-at $50 the man He roared again-to the British consul to his shipping agents. to the po- lice who were sympathetic but helpless. Nobody could be found to even hint that the kings had any hand in the affair and the shipping commis- sioner's records were clear He had shipped no deserters that he knew of
 But Captain Brown swore that if he couldn't get back his men, or get the dogs of justice to even bark at the kings, he at least would pay them no blood money for a new crew. So he went to another port and brought new crew to Irvinetnn by steamer. His bark was hauled out into the stream and her kept close in her forecastle That night she boarded by masked men, who swept her new crew over the bows into the stream. Gossip bad 1t that some Of them were drowned Captain Brown gave up and paid the Sherman boys $75 instead of $50 each for crew. and put to sea in a hurry. They're bieedin' swine. but they're kings of