The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-18
BLIND TIGER RAIDED AT SEA
GIN SINGS SMILE GAVE AWAY
TEE FORECASTLE SECRET.

BOoKe Dispenser went over the seneca
Ran at the Top 90 hss spree ansi Came
sa Beard Again Q Reformed Charac-
ter-rhe Drlnk Went 80 lhe Rlshes.
me British freight steamship seneca
from the Far East. picked up at SINGAPORE
a force Of about twenty FIVE Chinese
.'okers. including Gin Sing humorist
nriginAlly 81 Canton. Chief Engineer
smith found that Gin Sing had a'cheerful
soul by observing the gAyety that over
Carne the forecaSGle whenever he appeared
there on his watch below Gin Sing him
eli had a smile that might be measured
wlth a yardStlck or n yard Of the shin
herself IL she had been rugged that way.
IL WAs suspected that Gin Sing was the
custodian and dispenser % Sam~hu and
other le-s Oriental but stronger bev.r-
age. and that smiles Of one sort propa-
gated smiles of another. a man may
smile and smile and he a villain" said the
chiei engineer. who reads Shakespeare.
Also he remarked that a man might
smile and smile and he half seas over.
although only two days out from the
Rock which Is sAilOre-e for Gibraltar.
GIN Sing after doing his stunt in the
Etokehold On April reported TO the
chief engineer very weak in the knees.
hut with a smile the beaEn uf which
was coequal with the breadth Of his
face. that he had pain amiciShips. The
chief conferred with Capt. Grimes and
u was decided 90 administer the ~black
draught' to Gin Sing. When tn. deci-
sion was communicated 90 Gin Sing the
smile faded from his face for the first
time. He went TO the forecastle head and
Jumped into the sea.
Chief 0fficer Stewart was Just about
20 i-aVe the bridge and Third OfficeT
Hayward was relieving him when the
cry Of Man overboaril' came up TO the
pair. Stewart signAlled the engine room
20 stop the ship and went OF duty. Hay
ward manRuvred the Seneca there
after TO reach Gin Sing. The plunge
apparently brought a change OF heart
TO the Chinese. He struck out strongly
a. the ship. before her Roadway was
checked. left him several lengths A~tern.
The seneca went Co windward Of him
and lowered q boat in charge % Second
ofhcer Mcintosh and ak men.
Third Ohiceg Hayward saw che smile
the boat headed toward him. He was
rather weak when he was hauled aboard
the boat. but had recovered entirely after
he got up to the top OF the SEA ladder
Ne kowtowed with overpoweTing humil-
ity to Capt. Grimes, murmured MAN.
times -'Scuse me" and went Co the fore
castle. The chief engineer gave him
draught OF Irish brandy. which added
lustre to his smile. and he was told tina;
he would not be treated medically He
kowtowed his thanks.
The chief engineer sSIsneCted that he
would Re able To get more work. although
lees smiles from the stokehoId workers
n the Oriental blind tiger were raiced
and Gin SiTg SeTSs no longer abb. ~ ptye
all hands To samshu With the corsent
ot the sklpp"r the Chief engin.ser End some
81 the other OihcRrS overha al led the fore,
castle and spund ten gallons ar more Of
lIGGoT Irish. English ScrtC'. and ,hieri
can and just common Snmshu. Most Of
q WAS in QUAR- bottles IL was ieft'zoned.
some in cataract form and spine ia hottie.
over the side.
The Chinese who va " the proceeding
loOk@d melancholy all save GIn sing
His SMILE was unpuencha hl.. as his thirst
rad been. VI confded 10 the 80. u ~.
gidgin fnglish that he Rad heen converted
10 total 0bstinenrs nv his plunge into ghe
500 and the kindness u the skipper ir
put'lny his SHIN about to RESCUE b ~. ~.
said he would never FORGET thus aC' It the
sktpper nnd TINT he never more would
touch samsbu. That - whv he smiled a.
broadly a. u he had Just had drink when
ne eaw the liquor 60 over the side.
nome 81 the white men 90 the shin 1.
company smiled for another reason
II was the effect that the liquor had on a
school 81 dolphins that had been racing
With the ship. One Of them caught a
bottle ~ Irish whisksy by the neck and
had q riotOus time Of IL swillinK occas-
iOnally using the bottle a. a shillelah on
the heads VI the other dolphins. at least
that is the report that fioated into ship
News. The liquor made the ClOlphins
reckless. some Of them dashing themselves
against the ship For half an hour the
foam spurted high from their Donny-
brook fair
Chief Engineer Smith says that Gin
sing - now a model stoker and Chinamnh
Gin sang. who was busy playing cards in
the for~castle when the reporters called
yesterday smiled and said merely
-Scuse me-
II 10 not every skipper who will stop his
ship 20 save q Chinese and 10 is thought
that that reflection may have had some
thing TO do with the conversation % Gin
Sing.