The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-21
No New s.Pinkeys."

No New "Pinkeys."
The arrival in the port of Bangor the
other day of the "pinkey'' schooner
| Maine brought forth, with much en-
phasis from old sailors, the reiteration
| of a curious and time-honored saying
| that no one ever saw a new pinkey.
| The old-timers are perfectly safe from
contradiction when they declare that
no one ever saw a new pinky, for that
build of vessel became obsolete long be-
fore the present generation of young
and middle aged men came on earth.
and few pinkeys are now ahoat. The
Maine, one of the notable survivors of
the class. attracted NOR" attention and
criticism than would have been be-
slowed upon a battleship.
This week, however, q man was
| found in Bangor who is willing to take
his oath that he once saw new pinkey
stern schooner. Capt. Gil Pickett, the
draw tender of the railroad bridge, de-
clares that many years ago he saw a
new pinkey building in dooryara on
the road between Harrington and Mil
| bridge. He admits, however, that he
never saw new one lfCat. mis- boat
having been about half planked when
he saw her. There are nc new pinkeys
and few old ones. in fact.
The pinkey build has much to re-
commend it. The vessel is sharp at
both ends-sharper aft, IN fact, than
she is forward-with the stern lines
running UP high, after the fashion of
the old Dutch galliots or the caravels
of Columbus. They are wide of beam,
almost pot-bellied, and rather full for
ward, but they have a long run aft,
which, contrary to the landsmans i'm
preston, gives more speed than the
sharpest of bows. They steer with a
tiller, which is the best gear for small
vessels, never getting out of fix, and
- +. al, - H. Sc
craft under easy and immediate con-
troll. Whatever may be thought of the
saying that no one ever saw a new
pinkey, it is reasonably certain that no
one ever saw a slow vessel of that
build.
A clumsy-acting fisherman of the
pinkey build was getting under way
for Bangor when some one called out
to Capt Pickett that she was rather
dull for pinkey. That's not a
pinkey," said Capt. Pickett, that's one
of them carraway ((carrv away boats
built over" And so it was. Years
ago, when the sturgeon fishery -four
ished on the Penobscot, a carraway
boat was brought home by Capt. Law
renee Coney from the Azores and
pressed into the service, being capable
of transporting many % the monster
fishes at a load from the weirs to the
vessels. She was of oak and teak cop
many years of hard knocks, and when
the sturgeon fishery was CVsr she fell
into the hands of a bay coaster who
decked her over and rugged her into a
schooner. She looks like a pinkey, but
she was built where pinkey-- are I'M
known in the faraway Western islands,
and she has no Yankee gmartness
about her. AS Cap'n Bill Turner says,
"Pinkeys is terrible urse."-Bangor
(Me.) correspondent of New York Sun.
Paradise of Fanhandlers.
New York is the beggar's paradise.
In that great hive Of the old rich, the
new rich, and the getiich-quick, he
can not go wrong. If he cares to work
steadily and industriousl7 at his graft
| Gold Gypsy cant word fer trade or
craft), he can easily "earn'' So or Sc
day. If he is ''sloughed''-arreste ed
for begging, he is merely transported
to a pretty, greenswarded island,
swept by harbor breezes. where he
sleeps in Father Knickerbocker's bed
for five or ten nights and lives like a
fighting cock on three good meals a
day. Thence he emerges refreshed and
resumes his graft Easy? Too easy.
It's really a shame to take the money
The work is play; the sort of theatric
play we all instinctively love; to twist
the face into a tragic mask, to enact
the part of a long-suffering victim of
| Ill luck, to start the V1cIim'S hearJ-
strings all a-f1utter with sympathy
and then to accept the victims money
with the air of a proud and patient
martyr. IT'S rare sport indeed
No one word of this writing is
about the deserving poor God for
bid. But one does no. find the de-
serving poor posing in the street for
aims They hide their want and sor-
row; they starve in secret; their trag-
edy becomes known only when the
coroner reports-unless by rare chance
some tireIess seeker has discovered
1.-THE case through search in a poor
tneighborhood. Indeed, the curious
Thing is that of the army of 1000 or
$4,000 street beggars who PICK up $780,
/ 600 OF $4,000 q day in the metropolis,
the vast majority have drIfted in from
distant states The estimate of the
number of these panhadlers is by
James Forbes, secretary Of the Nation
al Association for the Prevention of
Mendicancy. He knows He has stud
led these beggars for years, not with
1.-The cold curiosity Of the scientist, but
with a lively human sympathy and I'M
iderstanding. And here'5 a miracle
he has actually persuaded some of the
gentry to go to work for a living; real
work, at which they earn Tar less than
they could make at the graft So
much can wisdom and kindness do in
larousing the sense OF self-respect long
dormant, or perhaps never before felt,
lin these people of the pavement But
1.-THE few who have turned t. genuine
labor are but a corporal 5 squad as
compared with the grand army still
grafting.-WilIiam Inglls. in Harper 3
Weekly