The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-04-13
THE FORTY YELLOW MEN

be held subject 20 call. and IL YOU are
not too busy hunting up A poker game.
buy about two hundred yards of straw
mating for me-"
To the critical eye Of the sunburnt
American who bought her at auction
one bright spring morning. the Ca
madam fishing schooner Five Broth
erS looked attractive. The former own
er had been carried out to sea on an
ice foe during a sealing expedition.
The panic of 1905 had touched good
st. John, and ready money was a
scarce article the morning OF the auc-
ton, so the widow was glad indeed to
accept price for the schooner which
in former days would have been asked
for her dories and fishing gear alone.
Within week after the sale of the
Five Brothers, worl<men swarmed over
her. Painters. caulkers and riggers.
spurred on by extra pay, were doing
their best.
served Billy Joyce to Captain Mcbride
as they stood tween decks and sur
veyed the series OF hunks, neatly COW
cred with mating.
Cant sleep more than forty OF the
boys at once remarked Captain Pete.
Wen have to make eight trips"
What's the double wire between
the two mastS for ?" Queried Billy. gaz-
ing aloft out of the open hatchway.
Are you gOin' to string Chinese lam
terms on 'em when you sail into New
Y ork harbor some evenin' ?"
you've been around enough to
know the aerials Of a wireless outfit
when you see them" returned the cap
tain. Have you seen the sleuths to-
day."
Yes" laughed Billy. "Doherty's
in the third-story window OF the ship
a To- Of TO-
and Wileys uptown smellin' round
the laundry where we have the first
batch planted"
Now Billy, listen carefully" di-
rected Captain Pete as he seated him
self on the edge of bunk. THE Five
Brothers, with myself in command,
sails next Saturday morning at high
tide with forty yellow passengers. Our
papers are regular and the Dominion
officials don't care rap where we
go. They have special regulations for
craft which carry passengers so TO
get around them in a legal manner
I have signed the first load on the
ships articles as cook, boy and
thirty eight fishermen. We have our
dorieS and regular fshing-gear, and
l don't care what Doherty and Wiley
think; there not an official OF the
United States Government who will
dare TO board or modest US as long
as we do not fish in certain waters.
ana provided, of course, that we keep
outside the three-mile limit. You
take the 7:45 for New York tonight.
All I need on board is four able sea-
men that can keep their mouths shut.
I've got EN-. If you are trailed to
the city you know how TO shake the
sleuths. Cut off that set OF red
bristles that you call mustache.
change your front and have yourself
fitted TO a neat pair OF gold-rimmed
spectacles, and then get in touch with
bright kid whose address I'll give
you He used TO be a messenger boy
around the Battery. I staked him
TO the price of q scholarship. and hes
Just been gra0uo Ted from one OF The
wireless opera. 49, schools"
Captain Pete y. aduced 4 card and q
small morOcco-Cot cred book, handed
them TO Billy and continued:
Here's our cookbook and Acres
address. There's only TWO things for
YOU TO remember about the code
whenever the word goods is men
toned. IL means Chinks: and that
wherever a locality is specified. such
US Grand Manan. Woods Hole
Block Island and so forth. il really
means sixty nautical miles true south
east of the locality mentioned"
\ carpenter approaching the pair