New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05

of a we'll known hosiery. Situ"s III ~ -
all his majesty was a jackie with Jas
He was lost in the depths or uphoisteiS'
but he had a cigar as long AS your arm
stuck at an angle Of 45 degrees III MS
mouth.
THE TAR IN THE TOURING CAR
. 6oven times that night the same jack
,or with an ever increasing bun rode up
and down the White Way in the big tour
tho car. with the chauffeur footing MS
horn with all his might 10 attract atteh-
,ior Even the sailors who saw him were
forced to admire the expenditure OF sum
a sum Of money on pleasure, for 1t must
have cost fully So for the automooiie. Anu
eventually a fluffy creation sat ocslue 'ne
Jolly son Of the seas and enjoyed t"e
glances Of the envious seamen on the siue-
walks. who were. beside this illustration'
"pkers.'
The mon who come to New York are from
everv known race. The Cooe crew arrives
! in RrooLlvn. The Cinnamon and Japs are
also seen on the ships that tie up at the
piers in that borough. 1t Is TO BrookiHH '"''
the ships from the furthest points come
and II Is from Brooklyn that they sali-'o
! the Sandwich Islands, to the lndleS anu
| the South Seas. Time was when the lower
! East Side of Manhattan Island harporeu
the great fleets of sailing vessels whose
= masts made forest IF bare trunks anu
/ long trailing lines seemingly hopeiesSl!
/ tangled up The development OF the Sed
/ craft has removed most of that Plctul e'que
feature from the harbor
The sailors who were on those vessels
comprised the real seamen the men VINO
were raised TO fight waves and Wlnd anu
ice and snow from boyhood. They were
| Canadians. Nova Scotiaus, Newfoundland
ers Maine Yankees, Gloucester fishermen
NorweCians. Portuguese, Spaniards, Eng
usbmen. Dutchmen and tars from almost
all the great maritime nations. They were
schooled in the weather and in the WINGS
more than the seamen Of to-day. WAo' esp'-
cially on the big liners, are merely ma
| chimes To-day some Of them do not kno"
how to furl a sail Others cannot swirl
The tar on the battleship halls from Ind
lana or Missouri Idaho or Kansas anu
his knowledge of the sea begins "heh lie
enters the service The percentage vi non
swimmers among sailors has often pe'h
pointed out with scorn by oldtime mariners
To-day in South street are the remnants
Of the ship chambers shops Of years gone
by. and many of the stores That furnlSh
sailors with everything, from whiskey TO
susnepders or needles and thread, are sun
doing business. West street also thal
most crowded steamship -thoroughfare III
the whole world still retains some OF the
old landmarks. human as well as struct-
| ural.
IN THE CRoGsHOP DAYS.
In the good old days grogshops along
South and West streets were the scenes "l
the real sailor battles that were common
AT that time one member Of crew would
be done up by burly representative OF an
other one, and that would set IN motion
small feud that might last for months. On
the very first opportunity bunch or the
! hardest Of the friends OF the tar who had
been badly handled would gather In GroS
| emporium where there were sure to be rep
resentatives from the crew which they were
ant IN lick Then "A few balls Of whiskey
of the lighting variety would get up steam
| Soon the melee would be general ana Voc
| he TO the mirrors that faced such hTaWIs, as
was often testified to by smashed ones on
| these two streets. Spectators would Sc'
under beer tables and others Woulh 20 INV
! the street, while bottles and glasses went
crashing right and left and fists sought
noses and eyes with bad aim, but much
| force behind them.
4 black eye is always in evidence in the
rrogshop haunts even to-day, but IN t"e
happy days of old they were conspicuous
when not in evidence.
For years there was Portuguese Eully
on a sailing vessel which used TO dock at
one OF the piers in South street. who held
a bad reputation. lie was knife artist.
He was fearless but treacherous. lie met
his match once. however in Norwegian
sailor. who nearly crushed In MS head by
a blow with a chair. There was another,
a West Indian negro named Bennle, VINO
WAS as much a stumbling block 10 the
! white hopes then as is our esteemed MT.
! Johnson now Bonnie was there with the
| "wallop," 10 use the vernacular lie sailed
on a so-called clipper ship, ana was the
| medium by which much money passed
| hands Bennie did not get drunk. HIS an
| tagonists often did. The fights were In a
| hack parlor OF booze joint, and there
| strippcd 10 the waist, the men would hght
| IN a knockout Bonnie lost his stride ana
was deposed.
TON" Sharkey and Sailor" Burke are
modern examples OF sailor pugiiists. But
! in the happy days it was crew rivalry that
| supported such encounters, and men were
! eroomed on long voyages for one single
! hattie when New York was reached
And. speaking Of Tom" Sharkey' 1t Is
| he who has always been the subject OF crit
! icism because OF being 'tightwad.
! sailor friend told the story once that when
| he went TO call on Tom in his 18th street
booze parlor, and suggested to Tom, What
are we going to have Tom said; 1t
looks like rain"
, New York has its cosmopolitan sections
! hut none are more so than South street
and West street, and the average person
in the metropolis seldom thinks of the city
OF sailors that is within his gates. In no
| other port in the world can be found the
| ,,,,,,, 81 eeaunen that hauntS this island.