Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-25
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LlVorpOOl anu Ddck again, anu WlnQ up
the trip bawling for more. But any
way. that's all they get, and when there
are $50 Of them to water this way twice
daily 1t runs into some work.
The matter of feeding Is compara-
lively easy. Bales of hay, weighing
about 250 pounds each, are winched out
Of the hold by a donkey engine and
dropped at regular intervals along the
central gangway; then the wire bind
ings are chopped off and the loosened
hay is spread out along the floor. Af-
ter that you simply pitch it into the
cattle stalls.
Work like this isn't so very hard
that is, provided you don't get sea-
sick. Remember, though, you'll have to
do your stunt just the same, sick or
we'll. Cattle men don't make any al
lowances for illness.
But If the work isn't Objectionable
can't say as much for the grub. This
is your menu, or something like it, day
in and day out: Breakfast, coffee,
bread and a thin beef stew called
"scouse;" dinner, salt horse" (beef),
potatoes, bread and coffee; supper,
scouse, tea and bread. Once a week
you have hash, and every three or four
days a bucket OF marmalade is set out
for the whole bunch of cattle men to
use as they like.
AS soon as you have stacked up
lagainst one little meal with the cattle
mems mess you'll make up your mind
that you'd better not stop tipping with
the two cattle bosses. If you're wise
you'll shin right up the fiddley to the
doctors galley on the top deck, hand
the cook a quarter and get him to put
some Of the officers grub in a water
bucket and smuggle 1t down to you
tween decks. That quarter Is for one
meal; the next meal is also a quarter,
and so Is every succeeding meal. But
don't try to tip the cook with a lump
sum like SO bill, for as likely as not
he may forget you after a day or 80
and then mace another $40 out Of you:
The seamen have a separate mess.
Sailors rather look down upon cattle
men, and, as they have a position in
society to maintain, you may find
them rather hard to cultivate. But to-
bacco is a wonderful creator Of friend
ships, and If you are the right kind of
q climber you may be able, before the
voyage is done, to get yourself more Or
less firmly established on the cattle
ships social register.
You will have plenty Of time to make
friendships with your own messmates,
and even with the more distinguished
Of the ships company, for the voyage
over takes about twelve days. In Liv-
erpool the ship lays up for about a
week before returning, and the jour-
ney home Is accomplished in about the
same time as was the trip east Thus
the passage over and back takes about
a month all told. Cattle men are ex-
pected to ship for the full journey,
without stopover, but inasmuch as
there is no work to be done on the way
DdCh IL iS BeueIdiiy iiol uhiSuie ~ o-
range an extension of time in England
II one wishes to remain in that coun-
try a few weeks before returning. The
suggestion that you would be willing
to waive payment Of wages in consid-
Grafton of this favor might help out
your request considerably.
The outfit for such trip as this
should be very simple. First, take the
oldest clothes you can get for work
around the cattle, and abandon this
working outfit when you leave the ship
at Liverpool Second, carry a change
of clothing to put on when you land,
and buy everything else that you need
in England, where prices are very much
less than here. Third, take along lit
tie eating chocolate and such like nour-
ishing foods that come in small COM
pass, 80 as to help out your diet. And,
finally, If you smoke, remember to
carry along six pounds Of your favorite
tobacco. You will want one pound to
smoke on the way over and the other
five pounds to use in England. I sug-
gest this as the precise amount, for 1t