New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-13
BY MORGAN ROBERTSON


shin chambers For tugs are small and unscaworthv;
a few seas into the engine room door will food the
fires and the tug helpless than the schooner she
has gone TO help
And so with such men, sailors and tugmen, will this
story have to do,-sailors who coming down with
northwest blow, must jbe their canvas before getting
close the jaws of the pier and tugmen who, in
spite of their draft and engine power must get these
Schooners in time. before they have drifted too far
east to sail be towcd into the safety Of the broad river
haTbor When it is considered that the piers at this
time were only one from the west and one from the east
giving an opening of about three hundred feet the prob
lem Of getting in is seen to be about that of a chased
cat getting into hole in the hedge. To the east of the
lee pier is a pcbbv beach Lucky the craft that is
ght-she will be thrown up so that her crew can walk
ashore dry shod-but a loaded craft sticks in deep
water and in these old times they drowned; for the
Life Saving Service, with its liecars and breechcs
buoyS had not been inaugurated Up and down the
length of the Great Lakes this town was known as the
City Of Widows. It was full Of them.
RUT there were children too, and with three of them
- we shall deal First of the trio was Mabel,
schoolgirl of eighteen a girl so good and sweet and
"grly" that she needs no description. We all know
this girl and beyond mention that her eyes were brown
and her hair ycllOw-a rare Combination,-her bcau-
ties Of SOUL face and figure will not be intruded in this
story
Second in the trio was Jack called Black Jack by his
fellows because Of his swathv skim black eyes and hair
and his moody disposition He was not to blame for
this disposition He was born with sensitive soul, and
the circumstances Of his life gaze him small vocabu
larry Hence lack found difficulty in explaining things
to critical elders and was unJuSty threshcd many
times at home and in school. He suffered kccnly and
each spaSm Of physical pain found its multiplied par
allcl in his mental pain. Jack wanted to be good,
wanted be square and honest andhc wanted TO be liked
but things went wrong. And when, in his last year at
school, he met Mabel things went to their worst; for
he loved the sweet girl and she did not respond. He
afraid Of her and She Of him In better crcum-
stances he might have impressed her As il was, he
never really made her acquaintance never, al
school called her by her first name. He kept his dis
lance worhpcd at this distance, thrshcd several boy
who, bOykc spoke sllghtngly Of her; and IN thu
earned more Of her disapprova for she did not learn
that he had defended her only that he was quarrel
some, fighting boy.
The third in the trio was Bill Bill never in his life
perhaps had a mood or an emotion. Bill was practical
Bill was handsome, with the blond, bluc-cycd, curly
hair type Of good looks Bill was inofcnsvc and goot
naturcd and never had fight in his schooboy days
ccpt with Black lack on the day after he had taken
Mabel 20 church socablc-and in this fight he had
thoroughly ,hrcshcd Jack to add several measures 81
gloom dependency and hopclcssncss to Jacks already
limited outlook. In day two Bill had forgotten the
place; Bill politician ont Of place. Each boy compile
mcn,cd the other but neither knew 1t. They should
have been friends; but Mabel stood in the way, and
they became enemies
Bill did mo-, take 70 politics, which he should have
done instead be- followed the line Of least rcsstanc.
and shipped before the mast Of the small schOonr
cr, mailing from the small port. Jack did not. JaC,
carried in his soul congcntal fear OF the sea that
while ne lived he could not down He never learned q.
swim: ne was afraid Of the water Yet. Jack had cour-
age and would fight. He knew nothing of horses; yo'
once. when Mabel was looking he sprang in front Of
runaway team and stopped it. He joined her later
hoping for smile of approval He did not get IT. hr-
clothes were torn and socd his hands were bleeding,
and his face strratci with the mud Of the street Nh,
shuIlcrrI and turned away; be- shycrcd and drew
farther into himself Bill at the next Shipmastcr-
Ball with q white silk uccktIc. made much more inn
preston on Mabel. lie was good dancer too, WNi'-
Ilo. wa, not
And 500 after sohooday. over, Bill went sailing.
lack went Juggling, and Mabel remained 1T home q.
hello her mother IN the homework Both young men
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