Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
BY MORGAN ROBERTSON

subject of much discussion in the back rooms of the
ship chambers. For tugs small and unseawortly;
few seas into the engine room door will flood 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 sailors who coming down with
northwest blow, must be their before getting
too close to the jaws of the pier and tugmen Who in
spite of their draft and engine power get these
schooners in time, before they have drifted too far
east to sail be towed into the safety of the broad river
harbor When it is considered that the piers at this
time only from the west and from the east
giving opening of about three hundred feet the prob
lem of getting in is to be about that of chased
cat getting into hole in the hedge To the east of the
lee pier is pebbly beach. Lucky the craft that is
ashore dry shod,-but loaded craft sticks in deep
water, and in these old times they drowned for the
Life Saving Service, with its lfecars and breeches
buoys, had not been inaugurated. Up and down the
length of the Great Lakes this known as the
City of Widows. 1t was full of them
- shall deal First of the trio Mabel,
schoolgirl of eighteen, a girl good and sweet and
"girly' that she needs description We all know
this girl and beyond mention that her eyes were brown
and her hair yellow,--a combinations her beau
ties of soul, face and figure will not be ntruded in this
story.
Second in the trio was Jack called Black Jack by his
fellows because of his swarthy skin, black eyes and hair
and his moody disposition He not to blame for
this disposition. He born with sensitive SOUL and
the circumstances of his life gave him small vocabu
larry Hence Jack found difficulty in explaining things
to critical elders and was unjustly threshed many
times at home and in school. He suffered keeny and
each spasm of physical pain found its multiplied par
alel in his mental pain Jack wanted to be good
wanted honest and he wanted be liked
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 circum-
stances he might have impressed her. AS it was, he
really made her acquaintance; never even at
school, called her by her first name He kept his dis
tance worhped at this distance hreshed several boys
1o oc1Snhf rnrIxy Of hn~.
earned of her disapprova for she did not learn
that he had defended her: only that he quarrel
some, fighting boy.
The third in the trio was Bill Bill never in his life
perhaps, had mood or emotion. Bill was PRACTICAL
Bill handsome, with the blond, bue-eyed, curly
hair type of good looks; Bill nofensive and good
natured and never had fight in his schoolboy DAYS ex
cept with Black Jack the day after he had taken
Mabel church sociable-and in this fight he had so
thoroughly threshed Jack to add several of
gloom dependency and hopelessness to Jacks already
limited outlook. In day two Bill had forgotten the
fight; but Jack remembered. Jack poet out of
place; Bill politician out of place Each boy compile
mented the other; but neither knew it. They should
have been friends; but Mabel stood in the way and
they became enemies.
DONE instead he followed the line of least resistance
and shipped before the mast of the small schoon-
ers haing from the small port Jack did not. Jack
while he lived he could not down. He learned to
swim: he afraid of the water. Yet, Jack had cour
age and would fight He knew nothing of horses; vet
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: his
clothes were and soiled, his hands bleeding
and his face steaked with the mud of the She
shuddered and turned away; he shivered and drew
farther into himself Bill, at the next Shipmasters
Ball. with white silk necktie, made much more i'm
preston Mabel He good dancer too, which
Jack not
And So after schooldays over Bill went sailing,
Jack went Juggling and Mabel remained at home to
help her mother in the housework. Both young
graduated two years ahead of the girl, and
both well equipped with the best education that