The evening world., 1913-02-10
.P)RR|DGE,PORR|DGE
EvERYWAERE,BUT
..NOTAB|TE iOEAT
The Truthful Tale of Two An.
Gent Mariners Castaway on
Oatmeal island.
MUSH ONLY ON MENU.
And When Capt. Bevan and
Engineer Anderson Tell II,
\ Who Should Doubt?
MUSH ONLY ON MENU.

S0Au eating contesu IN Whch men
wassrsd that Aey would eat . quail .
0Ay Tor forty days used to BE- Of fire.
Gusnt occurrence. The eating day after
deg q the quail soon ceased TO be .
pleasure and later became a torment. II
cny ono succeeded in the feat. history
.ails to record the fact. But there are
swo seamen now In the port Of New
Yosk who went the Quaii-satine stunt
me Nstte-. These men were reunited last
Saturday after . separation Of more
shaa five years, and % the gourmandish
tale y unfoldsd.
cast ". H. Bevan and CHEZ En-
Einssr J. W. Anderson Of the Aimirants
Of he United Fruit line we're tho prin-
clpol actors in an oatmeal comedy. or
rather II might be called an oatmeal
tNgsdy. For more than six weeks those
tive mariners subsisted on . diet Of oat-
meal. Porridge IL all right once In .
while. even every morning. but think OF
porrdge three times q day, day In and
day cut. over . period Of six weeks. The
very thought Of oatmeal almost throws
the pair into commissions and the sight
Il an oatmeal sign makes them tremole
- with the ague.
Capt. Bevan took command Of the Al
R,irante last Saturday. When he came
\ aboard the first person he met was the
Chief Engineer. whom he had not seen
since the dark porridge days For the
Inst five years the two chums have
.srved on different ships sailing in dH-
isrsnt waters. Now they are reunited.
and the burden Of their conversation 10
oatmeal
SomethlnE ever five years ago Capt.
Rowan was second oficer aboard the
''ritish tramp steamer Osprey and An
'~rson was second engineer. Ono night
"a the midst Of gale the Osprey went
IN the rocks or Los Roquss. to the
north Of vsnesuels. Bevan came ashore
IN . hen coop and Anderson on . raft.
they found themselves on . barren
.ock. The vessel had gone TO the bot
,am.
The beach was Uttered with wreck
age" said Capt Bevan. telling the story.
''aaA tho frst thing We did was to md
II any provisions had come Ashore. We
found pots and pans and junk Of all
descriptions. but nary a ham or any
tbinG that resembled . square meal.
Things began to look hopeless when
Anderson here discovered = big box
floating In. We dragged II up on the
Leach and broke It open. It contained
natmsai. pounds and pounds Of tho stun;
enough to have fed the crew Of the
osprey for . month. We'll. that was
something at least. and as we had
matches. tin pans and plenty OF wood
We decided we'd have to eat porrige.
u don't think there 10 . more desolate
! .siaad In the world than the one on
\ which We found ourselves. We came
across spring and found cave where
We could roost in some comfort
HgoAN TO LONG FOR CHANGE
OF DIET.
well, We settled down to await the
coming Of q ship to take ~ or We
kept consoling ourselves with the
thought Of 20 much oatmeal. Not more
than three days elapsed before We be-
gan 70 wish for something else to eat.
snl after week the thought Of eating
pscome painful. 1t was porridGe in tile
morning. porridxe at noon and porridse
Ut piGht. To vary the monotony Of the
diet we tried cooking the stun in vari-
ous ways. At one meal we would boil
the mess. at the next we made It thick
and fled It and finally As a change we
found ourselves eating It raw.
As the days passed our condition be-
anne worse. We dreamed of oatmeal by
risht and by day. Once Anderson dis
covered a. few shell Ash and We ban
uuetted like the gods. Then We went
hack to porrige. The thought Of oatmeal
20 nauseated us finally that We took
turns cooking the meals and then We
took to calling the mess by various
names and working our imagination to
the straining point.
Anderson would yell to me that din
,er was ready. We're going to have
,aued beef and cabbage to-day he
would say, and then we'd cit down and
ril ourselves with porridxe. Then for
Gays we'd go along without eating at
all until, overcome with starvation. we'd
~nt on a mess OF the cursed stun. shut
Rsoar eyes and swallow It mechanically.
~ we rot so We could hardly look at each
III thse. We would try to talk OF every
Taing under the sun but something to
Nat In order to keep cur minds OF the
l9cfror. but sooner Or later the subject
~ oatmeal would come up.
AWeek arts "eek went by and our
rrAee niE eh'are grew more and
BIRD realistic. Then with the beginning
sixth week we quit eating al
u. We We're actually starving 10
Id hardly hal strength TO col
twood to keep our signal ile
M tt, starving as We were. we
uiA eat that cursed stun. The
be like centuries. and We lay In