New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
"BABY BOY" TELLS
OF THE SEVEN SEAS
Not Yet Is Years Old, He
Has Sailed Deep Water
for the Last Three.
HAS HAD MANY
NARROW ESCAPES
Kork Martini Reaches Port in
Danish Bark-Went to Sea
to Aid Family.

I'm the most cosmopolitan hotel corridor
in this city. where men from every port
Of the world gather and meet friends. the
corridor OF the American Seamen's Friend
Institute. No. 90 West street, n young
seaman gave an interview last night to
a Tribune reporter.
The Young man, with the clear. deep
set and unf1inchng eyes of a sage, looked
the while into the eyes Of the reporter
and talked quietly Of various bits Of fun
he had enjoyed I'm many ports of the
seven seas.
And the sailor man is not yet fifteen
years old
This is the tale of Kork Martini. alias
George Buchanan. alias Kid Cocktail
and "Beby Boy" but it is the tale OF
one who has crowded into three years Of
sea life far more hard life than "A good
many magazine writer's can imagine for
their ffty-ycar-old heroes.
m ! got to do this MI futile lie
said to tho assistant chaplain of the in
stitute, 81 ought TO start at the begin
min My old man, he's on'y got one lcs,
and that's wooden. gets canned from his
Job on top Of freight trains. So ] has
TO pile out an git some work for the
kid sisters and brothers. We'll, ! starts
! can't get no work onto the shore, after
hangin' round FER near three days, so /
shoots fer the shore line and pulls a
couple - legs among the sailormon. /
gets EN-, and soon lands berth aboard
a Norwegian sailing bark bound 20 the
Banks My old man kicks. but l got 10
reef the kicks when I got to make port
with some real cash And 50 / ship
And in 1910 ! board the Arcthusa, Capn
Clayton Morrisey. an ships two tips to
the Banks on cod iisIin
When / make my second passage /
shift at Halifax and ship fOr Prince
Arthur on passenger steamer she
don't like my looks 50 ] slip ashore on
my second trip-two weeks out-and
hauled up in Yarmouth. And ] hunks
there with my skipper for bit cause !
get some disease amidships. ] lies in my
, bunk for bit. unloading my OWE cargo
til I'm so weak there amt non, as viii
sign my papers for even cabin boy.
II soon climbs from the sick bay an
looks for ship. And then ] ships aboard
the Auda, mother 'Wecgian bark, bound
from Yarmouth To Bucnos Ayres, Arsen-
tina. with lumber IN her hold. Wen. We
then breaks our trip an runs from y. \.
onto Rosario up the River Plate. Onc.t
more busts amidshps and lays of for
bit. Well. and then -
What made you sick amIdshlps'r tafs
time" he was asked.
Don't know. less il was staying IN be
masts throughout q couple IF eastern cut
ups tcyclouesJ Well, to sit this stun
over with ships aboard The steamship
Rosa. goin' down to HUI. with he'lyiul
a. wheat am grain. An than } lands Ia
a Hun hospital Tor TO lay mp trip
finds my midships all right but m'
foc'slc washed way all Oh account o. som"
fever what made me loco I'm there three
months. ] am.
Then ! sign up aboard a square uSstf
named the Andrews. also 'Weegidn
boat. carrying chemical ballast an starts
from Hull TO sydney. Australia. Her skip
per's a crab. so | unload an ship back g."
London. an port in a sailors HON" IN
Wells street I'm there three week..
Did YOU like London he was asked.
Did you ever hear of a sailorman
that didn't shoot the liquor that stayed
in that bunk Longer an he was forced
There was none sufficiently experienced
10 answer the philosophy OF this fifteen
year-old mariner
Il signs aboard the Regime guess
likes 'Weegian barks-au starts APP north
IN Fredorickstadt slips an ships
board a train that ports me m Christi"
ania. The 'Merican Consul sends mo To
a sailors home, where board TWO
weeks.
And now we're finished. ] come 10
Hoboken aboard the Danish bark Heliig
Olay. and dock on the oath"
Did YOU have any adventures he
was asked.
We'll I got my topmast broke open
and the boy showed a cash that ran
from the centre Of his skull To his left
eyebrow. A drunken sailorman bumped
into him outside of a saloon in a South
Sea port The boy resented u.
He then pulls his knife and lets 20.
continued IN, boy. Il couldn't DO moth
in. SO knocks it-but the wrong way
II splits my bean.
"A Teller takes me when We ports ln
Frederickstadt, on a sled trip forty miles
further up. II was fun but my left lee
gets iced. an ] has 1t lanccd when We
come back agn."
To prove his statement he pulled up
his blue jeans. lowered his heavy woolleu
sock and exuosed swollen limb with
deep cash above and below the knee.
Also there were a couple OF gJu-shot
wounds IN his right leg due 70 SWcde
who went 'nutty' in the foc'se one
night out in the Injun Ocean and plinsed
me cause | laughed at him
And this man is but fifteen years old.