The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-02-10

/ There were two or three new automo-
| biles aboard.
Because they reasoned the cable at
| tached to the boat might be construed
as evidence that the boat was regu-
larly moored, the wreckers cut the
cable. When the tide permitted them
to get at the boat they despoiled her
| Of her contents. The quickest way to
| get the stuff out was the one they pur-
/ sued Sacks of flour were tossed over
| the side into the water, and as it
foated ashore it was piled up and car
ried away. Cases of shoes, furniture,
all kinds of merchandise were treated
/ in this manner.
| Desiring speed, they set the boat on
fire and burned the upper framework
| to the water'ss edge. Then they
/ planted dynamite in the hulk and blew
it to pieces. The United States mail
/ suffered like fate. Bags of parcel
post were ripped open and their con-
tents appropriated. Cor this incident
federal Inspector visited the scene
and took dispositions, but nothing has
| come of it as YETI None of the civic
! authorities raised hand to prevent
the work 1t appears to be the rega-
| lar procedure.
Afterwards, many turned peddlers,
vending shoes and other articles on
the streets Of the nearby cities. But
when one man who had stolen the
ships sail and had it stolen in turn
from him, went to an officer to see
about taking civil action to recover
the property, he met with rebuff and
was told to recover his sail as he had
obtained it.
Many Of the wreckers stole from one
another, and frequently it, was not
only case of finding and getting the
goods, but of retaining it by force.
Possibly this may be the regular
order of things on the coast, but I
took it that the isolated condition of
the district prevented the state from
sending in officials to maintain order
and preserve the rights of property.
We have here two counties without
any other means of exporting or i'm
porting freight products than by boat.
First and third class mail are brought
overland from Roseburg, as well as
portion of the passenger traffic of the
district. There are in this district five
cities with populations numbering from
twelve hundred to four thousand AS
may be supposed, the boating traffic to
the counties is considerable.
Almost entirely this traffic is by
steam schooner with hold and deck ar
ranged for carrying lumber and other
products and d few passenger state
rooms to the rear of the boat.
The greater part of their traffic is
with San Francisco and the cities of
the south. In large measure the
boats travel north eight" and return
loaded with cargoes of lumber, shin
giles and ties, with telegraph poles and
bolts of matchwood as a side line.
The boats are small anyway, and
travelling light, they sway forward and
backwards and sideways in a manner
to alarm the timid. Loaded down they
travel more smoothly, but are apt to
take sudden lurches of a character
to make one wonder if they can ever
right themselves again.
The passengers are confined to the
rear end of the boat The staterooms,
with two and sometimes three hunks
in each, take up the major part of the
space. There are usually two floors or
decks. The rooms on the lower deck
open into the dining room in the cen
ter, and the rooms on the upper or
main deck open outward toward the
water. There is narrow passage, four
or five feet wide between the doors of
the state rooms and the rail of the
boat. This comprises the passengers
promenade.
At the head Of the stairway leading
to the dining room and the lower
regions there is space for a long seat.
This is known as the "social hall"
Sometimes there is an upper deck with
other staterooms where the under
officers of the ship and the wireless
operator are housed. Then there is
apt to be smoking room where there
is card table where the men smoke
or relate "reminiscences or take part in
that fascinating diversion known as
"bucking the tiger
AS a rule, the women passengers
cling to their staterooms, where their
meals are served and their wants at
tended to. In passage you will
imagine that few passengers are on
the boat. But at the end of the jour
ney women and children whom you
never suspected were fellow passen-
gers will come out of their rooms and
prepare to disembark
Once in a while woman will over
come the tendencies to nal de mere and
keep the outer air, but she is the
exception.
If the sea is rough there is no
misery not to be preferred to riding
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