The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-10
YADKIN Is STEERED
SOUSE-SOUSE-EAST
Officers and Crew Sold All
But Anchor, Declare Au-
thOrities.
SIX ARE UNDER ARREST
Thirst and Genoa Bring About
Downfall of Mariners in
Foreign Waters.
SIX ARE UNDER ARREST

fOTclSu NutClo'
She was a gay little ship. the Yadkin,
supply carrier for the United states
Shipping Board. She lodged over 10
Europe neatly evading submarines, maze
her landing, and took aboard enough
supplies to last for. the home journey.
Then Chief officer Edwin NJ. Reddy.
Third oficer William Wooster and
Chief Engineer Wolf were seized with
a thirst unavoidable. so the story was
| related to United States Commissioner
McGoldrick yesterday a.,
The coast of Europe had hardly as
! appeared when the good chief omcer
and the excellent third officer and the
entirely thirsty chief engineer. with sew
eral others of the crew. heaVed IN
great draft Of sea air. and exclaimed:
boy, oh, boy, where do we go from
| here? To the coast Of America or to the
multitudinous islands of the In)un
Sea p or words to that effect.
The chief officer felt Of his larynx
and the third officer and the chief en-
gineer and every man Of the crew did
| likewise. Never. never had threats
| been dry so long. 1t was a tremendous
| thirst that possessed them. And as no.
| body ever heard of an old salt who
wouldn't lay off a hornpipe for Jig o
| rum they decided that the United states
| Shirping Board would have to look long
and a plenty before the good ship Yad-
kin again hit the west coast of the
U. S. A.
Always Have an Excuse.
! Down we go to the old Mediterra-
| In n
| chorus. Down there on a little jaunt
and there'll be rum enough for all
around. Who's on?'
| And by the EXPLANATIONS OF the
| parched and very expectant crew II was
| fixed right then and there. The abb
| submarines-would excuse almost any
| amount Of delay-the Shipping Board
| husband so, yeo-o-o for the old Medi-
terranean and bottle OF rum.
| Thereupon the nose of the Iadkin
was promptly put due souse-souse-
and by steady sailing the port of Genoa
soon hove in sight. There the crew
dropped anchor and went ashore with
| what money they had. The money was
pitifully inadequate and provided only
a very gentle outbreak. Back on the
ship the officers and crew conferred In
formally upon the grave matter of get
ting enough booze to provide real sem
sation.
The chief officer glanced about the
deck The third officer peered into the
hold The crew and the chief engineer
heel and toed into the ships stores.
They came out with sundry bundles
loads of teas and coffee, pieces of rope,
the cabin stove. barrels of food and
tons of coal
This will Ak us all right" said they.
l. Nm Time for HanCliUu,
Out of the ship they ran and to the
marts OF Genoa they came. To coal
dealer they sold 1900 tons of coal for
$1,000 which is less than 81 ton. The
crew might have haggled at any other
time but this They sold their coal
cheerfully. and more of the good ship
Yadkins treasures, till the wine bubbled
and flowed in the ships scuppers and
the crew were picked. pie eyed and very
thoroughly stewed.
"Genoa's a great port" said the coun-
Gil OF the crew. But why stick here?
Let's 60"
So the Yadkin upanchored and took
TO the bounding blue again. They hailed
ships along the course and traded
everything they could trade for stimu-
lants, stopping now and then at ports
to heave in more casks. The Yadkin
sailed magnificently on, drawing on her
almost exhaused coal bins. and zig
Tagging eternally through the sea
as If submarine were at her tail.
The pilot 1t is supposed. had tenn
peramental feeling. and the crew
wasn't particular whether the ship
went up or down so long as the liquor
lasted.
Enter n Dark Stranger.
The jaunt might have gone on until
the masts were sold out of her hull or
the provisions were exhausted on this
mad cruise, had not the chief officer
and the third mate and some others
made a hiring mistake. They hailed
Spanish saiip one day and tried to sell
her n small amount of coal---a coune
OF shovcs was about all the Yadkin
could spare by that time II she was
ever TO get home.
The Spaniard looked darkly on this
section OF the American armada and
demanded by what authority the coal
was 10 be sold. The CHIEF officer had
not thought of that nor had the third
mate nor the enthusiastic chief engineer
The could furnish no good authority and
the Spaniard discerned II. And the
Spanard when she reached port notified
the United States Shipping Board to
gaze abaft the beam and pike OF the
rowlin' good ship Yadkin.
! commissioner was IN
clined to think the crew had about ex-
hausted the ships supplies when the
Yadkn actually did come home yester-
day and warped up to a dock at the foot
OF Thrty-frst street, Brooklyn Fed
eral detectives were there to greet the
crew and after examining the few odds
! and ends left in the hold and in the
storerooms came to the conclusion. by
consultation with the cargo list. that
the exalted seamen had disposed of the
following articles;
Here's the Little List.
One hundred and twenty-f five fathoms
OF inch line. fish oil. bolt OF canvas
2.200 tons of coal. 500 pounds OF tackle
800 pounds OF manila rope. iron chains
shackes, blocks. boiler tubes, tea, coffee
soap. sugar salt port, beef lamb mac
caroni. And II was also asserted that
one of the gun crew who had not yet
been arrested robbed the ship of canned
milk and canned fruit.
The Federal agents did not state
whether the members OF the crew ar
rested were sober when taken OF the
ship They said that point was imma-
teral after such n thrilling time as