Evening journal., 1920-07-23
IT'S PIE now
NOT SALT HORSE
Tars Won't Eat The Old
Time Food Nor Accept
Old-Time Wage
POSTWAR SLUMP
FARESTOMATERIALIZE

BANGOR. Maine. July 23.-rhis is
tho golden age OF The men who reef,
hand and steer for a living. or do any
thing aboard ship. The logger gets
fat pay and luxurious living. but the
laziest and latest OF his kind does
more and gcts less money than does
Jack IN these strange booming days
or the suddenly revived American
tradio by sea.
only afcw days ago plenty or ordi-
nary seamen were TO be had al 80
month and able seamon for $50 or 50.
Now they are paying men who hardly
know starboard from port. all the
way from SG1 up. The shipping Board
range being $50 10 SS5. It's all on ac-
count OF The war.
This country hadn't much or n mer-
chant fleet. other than coasters, 10
1917. but since lhen millions Of IONS
Of merchant shipping have been built.
and now there are more berihs Than
men TO ON them. Free navigation
schools have done well in an effort TO
an the bill but landsmen cannot b.
turned into sailOrmcn over night. All
sorts OF men are being shipped for all
sorts OF yOyslgos-mcn right out or
the logging oamp and right or The
farm. who hannOt be Of much use eX-
cept 10 heave on a line or work cargo
The Government so regulates every
thing now that a sailOrm0n Is a per-
son OF considerable Importance, who
must be paid and led much better
Than formerly and also managed with
discretion and courtesy hst he quit
The Job. The sail0rman used TO be
satisfied with any kind OF a bunk and
anHII
ing 10 provide and The cook could
prepare, and expooted TO stand watch
at tho intervals and for the periods
that have bean the rule OF the sea
since the birth Of Davy Jones' Now
he talks OF an eiEht-hOur day at sea
and demands even better than the
really sumptnous bin OF fare provided
In a Maine port tho other day tine
crew Of A steam collier struck because
the cook failed 70 cook custard pies
How far has the shipping world ad-
.Nanced since the time when, accord
fnt to a popular ballad OF the sea. the
A BIS really did cot salt horse. As the
sea rhyme had 70, an old sailor In a
Portland vessel on a foreign voyaSe
growlod increasingly at the beef
served by the men forward, and one
day addressed a hunk OF It thus:
Old horse, old horse, how came you
here
So many miles from Portland plerl
20 which the spirit Of the horse (for
the meat really was salt horse) re-
Piled:
From Saocarap 10 Portland pier
] carted lumber many a year;
I After many kicks and much abuse
] was saited down for sailors use.
The sailors they my, meat despise-
They pick my bones and damn my
eyes;
They damn my eyes and pick my
bones
And throw the rest 10 Davy Jones.
II was thought that after the wa
here would be a sudden and tremend
Gus drop IN freight rates. but al
though certain Of the topmost prioe
for transportation have been some
what modified, the general marke.
holds up well, and it Is dlmcu1t 70 So
how, with construction, wages, stsre'
and al leXpoEos at the present level
Ameriacn VESSELS can carry at much
less Than the rates now prevailing.
Everything about a vessel, from hei
original cost Of construction, througi
The list-war6s stores. repairs. steve
dOre bills, towaga, sails, chandlery
brokerage and port charges-is at tol
notch, and unhl these costs shal
have reen d cided upon ther
viii no reduction in freieh
rates Little Maine thrce-maste'
scho0ners are getting 800 to $50 shill
ings a standard (about 1000 feet OF
deals from Canadian ports 20 tn
United Kingdom. and coal from tn
Atlantic Range 10 any part OF th
world Is commanding rates almost a
high as those that prevailed In war
lime