The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-18
THE INSPIRED QUARTERMAsTER.
IStolen from the Pillar, Chicago Post


watch sailed for England one clustering
November afternoon His name. learned. was
Able Katz. Now Able dry-land quarter
master. and had made his GROW" at Pelham
Bay station. He viewed active sailorfng with
an air of open confidence
New York harbor, usual, was startling
picture. The horizon toward the Narrows was
obscured by ships by high straked Norwegian
windjammers, by deep-belled British tramps
which, Furnishing under the afternoon sun,
strove to match the brilliance of towering
shafts cityward and the glow of belching stacks
in the Jersey hills. A lean grey destroyer. like
some gaunt low-trotting wolf barred foam
1ecked teeth and sneaked across the harbor
out to sea. outrasing perspective by its in
credible feetness. All about, frantic ferryboats
blundered here and there like confused old
mother hens, and screeched defiance at the
squat tugs that nosed and shifted around the
wharves. Rude gusts of wind, horrid offspring
Of a roaring Sandy Hook gale, whistled OBJ
scenely, ratified the standing rigging of stout
Gloucester smacks and dared them to come out
side and make a night of it.
We made the Narrows The gusts became
a ferocious gale. Able struggled up on the
bridge just as big Ben (the seventh wave)
took US dead on the bow--with reverberating
roar, a 10-foot wall of green water tumbIed
over the fo'c'sle head, raced down the wall
deck, and brought up with crash, throwing
q sheet OF water and spray so feet over our
heads-we rose up-up-upi Uh-h-h-h-h-h-
we fell over a sheer precipice into the trough
again. Trembling like a race horse, two full
points OH ner course, Screws racing, deck gear
carried away. the "old wagon" bravely stuck
her nose into it again. Able. eyes bursting
from his head, struggled for expression Utter
awe held him. 100" he said slowly. 100. look
at d. water GRIGGS.
GRIGGS' word picture of New York harbor
pleases even more than the climax to his
tale Taking one consideration with another"
as B. L. T. said in writing of the poor chiggers
adventures and Annabelle and Anne, Griggs is
Rigs best contrib.
MRS. KABER's conviction and sentence
seems to indicate, as we overheard the Police
Reporter remark to the City Editor the closed
season on husbands.
TO O. II.
Finanseeress, Thorobred and Divine Bum.
[Another theft from the Pillar.l
o naughty fnanseeress,
I'm all forlornadooning
If you will come to Tamarack,
Well be Re Gay Hobeaux;
Cast OFF your sheckle-shackles
Well take your soul baloonng
A-w-w, come and dance a dune gayotte
On your fantastickle-toes.
A happy shack, Beloved:
And since there's no Chianti,
A loving cup We pass around
Oolong from old Hankow!
A little book OF verses;
And thou, my arch Bacchante:
Somehow think that Tamarack
Is Paradise enow.
HILL STARR
TO RIO: We owe you q certain measure of
gratitude for helping to make our birthday
brighter. VIII you convey 70 Griggs and Hill
Star our appreciation OF the part they had in
the illumination. With ~. q. b. c., etc,
SINCE warren's suggestion for a disarma-
ment conference has been well received we
should like TO suggest that no add another