The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-11-08
BY MAX STERN

and what have you gotg | haven't
eaten meat for a month for the rea.
son that can't stand the salt horse.
| spent $40 on the boat and up here.
A mans got TO have fruit and sweet
things
A short. mi~shapen Mexican A
mans better Off on tho section: !
used 20 work on the railroad. and
I'm going back. I'D rather got 81 a
day and board on the section In Cal. |
ifornia than 81 a day and board
| here
MEN COMPLAIN
or BAD F0oD
A eolored boy; breakfast We get !
is no good. Coffee IL bad and mush
hasn't got enough on IL for baby. |
Dinner we set beans. rice and corncd |
beef. Supper we ret maybe maea- |
roni without cheese. trs4with no milk. |
bread made OF cheap flour. more |
corn beef. One time We got pudding |
made Of rice. little sugar and watered |
milk. This II my first and last trip"
White youth from Sacramento. |
We came up on the Star OF Iceland. |
Everybody lost his $40 advanc. first |
week out playing stud poker and /
win ehuek.luck but the Chinafnan |
We were becalmed eight days. The |
air was terrible and the hold nmelled |
awful ftut they wouldn't LET us
sleep in the iifeboats We had two 1
meals a day. and coffee and dry bread |
at In the morning. The chinaman l
sold Us noodles at night when VIC got I
hungry. and charged Toe bowl. We
got fresh water only for drinking: q /
lot OF uH got sick. but they cleaned /
out the floor with a lynol wash. ! /
owe $40 altogether already. and the
season isn't half over"
AGED MAN
BEcs FOR SWEET
A gray haired old eoiotei man. |
FOR God's sake. bring me something /
from your white table. ia give any.
thing for "a piece OF cake / haven't /
eaten anything swset like that since
| left Frisco
Little colored boy Just out OF the
army This all IL worse than the
panitcntiary. II l live thru this. It's
never again for me. Tn. only civil. 1
ixed grub I've had was one day when
a fellow slipped mo a platoful Of fish
from tho white galley on tho boat"
Another white hoy; Good night
They'll never set ma again. The
food II absolutely n. a. and look at
, these dnda Meyer sofd me. They pay i
sis about 81 day and then try 20 get
that back again. Between tho China.
man and Meyer this job lie tho bunk"
Third white man. II owe $50 at
Meyers store and stoso besides.
5000 altogether. The chinsman sold
us cup cakes for 7So apiece on the
boat. We paid soc for cigarstr for
package that Meyer paid zoe for
REAL FOOD AND
A SHOWER BATH
but how different our meals IN mo
white fnesA' were. After a glorious
hot shower. the first real bath ia
had since left the city. sat down
In roorny mess hall TO a supper
served by pleasant faced mess boys.
In an atmosphere ss different from
tho one I'd loft n day from night.
We had salmon. pics fee, and saurr.
s%ttt&ts tsftfAAFtAfs hfFstfs RuARFNs Iffs
prunes and tea. After what m been
eating. I felt that making iso boxes
day was small pay for meals like
these
For breakfast we had muah with
plenty Of milk. bacon. salmon steak.
hot cakes. coffee and rolls. Once
day We had fruit Cheese. rye bread.
vegetables. eggs. steak and other
tasty variations made meal time an
event for me. instead of a part of a
duh. unhappy routine. /,
! slept with two young Germans
in n big room with three hunks.
They belonged 70 the monkey
gang. and. altho they worked long
hours for $50 a month. they Jared
like princes compared TO the Chinese
Enngsters. noticed. too. that they ,
Ind been furnished good mattresses ,
by the company.
One night at supper we heard that {
the salmon had started running. and I
that the next day the first lighterful {
would be canned
fNore Tomorrow
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