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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 24, 1887. 



FROM THE FORECASTLE TO THE CABIN." 



CAPTAIN SAMUELS'S book, which we noticed last week, is 

 meeting "with well deserved favor. The writer has done a 

 good work in showing what a sailor's life is without the gloss and 

 tinsel; the following incident in his life summing up clearly the 

 two extremes of a sailor's fortunes: 



"Two days later we found ourselves in Mobile, early in the 

 morning. Upon landing we were met and shown to a sailor board- 

 ing house, the only home Jack knows. Well does Jack know, too, 

 that he will be swindled before he leaves it. We were received 

 with the usual demonstration that the sailor provokes when he 

 lauds with his pockets well filled. We were assigned to the best 

 room and all hands were called to drink at our expense. We 

 breakfasted sumptuously and had the seats of honor at the table. 

 A plan for the day's pleasure was laid out as we ate. Two carri- 

 ages and two large coaches with flags were engaged. Everybody 

 was invited. After breakfast we started, and what a JoHy time 

 we had. 



"There had been a great deal of drinking, and when we returned 

 in the evening Peter (the Captain's chum, an old sailor, the 

 former being then but a young bey), was so helplesc that he had 

 to be put to bed. I stayed in the room with him. I bad not taken 

 any liquor for fear o"f being drugged. 1 took off Peter's belt, 

 which contained most of our money, and fastened it around my 

 own waist, as I felt myself the safer custodian of the two. On 

 being invited to supper I feigned fatigue, and turned in, after 

 fastening and barricading the door. 



"It was not long before it seemed as if bedlam had broken loose. 

 A general fight was going on in the house. Pistols were used, and 

 the screaming of the women and the oaths of the men were 

 frightful to hear. I had not undressed, and if it had not been for 

 my cliuml would have jumped out of the window. The police 

 finally cleaned out the place below and all became quiet. To 

 arouse Peter was impossible. I was overcome by fatigue aud fell 

 asleep, but was soon awakened by loud rapping at the door. I 

 was too frightened to speak. The door was broken in and I was 

 seized, blindfolded, gagged and led out of the house. They told 

 me that if I squealed I would have my throat cut. I was 

 taken into a dark cellar and bidden to stay there until I was 

 wanted. 1 cried myself asleep. How long I slept I don't know. 

 When 1 woke my thirst and hunger were painful. Finally a vil- 

 lainous rascal, carrying a lighted candle, unlocked the door, and 

 said if 1 would ship for Havre he would give me something to eat 

 and drink. I asked for Peter and was told that he would ship on 

 the same vessel. I agreed to everything in order to see daylight 

 again. I got something to eat, and what I supposed was some 

 coffee, but I had hardly drunk it when a stupor seized me, from 

 which 1 only recovered under a rough shaking and a bucket or 

 two of water which was soused over me. Then I found myself in 

 company with Peter on board the ship Belvedere, of Baltimore, 

 Captain' Oliver, bound for Liverpool via Appalachieola, where we 

 were to land 60,000 bricks and reload with cotton. We were told 

 that we had shipped and received $80 each in advance. Protest 

 was useless, and we obeyed when we were ordered to man the 

 windlass quickly under penalty of having our heads smashed. 



"This was Wednesday. We could give, no account of ourselves 

 since Monday. We had been robbed of our money and uniforms, 

 and were rigged out in old trousers and ragged shirts. These, 

 with the Scotch caps that we found on our heads, were all we 

 could show for the money and dunnage we had landed with from 

 Jefferson, to say nothing of the advance the captain told us we 

 had received from him. 



" To be carried or forced on board of a ship in this manner is 

 what is termed in sailor parlance being '•Shanghaied." The word 

 was coined in New York in the latter part of our Liverpool packet 

 and California clipper service, when men were scarce and wages 

 high. Many times have I seen men mustered to roll-call who did 

 not know the names they had shipped under or where they were 

 bound. This barter in human flesh, I am happyto say, is no 



longer practiced. 



"Now began a voyage on which occurred the most shocking 

 scenes. As I said before, there were but six of us who could do 

 anything. I did not amount to much, as I was too light; but I 

 could steer, and I made up in activity at light work what was 

 wauting in weight. My chum was as good as three men. His 

 herculean strength and splendid seamanship stood him in good 

 stead now. We were well treated, as all sailors are if they do 

 their duty without a growl. We had not been out an hour when 

 one of the crew, in a fit of the delirium tremens, jumped over- 

 board, while nine men iu the forecastle were either sick from 

 being drugged or had the yellow fever. The mates believed them 

 to be shammiug; and used their fists and ropes' ends accordingly. 

 The way these poor fellows were beaten was dreadful. The cap- 

 tain would stand by and look on, saying, 'Give it to them. I'll 

 have my eighty dollars out of them, or kill them if they don't go 

 to work.' Four of them succumbed and were thrown overboard 

 like carrion during our trip of three days. The other five were 

 landed, and I believe also died. Our ship had been a perfect pest- 

 house. They fumigated us, and we bad no communication from 

 the shore for ten days. At the end cf that time we began dis- 

 charging the bricks." 



Such is the life of the common sailor; a day's spree ashore fol- 

 lowed by weeks of misery afloat; and many other instances of 

 similar treatment occur throughout the book. The story of the 

 mutiny of the Dreadnought is well told, but it is too long to re- 

 produce here. 



TIMELY PREPARATIONS.— The prospect of a lively yachting 

 season has set the staff of the New York Herald at work already, 

 practicing for the great event, and even the dull details of a boodle 

 trial have not quenched the nautical ardor of one scribe, who 

 writes as follows: 



"The good ship Oyer and Terminer floated off the mud 

 bank of our jury system yesterday, where she bad been pounding 

 fcr three weeks, and, with Thomas Cleary on board as a prisoner 

 of state, floated safely out of the shallow water into the broad and 

 bounding ocean of legal uncertainties. Mr. .Justice Barrett was 

 on the quarter-deck, calm and watchful, as he coursed her by the 

 unerring counsel of experience and learning. Warrant Officers 

 Martine, Nicoll and Semple were at their posts, and the deck 

 around them was covered with charts and logarithmic calcula- 

 tions, done up in tin boxes and between the covers of legal sheep- 

 skin. In the waist were Messrs. Shafer, Dougherty, Vincent and 

 Fitzgerald, who were at times rather inclined to argue about the 

 course of the ship, but on the whole were much quieter than was 

 expected,considermgthe several attacks of mat tie mcr they had ex- 

 perienced during the weary days the ship had lain in the. doldrums 

 of jury getting. At the outset, after the twelve good and true jury- 

 men had been safely stowed away in'the brig, with Bos'nn Biliy 

 Ricketts and his mates as a marine guard over vhem, Mr. Justice 

 Barrett announced that the watches would be divided into three, 

 and all hands should keep them. The first watch is from ten iu 

 the morning until one in the afternoon; the second from two in 

 the afternoon until half-past six; the third from half-past seven 

 until ten in the evening. At this hour— four bells— all hands 

 might turn iu or turn out just as thev pleased, and he Mowed 

 to them. But Messrs. Shafer and Dougherty did not like 

 this, and even went so far as to go up the quarter-deck and remon- 

 strate, pulling their forelocks the whiie, and swearing by Daw 

 Jones and other well-known jurists that thev could not stand the 

 latigue. So Bis Honor, with great condescension, said lie would 

 permit the night watch to end at 9 o'clock, at which all hands 

 gave a hitch to their trousers, rolled their quids of chewing gum 

 over, and expressed themselves as satisfied.' 



DELAWARE RIVER.— The Trenton (N. J.) Contingent.— In the 

 regatta of the Quaker City V. C. last June, Nahma, Minerva and 

 Annita, of Trenton, won all the prizes in their class in the order 

 named. Captain Frank Ferry took the initiative in overhang, 

 weighted keels, low wide rig and housing topmast, making the 

 Nahma the speediest iu her class. Commodore Micker is follow- 

 ing suit with the Minerva— the last of a great name. She won 

 easily over the Carry Z. in the closing fait regatta without time 

 allowance. Her long, slender overhang gives her a stylish appear- 

 ance, and adds greatly to her power. With a change of rig and 

 ballast she will not only be a dangerous rival in her class, but will 

 hurry some of her larger sisters. She will be fitted with a new 

 suit, and will fly all the kites available. With the exception of 

 the Oretcheu, she. is the smallest cabin yacht in the fleet. The 

 Annita, built by Captain Vanzant, of Trenton, is of the sharpie 

 type, but wider, with the beam further ait. She certainly sails 

 fast for a heavy dew boat. Her cabin is very roomy and luxuri- 

 ously fitted. She was designed for the shoal waters about Trenton 

 and for the use and comfort of ladies, the family and friends 

 of Mr. Richard Whitehead, her owner. I am not advised if his 

 new cutter will be enrolled in the club, probably not. Our Trenton 

 brethern are modest and don't want much, a« will be seen by the 

 unostentatious way they carry off all the prizes, aud it would not 

 be a surprise if through their excessive diffidence another batch 

 goes thirty odd miles up the Delaware next June. The regad a 

 committee are already exercised to know what kind of a tropin 

 would suit them. The Salem (N. J.) Contingent, forty or more 

 miles down stream will be, represented by Mr. Sinnickson's new 

 and handsome yawl Witch. It will be seen the Q. C. Y. C. have 

 yachts enrolled iu the club from the Delaware Bay to the head of 

 navigation, and taking in all the intermediate towns on the river. 

 — R. G. Wilkins. 



SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C.-A special meeting of 

 the Seawahhaka C. Y. C. was held on March 15, at which Rule 

 XXXI V. of the sailing regulations was finally passed in an 

 amended form, and Rule XII. was also finally adopted. The rule 

 relating to classification was also taken up and altered so that the 

 old classification is retained for this season, the intention being 

 to appoint a committee and to revise the classes after the end of 

 the season. The course was also changed so as to start off Owl's 

 Head, making it the same for the larger classes as the N. Y. Y. C. 

 course, and increasing the length of the courses for the other 

 classes a little. An amendment to allow clubtopsails on vachtsof 

 over, 50ft. was lost. The Law Committee presented a form of bond 

 which was approved, and Coin. Canfield offered an amendment 

 providing that officers of the l.\ S. Navy shall be exempt from the 

 payment of any annual dues; but it was decided that the amend- 

 ment could not be passed in the form in which it was offered. The 

 Committee on Location reported that negotiations had nearly 

 been concluded for a house in a very desirable location, and an- 

 nounced the following committees: Lectures— Com. Canfield, 

 Messrs. J. F. Tarns and C. II. Leland; Library— Wm. Whitlock, 

 W. P. Stephens and Walter L. Suydam; Models and Drawings- 

 John Hyslop, A. Cary Smith and W. P. Stephens: House Commit- 

 tee— F. O. DeLuze, H. S. Rockenbaugh, T. A. Bronson, J. Wm. 

 Beekman ano K. F. Bixby. Messrs. S. V. R. Cruger, F. T. Under- 

 bill and A. P. Montant were appointed a committee to attend to 

 the interests of the club about Oyster Bay. 



A HINT FOR BOATING CLUBS.— There, are many localities 

 where good sailing waters are found but where little sailing is done 

 for want of suitable boats. The following extract from the Dub- 

 lin Express offers a plan that is easily put in practice by a small 

 club, and that is likely to result in very good sport. The class of 

 small sailing boats between the canoe and the catboat is growing 

 rapidly in this country, and meets with much favor among young 

 men. The limits proposed below are very good, as they limit the 

 oost, insure a fairly good and a safe boat and make a time allow- 

 ance unnecessary, and we shall be glad to hear of similar clubs to 

 the "Water Wags" being formed here: "The Wafer Wags claim 

 for themselves many points of vantage, viz., a perfectly useful 

 boat, that will either sailor row, that is built on safe lines, and 

 will carry four to six persons, and is yet light enough to be drawn 

 by its crew up a beach, and nevertheless has all the qualities of a 

 racer in its own class. These many advantages have been obtained 

 as follows: The lines of a safe and useful punt, 13ft. long, with the 

 steady beam of 4ft. iOin., have been selected and planned to carry 

 a centerboard to give it a grip in the water; and all the fleet will 

 be built on that model. By doing so all the boats will be equal as 

 regards build, and the sail plan is then limited to Vosq. ft., so that 

 the motive power is equalized and confined within a safe limit. 

 This will give a close and exciting race where skill wiR be all im- 

 portant, and no time allowance necessary; and the races around 

 Kingstown Harbor on a summer afternoon between the ten boats 

 now being built, and probably others to follow, maybe looked for- 

 ward to as one of the novel features of the coming season." 



MAYFLOWER AND ARROW.— Gen. Paine and Mr. Burgess 

 have finally decided that Mayflower is to cross the Allan Lie early 

 in June, while Mr. Burgess will follow with his family by steamer 

 about the middle of June. He will have entire charge of the rac- 

 ing, and will sail against Arrow for the .Queen's Cup, and Hex 

 for the Brenton's Reef and Cape May cups, but will put Mayflower 

 in no races where any restrictions are placed on the centerboard. 

 Mr. Burgess has sent the following telegram, as well as a letter, to 

 Mr. Chainberlaync. "Mr. Tankerville Chamberlavne, owner of 

 the cutter Arrow, etc.: If challenge of last year is open for the 

 cutter Arrow, holder of the Queen's Cup, to sailagainsi an Ameri- 

 can sloop, Gen. Paine authorises me to say that the Mayflower has 

 been placed in my charge, and that she will sail the Arrow- for the 

 Queen's Cup over the Queen's Cup course. Please answer.— 

 Edward Burgess." Nothing further has been reported concern- 

 ing Sachem's trip across. 



CRUISING.-Stella, steam yacht, Mr. W. W. Kengon, was at 

 Brunswick, Ga., from Musqtiito Inlet, on March It, and on March 

 19 arrived at Savannah — Meteor, steam yacht, left for the South 

 after a short stay at New York, and was at Norfolk on March 15. 

 — Alva, steam yacht, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, arrived at Bruns- 

 wick, Ga., from Nassau on March 18, and sailed next dav for Port 

 Royal, S. C... Talisman, steam yacht, Mr. J. W. Slater, arrived 

 at Charleston on March 18. . . .The sloop Daisy is reported at Cedar 

 Keys, Fla., on March 18, after a cruise from Lake Minnetonka, 

 Minn., with her owner, Mr. S. E. Baldwin and wife, and Mr. James 

 Hess on board. 



A JUBILEE RACE IN NOVA SCOTIA.— The latest thing in 

 jubilee races is a proposal on the part of the Nova Scotia Y. C. to 

 offer a $500 cup for a race in Halifax Harbor, probably over a 40 

 mile course, and to invite IN ew York and Boston yachts to enter. 

 An invitation will probably be received by the New York Y. C. 

 prior to its meeting to-night." 



^mwevn to ^am^anclettt^ 



%W No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



B. D. B.— The midship section will answer very well for a canoe 

 yawl. 



A. A. P.— The process is patented by Mr. N. G. Shepherd, of New 

 Haven, Conn. 



H. M., Augusta, Ga.— Copeland's Pete was by J. Hill's Trim and 

 out of Sam Swanton's Smut. 



W. S. L., Niagara.— The proposed keel seems fuUy large enough 

 to take the place of the centerboard. 



D. F. M., Philadelphia, Pa.— "Canoe and Boat Building" gives 

 fuU directions for lapstrake construction. 



E. HL C, Boston.— See the last volume of the Forest and Stream 

 for letters about makers of birch canoes. 



E. D., Ariel, Pa.— We know of no second-hand engine. The Ship- 

 man is the best oil engine for a small launch. 



Walters, Sheffield, 111.— You can obtain cork jackets from D. 

 Kahnweiler, 146 Worth street, New York. 



G. S. O., Kingston, Ont.— The proposed lead in keel wo uld mak 

 the boat stiffer and probably improve her speed. 



E. K. L., Brooklyn, N. Y.— Tammany is bv Pilkington's Tory 

 (Garth's Drake— Moore's Mab) and out of Moonstone (Price's Bang 

 — Davey's Luna). 



C. O. J. E., New York.— "Small Yachts" gives full instructions 

 tor taking off the lines of a yacht. You can paint over the potlead 

 by sandpapering it down well. 



C. J. A., Providence. R. I.— You will find designs of tents in 

 "Canoe and Boat Building." The quality of canvas needed can be 

 easily calculated when the size of tent is decided on. 



H. O. C, Boston.— You will find rules for calculating displace- 

 ment in "Small Yachts" and "Canoe Building." They are too 

 lengthy to be given here. 



Juniata Rapids. — Will W. H. Graydon give the location of 

 those "wonderful rapids" in the Juniata V I know the river from 

 source to the Susquehanna.il, but cannot locate the rapids.— In- 

 quirer, (Altoona, Pa.). 



Nonpareil C. C— The nearest go6d black bass fishing to New- 

 ark, N. J., is at Greenwood Lake. You may get permission to 

 camp there, but you will not have much good fishing there if you 

 return the same day, for the morning and evening are the best 

 times. 



H. B., White House, N. J. — 1. What are the addresses of the New 

 Jersey Fish Commissioners ? 2. What is the address of the United 

 State Fish Commissioner V :l Of whom can I buy brook trout and 

 German carp? Ans. 1. Richard S. Jenkins. Camden; William 

 Wright, Newark; F. M. Ward, Newton. 2. Prof, bpencer F. Baird, 

 Washington, D. C. 3. There are no persons advertising these fish 

 at present. Small carp, from 1 to 2iu. long, may be obtained free 

 in the fall by applying to the United States Fish Commission. 



MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



rpiIlS is the season for the red-breasted robin. Abundant 

 J. as these birds are in the up country, they are as noth- 

 ing compared with the number of those on'the coast. In 

 the morning and evening they fly up and down the "banks" 

 in gangs of millions. The strips of beach are narrow, and it 

 is always easy to know just where the birds fly, since they 

 pursue a certain route. So the fishermen— this being a dull 

 season— employ their seines in catching birds. They set the 

 seines between tall poles on the beach and catch thousands of 

 robius in a morning or afternoon. At one flight a man 

 caught over 2,000. He put away half for food for his family 

 and shipped the others. On Bogue banks with a small net 

 last Monday a Mr. Ross caught 500 robins. The birds fly 

 quite low and do not observe the net at all. The people who 

 have set the nets are always concealed near by.— Rah'lqh 

 Letter in mclimoncl Dispatch. 



"I want ten cents' worth of bait," said the lone fisherman 

 of Long Wharf to the tackle vender. "Seems to me these 

 are very small worms," he remarked, as the ancient gentle- 

 man scooped up the limp fish food. "Great Scott!" yelled 

 the bait merchant, "What do you expect for ten cents— sea- 

 serpents?"— Oakland Tribune. 



Mr. Charles Gilchrist has been the fortunate recipient of 

 a colored lithographed memorial plate, signed by His Royal 

 Highness, the Prince of Wales, as Executive President of 

 the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, and by Philip 

 Cunliffe Owen, Secretary to the Royal Commission. The 

 plate is presented with a commemorative medal, and is given 

 in recognition of Mr. Gilchrist's contribution of specimens 

 of wild rice to the Exhibition.— Port Hope {Ont.) Times. 



Great Barringtou's largest elm tree, supposed to have had 

 a growth of 150 years, and to have given shade to the chiefs 

 of the Stockbridge Indians in their council deliberations, 



I was cut the other day at the junction of North Elm and 

 Main street. John Wright, who lives near, was afraid that 

 the tree would break down on his house, but it was found 

 to be sound, and, as it was 18ft. in circumference, it is esti- 



I mated that it will make 12 to 15 cords of wood. There is 

 considerable feeling in the village regarding the destruction 

 of the tree, and a number of prominent people say that, 



j Wright had no authority to cut it down. The tree stood 

 near the line of the old upper and lower Housatonic town- 



' ships.— Sprtngji-cld (Mass.) Republican, March 16. 



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