The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 9

Pan Atsccarn: ear AY, OCTOBER 25, 1922. On “Hell Ship Storm Blows Ship Like Cockleshell. Men Lie in Bunks, Holding Fast. Why the Packers Make Big Money. Men Run Awful Risks of Lives. By Max Stern Max Stern, newspaper mau, has written for The Star and sister papers a vivid description of a trip he took on an Alaskan salmon ship, The [horrors of the “hell ships” are brought home in Stern’s forceful style. ‘This chapter finds him, a member of the “Chines gang,” on his way North. Follow him thru the storm and learn some of the things he did about “Tho | Price of Salmon,”—Editor, “For men must work and women /is also included work at the oan- ; Happy Mother Tells How Children Were Restored must weep, norte, unloading, building and ‘Tho storms be sudden and waters | preparing and painting thelr boats deep.” —Chartes Kingsley. [before the fluh start, For three days the storm raged,| For red maimon they recetved this but the ship was blown along like a| Year 6c apiece per boat, or Jo for cockelshell every day nearer Uni./¢@eh man, For the great King mak Pass thru which we must go to | *@lmon, weighing sometimes as much enter Behring ga. Here we would |@* 75 or even 100 pounds, they get! get our fire t| 800, or 160 por man, In addition the glimpse of land, | Company feeds the men, and in ease We spent most | of death pays their families $1,000, of our days and| The profits, explained another in our | Swede fisherman, must be immense, too|ONK SALMON outside and|MAKES CASE ip rolled so} “One King salmon welghing 60 that we could not | Pounds will make a case of the finest play cards. The|*almon in the market,” he sald. “The Chinaman saved a| Company pays us 800 for that fish Deckret, 1912 Bank st. lot of his food | and gets, wholesale, in cans, $9.40. After putting this eplen- i wo these days, too. “Or take a red salmon, It takes jo the test with horself and - 4 But for the|l4 reds to make a case. We get 6c, Mre. Deckret says: . satlortishermen | or 84. been such a great ° 7 : there was plenty “Consider the difference be- i - to do. Some of} tween « farmer and a salmon them spent their] packer,” he tontinaucd, “A farm: had been so wretched for ata Ps time In the er has to buy his land, pay taxes months that I was just Mex Stern hips hold, “set-| on it, plow It, fertilize it, sow his around, I could neither eat ye - ie ting” their nets,| seed, run the risks from peste Beep to do much good and bud P ‘ . x olling thelr slickers and otherwise} and bad weather—and then of trouble with Indigestion. as getting ready for their long fishing comes the harvest. A salmon just finished my third bottle trip. The rest stood watch, took the| packer pays nothing for his Tanlac and am almost a well wom- ‘ wheels and did other jobs about the aa already. ship in her traveling thru the “John Frank, aged 6, and Carolina, storm. fe 4, both complained of bead- The men who go out each year r pains In the stomach and were for the salmon packers to fish In ry restless at night. They had no] Top left: Little Carolina Deckret; the tricky waters of Alaska are not were thin and pale, and # poorly pald, nor as badly treated ‘no interest in play or anything 9 the Chinese gangs, but their lot jie a hard one and a dangerous one. Joseph Paul, 2 years old, ‘TWO IN EACH a yet about the same fix. I} > FISHING CRAFT pot get hirn to ent, he was fret-/others whose statements are on file} Never a year goes by but « day and night, and was very thin/|in the Tanlac offices. Hardly a day|*ore or so lose their lives, At pale. They have taken about | passes that does not bring scores of (¢V¢ry cannery ts @ graveyard with Potties of Taniac each now, and | such messages of praise from every |Deadstones marking the last reat- , happier children could not | part of the Wnited States and Can-|Ime place of Hans Hansen, Lars be found. John Frank has gained|ada from families where mother,|Lareen and other brave fishermen at Carolina eight, and littl¢ | father, son and daughter have all} whose bodies have been rescued | Jeph is as fat as a butterball and |ound health, contentment and the|from the rivers and deep waters of pytul as a kitten. I certainly have | joys of living through simply taking tie salmon fields, and many timew goed reasons for praising Tanlac.” |@ course of Tanlac. more of them “have gone to un Tanlac ts sold by all good drug.|marked graves, In 1920 the aalmon gists. —Advertisement. fields claimed 35 lives, of which 13 ‘were fishermen. DISCUSSION OF WOMEN'S activ-| ‘Their union has wrought for ity tn the church was participated tn [them improved living conditions and * | Wednesday afternoon at food food but, with all the risks hepeg pa. Hg B dhs ee ae jentaiied, thelr pay ts small. . wd The men go out to fish tn pairs - |} the Bethany Baptist church, 20th of Tanlac as a family is again very forcibly demonstrated in the home of Mrs, a ¢ our Chinese gang, must outfit them. selves. Their outfit must tnelud rubber boots, rain coats, heavy un- Aerwear and a number of other good woolen articles, Then there must be some good whisky, considered to be & part of the equipment for emergen- clea, $20 union dues and sometimes an extra net. This costs $45, government for school tax and $6 for a fehing Hoense. hard and steady work for 45 days, some made as high as $1,000 for the The average fisherman wil) be lucky this year If he makes $350 for the season. Each year the price he gete ts emalier and the fish he can catch are fower, At our cannery this year the aver. Irs 20-foot boats. They are pro, ave. N. W. and W. Gist at. [¥istoued by the company, and are expected to remain out for six weeks or so, as long as the fish run. They must come in to a lighter called the “tally scow” to de- {liver their fish, and occasionally to jthe cannery to dip thelr nets, but the test of the time they alone in the dan, waters of Alaskan bays and rifer mouths, Often they go for days without sleep. They must be out in storms and squalls and rains. They are given a little coal stove in their boats, and a tent to sleep under, but they often go for days wet and cold thru. MEN AGE this year wh» $3,197 cases, the big- gest since 1918. Last year it was only 22,000. Also the fields we finhed in are the beat in Northwest Alaska, which means the best in the world outside ef Siberia, The fishemen's riske are many. Often the squalls come up so sud. deniy in Alaskan waters that the little boats can barely make a haven in time. If they have good luck and make a big haul, they must not toad VERY SOON thelr boat too heavily, or It will be | “If & man comes up here when | swamped on the way to the tally he's 20 and keeps coming for 10 | *scow. years, he looks like an cld man at On our boat was @ pleasant 40," said a big fat Finn, “You see} young Latin who two years ago me now. Well, at the end of the| Was swamped with his partner season I'll bo as skinny as « flat} st Naknek. The two were in fish. We work like dogs and we| the water clinging to the sides jcan’t eave anything from what we| of their capsized boat for 10 ‘get. I don’t beliove,there’s a half} hours before they were rescued dozen in this gang that are mar} nearly frozen. ried.” ‘This year, when he returned | A tali Swede, who was as tough| to his young wife in the city, he | as jerkie and a superman in| would meet his first born baby jstrength, was fishing with his| for the first time. |brother. These two brothers were Another fisherman on this jthe type that should be the fathers| ship Inst year, a young Russian, of many children. They were “mo- came back from two years on the mentous men.” front to be drowned in Alaska. “Nobody makes any money up Why do these brawny sons of the here, but the companies,” he said.| Northland and of the Mediterrancan “They own this part of Alaska, and|each year come up to Alaska, risk they give us what they please,) their lives and age themselves before which fs a little as they can.” thelr time for a grubstake that will GIVEN $140 barely seo them thru the winter? RUN MONEY “Well, somebody had to catch the “1 been coming up here for 22/|#almon,” answered one of the Swed. years,” said another, an Italian. “I |{!8h brothers from Oakland. “If we're don’t #ee conditions much better |!ucky we make a living, and that's fn that time, I know I can’t save | #!l & working man can do anywhere.” any money.” (ore Tomorrow) The men are paid $140 for “run eer re money.” For this they do service | Moonshine Caused as the crew of the vessel. In this ° Trucker’s Death VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 25.— ‘The death of John Tuke, road work er, who was instantly killed when, & truck loaded with hot asphalt, in! which he and Andrew Jenson were riding, overturned Monday, haa been FOR For Colds, Grip, Influenza, To get the best results take Battleship Oregon at the ay sneeze. ee ak May Be Ins Gount you" Goes direct to ie pected wa ioubt ouve attended lawn parties, house parties and formal 1H) 144" without disturbing the lt Mary See, stamens, We tu Mow you are invites tos “party” that is unusual; a party ina |p| Test of the system. to inspection by visitors to the Puget | launday. bd bp abel A Number} sound navy yard Thursday. The| We will be “ 7» _ y” luces Sleep. modern warship Tennessee, now in Ot October 21\t0 28. 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Loyal Order of Moose, when he has to do is to bring up bis erew (comes to the elty Saturday to aid for the harvest. It's pretty soft, |!0 Senator Miles Poindexter’s eam: and it's no wonder the calmon [Palen for reelection. He will not be fadestey te waking sl entertained, however, as a member as bat” s willneniree °c the president's cabinet, but as ab The fia rector general of the Loyal Order of o Saberaen, We tenets of Moone, the highest office in the fra: | »lternity, and as chairman of the Mooscheart governora, Moonedom, having become the 247th member of the order in 1906, The) next year he became director gon-! eral, which office he has held ever since, Under his administration the t They must pay $5 to the Alaskan|embership of the organisation has dinner at the Arctic club Saturday If the fish run good, the man can| night and afterward escort him to make as much as $700. This menn@itne Wilkes theater, where he will . speak on Polndexter's behalf. Sun-| with little’ sleep. During the war day afternoon at 2 ho will address a} |public meeting at Moore temple. Man Robbed Three age catch was 11,000 reds, At tc) “@*nce, Harry Jones, 25, negro, was apiece this would make $230, Satior|Uder arrest Wednesday, prepara-| Tom's was “high bont” He and his| tory to the filing of burglary charges partner caught 24,222 reds, making against him, Jenes was arrested $726.66 aplece, And the cannery pack| TU°*4ay by Detectives A, A. Brown and L. C. Harris. Loot recovered thru Jones’ arrest ts rnlued at $500. to Arrive Saturday Sec. J. J. Davis Secretary of Labor James J. Davia Davie is one of the ploneers of Tho local Moose will give him al Residences, Claim Accused of robbing three rest. METROPOLITAN THE AMERICAN LIGHT OrERA COMPANY orun. Mate, (Wea az SRAT SALH lala to moonshine. Officers found! — EDWARD L. HAW America’s foremost character ANALYST with the Miami Val ley Chautanqua at Dayton, Ohio. FIVE FREE LECTURES Character Analysis, Etc. 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On Tuesday next, the Sist, at 1p. m., in Fine Arte Hall, 1218 Fourth Ave, you will have the chance to buy some of these lots at your own foo, You know, better than anyone in Be tle, that the upward sewing of the reni estate market ts under way and you know that before the spring desirable lots will be in demand and prices will be firmer. Enough sald, We will greet you at the sale next Tuesday, for you are the ones who will make the money, o the Public Don't lag behind and bring up the rear. Get in at tho start and secure a homesite, apart ment house site or building location before the market gets any more acti At thi sale you will buy at your own price and on easy terma, and lots will probably sell at 30, 40 or 50 Cents . on the Dollar Elliott Avenue, the new artery to Ballard and Magnolia,Bluff, is now open and in use daily. This artery will stir up the sleepers when they realize what it means. 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