The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1922, Page 2

fie | On “Hell Ship” Cannery and Shacks Despairing Bunk House Flooded by High Tide Superintendent Orders Fire Out One Tin-lined Bath Tub for 72 Men cs , | * * * * * * ” * Max Stern, newspaper man, fas written for The Star and sister papers ® vivid description of a trip he took on an Alaskan» whip, The horrors of the “hell sti are brought home in Stern's forceful style, Preceding chapters found him, a member of the “Chi his way tember Ameria Ut Homes Murenu: for Better Amertonn Homes Gm, | North, The sea has been heavy, the food is unfit for nnd the dity | drag on in endless misery, Throats are dry for lick of water, A roek | pigeon follows the ship and iy regarded a» men of MM lack, But the ed bad and the ship oker had he’ niry yen are taker nts left to die, Rooms in bunkhouse se low men con't stand | BY MAX STERN ‘The @ o'clock whistle awoke M6. | one J As it blew its lon@drmawn-out Jeille, there arose from the hill above us a weird yelping chorus of howls, h as I had never heard except could not walk, except in rub ber boots, ‘The backed and qunken in It looked Hke the ark of Noah must have looked the detuge rev building was way the middie, ter | su SEATTLE STAT Just Two U Menin Race Tired of #ecing the interests of the University of Washintgon ignored in Olympia, alumni of that institution arranged this year to enter the legis lative campaign in force, #o that they would be assured a certain amount of consideration jin the foothills of the Sierras when! It had only one window on one of Ithe coyotes gathered at night hd be sides, and In several place co of a score of malamutes thd up tol away, Over its front doorway some i] TABLES Sine eorek” asians pore aa had facetiously written “Hotel “Din Nea. i. umn de jungies,” | St Francis.” c i 28. Do orac! he Hh Ou me lor our VAIN se ool and —furniture of QUALIVY. 11 dressing tables, neighbor, thru & erack In ‘the wall.| Bouse for ‘our Gustaese cook and odd pieces left over frvym complete suites, NOW B)iM, Tea rer seam us & hobo back end by a special entrance was GREATLY reduced and offered at these ex- J) y tunica down my rickety box the, culinary dmatn er A t t ote a ceptionally low prices. Fee ere a wan benad: Gag regular pal light, and the sights that met my) PLOOR! ‘ elt Inut bination lore ware. Seexeow Mitend oe tak bom atk © Gosia, oo ae ing table $88.50 oF DESPA ,| conatructed many years ago by the : ‘ | ‘The unpainted cannery was built! 6) gore g anata Me! —mahogany ag poms 40 DG T5 Foc river in the midst orn vort Oe i a US AV, swamp, with board walls and cind " ee cheng er * “a paths leading from it to the bunk Pe een ee ci oe —walnut combination 26.50 |houses and other eomaitines . hasten” ddealeeee qian auane, Wei i ‘ In places it bad sunk into the} ked and were dirty, but they —walnut combination QTR Piss using, the eae f0 appear to] Monkhouse. in which wan tot i 2. e wave gracefully in an undulating | 00) Us si Suaniene stamens yn bn ane see Bg a ye Bo i e | ‘The tide was out, and some were Noorn. nd a board bed table oTanie XVI ~ 40— 28.75 fishing boats lay tn the mud, wong | Seo ine oniy furniture, ann rule with much driftwood and refwe. A", nea of mud. tin jamokestack had blown down @ndiise surrounded the was rusting in the min. The whole of buildings, which together gave picture gave forth the effect of IM! toreh a picture of nothing #0 much jeoncelvable neglect and disrepair! .. . rayg-pickers’ village But worse than anything I bed) ye was tn the shacks that the for over seen were OUF OWN QUAFTErs. | tunste ones of our Kang had set up cans and ret huddied group —ivory dressin; ‘ table. Loui: ‘vi —ivory dressing | table. Louis XVI 28.85 29.35 41— 42.50 [Chinese Gang. later to learn why a rush had been walnut dressing 41.50 | BUNKHOUSE }made for the hut With their . * LOORS LIKE ARK |amoky stoves they might not be —mahogany combination 47 75 The bunkhouse was surrounded | palatial, but they wore better than . dressing table 85— —walnut dressing table. Louis XVI period on two sides by marmwh thru which/our damp and cold sleeping quar —— — |¢ EIGHT CROSSES IN GRAVEVARD A few hundred yards away, on the brow of a high bluff over the river, Was a omall native village. and right above uw, not 200 feet away In the tall brown gras, lay the eraveyard. AS an ever-present reminder of the of Ife wtood a row of sight white cromen bearing the Rames.of Mexicans and Guamere who had died tn thin forsaken land. Breakfast was announced. The! bunkhoume was also the dining room and, as I entered, the sleepers were tumbling out oftheir “kennels” and | making for the oie with thetr plates | and food weapons. Martini, the exehiet of potion of Panama, was biacker than any of] JOUr negroes, but an T passed his low: | or bunk and raw him emerging. hie skin was no blacker than the dark-| news thru which he crawled. . ° A high tide had recentty come up| Painless jand flooded the bottom of the bunk house. The floor was still wet and of Teeth the place was dank. 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Totten But the beetlald plans of mice and men gO awr particularly in the matter of politic And the prima rity maw all but two of the university candidate running for lower house. out of th seats in the | | Thomas Murphine Oddly enough, the only survivors are both in 4he same district--the 424, They are William Phelps Tot-/ ten and Thomas F. Murphine, both republicans, University men and women in thé 424 are making a de-| termined fight for them. same as breakfast afloat, ex we had mush. The mush was us in & big dish, out of which we! dipped it with our own spoons. It was unenited and lacked enough wugar, and over it had been poured | ® chalky solution of what is known | an “southwest.” This was diluted! condensed milk, watered until only the color of milk remained, Fried potatoes were on the bill of fare, but before we reached them they were ax chilled thru as we were. Likewine bacon was served ini cele bration of our safe arrival, but ft, too, was cold and clammy befors we could devour it SUPER ORDERS FIRE PUT OUT Outside, the #un was coming out tn a tentative fashion, and after break- fast we decided on» delousing bee From the piles of old tins we select- od some rusty five-gailon ofl cans and from « coal pile, still frozen thru, we hacked some hunks of coal, We piled our underclothes and bed ding into the cans to boll them on our fires, and everything was well under way when Superintendent Jose appeared at the doorway of the can- | tna | ‘You put dem fires out or I come \put der out for you! he shouted angrily. There was no danger from the fires, so it must have been the hunks of coal of which he was thinking. We obeyed, and had to be content with washing out our things in cold |water and hanging them to dry in the wind on the scrub alders near the graveyard ‘Then, for the bath! Steam was not jrunning yet, but even a cold shower would be glorious. We were directed to the bath house adjoining the Chi- [nese kitchen. We were disappointed |to find that there was no shower. Instead, there was, in a dark and |dirty room, one little tin-lined tub. It wan not even standard size, One lundersigzed tin-lined tub for 72 men. FINALLY GET THEIR BATHS We waited our turn and, after sev- eral days, we all had our bath. It was risky business to bathe in « tub used by over threescore of men, many of whom had serious infectious diseases, but there was nothing else to do. | In place of wash basins were three little wooden tubs, made from saw- ing herring barrels in t These, too, were unsanitary, Opto the same careful trial T have | oj and there { hat he will come to the con have, that it opens the door for the re of many ¢ Every druggiet in thie country te authorized to say to every rheumath sufferer that if @ full pint bottle Allenrhu, the re. conquerer rheumatiam, does not show the way to stop the agony, reduce swollen Joirite and do away with even the lightest twinge of rheumatic pain, he will gladly return your money ¢ without comment t u has been tried and te and really marvelous n accomplished where the inten) in ny were where the pationt fen course, and I hunted up an ofl can which I cut in two for a basin. Wi were getting to be aa resourceful as the dwellers of the jungles. During the morning we casually Jearned that the old Mexican had ied during the early hours after we brought him ashore on a stetcher. Whether it was the cold midnight trip that finished him or just that he was due to pass on we would never know. Neved he died of neglect and expos ure. Mone had lost « $10 fee. Some of the negroes shuddered at the thought of his having lain that night stark in the mame bunkhouse with them. And there would be nine white crosses in- stead of eight on the hill over us. Otherwise his passing was a mere in- cident in cannery life. New York, — Dr known eye specialist, and Dr. Jud- kina, med: * roports after @ thorough test of a/ popular remedy for the eyes Says Dr, Smith tion was first called to it, I wai clined to be rule of mine t ment Having spect 1 | press 4n intelligent opinion on rew jes for the eyes. Thas created suc of|comed the opportunity to t a | began to w litle over a to aay pe with. through t own pract en the eyesight m cent in one week's time non of works! ¢, inflamed lids ities, itehing colds, WEDNESDAY, We Tell It With VALUES ~ DRIVING HOME THE FACT That “Sweet Sixteen” must maintain a reputation of being the leading specialty house in Seattle for Women’s and Misses’ Ready - to - Wear Apparel— in Style! in Newness! in Originality! in Quality! Variety! Low Prices! —Leading —Leading ~Leading —Leading —Leading —Leading Most Wonderful Dresses We have often thought that the limit of beauty and variety had been reached; but they come and come more charm- in m ing than ever. Coats You Shouldn’t Fail to See at 46 Handsome models in Silk-lined Suedynes, Bolivias and Velours. And nifty Sport Coats, man-made Polo Coats and clever College Coats in tweeds, mixtures and plaid backs. FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES. 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