12.
MY EASIEST JOB.
IN A COMMONWEALTH FREIGHTER.
hauled and passed another yessel! But it was a little brigantine, becalmed.
A BAD DAY.
THE CHINA MAIL,
wouldn't allow anyone ashore. The boats were amidships, and he and the mates watched them. But they couldn't trick us. We sold every-a thing out of the after peak to the When we left Wallaroo we were bumboat men for about a hundredth supposed to have sufficient coal to see us to Cape Town, which was to of its value, on the stipulation that they should Amuggle us nshore. be the noxt stop. But the 18 This they did, and we landed in answer when anyone asks what was so much coal under those water
ONE OF THE CREW.
"
And the mate, with the assist- ance of the bos'n, one of the A.B.'s, who was more or less sober, and couple of longshoremen, had to shift her himself.
BRIGHTON TOWN
"BRINGING THE DOWNS
TO, THE SEA."
MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928.
THE PIONEER OF THE PLAT. | DOCTOR'S METHODS.
But there is, of course, more than one Brighton: there is Brighton the health resort and the Brighton which is little better than a part of) residential London-an annexe of Mayfair (or is it Kensington?);} Of this part or aspect of Brighton For a week Brighton has been Mr. Preston says that the motor-car
MOTOR CAPITAL
1 never have to think of andremen found that they had to pitch Las Palmas from underneath great who were born In Australia; thero preening itself and spreading ita/and the birth of the new city have l
the easiest Job I ever had.
The
got to sea.
we'd get it ba-with- soon enough.. mate wanted anything dere. we'd demand overtime, and see that
LITTLE LASSIES.
1
to their ways
tale of motor-cars.
K
WHEN THE MEDICO HAS TO LIE.
WHAT A LADY HAS TO SAY.
A HOT PLACE. *If the. "Australians" from Paradise-street and Poplar there were only three people in the ship
Quite recently I saw it stated that heaps of bambas and such In the
a tati of many colours, between them made for its exten- the doctors of to-day are ignorant, tube boilers to keep them going bumboat men's craft. We didn't go is nothing more difficult than for new tail,
extends over twenty-five alon there will be perhaps an out foolish, and egotistical.
I can recall about a hundred doc Greater Brighton, of which break of building-carefully con- anawer is a simple, for I once and we were so long getting across aboard again until the next day, the the Australian youth to go to sea- which had painted the city of Gateshead miles. the Australian Bight, that by the
Intervening period being spent-
con-[deal, and probably another hundred served six months in a Common time we were in the vicinity of wall, that's a story of its own. Ten as red as its tolerant constabulary we have heard rumours for so long, trolled by the authorities and tors of whom I have seen a great
And what will houses within what is now wealth Government cargo steamer. Albany, the old man judged it pru-
What is sidered easy reach of the front will I have known casually; and I can
be snapped up eagerly.
say that none of these charges is Exactly what the name of the dent to put in to replenish the mounted gendarmes escorted us would permit, they dyed the neigh has now been born,
crimson. The constabulary of that its future?
But on the whole he seems to just, writes Mabel Minshail in the steamer was, it might be prudent-bunkers. We were there a day, and aboard, and the old man logged the bourhood of the Bute-road a flaring become of this new city?
neighbourhood are used to the ways
A representative of The London think that residential Brighton got"Daily Mail.” aceing what is going to be wrillen it was one of the worst days the lot of us a day's pay as soon as ive
But what did we care? V of the men who follow the sea; but | "Observer" asked that question of over its growing pains many years about her to withhold. It will be crew knew that voyage. There
Doctors nowadays do not treat sufficient for a trade she never en- they were, anchored within a cable
ten they tau sa much money as Mr. Harry Preston, who told him à ago. It anticipated the troubles of their patients as Ignoramuses, as is of liquid cheor, tered, to a design that would have of several houses
It would seem the metropolis, it began to have a often alleged. Whenever possible.a at really was the suited no trade on earth; she was and not a soul could get ashore. registered in a port she never visit-But they made up for it later.
troubic, is our Australian atanmer that Brigmore they table, and the servant problem--which has surely doctor will tell his patient the com had been manned by Australians,new Brighton inevitable, and the been a stock joke in "Punch" for plaint, the treatment he will give, from Albany to ed, and had been given a name no Going across
we got it.
used to Australian conditions, and motor-car will control its future. no more than ten or fifteen years? and why. But a doctor is more or sailor could pronounce; she was as Cape Town was a thoroughly miser-
with something to be proud of For in these petrol days why should |—a quarter of a century ago. Mr.less a psychologist and knows that Awkward as a coal-hulk, and as dif- able experience. The westerlea
There were no orders for our when they saw the Jack and Stars a seaside resort be content to be a Preston tells how in the early years to adopt this method with a certain What need is of his acquaintance, with Brighton patient who is unusually nervous it ficult to steer as a bad-tempered ox.ahrieked around us day and night, With all these faults and several and great seas fell over the bows steamer at Las Palmas, so we went floating over the stern-well, things caside resort? more-It is not to be wondered at and made the steel decks slippery on to Falmouth to see if there were would probably have been very dir. there to live on the front in order there was a period of depression- be wiser to bluff or even fib, and if
will houses stood empty. that she.lay at anchor of the place and dangerous. Not that we mind- any there. There weren't, and weferent. But ahe wasn't. Most of to have your morning bathe when A 'distressing⋅ proportion of, the big the 'disease is quite incurable where she was launched until her ed that much; we lived aft, and lay there a week. In the end wo her crow consisted of fellows who ten minutes in a motor-car
deck except were sent around to a place called had run from Limajuice steamers bring you in from the Downs? simply wouldn't, live in them," heHow many people would appreciate Brighton was declining and the their nearest and dearest being told in Melbourne and Sydney, and had They have brought the Downs anys. been able to get into a union which down to Brighton.
That, in part, was the substance London papers sent to ask Mr. that they had cancer, or tuberco- Preston why, whereupon he told losia, or a diseased heart, beyond consisted largely of their class long before they came to Australia; once of Mr. Preston's reply.
The patient would not de-hope of cure? them that Brighton was for twenty-nine years in in the union, they weren't long in been
once in Brighton, and
remembers what clining at all, but that there was a probably commit suicide and the drifting into jobs: And jobs, where the pay and the condi- many people have called its better change coming over the face of the doctor would be condemned as tact- tions were something that had days.
Time was, he says, when world and we were coming to the less and lacking in sympathy.
There are, too, many highly ner- era of the flat. And Brighton was formerly been beyond their wildest the visitor would bring his dreams, there was no holding them. rlage-and-four, and he would have a city of flats before the rest of the vous people on the borderline of in
Night after night the dreary it driven along the promenade world had properly grasped the idea. sanity. By lie after lie they are gradually won back to more normal Brutal candour would thinking. echoed to the shouts of our and then back again; he would make "Doctor Brighton is something probably make them lanatics. But, "Australians" as cabs spilled them the journey four times before lun-more than a joke," Mr. Preston says. remember, a doctor finds it very on to the roadway, and they yelled cheon; he would flaunt his wealth He will go into eloquent rhapsodies much pleasanter to have a straight for someone to row them out
and his carriage, and by making about its air, which is a happy the ship. Two of them swam out
many journeys he would multiply medium between the too lively air of deal than to spend his time blaming 1 once, and it nearly sobered them. the traffic of Brighton by four. But Margate and Bournemouth's warm treatment with a patient it is gen the habits of the motor-car are and gentlemanly atmosphere. And "AUSTRALIANS."
cables twisted into such a mess they had to be slipped to free her, and her new plates above the waterline were red with dust, and green below with the slime of idly waiting there, and no one on earth could find for her a charter. ...She was, in short,
a typical unit of what was known as the Commonwealth Government's
"E" fleet.
A MAIDEN VOYAGE.
didn't have to go on when it was absolutely necessary, We never went on the foredeck in that weather; the lookout was kept from the bridge.
little
Gateshead, near Newcastle-on-Tync, weeks at a where we lay three wharf with a great flour mill at the end of it, where hundreds of trim little lasales worked, and AT CAPE TOWN. There was somching to worry us, there were two hostelries not 100
of the yards away. Some however; steamer developed a lack lassics used to come down in the Faulty riveting was the cause of dinner hour to stars at the ship in it, and the water used to pour into from Australia, and to wish that her 'tweendecke amidships. There were three A.B.'s in each of the they, too, were away in that sunny in by pitheads and coal gantries. The measboy used to stare back, and wish he could stay in the place, despite the coal gantries....
There was scarcely a stroke of
He has
car-
It was on her maiden voyage, two three watches-one at the wheel. country where life wasn't hemmed Bute dock of Cardiff echoed and re-every day, from one end to the other
Was
a carbide
lay at
frate of
A
,
to
can now
Mc.
.
"Servants
It began to be said that
DR. BRIGHTON.
similar tactics must be adopted.
When a doctor refuses to discuss
one on lookout, and one asleep in years and a half after she
the galley and the spare man launched, that I shipped, in her as
spent most of the time in the A.B. at a wage of about £16 Southern Indian Ocean down on his month, with extras. This happen-hands and knees with ed in the busy SCA
port of Mel-amp in the 'tween decks, scooping work done in that vessel while we
Gateshead—not even bourne, and the first thing that had up dirty water with a flattened
Government stroke. We Blung to be finne with her was to get her condensed milk tin into a bucket stages over the side to paint her,
From Cardiff we went to an out-different. It glides into the town when one reminds Mfr. Preaton that erally because the patient thinks he away from her anchorage. That When the bucket was full he had' took three days. Then we put her to carry it up the stokehold ladder but nearly all the grey paint had landish place called Djibouti, in silently, to hurries to an hotel, or we do not come to Brighton only for knows so much already and airs his
owners take the air afoot.
and Brighton's Brighton-you know know nothing. With such people into dry dock, and she barged into and pitch the mess out on deck. been sold in Las Palmas, and any- French Somali Land, selling what hides itself in a garage, and its Doctor Brighton ("London's London views on matters of which he can
way, no one had the slightest inten- remained of the ship's stores at
what I mean!" as Mr. Gerald Goold silence in best. Let them be happy the dock gates as we hove her in Bat
THE BUNGALOID DANGER. the leak was not serious, tion of doing any work except the Port Said on the way. While we
wrote in "The Observer" the other in thinking they know. Often they and stove in three of her new plates, though it did a great deal of dam unfortunate mate. It was not his put out our coal, those of the crew weren't in hospital with right in the engine-room. They age to the whent in the after holds. fault that the crew was in control; who
And, thanks to the motor car, Mr. day), and askes him what is the talk through their hats but would
future of Brighton as a city of detest contradiction.
I have heard people who have had to be replaced before she could We were 28 days from Albany to, was a misfortune which he never malaria were kept under the close Preston says, Brighton come out of dock, which meant
be more pronouncedly the city of the called in a doctor make their own the Cape. I've known sailing ships failed to lament at every oppor surveillance of the authorities, who offer you two kinds of air and two gaiety, he still seems to hold. it will
the other way, of week's delay, "We spent the week-coming putting stores aboard her stores course-do it in 14, and even leas.tunity-out of hearing of the crew. didn't intend that that particular cures at once: there is the air of
a motor-car, and the air of the sea.undercliff drive to Rottingdean, ment. Why on earth do they call in of all kinds imaginable-and in tell. We spent three days in Cape Town One day it was necessary to shift spot on the earth should be painted the Downs, and then, ten minutes in motor-car. There is talk of a new diagnosis.and order their own treat-
ahip. The wheat was ont, and we any redder than it already was. It
now city a promenade twelve miles wrong and what to do? ing persistent chaps who drifted not that it was necessary to spend had to go under the gantries, to take was hot in this place hotter than The air of the Downs is a tonic, and which, when finished, will give the doctor when they know what is long. "Brighton air adds zest to Some people call in their doctor dows in droves from the city that all that time there taking in in bunkers. But there was no one the Perolan Gulf and we refused Mr. Preston holds that it is a
life as this does," he said, and as they do their plumber. They there weren't any jobs left in her. bunkers for the run to Las Palmas on deck to take in the mooring either to live in the ship or to work. sovereign remedy for Insomnia; the
held up a glass of champagne. He would get a nasty shock if their And the stores we put aboard that but one of the firemen got foul of lines, or to drive the winches, or to We demanded that should be kept in air of the sea has may virtues which an hotel ashore; and, of course, our have been patent to all men since
said that you could go to a different doctor took as long to arrive as the waggon! We stowed into her peaks the police, and had to spend two do anything else that should have
discovered. by George show every night without repeating plumber does, or if their doctor took for one, would not blame the harass IV. The authorities of the new enough salvage gear, tow ropes and days as the guest of the Govern- such, to fit a fleet of tugs; we jam ment. The others, of course, would been done. Most of the crew were demands were acceded to. But I they were
ed mate of that Commonwealth Brighton will consider the Downs yourself, so various is the city's as long to answer a call as they do
gaiety.
to pay his bill!". "TURN OUT!” med in paint enough to paint not leave without him, and there lying in their bunks.
freighter if he were filled with a
an important part of their dominion.
At this point Mr. Preston hurried And why, if a patient is merely the Federal Capital, and red lead we were. Nor was any work done
Along came the mate,
fiendish glee when he saw almost all "It may be that we shall run
away to assist at a ceremony at the soul sick, is a doctor called int enough to smear the Transcontin- aboard the ship during that time.
Sussex Hospital. As an example Why not a clergyman? I have heard ental railway; we left great rolls The mate had looked forward to eye, stormy of gesture. He bolted of us carted away, not many days motoring roads over them."
later, either to the hospital or the Preston said, "to make them more of its usefulness, he pointed to the doctors tell nearotic patients they of canvas hankly on top, where we the short spell in port to get things on the focal scuttle.
"Come on, you fellows," he called calaboose. And there we remained accessible to our visitors" to make fact that the hospital has four or are quite well, but they are dis- could snip off a length now and then a bit shipshape after the knocking
until the ship was ready to leave.
their part in the Brighton cure five motoring cases every day believed, accused of ignorance, and to make a sea bag, or to sell to some about in the Southern Indian; but "Turn to and do a bit."
No one moved.
Looking back now, I'm not sure long before we left his only hope in
more effective.
There seems to be no doubt that abused to sympathetic friends. bumbent muni when the mate wasn't life was that we would get to sea The mate yelled again, varions that I should have called this
The authorities would have pow: Brighton-and how can a city It is sald too, that many doctors looking. And food! I had been used to windjammers before this again so that he could get some adjectives being apparent in his voyage the easiest job I ever had!
I might better have been called the era, too, to check the bungalold twenty-five miles in extent be any dislike maternity cases. I admit sense out of the crew. Nothing conversation on this occasion. where the food supplies for the voy could be done, of course. The crew A weak-chested young, chap from laziest.... Whatever name I give it, growths which threaten to destroy thing else?-is destined to be the that there are doctors who hate that
He spoke capital of motor-dum.
particular branch, but there are. age could easily be taken aboard by were quite within their "rights" in Woolloomooloo turned restlessly in however, it will always remain one the Downs beauty.
many who are very interested. Even the ship's boy in half an hour. We not working in port. Their award his bunk.
of the most interestingA. J.gravely of the danger there might be in a development of the Downs "Shay," he muttered. "Tell that Villiers in "Tasmanian Mail." lumped bags of flour, and sacks of provided that they should receive
which was apart from the develp Mr. J. H. Teesdale, formerly the if they are not, is it a crime? The spuds, and cases of talk, and meat, four hours' leave four working-messboy to tell that man to go
ment of Brighton; but under the senior partner of Messrs. Teesdale, reason maternity work is unpopular. well is that it entails such an enormous and asparagus, and tinned pudding, hours for every week spent at sea,way, there'ah a good fellow."
He was addressing the messboy. The Japanese Consul-General at new regime Brighton can be self- Newman & McDonald, the and tinned fish, and goodness knows and thus there was over two days what else, up that Government leave due to each of them. Nor did No one else was in a fit state to be Tientsin (according to the Chinese sufficing and even have power over known firm of legal practitioners in lots of sleep, which, in the care of a press) has lodged a strong protest the region whence it gets its water-Shanghai, bas joined Mr. Wilfrid busy doctor, cannot be made up by ship's gangway for days on end; they intend to go to sea again until addressed.
The messboy walked leisurely to with Gen. Fu Tao-yi, the Garrison supply, which is clearly important H. Godfrey in practice in London day. Often a doctor loses his sleep
the style of Godfrey, and never gets his foe. until I wondered if we were destin- they got it....And was this not a|
There are many medical men will- Teesdale & Co. Mr. Teesdale and ed to carry coloured pilgrims in the Government ship? They were tax- the scuttle, and returned with the Commissioner of that port, against in a town which deals in health as under
payers, and they had paid their message that the mate wanted to the anti-Japanese propaganda cam-Its chief commodity. He told, as East...
share towards her construction. know if the gentlemen from the paign which is being conducted in a horrid warning, the story of how the late Mr. Edward W. Godfrey ing to arrange a painless birth, and thirty-five years ago Worthing was were formerly in practice in Shang-it is up to the patients to seek these fo'cal would please be kind enough the native city of Tlentsin.
devastated by typhold-whole hai under the name of Teesdale, & doctors. being closed, people Godfrey. Mr. Wilfrid H. Godfrey to abift the adjectival ship?"
"Tell "im," said the man from
streets Woolloomooloo, turning over in hit
dying on every hand and all be is the brother of the inte Mr. E. W.
'is adjectival wolf. Wat's.py txx-
fected by a shepherd a score of London for many years under the miles away. breeze that
arm name of Godfrey & Godfrey. dered the burdens which the chief the yards to steward gave them with a cheerful came and hauling, them around, payers pay 'im for?" ness that I never knew them to ahow too, to a devil of a lot that never on any other job all that voyage. came and to thinking a ship lucky Come to think of it, this was about if she made the non-stop run from the only real work that I can re- Melbourne to the Channel, via Canc member we did throughout the six Horn, in less than four months; months-except, of course, when we four months of hard, dangerous, worked feverishly by night empty-and incessant toll, for 12, 14, 16 a day, and sometimes 24. ing as much of those atores me we hours could lay hands over the side But in our 'Government steamer we into the boats of waiting bumboat were on deck eight hours a day, and men in Puerto de la Luz, Port Said, we worked not at all. There was, Falmouth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and of course, the stock job of hanging every other port where we could on to the end of a holystone on the find them. This was a job, of course, wooden deck of the lower bridge, or of fooling about with the life'
BUMBOAT MEN.
THE POKER SCHOOL But the knowing ones who had!
From Cape Town to Las Palmas been with the Commonwealth Line was one glorious laze. I had never before winked hard and long when known such a holiday in all my life.
According to the Chinese press, the Shantung Provincial Govern- $500,000 for repairs to the Yellow River dykes.
The books arriving at Yokohama
I asked any questions, and shoul- I'd been used to hauling around bunk again, Tell Im to shift er ment is negotiating for a loan of cause its water-supply had been in Godfrey, and has been practising in bave reached 2,200,000 a year da an
every
for which we required the superboat gear, and sometimes one of vision of neither the chief steward the daymen would smear a bit of nor the mate.
We loaded wheat at Port Lincoln red lead over the place where it was most likely to be smudged of. But
and Wailaroo for Las Palmas for we knew we didn't really have to
rs. But before we began to
work were we not taxpayers?——
in the wheat we had to get to and the poker school in the firemen's
Lincoln, which was a task not
mplished without difficulty. To!
with, the steering gear, from
mesa-room flourished.
- SOLD THE SHIP!
long disuse, was so stiff when we At Las Palmas the messboy sold were going down the broad high-the ship for 200 pesetas to a bum- on the wharf, and, the way which leads from Melbourne's boat man docks to the sen that we got in the bumboat' man threatened to have way of just about every vessel on the skipper arrested when he would! it, causing the man at the wheel of not give delivery. (Not very long a shearing barge to hurl language after that, by the way, the Govern
of
A
at us which was neither compliment sold her, and didn't get much mentary nor polite, and the skipper more.) The messboy was himself ketch coming in from sold when an old Jow in the Bute- Tasmania to fly off at an angle into road, Cardiff, on whose shop was a nearby creek, to avoid our the intriguing sign of "Foreign clumsy bow. The engines, too, moneys exchanged here," told him were so stlf that they groaned with pesetas had slumped, and were .diculty, and it was not until long worth only a halfpenny, and gave
after we had passed through Mel-him-eight shillings for the lot. bourne Feads that the new ship' If one bumboat man made a bad touched a speed greater than five bargain, however, there were hun- knots. However, the weather was dreds who didn't. As the ship had good, and we came to Port Lincoln called there only for orders, and The only thing of interest on that might have to go on anywhere from part of the voyage was that we did Belfast to Bremerhaven, at a what we never did agal wo orer-moment's notice, the
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average in the last three years, and of these 746 were banned in the first six months of the current year, which was eight times bigger than the record of the year before last and five times larger than last year. Films, the Import of which was prohibited in the same. period, ran up to the bigh figure of 299 reels, which, compared with those banned in the previous years, in- dicates that "red" films incentive of Bolshevism are increasing more than those aimed at demoralisation. The greater part of these films were produced in Russia. Alarmed at this tendency, says the "Japan Chronicle," the Yokohama Customs has requested the Department of Finance to open a special office in the Customs premises for the atricter census of these films and the increased hispection of danger- ous books. It is hoped that the petition will be shortly granted.
Jaffea, June 11-In response to Invitations, the public assembled 4t the Contral College ground to meet Mr. L. P. Spencer, Principal of Kilner College, who was award ed, the title of Justice of Peace.. Mr. Spencer was garlanded. He freshments were served and a band of musicians onlivened the gather- ing. The Hon. Mr. W. Duraiswamy, an old pupil of Mr. Spencer, re- ferred to Mr. Spencer as a man of varied parts. Those who had a training under him could never forget his uniform, courtesy, his kindness and tolerance. Teachers had at times to perform duties which were not much liked by the boya, but, however unpleasant the duty, Mr. Spencer performed it with such amiability that the sting was removed from it. That was a quality rare among men of his profession