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ADVENTURES IN FRENCH VESSEL

LITERARY MATERIAL

SHIPPING

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I can hear music and see plays and enjoy the companionship of my own kind, I find they don't really matter as much as I thought they did. want to get back to a ship!"

MARINE COURT

THIS MORNING'S BATCH OF CASES

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928.

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As soon as she finishes her book, she will bo off again, this time on a whaling vessel bound for Ner- way. She will take with her a old, a 'three-masted barque, without, motion pleture camera."Christian an engine or a radio She was Science Monitor." once known as the "Himalaya," and had salled around the Horn time and again, weathering hurricanes, sturdy and stanch. She was 140 feet long. with 30-foot beam, 20- foot depth and 1,500 tons gross. On this, her last voyage, she carried lumber and canned fish to the

At the Marine Court this istands of the South Seus. Of the crew numbering 28, 19 were French-morning, several boatmen were

the harbour regulations. men; the remaining four were na charged with failing to observe EMPRESS OF ASIA tives of San Francisco. There was

were convicted and fined. the captain and a mate. The two Three cargo boat masters were girls were listed as midshipmen, or each fined $20 for boarding the junior officers.

"President Jefferson" without permission. the log. as the ship's journal is Another cargo boat, master, Salls hence on or before 6th Dee pounding typewriter keys, in a New called, to take their turns at the who was found anchoring the

wheel, and to stand watches. They (Southern Fairway! stood their four-hour watches, night $10.

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If Viola Irene Cooper had been born a boy, she might have run away to sea. All her life she had wanted to be a sailor-and to write about the sen. But because she happened to be a girl, and girls weren't supposed to run away to sea, she kept her dreams to herself. And then one day, while she was

she thought York City office,

What's to stop me? I'm-going -to-sen!"*

She spent six And ahe did! months before, the mast on French salling vessels and trading steamers. She visited the South Sea Islands and gathered material for a book. She earned the title of "First Girl Midshipman," and proved to her

Their duties were to help with

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Was fined

and day, just as the men did. But The coxswain of the steam they retained their feminine garh launch "Kwongtung," who failed of calico, or cretonne instead of to observe the rule of the har- taking to knickerbockers. Their hour was fined $25. shoes were sneakers or moccasins, The master of a fishing boat and in the hot weather they dis-had to face two charges: (1) with pensed with stockings. For 44 days failing to stop when requested they sailed through the Pacific. It by the police; (2) throwing

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Tuesday, Sunday,

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Japan ports

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoun

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satisfaction and to that of experi- enced sailors that a girl is as good on a ship as a boy any day, if she has a sailor's stout' heart.

But to Prove It

At

was a tranquil voyage, except for one storm, two days of being be calmed on the equator, and one nar- row escape from an encounter with a hurricane. The girls loved every minute of it, and were almost sorry to see land.

Continuing the Adventure

But she had to prove it. Brat she encountered skepticisin. Why, girls didn't become sailora! A ship was no place for a female. At Fiji-New Caledonia-the But Viola Cooper smiled down all good old "Bougainville" was dis- opposition. Her first step seaward mantled. Miss Schoen took another was by way of San Francisco, where boat to New Zealand. Viola Cooper she thought she would have a bet- accepted an offer to sign on as ter chance to get a job than in New midshipman of a French trading York. Out there she read in a steamer that made the rounds of the newspaper that an old French sail- islands, with provisions and calico This trip ing vessel was about to make a trip for the inhabitants. to the Fiji Islands, on her last afforded her unique opportunity to voyage. Viola decided she wanted gain first-hand information about to go.

She confided her hope to a the native customs of the isles. On friend, Jean Schoen, who shared this trip she was the only white her seafaring ambitions; and the "man" on board besides the captain. two of them made a trip to the The crew was composed of native shipyard. Girls, it seemed, weren't islanders, big brown, men like chil- welcome around a shipyard. But dren, who taught her some of their Viola Irene and Jean smiled their songs and dances. way in, met the captain, a gallant old Frenchman, and told him ail about it. He made the way easier for them. He said he would be glad to have them if they could get permission from the owner.

"I think," says Miss Cooper, smiling, "that he thought that would stop HR. But it didn't be cause the owner, over in Bordeaux, turned out to be another gallant Frenchman. He cabled back that he had no objection if the captain hadn't!"

Southward Bound And no a few weeks later, the two girls set sail from Vancouver, B.C.. for the South Sens. Their ship, the "Bougainville." was 64 years

Having gathered enough material for a dozen books, she found a berth on a freighter bound for Australia. From there she took another for San Francisco-working her way all the time. Now she is back in a New York apartment, pounding a typewriter again, but this time in the interests of her book, "Windjam- ming to Fiji."

"Before 1 set sail for the first time," says this young midshipman, misa three "I thought should things: musk, the theatre, and con- versation. I found that once out there on the Pacific, with only the sea and the sky for company, I was satisfied with the splendour of it. Now that I'm back in a city, where

Duchess of York at Christening.

things into the harbour. defendant pleaded guilty, was fined $25.

The and

The "coxswain of a motor schooner was fined $25 on each of four charges, namely, for not having a clearance, being un- licensed, having no survey and not having a certified coxswain,

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CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

Consignees of Cargo ex "Benlomond" are reminded to take delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after Nov. 22.

DIRECTOR DISMISSED

Hankow, Yesterday. Mr. L. N. Chang, Director of the 3rd special administrative district (formerly the British Concession), has been dismissed by the local Government.-British Nationalist

Naval Wireless.

The 3rd administrative district was constituted under the Eugene Chen-O'Malley Agreement of 1927.

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