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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1881)
THE NEW NORTHWEST. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881; Y IWrlUea lor. the vm North weat.1 .- , PERILS BY DAY PERILS BY NIGHT. a itoky or th Columbia biveb. . BT A. A. CLSYgLAKD. ,. . .. ; ' .. - "You'll hare (o.pulldown to-night, Will, If you go below. There is not a breath of wind." These words ere uttered by, a young And hap-py-looklng woman as she Jeaned agalqst the net , jacfc and looked down upon her husband, who was taking his aelne Into the boat '.... i4'No, Lucy, I don't think It would pay to pull galnut the tide' replied Will. ' "Da you, Joe ? be asked, looking up at bla boat-puller aa he poke. ., - . l " "I think7 we bad better wait ttll the tide tjjrns ' said Joe. ;--,v: .;. "That w.ill beJet, WHU" added Lucy, "for then" lowering her volce--"yiu can stay an hour or two longer with me." 1 - - " "Yw, little one, but staying with you will not catch fUh," said Will. "I'll lay out on this flood and then drift down on the next ebb tide." The net was soon piled in the boat, and, ascend lng to where Lucy stood, AVI 11 said :. "Did you fill the lunch bucket VLi 1 "Oh, yes, long ago. And I filled It full. But I do hope you won't stay away as long as you did last time. I wish you would give up fishing and '. stay with nw." i , - ' v'--.-" . "Only this year, little one. After that, J prom-1 y-u ttI??Jto wet 9 threaul agal n.(r3al mon. nets are made of from 10 to 12 parts of flaxen hoe thread.) "But, Oh, Will 1 If the wind blows and I bear the' moaning of the bar," said Lucy, with a far away look, "you don't know how I feel, when you are away, with only a thin plank between you and " ' 1 - Unable to finish, she turned away sobbing. "Never fear, missus," said Joe. JYourman will be all right" If it cornea on to blow, we'll run for shelter. : Bo If you bear the wind howling round the house, you can say to yourself, 'My man Is snug In some good place cooking coffee.' " !Tbt'a a fact, little one," added Will. "I bare a good boat as good as the best and I'll be careful for your sake. Now, cheer up and kiss me good-by, for we must be going." . Good-by, Will, darling," aald Lucy, Uirough hertears." "Don't stay away too long." "Cheer ap, missus," said the oarsman as he pulled from shored "TH lake care of your. man. We'll be back In a day or two with a hundred fish In the boat." -- 1 ; ..... ' r The anchor was lifted, the sail was spread to the - breeze, and With light hearts the brave fishermen .headed for the Cape. '7-7-r 7- . . r.7 . , .The Btorm King was abroad that night and . taunted the waters with the sou' we t wind, until, roused to f Uryr they-falrly .foamed. Against shores and sands and rocks theyjdashed, leaping heavenward In 4helr-wgerelyto fall - back and renew the contest with redoubled fury. The bea con light of warning and of hope burned brightly, and when at last lta gleams grew dim, day had dawned. - ;7 -7 "7V i4Two J'LJ?? togetheruponhe.wUr,:but one was taken and the other left, lie was found when the sun rose upon the sandsT 1 The lamp of 7 life was but feebly, burning. -One hand was torn " and , bleeding ; the other, tightly clenched, had i something Intertwined amongst the fingers. It was a "death grip" and could not be unloosened Gently they lifted him from his sandy bed .and tended him ai a mother would her child, until the Vital spark was fanned Into a flame.' "Who Is he?" 7 ; "A voice husky with emotion answered: . - "It's Joe." : .: ' .... ; "Where la Will W The bowed beads bent lower still. There was .Hence. Not a rolce answered. By and by the shore was searched. - And when the crowd of men, pale with apprehension, asked for Will, Joe wept ami told his sad tale a tale repeated, alas ! too often told how the breeze freshened to a gale ; told of tears, of prayers, of almost superhuman efforts to save ; of the re morseless waves seeking to engulf .them ; told bow long the man held on. The boat was his all.; was bread for wife and child. But the end came. The angry waters had claimed two victims from the boat. One was entangled In the net. With fearful roars It dragged him out to sea and In Its fury cast the other torn and bleeding and almost .ijfelese oiMbe ml,- , : And If we air meet on the other side, Win, l know, will say Joe did his duty like a man." The sad news was told carefully, tenderly, to the wife.' - Who can describe her sorrow 7 Lt us not attempt lt 7i- ' ' " When, clad' In the-habiliments of woe, she walked the streets, the fishermen with downcast looks and with hushed voices would say : " 'TIs Will' wife." . " , f Y . -. '-, v 7 1 One by one the faces we used to see are hidden from bur sight burled fathoms deep'beneath the waves. And now when the 8torm King rides abroad, our beartalnk, for weknow the fisher- man Is lu peril by dsy and In peril by nignt. For a moment, not a sound save that of- smoth ered sobs was heard. Then a trembling voice was beard asking: ,-v ' , ' , "Who will tell bis wife V ; -r- All stood silent. Then a true-hearted man Stepped forth and said : . "Iwlllgo." . ;; i ; .""""" 7-' At these words, Joe' sobbed like a child. Then the band clenched with the "death grip" came lowly forth, and one by one the fingers were un loosened. r". " ' ' ' ,.' 77 "Tell herT he said, between bis sob,"thal I tried to keepjny word, I tried to look after her man; be was tangled In the net when the boat swamped ; and he called to me to save him. I reached his side as he was going down, and grasped btm by ; the , balr, But he .was dragged! ii n,hutv from me. Did I do my best, boys ?,r 7 "Aye," they ald ; "you did, Joe, His hair Is In your fingers now. 4 You could do nd more." : Uto her," continued Joe; "anl tell her ' , ' 'AMONG THE TYPES. r A JlipiIT VISIT- TO THE COMpOSIXO ROOMS OF A . 77 METHOfOLITAN- DAILY. 7 -- -:- ' The morning paper comes In fresirand damp,' and while you are reading It, the men who made It for you are asleep.Tliey.did their work while you were reposing on your downy couch their life Is emphatically one of the nlgut. xney sleep when the sun shines. They go to bed when he rise". It Is all night with them. Steadily click, Click, click, go-the- typesrone"llne after another, paragraph follows paragraph, columns take their places beside columns, ever lengthening, filling up the gaps, assuming form and proportion, seek lng out and settling intppropriateyaw, eve approachlugnwlm ever gelling ready! for the reading that Is to be done at so many break fast tables, on so many railways, and In so many counting-rooms on the morrow. . " '' Time." " The hour, for work has come. The men go to the desk. .There is little talking that Is left to the central figure. The group consists of thirty men or more, and their faces are a study. Some are young, some are old, all are earnest Their life makes thera-aorThey have dlvested themselves of costs, the most of them ; some have Sut on a thin Jacket In place of tlte heavier out-of-oor garment... v The one who stands the farthest from u.with a light straw hat tipped Jauntily on the side of his head, which he now takes oft the hat, not the head and lays on a case near by. is a graduate of Ohelof our best colleges. Don't smile. Five more In that group are graduates, one with the honors of a valedictorian clustering around his brow. ' - 7 "' " T' ..- The slender lad of not more than nineteen, who stands next to blm, i a collegian now, a Junior. He-spends his vacations hen for the sake of the twenty-five or thirty dollars a week which It Is sure to afford him. Il devotes all hi vacations to this work. 1 ' The man on the rlght,wlthLAheavyjnustache Is a sporting man, regular correspondent for WilkeJ Spirit of the Timet. He Is fond of taking Saturday afternoon for a game of base-ball. It Is bis one free afternoon, and he, with eight others, all before us, devote It with tbelr might to the muscular work. - ' t- ' The central figure, who now'says "Nineteen," was a Colonel In . the army, and got Jhat . scarred cheek at Gettysburg. - - , The fierce-looking Frenchman behind him Jed some of the cavalry charges that graced- the hills of Virginia. Tn the corner over here, at our right, are wooden swords which he and others, who cleft the startled air with their shining blades elghUen years, ago, cu t-and slash now, sometimes, to keep their practice up. The Indian cjubs near the 'same pile belong to the wiry man near the window. He is a gymnast, and has appeared mora than Once on the boards at our city theatres. "Nineteen."- -- - - The Frenchman steps up and takes from the desk a sheet of straw-roloredpaper, looks at It for a moment, and retires. "T : - 4Twentyone." r The gymnast steps up and takes a slip, looks at It, and a slight chuckle Is audible. The simple expression, "Fat, eh !" comes from some one In the group. The gymnast answers with a quiet nod and a smile that-showe-ho is-content with the piece of copy that fell to him. , 7 Twenty-two, Twenty-three, Twenty-four, Twenty-live, Twenty-slxfTwenty-seven, Twehty elght, Twenty-nine, Thirty, One, Two, Three." - All the numbers are quietly uttered by the cen tral figure, but his eyes are rarely raised. The whole thing on his part Is mechanical. The men receive their "taken" and pass on. When they are all gone, he leans his head on his hands and gaxes In vacancy. It Is the last of the week, and he In tired. ' Air around him the types begin to clickclick, click. You cannot tell It from the clock's tick. Thews Is all lighted to Its fullest blaife. Every face Is sober as the men bend steadily over their cases, for there are wives and babies depending on the money to be earned. The compositor does not often hk up. He is Intent on the work before him. He finishes his1 "take;", and gets another. He seldom speaks. Thirty or fortv In a room, all Intent on the work 4hkU-ulreiheliUMHigia--welh -their ey-s and fingers,, have no time for looking up. The man Just before us has Just finished what he took, and, through a jHfullar fancy of his own, puts his copy between his teeth and goes to the "galley banki!l.Thr'e or four more come at the same time by a fortuitous coincidence. They say nothing. They hardly look, at one each other. Their respective stickful are emptied. 7 The galleys on the bank begin to fill: ICach man adds a little, and when 1 Is In Its place, with pencil and pajier he designates It with anark to corre sttoiul with a mark already on the page of copy. No man takes precetlence here or elsewhere, except by numbers when "time" is called, and by "finish" durlnir the rest of the nlirht. -- Social standing in the outside world of daylight counts for little here, The wants known by, his numler, and when his bit of copy is done and the type deposited on the bank. If there Is no more on the desk, he writes his number on a slate or paper, and marks down opposite to It tne nour bewlhLhcr g-by.W tbe whole thing will be put In The mi leys are nillnjr fast now. Ileie is an editorial.' It Will take a whole column of the paper to-morrow. Here Is a letter from a foreign corrvuDoiulcnt. ILwfll octuipy nearly two col iiiMH". ritin'U turn ruin iom' ui n-imirTim,4ii type. Each man Ukes a page of manuscript copy. Each man knows the contents of the fragment he He can read the balance in iue pmpcr morrow, If he chooses. . He rarely uwm trou ble to do It before, mat ne mmj iiw f he sets, he puts at Its bead a "slugl'-a , piece of metal of peculiar shape, but It bears bis number, and when the proofs are taken, tne .siugs are drawn and put on-the ""bank" for further use, leaving the type solid and compact, in coiuran form, each article complete. . 7, - K)ut of the way." Here comes a black-eyed, black-haired man. With a twist of the finger and a turn of the wrist, he has drawn' frorn.A .secret recess a leng, narrow stick. It arops into us place In the galley beside the type, the quoins fly in thA iiarmwlni? nassaire. the locked ralley slim on to the press witn a click, the proofs are taken, one, two, three, one for the compositors to claim their matter wJtn to-morrow, one ior ine nnai re vlalon and noli ah In ir bv the proof reader, and one tot a free-and-easy slip, which goes to the edito rial room to snow wnat nas aireMiy ueen aone. . Things are getting lively now. Copy lies In abundance on the desk; the "bank" Is receiving deposits by hand-fulls and giving out by galley- fulls. The compositor's lingers have grown um ber as be warms to the work, and fairly fly over the case. 7 A type here, a type, there, adjusting one line, and plelng another. 1 7, 7 ' rr -The Associate! Press dispatches areburrylng In on their transparent paper toss a sheet, of it in the air, and It floats like debate silk. . The "spe cials" race along with them ; news items, police reports, court-calendar, come bouncing In like school-boys; the proofs are being passed to the reader, long white ribbons with dark centers. Gaily and brightly they enter the room, but the spider-work of the proof-reader crawls over them before they go out, and they are not so clean. Out they fly; a rapid comparison. of numbers takes dace-cllck on to a correcting case where" every ault Is rectified all that are found and away It rushes for the "turtle." ... ... But there Is talking In all directions. A dozen men are standing idle. Some are going toward the desk. They put their number on the slate, look at the clock, reckon all fractions in their own favor, and Join the group of those who are talking, chatting, lounging, slashing wooden swords, or whirling Indian clubs. There Is no copy on the desk, and they are "only waiting." . Aharpetrikeof the bellra rattling of -the box as It dashes' along Its narrow passage-way from the editorial rooms, announces A fresh arrival of copy. There Is utter silence. "Five, Twelve, N lne)3eveu teen , Twenty-seven ," etc. , Is the order of numbers on the slate;' and as each number Is called, each man takes his slip of copy, goes to the slate, counts the fractions In his own favor again, dots down the -number of minutes he has been away from hia case, and Is standing In his place again as sober as a Judge, and working like steam. Steadily the hours roll on. One o'clock strikes, two, three, four; there are rapid movements now ; men begin to run with their galleys and their sticks of type) some late news has come and It must go In the paper. At a given moment a sig nal comes and there must be noth lng left. The men are tired, excited, eager. Away in the base-' ment a score of men are waiting at the presses, ami their work must be done that the malts may close and the railway trains Ibe loaded with the latest news, on time. The composition-room must have Its work done at a given moment, and when the signal comes the great"turtle" are swung to the drop, and away they go to the presses with their masses of type. . "All up,'' "all up," is echoed from one end of the- room to t he-ot her. There-wi 11 -be nor copy from the editorial room to-night. One by one each man puts his last piece of copy and work on the bank, turns bis gas down, nulls his coat on t the hat slides on be little cares now, and with hardly a "good-night" to those around hlm.The goes out Into the night Just as It Is closing. He hearsthe ml 1 k men as they- dxl ve ru mbl 1 ngly along the deserted streets : he sees occasional dark figures gilding along, bent on the same errand as himself borne ; he passes now and then a police mansometimes stops for a word or two, no more. Meanwhile, the great cylinders begin to move, and the heaps of papers with the last Item, pushed 4tt by the akin of -lta teeth, a re being -counted out for the troops of boys who are now waiting out side. , Truly, our night's adventure was like a dream. C'Arts. II. Jirainard in 2icupaitr lleporter. ' Baltimore papers are the most self-possessed in the world. -No,matter what occurs, they contrive to look as though nothing had- happened. lioaton 1L , - ' :-. . "Don't xmake a fool of yourself, . 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