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HAT fellow." said the nlloL t
wrestling lmo his yellow oll-
e-tern-al-ly hates to flow down for us. lot I
alone stop. Now he knows bo's got to take i
uf Out tlio thought of the money breaks
his heart, and It makes him so sore that I
he'd just love to see the yawl bust up
against his sides."
"That fellow" was coming along In a
smother of a bow .sea. It smoked clear I
over his forecastle hoad every time he
hoisted himself over a roller and dived
down Into the trough.
"Watch Dave get him." said one of the
pilots remaining on the .pilot schooner,
as they watched Dave critically. That
stout, sedate and dignified person pre
sented the uncanny spectacle-ot sitting
bodily in the green "Winter Atlantic, for
th little yawl was mostly lost to sight"
and when the wavus overran along her
ridiculous sides, all thut could be seen
was the broad yellow expanse of Dave's
bark.
"He's mean from his garhoard strake
to the top of his li!d hoad." continued
the pilot. "Tramps down West lndy way
with second quality salt codfish that is
Uiat 'high that they can smell Mm
a-coming down In San Domingo before he
mot- than clears Stndy Hook. Xow he's
coming back full of bananas, hides and
centipedes, and whua with bum engines
and dirty coal he's lust so much time that
most of his bananas have probably gone
bad, and so he's mad as a blue crab. He'll
try to give Dave a whirl now. Just
watch him get left."
The yawl had vanished bodily. Only a
momentary "gleam of yellow, dipping In
and out among the ridged seas, cave .evi
dence that Dave was still on top of the
tons of water and not underneath thorn.
A Blind Captain.,
The tramp floundered along, her cap
tain looking with Impressive fixity of
gaze to every particular point of the
horizon where there was no pilot-boat.
Sim hit each sea with thunder. The
waves flashed ovor her bow and sides
I ke shots from groat guns. Her stubby
masts and her rooking funnel wavered
"mck and forth liko the restless hands of
II sjK'ed indicator. Her LNXX) tons burden
lathered the sea t starboard and then
to port and back to starboard again.
Xow there was a tiny yellow dot in the
ave dead ahead. But the captain never
looked. His ship wallowed on stolidly.
Suddenly the yellow gleam rose on a
treat wave so that for a breathless
instant it hung higher than the uglv
round bow of the tramp. Then it disap
peared. As it -went down, the tramp's
nose went up. up. up. For a moment it
hung there, half the red forefoot show
ing clear qf the Atlantic and water pour
ing from her as it runs down a mountain
:jde m a Spring flood. Then it went
smashing deep into the sea. burying her
nose as if she were minded to dive.
trom the jigging pilot schooner, not
half her length could be seen in the
foundering sea that rose after that ter
lilic stroke. And the yawl? "Why. she
was crushed under, of course. Had she
not been right there as the iron prow
r.ammered down?
But what was that, driving away from
tmdor the rusty side? And what was
Uiat, swinging up that rusty side, now
twisting like :t teetotum, now clinging
like a fly, now dangling wide over the
hollow sea?
"Dave may weigh 200 pounds all right."
said one of the pilots contentedly, as he
snatched at the cabin top to balance him
self, "but there ain't any &0-a-month
captain of a Norwegian tramp that can
fool him. I guess."
The yellow speck on the washed side
of the fruiter went slowly up. up, like
4i golden spider climbing out of the- sea,
and presently dipped over the rail.
The pilot-boat stopped her Jigging and
lay down. The water raced astern along
her submerged rail. She heuded across
the track of the ship and made her course
so well that her rearing bowsprit pointed
straight at the tramp as he pounded past.
Xobody said a word. The tramp's cap
tain looked at something far away be
yond any possible schooner. Dave stood
on the bndge looking straight ahead. TheJ
pilots and the crew of the schooner never
clacked a smile or showed by sign that
they had ever seen Dave before.
While they were still enjoying their
solemn little soa-jokc. "my .turn now,"
tald another pilot, diving Into the cabin
and emerging again in a moment neatly
brushed and clad in reproachlessly cor
ral shore togs from polished shoes to
spcckless linen and fashionable derby hat.
Far away there was another spouting
'n the dizzying sea; but this was not a
spouting or a struggling tramp. It was
something Uiat did not wait for a sea
to hit, but hit the sea first smash! bang!
smash! swift and hard as a prizefighter
go-ng n to finish a beaten foe before the
gong sounds.
It grew out of the white trouble of
owan like a magic lantern view on a
screen. Two bright red funnels uprose.
Two dainty yacht-like masts cut the
sky A long, snaky, black body sprang
from surge to surge, hardly seeming to
sink in a trough before it was rising clear
again to breast the next long running
idler.
Not 33 minutes before it had been almost
hull down. Xow the men on the. schooner
could count the dazzling portholes and see
"bright garments flutter op the crowded
decks that rose in four huge tiers.
i nc pilot senooner ceased her prancing
h moment ana exchange her iw
fOT pCWdulum-Ilke nltrh xh ainuo
'rfvt the yawl ke.TJie MttW lmi M
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over, the pilot .whs in hor. the pair of
oars gripped the sea. like great wooden
hands and pulled hor away before the
next wave, quick as it ran. could touch
her.
The Ir Kaiser Conic.
"That's the Kaiser." said the remaining
pilot. "Xow. you'll .see a piece of steamer
boarding that Is boarding. If they keep
on building: the.e liners bigger, we'll be
uitit, an uircuip, insieau oi a yawl, to i
reacn tneir decxs one of these days." I
w..v..cj uioaii iu jik as, steer
ing straight into the course of the on
coming ship. The yawl wa sliding over
the hills just a little beyond. With a
roar of water ahead, a roar of water
astern, a roar of steam overhead, the
great Kalsvr came down on top of both.
Xow Just before, the landsman on the
schooner had been wondering at her glor
ious tall spars that seemed to reach Into
the sky. and then, all at once, all the
wild December gale was shut off from
her canvas as the steel wall of the Kai
ser Wilhelm der Grosae slid between her
and the wind.
To look up to her highest deck from the
deck of the big schooner "was like try
ing to look up to the fourth story of a
tall house from a narrow street. And
that Is Just whut it was; for the Kaiser
stuck more than 40 feet of smooth steel
sides up out of the soa.
From the tiptop -of that sheer wall a lit
tle snaky thing writhed down until Its
lower end Just hung clear of the green
undulations.
"Pretty decent ladders these big fellows
give us," said the pilot remaining on the
schooner. "Xow Dave had to go up a
thing that wasn"t much more than an old
rope with a few bum pieces of wood
lashed on here and there. In a sea It's
kind of hard to hold on. But tho big
chaps arc mostly Using: a clever ladder
that the secretary of our board, Mr.
Xash. fixed up. It's got wooden rungs
that have oval holes In the fJden for a
fellow's hands to grip, and the rungs are
wide and flat enough so they lay against
the -ship and aren't as likely to let the
ladder twist and spin. That gives a man
some sort of a show. Watch Captain
Jim now and you'll see how they go tip
liners" sides. I s'pose that's what you
came out to write up. It beats me how
you fellows that have all Xew York to
write about, always hanker to write up
this tort of thing that's as okl as the
day is long. But you just ask me quv
tlons now and Til tell you what little I
know.'
Well, then, the landsman wanted to
know, isn't this liner goln to stop?
Here Is Captain Jlm'-s boat lelng rowed
apparently right Into her track. Yen
itea't mean to say that he is naing to hi
crazy enough to try to boor that Moat
ing IHVclntce white it hi xnovfeg?
Well, zxyiim the pHot. erf ceunw th
law sys tMU a DtgampMy mm xtm fe
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a deed top to take on a pilot. But then,
you know, captains hate .to stop their
engines in right of port, after driving
them without a break clear across the
Western sea. And, of course. " It Isn't
the pilots" business or to their interest
to impede commerce. To be sure, Jn
really bad weather a h!p Just naturally
has to stop; but. In good weather like
thls-
om
Slam! said the pilot schooner sarcasli-
cally and heaved herself bodily Into
THE FIGHT FOR FREE ART
BOSTON. Dec. 0. (Special Correspond
ence.) It you have not already been
specially asked in the name of the
art education of the American people to
lnjUfenre your Congressman, your favor
ite newspaper, your minister and other
Important acquaintances to get removed
the present tariff on art Importations,
that Is probably because your turn has
not come yet. Everybody Is being asked
all over the country. The entire body of
American artists, who for many years
have been saying that they need no
special protection, has been thoroughly
aroused In the agitation that Is now on.
Xo political issue, they allege, is involved,
no general overhauling of the tariff sched
ules, and there will be no panic If pictures,
sculptures and other works of art are
put upon the free list as a result of the
compelling force of public opinion. The
educational interests, on the other hand,
of the country will be greatly advanced.
Among American painters, sculptors. Il
lustrators and designers, living abroad, a
petition is circulating one which will, it
is expected, receive the signature of prac
tically every one of several thousand
Americans in the practice of artistic pro
fessions in European centers. Various
societies on this side of the water, such
as the Copley Society, of Boston, famed
for Its big international loan exhibitions,
have either memorialized, or shortly will
memorialize. Congress to remove the ob
noxious duly.
Campaign for Free Art.
Art for all the people Is what Is aisied
at, so it Is said. One sf the efforts f
the executive committee of the Ameri
can Free Art League Is to emphasize la
t-very posslWe way the fact that the
tnereaieRt is in a way petitlcaL feet )s
-t!rely eihtoatieml.
Of the valve mt the agitanon to Aaeri
Omi art MotB. TtMMMC Alton. ee mC
th iKuwtmi mtmars C the eocewih-e j
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green sea that flooded hrr from the tip
of her bQwjrprit to the shrouds of her
malnmaet.
"Slowing;" Down.
The liner gave a little bark. She stopped
leaping and began to plough from wave
to wave. The yawl. looking as Imposing
as a floating medicine bottle, swung
alongside and away again In one sweep
of the oars-. When it slid off. the pilot
was hanglnr to the ladder.
"The yawls always get away quick.
said the pilot on the schooner. That's
so that if the pilot should be slung off
the ladder he will fall on something soft.
We made that a rule lonp ago after one
of our men killed hlmclf falling- Into the
boat."
"Do you me'zn to say that a man who
fell Into that sea alongside of this mo--Ing
ship would have a show for his life?"
asked the landsman.
"Well." reflected the pilot, "men aim
not to fall In. But they have done it.
Sometimes a man is washed off the lad
der, -for instance. And most always
he's picked up In a jiffy. Stands to rea
son that a man can't swim much when
he's dressed up In winter clothes and
oilskins on top of those. He Just nat
urally Itas to be picked up quick. That
what we've got our men for. They know
their buxincHw and don't waste much
time thinking, you know. To be sure,
there's always a chance that a man will
get sucked under the minute he hits the
water, and If he gets under the keel of
a liner, why he gets under something that
reaches 30 and more feet down Into the
water, and so he may not come up again.
That has happened. Or he may be swept
aft and get Into the screw. That haj
happened, too."
The landsman looked at the water
alongside of the rolling liner. It made
him think of the way a river sluices Into
a O-foot lock when the lower gates are
opened. Just so It whirled and tumbled
and sped alongside of the Kaiser, to toss
in rapids where the huge screws were
slowly beating the sa.
" Cap'n Jim hadn't gotten far. The Kai
ser, bowing- to a long heave of sea that
came from windward, had rolled over and
the ladder was swinging wide and going
through wonderful contortions with its
loose end. Cap'n Jim was hanging on
philosophically and the men In the yawl
were lying on their oar?, watching reat
fully. Suddenly, with a rattle and a smash
and a thump and a roar, the whole
mighty side of the black steel ship swung
if w2i f n.r. u.9?01 of lbe 3Iusoum . of the restraining influence of the tariff.
"H, thlS cUy Myj,: i Tnere are- ,n ract- ver few notable
9J?' ?,rese,nt d"l n ohtcs' P'"res owned privately in America that
SV ?i.h0r d'M9trous eCfec,s- nelW are not. from time to time, at the dls-i?..i.-
r . .H1"6 ,,en . American Posal of students for study. The con
th? S a".d s,lcu,',,ure a"d tfts of the galleries of such owners as
tP!l .rnost advantageouslyj Mr. Freer and Mr. Scripps. of Detroit,
" ,",.l,neIP Si-Ud,eS In.K,belr Tn i Mr' Walter of Baltimore. Mr. HowanI
f" J" Parc responsible for the ! Mansfield of Xew York. Mrs. Sears and
fl.i,dl.ard Pa,nt,,n lhe fchools Palmer of Chicago, and scores of others:
here, find it best to complete their edu-
cauon in iuropean cities, where examples
i ne worm's nest art are most abund
ant. "What more than anything else creates
an art atmosphere In a community Is
having art there. That is why our best
students, those, for example, who are
awarded scholarships, in our Museum
School, are sent abroad to continue their
professional training. They go to Madrid,
there to study not only in the Prado, but
in private collections the canvases of the
great masters of painting; to Florence,
replete with public and semi-public gath
erings from the richest era of art pro
duction the world has known; to Italy.
Prance. Holland Germany all countries
In which every possible facility Is extend
ed to American students to become ac
quainted with the best that has been
thought and executed in the fine arts.
"Just because we have not yet accumu
lated In this country a sufficient number
of the best things these traveling fellow
ships are very necessary to the success of
ri scnooi. The actual training tn
drawing asd painting which the pros-
peexne artist gets under such men as
TarbelL Beasoa and Hale, palmers, or
Bea U Pratt, sculptor te mention those
with whose teacWag I am meat familiar
la 'absolutely competent. Probably no
whera m the world can the elements of
the prefesekm he better learned than
ere.
f see.eee iHfy bhOm ceiicctks.
"St4ets Ja aw AaHrkan eiOcs al
ready koM. mre tmt mt people have
y . rtvae coMectfcHM that
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up Into the air and over she lay on her
other tide.
Slap! went the ladder against her. and
the landsman's breath left his body In
Involuntary sympathy with the way
Cap'n Jim's breath must have been
j knocked out of him by that most awful
siam. wut vP n Jim was sKlnnlng up
the ladder like a cat. and was half way to
the deck.
Sometimes, remarked the other pilot, a
man doesn't manage to fend himself oft
exactly In time when she -rolls like that,
and then he certainly does get a right
smart punch, and sometimes It even stuns
him and. he falls Into the water. That's
always a terrible Joke on him afterwards.
But Cap'n Jim. now, he's too spry to get
caught like that, for all that he'll never
see 59 again. Xow she's heeling over to
looard once more and there goes that
clanged ladder beginning' to twist because
that sailor is a lubber that 'doesn't know
enough to put her overside properly.
Those Xash ladders hardly ever twist if
they're handled right. 'But of course" the
Kaiser Is heeling a little, too. Xot much,
but a little.
Cap'n Jim was twisting with the lad
der. But she had not mqre than begun
have time and again been thrown open
to the public through loan exhibitions.
A recent interesting- example Is the large
group of works belonging to Mrs. J.
Montgomery Sears, of Boston, which has
been loaned for an indefinite period to
the Museum of Fine Arts, and which now
gives the hundreds of art students In the
city an opportunity for first-hand study
of Important canvases. Again, the col
lections In Fenway Court, the Italian
palace of Mrs. -John I. Gardner, are still
thrown open on certain . days to the pub
licwhich includes; of s course, students
of art despite the fact- that Mrs. Gard
ner, in order to be free of government
regulation, has paid a duty of nearly
EXO.CO).
"Many of these owners of art treas
ures have, furthermore, on almost count
less occasions, generously granted special
advantages to students who wished to
copy or make other studies In their gal
leries. Then. too. It Is to be remembered,
as-the late Senator Hoar once said, that
a great majority of the works of art
J which are imported by private Individ
uals eveniuauy come into possession of
public museums. Qf i paintings by
European artists to which our studets
Tiave dally access, in the galleries ef the
Boston . Maseam. 113-have paid -duty to
the United States Government.
liOas te American Students.
"In still another way the tariff is very
dteadvantaaeoas to AaMcieM students.
It epdnem their ojwiriiiiitUeg in !
rae. Other ommtrte, 9pm frty to
ew jrwmr these, Irar x-.
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A Determined Movement to Secure Removal of the Duty
on Works of Art How the Interests of Students
Are Affected.
arships privileges in their schools. For-
elgners are admitted on equal terms j
with. K v.nam "nv. v. MMAs.. t
Impose a tariff which on many occasions
has exceedingly Irritated foreign author
ities and threatened the withdrawal of
privileges.
"The question, as it seems to me, has
also an industrial bearing, which is not
always appreciated. Our art schools
turn out not simply painters and sculp
tors, but designers as well, who take
whatever taste and skill they have ac
quired Into various -manufacturing en
terprises. The collections of objects of
applied art in American museums help
greatly to attract students to such
classes as .those directed "by Howard
Walker at our Museum's school. This is
a great textile center,, for instance, and
the textiles 'In - the Museum, loaned for
the most oart by Drivnte. collectors. Who
have paid- high 'duties' on them, offer
everj" Incentive to young ..designers to
aim at and If possible surpass the best
workmanship of the past! A canvass
which was taken some time ago among
professional designers of this clty
proved that every one acknowledged his
bread and butter indebtedness to the
Museum. And what is true here is true
throughout the United States. We talk
of applying art to our Industries as we
mast do to keep at the head of the in
dustrial procession and then we bar out
a" lot oj the- good art which would have
the effect of stimulating- our designers
to produce finer , things.
Appeal to Art School Alumni.
."An especial appeal should be made.
It seems to. me. to former pupils of art
scheols in. this ceantry, to sppport this
movement. Theymust number a great
many thousand., for such institutions;
ar the one eoMteeted with the Museum
ofTtee Arts m Boston,, the Art Students'
League awl Acadomy of Dosign. la Xew
York, i the? CMca Institute,, the Peim
sy vanfatu Anmy of-Fte Vrts. the
xmioi al'lh at. Lou XxMetim, tho
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her snake-dance before his brown left
hand was against the akin of the ship
and -with both stout legs braced like pil
lars and his right arm bent like a piece
of steel, he conquered the crazy thlngr
and clambered over the rail.
"Good exercise." said the landsman's
mentor, approvingly. "Xow, I shouldn't
wonder but what It might make you
pretty tired to climb up that ladder, even
if it was on shore. That climb has
killed two pllots-John Canvin and Al
fred Baudter. It knocked their hearts
out. and they died on the ships after
they got aboard. Baudler had his hand
stretchedout to shake with tho captain
of the ship when he dropped and died
right there on the deck."
The landsman looked up the towerlnx
ship again and thought that probably
few landsmen would ever live to reach
the deck. He Imagined a rope ladder
hanging down from the fourth story of a
house with no one on the ground to hold
it. and pictured the task of climbing
that. Then he. thought of the house
moving at ten knots an hour and sway
ing back and' forth erratically: and then
he thought of what they had said to him
at the pilot board office when he applied
for leave to go to sea on a schooner be
longing to the service:
"There's really nothing to see any
more. " The boats don't go out two and
three hundred miles to sea to race for
ships. Most of the vessels nowadays are
bearded near the bar. You'll probably
not find much to-write about."
Which Is respectfully submitted.
(Copyrleht, 15(6, JlcClure. Phillips & Co.
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Corcoran School at Washington, and a
great many others, have been sending
i forth their pupils for
pupils for many years.
Probably the majority are not profes
sional painters and sculptors, for many
find their place in industrial pusults.
and many of the women are married:
but all of them certainly retain a simi
lar loyalty to their art schools to that
which Is found among college gradu
ates. This body of art-school alumni and -alumnae
scattered all over the country,
we are counting upon as a powerful ele
ment In this campaign for the art edu
cation of Congress."
Mr. Allen, like all other members of
the executive committee of the Free Art
League, says positively that tho- agita
tion ls one which will not be dropped
until something definite has been ac
complished. Efforts frequently have been
made since 1S7S to get the obnoxious duty
removed, but never on so large a scale
as nuw The organization which is at
tempting to treform the tariff In this
single particular was formed at the Uni
versity Club in -Xew York 'on April 20.
1905. The following persons at that timo
were- elected as officials: President, Bry
an Lathrop. of Chicago: executive com
mittee, chairman, Robert W. de Forest,
pf Xew York:, treasurer. Holker Abbott,
of Boston; secretary. Edward R. War
ren, of Boston; Thomas Allen, Boston;
Daniel C. Burnham. Chicago: Frank
Miles Day. Philadelphia;' Halsey C. Ives,
St. Louis. The oj-ganizing- secretary of
the," council, who isnow In charge of the
work In Washingtqon. Is Myron E.
Pierce.
After a Taste.
Philadelphia. Press.
"Well." demanded Miss Starvem. at
the hack door, "what do" you -w&ntZ"
"Why." replied "the tramp, '1 seen
you advertised 'table hoard 1 this
mrain's paper "
tWelir ' .t
en, J. lOHgar, hi 3 S ft,- yor
tives out some samsla."
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