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- McCORMICK MESSENGER, M^€ORMI€K, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1940 ' DLACK and white yarn—a cro- chet hook—presto—a life-like panda cuddle toy. Single crochet forms the exterior -of this cute ani mal; cotton stuffing the interior; buttons do excellent service as eyes. . • • • Easy directions for this cuddly panda •re Z9036, 15c. He is about 14 inches tall when finished, and will be a nursery fa vorite. It takes but litUe effort to crochet him. Send order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No..... Name Address Streets of Gold Digging for gold in the street With penknives is not a sign of lu nacy in Kalgoorlie, western Aus tralia. Prospectors while walking through the main thoroughfare of Hannan street sometimes notice gleaming patches of gold in the pavements and stoop to chip out pieces with their knives. The explanation given is that when, in 1899, the municipal coun cil sought a suitable mixture of metal and concrete, they bought ere from the Golden Zone mine at one shilling a ton. While the ©re carried four pennyweights of gold to the ton, it was unprofita ble to recover it, but now the tread of thousands of feet has worn the pavements till bits of gold in the ore have begun to •how. INDIGESTION Kay affect the Heart la Uw aUMMek or gnUat awy act Uka e 'Hrtcgar on the heart. At the first also of distress ta and women depend on BeU-ans Tablets to free. No laxative hot made of the fxitc _ ledlefnaa known for aeid Indlxeitlon. 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Sold everywhere. * Cowardly Falsehood Falsehood is cowardice—truth is courage. COLDS quickty nit LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUCH DROPS BEACONS of SAFETY— • Like a beacon light on the height—the advertise ments in newspapers direct you to newer, better and easier ways of providing the things needed or desired. It shines, this beacon of newspaper advertising—and it will be to your advantage to fol low it whenever you make a purchase. ■——— 11 im■■ 11 ^TTT—■ 1 ~ Era of Swift American Clipper Ships Engaged in China Tea Trade Was One Of Most Romantic in Maritime History Most famous of all of the clipper ships, the Flying Cloud made rec ords which were never equalled. (From Bettman Archive.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I T WAS the year 1860- more than three-quarters of a century ago—and the place was London, England, at the docks. Men crowded the wharf, eyes searching the channel. They jostled each other, eager to be the first to announce the coming of the ship which they awaited. In the windows of nearby buildings other men with field glasses kept watch. A rumor swept like wildfire through the crowd “She’s coming, she’s coming.” But the ru mor proved false and the watchers settled themselves to wait again. They were joined by scores of others un til the dock was packed solid ly with expectant humanity. Suddenly a cry went up. “Thar she be, coming down the channel. The beauty! ” Moving with infinite grace the clipper ship, Falcon, was coming into port, bearing the year’s first cargo of tea from Foochow, China, to London. She had made the voyage in 110 days, beating her rivals, Ellen Rodgers, Robin Hood, Chrysolite and Ziba, into port and so won a fortune for her owners. Despite the fact the Fal con was heading for an English port, she was American-built and was one of the great line of clip per ships, constructed on Ameri can ways, which made sea his tory. There is no more dramatic era of the sea than that of the clipper ships, an era which was recalled a few weeks ago by announce ment of the Tea Bureau, Inc., that for the second time in history this country’s annual imports of tea had passed the 100,000,000 pound mark. During the Nineteenth century the arrival of the first cargo of new tea into port meant a for tune for its owner, and the clip per ship races bore all the ele ments of great sporting events. In fact, the races were recorded on canvas by noted painters of the day and have since formed the theme of many books both of an historic and fictional nature. So great was the interest of both tea traders and citizens of London in the clipper races that they have been rivaled only by the famous English derby. It was, in fact, the clipper races which inspired another series of historic con tests of our own time, the Sir Thomas Lipton yacht races. Often only the rise and fall of a tide separated the winner from her nearest competitor. Upon one oc casion a race was won by a mat ter of 20 minutes. This was the contest between the Taeping and the Ariel, which became known as “the great race of 1866.” It still remains a favorite topic of conversation in Mincing Lane, center of the London tea trada, and inspired both books and poems. Record of Flying Cloud. Greatest of all of the clipper ships was the American-built Fly ing Cloud, which established two records which were never equalled. The Flying Cloud was the second extreme clipper de signed by Donald McKay, who is credited with being “the man who made the clipper ship famous.” His advance production of a ves sel of the extreme clipper class proved a notable contribution to America’s prestige as a maritime nation. s The Flying Cloud was launched in 1851 and was a vessel of 1,782 tons. Although originally built for the firm of Enoch Train & Company of Boston, she was sold while still on the stocks to Grin- nell Minturn & Company, of New York. Longfellow’s well-known poem, “Building of the Ship” with its often quoted line, “Sail on, O union strong and great,” is said to have been inspired by the launching of the Flying Cloud. As did many of the early Cali fornia clipper ships, the Flying Cloud had to cross the Pacific to China to get a cargo home. She made Honolulu in 12 days. On one of those days, using skysails and studsails, she covered 374 miles. The Flying Cloud later accom plished the run around the Horn in 89 days and 21 hours, and three years later she beat her own rec ord by 13 hours. These records were never equalled. Inspired by Baltimore Clippers. The early clipper ships were in spired by the swift privateers pro duced in Baltimore for the War of 1812, and came into being because of the demand of tea merchants for fleeter vessels to bring each season’s new cargoes of tea. Isaac McKim, Baltimore merchant, is credited with being the first to conceive the idea of a three-mast ed full-rigged vessel built along the lines of the Baltimore clippers lor use in the tea trade with China. In 1832 Mr. McKim had built a vessel of 493 tons and 143 feet long which he christened the Anne Mc Kim. The vessel proved to be one of the fastest on the China run, but her carrying capacity was much smaller than that of slower vessels. However, she well served her purpose since she inspired two enterprising marine architects, John Willis Griffiths and Donald McKay, to design a type of sail ing vessel from which was evolved the extreme clipper. The Anne McKim was followed by the Rainbow, designed by Grif fiths and launched in New York in 1845. The design was so revo lutionary that argument became hot as to whether she would float or sink. But she exceeded even the hopes of her designer. She started her maiden voyage to China in February and was back in New York in September, hav ing paid her cost of $45,000 and returned to her owners, Howland and Aspinwall, an equal amount in profit. She did even better on her second voyage when she made the round trip so speedily that she brought back to New York news of her own arrival in Canton. Actually she made the round trip faster than any other ship could sail one way, 92 days out and 88 days back. Interestingly enough, it was the arrival of a cargo of tea on a clip per ship in 1859 that paved the way for our modern system of chain store merchandising and distribution which has revolution ized both production and market ing. A bewhiskered young New Englander by the name of George Huntington Hartford purchased a few chests of tea from a clipper ship just in port with a new cargo, dealing directly with the owner of the tea instead of with a broker as was then the custom. At this time, despite its extensive impor tation, tea was still a luxury item beyond the reach of the average citizen, the many hands through which it passed before reaching the citizens being largely respon sible for this high price. Mr. Hartford put his tea up in small packages and sold it from door to door at a fraction of what it would have cost had the tea passed through the usual number of hands on the way to the con sumer. The venture was so suc cessful that he tried it again with a larger purchase of tea and thus gained the idea for the system of mass distribution and merchan dising upon which the oldest and largest of the nation’s food chains was founded. Within eight years after Mr. Hartford's original ven ture the price of tea had been brought down to within reach of the man earning a small liveli hood. Methods used in the distribution of tea proved so popular with the consumer that they were later translated into the sale of all oth er types of food products. Thus was established the system of moving goods direct from pro ducer to consumer in large quan tities, making possible substan tial savings. ‘Captains Courageous.’ Captains and crews of the clip per ships were as colorful as the ships themselves. Both played leading roles in the success of a voyage and the speed with which the ocean was spanned. Writing of famous ships of the clipper era, Richard C. McKay says, “A sail ing ship is an exceedingly com plex, sensitive and capricious cre ation, quite as much so as most human beings. Her coquetry and exasperating deviltry have been the delight and despair of sea men’s hearts at least since the days when the wise, though much- married, Solomon declared that among the things that were too wonderful for him and which he knew not was ‘the way of a ship in the midst of a sea’.” One of the most famous of all of the clipper ship captains was Robert H. Waterman, first com mander of the Sea Witch. Cap tain Waterman was born in New York May 4, 1808. At the age of twelve he shipped on a vessel bound for China. He became mate on the Britannia under Captain Charles H. Marshall and speedily won a reputation for keeping his vessel in excellent shape as well as maintaining order among steerage passengers and crew. At the age of twenty-five he was made a captain and in 1843 took com mand of the Natchez, one of the full-pooped New Orleans packet boats which had been built by Isaac Webb in 1831. Although the Natchez was known as an exceptionally slow ship, Captain Waterman made the . voyage from Canton to New York in 78 days, during which he cov ered 13,955 miles. Upon his ar rival in New York he was given an ovation which in those days was comparable to a typical New York welcome in honor of a trans- Atlantic pioneer in aviation. The owners of the Natchez, Howland and Aspinwall, were so favorably impressed by his feat that they had built for him the Sea Witch, which was launched in 1846 and was one of the fleetest of the clipper ships. Among the stories growing out of Captain Waterman’s feats in beating com peting clippers into port with tea cargoes was one to the effect that he “carried sail too hard” and then put padlocks on the sails in order to prevent members of his crew from cutting it away. Crews of the American clippers were a polyglot lot with frequent ly as many as seven nationalities represented on one ship. It was said of them that they “worked like horses at sea and spent their money like asses ashore.” In any event, it was ^ commonplace occurrence before a vessel sailed for at least half and often times more members of the crew to be lifted aboard like sacks, as the result of too-prolonged celebra tions on land. Once on board, however, they were speedily so bered up and for the duration of the voyage they rarely if ever saw any alcoholic beverages. A Society Event. Departure of the clippers was the occasion for a gathering of smart New York society at Bat tery Park, which was then a fash ionable resort. When the vessels had finished loading cargo they would drop down to East river and anchor off the park, usually under their own sail as tug boats were both scarce and slow. New York society went to the park to hear the sailors sing their sea chanties which were an important part of sea life. Songs gave zest and cheeriness to life aboard ship. If the crew knocked off chantey- ing then something was definitely wrong and the captain started to worry. These songs originated early in the Nineteenth century with negro stevedores in Mobile and New Orleans, from whom the sailors aboard the packet boats learned them. Rates these clipper ships earned from New York to Hong Kong seem almost incredible nowa days. In 1859 the Samuel Russell received $60 per ton of 40 cubic feet. This clipper was registered as 940 tons and being a sharp ship could not carry more than 1,200 tons but her freight cargo would still amount to $72,000. Today owners of vessels plying from New York to Hong Kong regard $12 a ton as a good price. Opening of the Suez canal in 1869 rang the knell for the clip per ships since it gave the steam ships an advantage they had not possessed when it was necessary to watch every pound of coal. As steamships rapidly replaced the clippers for tea cargoes, the lat ter drifted into the Australian trade, where wool gave them an other opportunity. But the day of their glory was finished and their proud traditions waned un til they were little more than worn-out freighters toiling through seas over which they had oac* held sway. New York Symphony The shiny look of the midtown area Saturday evenings, when it is drenched with humanity out for a good time, making the atmosphere laugh . . . Ships from Nazi-domi nated nations anchored in the Hud son river. A whiff of deep tragedy surrounded by the peaceful, visual rhapsody that is the Hudson river sector. The maze of alleyways near the East river, reeking with mys tery in the middle of the night, and wearing a blaring ugliness during the day . . . The uptown gym urg ing that you learn jiu-jitsu, to help our defense program. The instruc tors are Japanese . . . The trees in the city’s parks wearing their autumn make-up. Featuring a tap estry of colors that makes your eves Bing. I CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS FREE!—BABY CHICKS!!! . 10 Baby Chicks FREK (for limited time only) with orders for 100 assorted chicks only $4.90 period. No Cripples or Culls! Uva DaHvary Quaraataad. SEND MONEY ORDER Prompt Shipment ATLAS CHICK CO, St. Louis. Mo. 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They seem to be happier than the first- nighters they long to be. Old, posy-selling ladies, wearing their sadness uncomfortably, desir ing to brighten your life with a few of their flowers . . . The entertain ers in the knick-knack nightclubs, whose make-believe makes other people happy, haunting the cafete rias after work, trying to make- believe they are gay . . . Doormen in front of theaters wearing million- dollar uniforms with lead quarter jobs, shouting at no one in particu lar at the top of their voices . . . The great gabfest continually going on between Greenwich Village intel lectuals at musty bars. When they get done with a subject, it’s a nerv ous wreck . . . The 14-karat love lies who came to the city to sit on the success throne, and are grate ful to get jobs as waitresses. Painting the top and bottom cel lar steps white may save many falls. • • • Apples peeled, cored and baked in pineapple juice make a new and tempting dish. • * * Mud stains leather and there fore should be removed from shoes as promptly as possible. * * * Protect the mattress from tear ing and from dust by a muslin mattress cover, and by placing a mattress pad between the spring and the mattress. * • • To brighten aluminum utensils that have been darkened by water, fill with water containing one or two teaspoons of cream of tartar for each quart of water used, and boil until pan is brightened. * • * Baking soda is one of the best known agents for cleaning glass ware. • • • If cream is too thin to whip, try adding the unbeaten white of an egg. • • • Use a clean sheet of wrapping paper to roll pies and pastry on. It saves a lot of cleaning up later. • • * To clean a soapstone sink wash with ammonia and let stand for 12 hours. Then rub over with linseed oil and your sink will be lovely and bright. If grease accumulates again, rub over with a strong am monia solution. The coffee-pot philosophers, com posed of cabbies, musicians, wait ers and other night workers, who enjoy themselves thrashing out world problems over a cupacawfee during the 3-to-5 ayems . . *. The skyscrapers and the sunrise tinted with colors of silent music. Na ture’s thrilling overture to a new day . . . Cloudy-eyed successes sprawled across Lindy’s chairs, dis cussing their worries and troubles. And the tourists, who see them and drool with envy—for “such a won derful existence” . . . The fairy land skyline, ultra-thrilling when you see it from the ferry, wearing a shiny coat of moonglow ... A lone ly plane racing over the city, its landing lights looking like moving jewels against the night-time sky. The movie theaters around town giving away all kinds of things to attract patrons—except entertain ment . . . The sheer artistry with which bus drivers maneuver the gi gantic things through the maze of downtown traffic . . . The so-whatty craze that afflicts almost everybody at this time of the year—guessing football results . . . The organ grinder with the monkey that is al ways in films about New York as something typical of the city, but we haven’t seen one for years . . . The soapboxer down at Union square making the air shiver from his growls about the “recession.” Remember how popular that word used to be? Why don’t these bores get a new act? Broadway at five ayem: When all its throbbing excitement has boiled down to a murmuring hush . . . The new rubber tires on milk wagons, a blessing to light sleep ers . . . The antique shop on Third Ave. It has a picture of Ben Bernie in the window . . . The continuous sleight-of-tongue by auctioneers who blah-blah about a 10-cent item with as much fervor as if they were run ning for public office . . . The whacky intolerance of an uptown barber shop. They have a sign in the window announcing that they don’t give haircuts to red heads. Ever hear of anything dopier than that? The castle-like Fifth Ave. library reading room filled with unemployec drinking knowledge . . . Broad way’s blood-stream—the amazin* lights that decorate a sector fillef with the cheapest kind of honky tonk establishments . . . The eeri< quiet running wild throughout Get tral park during the wee hours. 1 is the perfect atmosphere for lov or crime . . . Poverty-stricken hi man zeros draping the Bower' Probably all of them have a valu- ble novel locked in their lives . How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem- - branes. 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