Show A long life at sea to cross the atlantic 1100 times and travel miles by sea Is the record of 0 thomas kinsey purser of the steamship st paul who to la now to settle down on land tor for the rest of 0 his bla days it took him sixty three years year to do it his experiences go back to the early days of the inman line which the american line succeeded he saw transport service to india as long ago aeo as 1857 and he was paymaster on the st louls louis when it was taken over as an auxiliary cruiser during the war with spain he has known the ocean in all kinds of weather and what Is worse has had to calm the storms storma that arleo arise when passengers imagine they have a grievance he has witnessed a development of the passenger steamship which Is among the marvels b of the age the city of 0 blan manchester chester in which he be shipped in 1853 would look like ft a tugboat beside the aquitania in all these years he be has been in no serious danger and leaves the service in the best beet of 0 health that mother a and nd lover of men the sea as a calls it Is often kind to those who love it there are dangers in a seafaring life but landsmen landsman lands men often exaggerate them probably mr kinsey would not change his bis lot with another for ill all its inevitable hardships |