Show J SAILING DAY IN NEW YORK YORI y- y By WILLIAM V There Is a glamour to sailing salling day I both oth for the passenger who sets sets' out with mountains of baggage and official of- of of-l of documents and th the engineer who nur es the mighty engines that I are the heart of the liner But to each the glamour is different While the mere fact of departure causes no flurries of delighted anticipation in the mind of the engineer he se sees s sIn In North river a fascinating vista Ista that is scarcely noticed by the landsman Some of his adventures ot of the eye and ear William McFee recounts In Sailing Salling Day one of the happy fugitive essays which make up his new book bool Swallowing the Anchor Through the haze that swathes lower Manhattan lIKe a kind of lustrous lustrous lus- lus trous gauze he sees a British tramp steamer moving slowly up to her Hoboken pier Suddenly she pauses in midstream with characteristic the pilots of a dozen fast moving ferries Into a panic of Indignation which becomes vocal with hoarse roars from the smokestacks The clamor increases as the Fall river steamer her intention of claimIng her InalIenable ma- ma right to enter her pier and anda a tall apparition which resolves itself it it- self on examination into a floating grain elevator with ii dIminutive tug panting under her lee challenges ones one's judgment as to which way she desires to go But the sIngular Phenomenon orthis or of this adventure is that but few of the closely packed commuters on the ferry raise their eyes to behold the amazing scene They are on the contrary giving close attention to the newspapers We Ve land and ard many of them sit In an enchanted fashion reading the newspapers We pour forth into the chaos ot of West Vest street and surge up under roaring elevated r railroads and ones one's fellowman fellowman fellow fellow- man continues to pursue some I printed chimera Perhaps they are reading the announcements or of Short Trips to Sunn Sunny Seas andare and andare are dreaming ot of romantic adventures adventures tures under palm trees and by slumberous slumberous slum slum- berous beaches beaches-as If the waters ot of New York harbor were not as blue a as lapis And musing thus one becomes aware threading the almost Inconceivable inconceivable Incon- Incon difficulties of West Vest street of f a number of beings In taxicabs Immured in vast quantities of b baggage bag bag- g- g gage who are evidently nd upon a journey They are ara endeavoring to maintain the dignity s to those who fare forth in splendor upon the ocean and who have wrested from a harassed but amiable amiable ami- ami able bureaucrat the documents essential essential es- es to a world made safe for democracy They are in s short ort some of our passengers for their baggage proclaims proclaims' the fact in stentorian tones and they are arriving as usual usual us- us ual at an unnecessarily early hour Leaving them to the good natured rapacity of a swarm of stewards I insinuate my way among mountainous mountain mountain- ous heaps of freight and win to a wider but less dignified gangway up UD and own down which a crowd of hurr hur- hur hurrying r ing mortals is passing with stores and empties Close beside It smooth runways are be ng Piled with box boxes sand and bales which arc are Im- Im immediately mediately seized by long falls faUs from invisible winches winches- and plucked Into the air to descend Into the holds And here on In the workIng working work work- Ing alleyways on the main deck there Is a methodical thudding pf f crates and boxes beIng dumped upon floors a tramp of feet a pulsing rhythmic from husky persons still lower down a continual continual contin- contin ual emergence of preoccupied toilers from unexpected staIrcases a hurrying hurrying hur- hur ot of men upon prOblematic journeys jour jour- noys and a prevalence of heated vapor laden air from the high white engine room In the tho kitchens beyond waiters in blue end silver are being ing has hastily ly drilled In the mysteries of serving hors d'oeuvres orangeade and cavIar cay cay- mr canape White capped chefs stand over shining cupolas of copper copper cop cop- per and plated domes suspended on chains Young men whom one would not have suspected of genius cut and grapefruit with Inconceivable inconceivable In- In conceivable speed A sound like the roaring of far off cataracts announces that the motors of the dish washing machines ma- ma chines are already at work and a brawny person In a green striped apron pron staggers past laden with an Immense tray of trussed owls fowls His colleague down a dark ladder leadIng leading lead lead- Ing to a cold dark chamber is busily busily bus bus- ily chopping choppin up meat As far as can be ascertained he continues this pastime twenty tour hours a day for the entire voyage He Is forever engaged In cleaving asunder huge quarters or beef slender bodies of sheep or slabs of veal The sound of his chopper on the wooden block is steady a accompaniment of the beat of the engines an and the vibrant murmur of the generator I Im Imagine that he must be a vegetarian In n self defense for he generally generall r has a Ic lef f of lettuce in his his' mouth as s nt be works his will Upon the cold sleazy fish Ish Anon he trolls a stave ns as the historical novelists phrase it and reveals to a tired yli wh desires desires de- de sires to sleep his passion for for a creature creaturo named Lulu |