Show CROSSING THE TIlE EQUATOR New Nets York Press men crossing the line the tho equator I Oh tho fun nit I J do not know how many old salts are with the tho Sleet but hut there thero must be lIe bet a vast majori majority ty tIp I of ot young oung green Jn salts und anti wont they get It Maybe they the have already lied It The equator Is about SOO miles front from Trinidad antI and the tho la is lathar or Neptune rises un tho th line Is approached and anil the crane their eyes e os and stretch streIch their necks to see 6 It Ir the tho lute lino U Is tho the thereal real thing Probably men loon will be b shaved with a wooden razor anti and IKS ho I shampooed with swabbing brushes Bob Dob Evans Is III a 11 man of ot the tho worM world Ho Hobe bc be In having a good time limo and his hl officers and anel crew will get all alt coming to them when thon they the cross over Jordan U It was believed halt n ii con cun tury tur ago alO that crossing the equator meant hell or hells hella delivery an aH nn In old otil salt expressed It wore were keel keelhauled keelhauled hauled Hven I ven the captain was wa required to tako take off his shirt and amid all 1111 the tho lessor had to 10 do stunts It was like catching a 1 Judge off tho the bunch bench and amid making him hlll look like 30 cents Discipline pline was forgotten Tho The was al at allowed allowed lowed lo to the tho run of oC tho the ship Tic IIo was It There was WM as grog grog grog Hut But 11 fl H soon aw Il the tho UI hue Una vanished his dis discipline was WIS and every eel moan man lint had to lo report for Cor duty dut |