Show calta n puts on his red necktie no matter how small the vessel nor how impecunious may be the skipper there Is always a boiled shirt and a clean collar laid carefully away to be worn when the craft enters port at sea the captain may be very rough in his attire but the approach of land finds him combing his hair and crop ping his whiskers it if he has any and the collar is donned also a red neck tie which usually is flamboyant red even the poorest men who bring vessels to boston to secure loads of lumber for south american ports dress Ss as neatly as possible when the cus toms boarding officer Is expected to come alongside to inspect the ships ship papers and the mates slick up too when their floating home Is nearing port so that the old man as the captain Is familiarly termed behind his bac back k may not carry off all the honors of the occasion |