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Show I A Crowded Steamer. A friend was complaining tho other day to Captain Barber, port captain or tho state pilots, about tho crowded condition of tho steamboat on which lie recently mado a trip. "Four In a room?" replied Barber. "That's nothing. "You should havo travolcd In tho days of tho Bold rush to' California. 4 I remember ono trip out of New York wo carried more than 1,000 paa-i paa-i songors, and If you put fifty on that ship today thero'd bo a hollor that (would reach Washington and mako troublo for somebody. To show you how crowded It was nnd what 'crowded' 'crowd-ed' really means, threo days out from ' Now York a chap walked up to tho old man and said: "'Captain, you really must And mo a placo to sloop.' "'Where In thunder havo you been slooplng until now?' usked tho old man. "'Well,' says tho follow, 'you see, It's this way. I'vo boon sleeping on ' a Blck man, but ho's getting bettor now and won't stand for It much longer.' " Saa Francisco Call. |