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Show A Crowded Steamer. A friend was complaining the other day to Captain Barber, port captain of the state pilots, about the crowded condition of the steamboat on which be recently made a trip. "Four in a room?" replied Barber. "That's nothing. "You should have traveled in the days of the gold rush to California. I remember one trip out of New York we carried more than 1,000 passengers, pas-sengers, and if you put fifty on that ship today there'd be a holler that would reach Washington and make trouble for somebody. To show you how crowded it was and what 'crowded' 'crowd-ed' really means, three days out from New York a chap walked up to the old man and said: " 'Captain, you really must find ma a place to sleep.' " 'Where in thunder have you been sleeping until now?' asked the old man. " 'Well,' says the fellow, 'you see, it's this way. I've been sleeping on a sick man, but he's getting better now and won't stand for it mufch longer.' " San Francisco Call. |