Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — CREW CRAZY FOR TOBACCO [ARTICLE]

CREW CRAZY FOR TOBACCO

Lack of Weed Almost Causes Mutiny . v on Board Bohooner Clancy Brown. Galveston, Texas. —The schooner Clancy Brown, with a cargo of coal, thirty-three days out from Baltimore, had an unusual experience when its crew of 12 men became mutinous because of a tobacco famine. Captain Swenten says his sailors went insane when the supply of tobacco gave out on the twenty-first day. v The schooner was blown out of Its course and the absence of chewing and smoking tobacco made the men nervouß wrecks. They refused to obey orders, quarreled and several times threatened to take the vessel and land somewhere in quest of the coveted weed. Their behavior delayed the ship three or four days longer on its voyage, the captain says. When the pilot boat met the schooner on the Texas coast the crew hugged the pilots when they dumped their tobacco boxes and plugs on deck.