Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1912 — IS RUDE TO GABRIEL [ARTICLE]

IS RUDE TO GABRIEL

Purser Ejects Him From Appropriated Stateroom. Polished Nails and Manners of Stowaway de Luxe Falla to Win Ship’s Officer —Goes Into the Lazaret. New York. —You have to hand it to Gabriel Fanches for the polish on his finger nails, his manners and his nerve. The officers of La Lorraine of the French line have handed it to him already. Gabriel went aboard the vessel at Havre with sls in the coin of La Belle France reposing close to the exact crease running down the right lef of Ms trousers, and the money was still in his pocket when La Lorraine steamed into New York harbor. When the French equivalent for “All ashore that’s going ashore” was sung out at Havre, Gabriel did not re-

spond. By that time he had glanced over the second-class passenger list and had picked out for his own a large unoccupied stateroom. Gabriel was one of the first at table for the first meal of the voyage, and kept up the record for several days. He was a cheerful soul, and in his search for congenial spirits acquired considerable popularity in the second cabin. For the first few days of the trip the purser was visibly worried. Time and again he wandered about the ship, counting noses. Ofie by fine he called the second-class passengers into a private conference and quizzed them. The last to be cross-examined was Gabriel. Every one else had been able to point out their particular name on the purser’s list and show in other ways that their passage had been honorably contracted for. “You are rude, sir,” snapped Gabriel when the purser suggested that he might have neglected to purchase his passage. “You are ridiculous, too, and I must refuse to discuss this affair with you." Without delay the purser proceeded to live up to the character given him by Gabriel. He moved the young gentleman from his comfortable stateroom to the lazaret, which is the ship’s prison. And then —but no! It is too horrible; it is monstrousu, the act of a fiend —this rude, ridiculous purser dug up from the hold another who had started without the equivalent of a stowaway de luxe. This person was Lucien GuUiermet, a Swiss, who .had worked with his hands. He was dirty from his days of intimate contact with the cargq in the bowels of the ship, and not at all debonair. And into the lazaret' they put Lucien Gullliermet! Gabriel sent an indignant message to the captain, saying that he was unused to occupying the same sleeping quarters with another, particularly one such as his present roommate. But the pig of a purser intercepted the note. They turned both Gabriel and the Swiss, who confessed he wanted to Y©rk with his hands in the new world so badly that he had stolen a perfectly good passage from La Campagnie Trans-Atlantlque over to the Ellis island authorities. And the mockery of It is that they will probably let the horny-handed, plodding Swiss have bls way, while the most desirable Gabriel will return whence he came. ,