Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1919 — Gull Gets Into Ashpit. [ARTICLE]

Gull Gets Into Ashpit.

“It's crying like a baby and fighting like a devil,” shouted Engineer James McQuade of the state steam tug Governor Irvin, lying in the slip between piers 18 and 20, as he ran waving his arms tow’ard police officers, John Malcolm and John Maloney, on duty at the piers, whites a San Francisco correspondent. “Get Captain Symon on the phone—tell him something awful is aboard the Irwin,” said McQuade as he came alongside the officers, but the officers thought it better to investigate before communicating with Capt. James Symon, superintendent of the state tugs. “There’s something in the ash receiver, right under the smokestack of the Irwin,” McQuade said. The officers hurried back to the tug with the engineer. Ash-pit doors were thrown open and there, gasping for breath, lay a seagull that had flown down the smokestack. “I started working its wings with my hands and blowing down its throat, and Maloney fanned it with his headgear, and tn a few minutes it began to breathe all right, and flapped its wings to be off. They were scorched badly and it flew a little wobbly as it made away toward Yerba Buena island. I bet that .bird will remember this day,” said Malcotmr-—~~~