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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Give me that twenty thousand dollars you justly owe me twenty thousand dollars I have to my credit on your books, which you are withholding just because you have the power to withhold it." "And in return " "I'll tear up the deadly document I extorted from Murphy and report a mere towage job to my owners." Cappy pressed the push-button and a boy appeared. "Tell Mr.
On several of the large rivers on the Continent, with rapid currents, cable towage has been introduced in addition to the older methods of transporting merchandise by sailing and steam boats or by towage with screw or paddle tugs.
He looked now at Captain Hamilton for permission to make sail. The latter signed to him to go ahead. Useless to pay towage with a favoring wind and flowing tide. Ditty bawled to the crew: "Break her out, bullies! H'ist away tops'ls!" The halyards were promptly manned. One man started the chorus that jerked the main topsail aloft. "Oh, come all you little yaller boys An' roll the cotton down!
The market looks good, and what we need is labor and shingle bolts, not standing timber. I would suggest you go in there with two or three men and get the stuff out yourself. We'll take all the cedar on your limit, in bolts on the river bank at market prices, less cost of towage to Vancouver. You can make money on that, especially if shingles go up."
"Oh," said Jarrow, as the patron mounted the ladder and grinned at them, hat in hand, "this boy wants his towage." "How much?" asked Locke, taking out a large roll of yellow American bills. "I'd give him a check," advised Jarrow, "if you've got your book." "All right," said Locke, and he followed Jarrow into the cabin while Trask and Marjorie went to the poop-deck.
Only one of the crew was visible, and he was acting as look-out in the extreme bows, the rays of the masthead lights for a second had been hoisted in sign of towage glistening on his oilskin back. The other man, I concluded, was steering the lighter, which I could dimly locate by the pale foam at her bow. And the passengers?
Had not salmon, of I know not how many pounds' weight, been played and brought to land by that slender towage. There is the sword, a burnished piece of cutlery, weighing just so many pounds; and the horsehair has sufficed for an hour, and why not for another and soon? Hang moping and nonsense! Waiter, another pint of Chian; and let the fun go forward. So the literal waiter knocked at the door.
As to myself, he was not pointedly impertinent: it was rather as though he could not be bothered with such trifles as my existence; and the truth is that being a monopolist he was under no necessity to be amiable. He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled.
The problem has been solved by the introduction of the capstan navigation or towage. There are two kinds of capstans in use, one actuated by horse-power and the other by steam engines. A horse capstan boat carries according to size 150 to 200 horses, which are stabled in the hold. On deck a number of horse gears are arranged at which the horses work.
"Thank you, Mr. Consul. I hate to hurry you away; fact is, I'd like to have you stay aboard and have dinner with us, but if this breeze holds good I can save my owners an outward towage bill, and I'll have to hustle. So I'll bid you good-bye, Mr. Consul. Glad to have had you for the little exhibition. Here is my name and address and please don't forget that affidavit."
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