Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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I8 TI-IE TAI-IOMA y First Iceberg BY HEATH TWICHELL L iceberg that I ever saw and . Q, although the feeling of frigid ity which it imparted to me has long since passed away, the pecu- liar circumstances of its appearance, and the awe with which it inspired me are still photographed on my mem- ory. WELL 'remember the first iiel I . .. ge . 1 It was during the summer of l832, which is still remembered by the in- habitants of the eastern portion of the United States on accountof the un- usual ferocity of the mosquitos, and the extreme period of drought during the Brewery Helpers' strike in its last months, that I determined to make a protracted visit to foreign climes, leaving my family and other worries behind, and accordingly purchased a ticket on the good old Imaginary Line, running from New York to London, Europe, on an irregular schedoodle. I found out on inquiring at the tick- et oflice of the Line that the next sail- ing was on the first Wednesday in the week, and on the clay appointed was at the dock early, before the bill collect- ors could get notice of my change of address. There was the usual crowd of weepers at the dock to see the boat off, and as the Osopic on which I sail- ed drew away from the pier, it was entirely surrounded by the briny emul- sions of the girls I left behind me. When the boat had at last wash-ed the dust of America from its feet, I took time to look about me and to take note of the ship on which I was, and of its passengers. The Osopic was an old boat, a survivor of the era before the present craze for comfort, speed and safety in ocean liners. It was just large enough to be uncomfortable in a rough sea, and possessed all the quali- ties of a family horse we once had: slow, unhandsome, and willing to buck and roll under the slightest provocation. However, it was just the right size for sociability, and, as often happens in small places on shore, everyone knew everyone else's affairs in a very short time. At the dinner table in the saloon fdon't get alarmedl on the Hrst night from terra cotta, I had an excellent op- portunity of sizing up my fellow pas- sengers, who numbered about three hundred, and of being in turn sized up by them. I noticed in particular a stout couple of the recently rich type, whom for lack of a better title I dubbed lVlr. and Mrs. Sippi, on account of their delicat-e accents while imbibing soup. Then there was the man from Peoria, who had never been to sea be- fore, as was the case with most of us, and who had in his trunk every known cure for sea-sickness, including a non-

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TI-IE TAI-IOMA I7 which has been awarded to each club. After gym. class comes the swim. The Y tank is big and deep and equipped with spring-board and high dive, and affords excellent oportunity for playing water-tag. The splashing and yelling in the tank is always tre- mendous immediately after gym. class. Some fellows usually remain in the hand-ball courts for a while Cwhen these can be filched from the Messrs. Gaiser and Garlick, who have a mort- gage on theml, but the large majority are deeply immersed in the pool. After dressing funder difliculties, occasioned mainly by the strange ten- dency which wet towels possess to leap about with great speed and accur- acyl the crowd is usually thoroughly prepared to dole out speedy justice to the Hfeedf' and to do divers and sun- dry faccent on the udiversuj things to the cooks if they fail to properly per- form their duties. It is noticeable that cooks seldom fail to deliver the goods at the HY. Space is lacking to give further de- tails, though one who is a member can scarcely stop so soon. There is much yet to be said of the fun enjoyed by members on their summer camping trips to the Mountain and to Camp Seymour, of the trips to the beach which will close the season's activities, and then, too, there are the plans now under way to form a sep- arate class for Lincoln Park High and start the inter-school rivalry on the Hoor of the HY. All this should be said, to do full justice to the subject, since High-School fellows are fore- most in all these new movements, but space is lacking. It is enough to say that the Student class of the last year has been a great big success. No student ever joined who did not gain by it mentally, morally and physicallyg no one ever entered who did not con- sider himself one of the luckiest of the lucky to have become one of a ubunchi' of comrades of whom he might always be proud. Good fel- lowshipf' Friendliness and XVel- come are pass-words at the HY. There is not one of us YH men who, leaving with the rest of the 'I4 Class to enter upon a new sphere of life, will not feel regret as genuine at leaving the 'Student Classy' as that which we shall feel at our departure from the halls of Stadium. And no one of us but shall be reminded by his added mental, spiritual and physical efficiency of the debt which he owes the YH for the inspiration gained from con- genial fellowship and earnest co-work- ing with true friends and comrades. l1 J li- c s: m y o' Q ki-. f 4:llilMlllll.Lggfll5' I'mulIInIllillllllllullgulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllmHmmlunnuummu ww--izliuwmlllmlwllllllllliiil. ,.,, , ,V If ip 5 ' '- ' - A 'few fr - 4 -. T ' if an

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TI-IE. TAI-IOMA I9 rocking hammock to be suspended be- tween decks. Aside from the passengers, there was an unusually fine lot of old fash- ioned jokes on board that night, some of which, having first seen the light of day on the ark, were still leading a seafaring existence. There was the joke about the fat man and the needle, which had no point, and the story of the old man and his seven daughters, which was the identical joke which caused Nero to break a blood vessel, and many more too tiresome to relate. When the well meaning humorists had depleted their stock of shelf-worn goods, and had gone below to assuage their deep-seated grief at the ship's bar, the talk shifted to politics and religion, which always seemed to me a poor combination, then to tales of sea life, and finally to icebergs. The captain, a cheery and optimistic soul, told many tales of the chance meetings of ships and be1'gs at sea, and some more of the comparative safety of ocean travel as compared to playing with dynamite, and at the end of the evening had the whole company quite worked up at the prospect of meeting one of the gigantic frosts of which he spoke. However, curiosity far outweighed fear in my mind, for as I had never seen any ice not under the control of the Ice Trust, I was more anxious to do so than apprehensive of the possible consequences. i - '--' LE: if-3 rx 7'Y '?255i 4 ip--L 142' Q 'Z 4 IN mf t ll tt- T '?i? - .- . E ' , sz iw ly f uf , 1:9199 P 1 gf - W rl 1, ge E -r Jgvvitv hi -11 A-..-5 yy g a :M , p ' I llnm1m.l f ' fs: 'i'- '11 1 ' f - I iii: ,llf 5M Zag I -- QM-7 V ',. R T .ftp rl W f u WW' 'WW' Illlulfl 7' ' AZMQ-QZ3,,f4::' After the crowd in the saloon had gone to their respective bunks, and I had gone to mine, I lay awake imagining how beautiful an ice- berg would look to my sun-scorched eyesg miles upon miles of perfectly good ice, with here and there a soda fountain or a soft drink counter, each sheltered under the crystal dome of an ice-block palace. Scattered around would be fifty-pound pieces of ice, each with a. pair of ice-tongs and an invitation to h-elp yourself. But to come back to bed, or rather the bunk, let me say that there are many words not in good standing but commonly used which have taken their names from articles most familiar to the sailor. For instance, the word bunk, as used on ship board, is th-e same word that is used on land meaning a disappointment or failure. The bunk in which I lay was reached by shin- ning up the bedpost to a height of about ten feet, and when reached proved to have ample room only if you let your head and feet hang out. ::a5il3'?JilL1--A-'11 I.rum.taa1z-5 naar .::. W ss-'iz H-'rf' fliiiizilllfuqgpn, Q 5 25 Q. fzlmiufsfrig f-::x1:nunllll',.... ., Y 4 Z -3- , ..fiii5!isE:5ifQ ' Y 'THIHY' 1 ., -L ,-- 1 . ,'ji?.,'I?i:ff'5f. v-as . -1. 'fliffk-.-2? -g-ggi? J! - I 0 fc., I ,au - I f - I, Ja., l reams -Tllii liiin iii? ,Q gi., -. N gixgfflji ,. J LH an W ,aw 1 ,ta tl' we IHII it ,.lxil.:i1i:.urnX --H.-is -'N ,fpff .fl 5,11 i H ,db-M MJ .., .11 u -l-lr. . , ,g..m..... .. ::,' ' .1 'Tiff -1,.,,r,.,,w. if 1- , -- , 'Q Q W ww' ' , . 5' f V1 -Q H mfg., xllffgrfl 1 4 di' 1 i.. J rl H . A ,r V .J x .IJ 1-1 flaw. L,'a..,.::rLA-,if ag. Jim --, A' 1 A n 4 1 1 Everything was quiet on ship- board, except for the customary noises of ship lifeg the beating of the propel- ler as it beat the Water to a creamy foam, the beating of the bells at half-hourly intervals, and the beating of the cook as he beat the eggs for the morning's meal. Shortly after three bells, which in the parlance of the un-seafaring man