Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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EDITORIALS Stick-to-it-iveness Jim Fisher had como to Smith University a year before, Although his parents were not very wealthy and would have to enduro many hardships, he was sont to his father's Alma Mater. Everything had goné well, until about two months from the end of his first year, Then in one of his father's letters he read this: Our financial situation is desperate. I am afraid you will have to come home. Jim wrote right back and this is what his father read: I wouldn't come home now if I were paid to. I will make out somehow. His father wondered at this, but when Jim came home at the end of the year he told his father a very queer story, which made his father very proud. This was Jim's story: Immediately upon my arrival at college Jack Johnson, the millionaire's son and his crowd began to taunt mee I was not as good as they because I roomed at the 'poorhouse! and ate at Mrs. Murphy's dining room. They called me a Ysissy' and many other names. It made me angry and now I've decided to go back next fall and beat them at their own game, football. But son, I have no money to send you to college, replied the father sor- rowfully, I don't care, father, I heve a job at college. I wait on the training table at meals and every day I tend furnaces about the college. Well, son, it's up to yous If you think you can manage it, I'l] help you all I can. When September came, Jim again started for Smith University. When he are rived, the first thing he did was to add his name to the list of football vole unteers, posted on the bulletin board. Next day was the first practise, at two-thirty in the afternoon, Jim got there early but at the appointed time he found many other boys there and ho began to wonder how he could ever make good, but he stayed. The boys were told to report to the difforent coaches and as- sistantse Jim went to the backfield coach and told him that he would like to try out for the right halfback position, for that was the position that Jack Johnson hzldon the varsity. Jim knew nothing about football but he had a fine mind and paid attention every minute. Jim had a wonderful body, broad shoulders, slim hips, and well muscled legs. Although Jim had such a body as this ho had always been a stu- dent not an athicto, but he wes destined to change his ways. He developod very quickly into a good football player, all he needed was experience, In his sophomore year Jim playcd in only o few games. He played two full games, while Jack Johnson was recovering from a sprained ankle he had received in a football gamee Ho went in for a few minutes in nearly overy games Jack Johnson did not think much about it but in Jim's junior year Jack became alarmed at finding himself on the bench more and moro, He plottcd against Jim and the coach but he was found out and expelled from college. Jim then played all the gamos, He was the best all round player that had

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In CMemoriam ANNIE E. BAILEY We, the Junior Class of Pennell, wish to pay our last respects to Miss Annie E. Bailey. In 1919-1920 Miss Bailey taught at Pennell and, under her supervision, the first edition of the WHIRLPOOL came out in 1919. Miss Bailey had a distinctive teaching career and in 1926 was given the award as the outstand- ing teacher in the State of Maine. She spent many years of her life in Gray and will remain in the hearts of the townspeople as one of its outstanding citizens. She passed away April 11, 1937,

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been known in the last twenty years of football. In his junior and senior ycars he was named as All-American ployer for both ycars, a feat never before accomplished at Smith University --Linwood Clark The Convict Ship One day, sevcral yoars ago, a convict ship docked at the State Pier in Portland, Maince This ship was of tho old Norwegian windjammer type ond had taken sixty days to cross tho Atlantic Ocean. The officers who sailed the ship, slept on the main deck because of the gruesomeness of the lower deckg, Es d ', This old ship was built during the 18 hundreds in lielbourne, Australia and is still sailing, The masts were built of teak, the hardest wood known, The hulk is of planks several inches in thickness and from bow to stern on both sides there were large, crude arrow heads, These arrows vere also printed on the sails, It was the ship's mark and every prisoner was branded with it on the palm of his hend, About midships of the mein deck is the captain's quarters, In here are several cocuments, rules and orders, guns and swords on display. All over the dock are capatans for raising and lowering the sails and anchors and the only windlass in existence, Around the bulwarks ore many instruments of torture; most of them designed by the one-time captain, Captain Price. The helmsman's post is in the stern and is protected by a large steel casing from stormse Down on the first deck is the first sot of cells. These are very small, being only about 6 to 8 feet square. Ir many of the cclls are wax figures of the most notorious criminals of the day. These figures are claimed to be the most life-like in the world, In the bow of the deck is the women's cell, This is a large room heavily barred. There was little light in the cells and what there was came through a small grating in the top of the door, from a few lampSe For ventilation there are about four gratings cut in cach dock, Some of the cells, in times when there were many lewbrenkers, were filled with 8 or 9 people. The second deck is much the same except for two things. In the bow of this deck is kept the drinking water. Also the first two colls were dreaded by all prisoners. These were called The Black Holcs , In these the bow of the ship curved. In the side of the cell was a large ring. To this the convict was handcuffed by one arm so that he was half-standing and half lying. It was in these two cells that many mon went insane. The third deck is below the waterline. In those cells the prisoners were put in solitary confinement, “They werc dark, cold and damp, and many also wont insane here, Now back to the main deck, -The convicts each day were given an hour's exercise, Each had a ball ond chain and were forced to keep walking. If any one did not obey orders he was flogged severely. The person was tied to a y-shaped object and all the other prisoners gave him one lash with oach hand» Afterwards they were placed in a salt bathe In tho bath several men drowned themselves, Once a guard had just been married. One evening he brought his ce c AERE gr ee ee ee eee ee ee ee