Transport: Crudest Mistress

How a ship's captain may dislike vessel, ocean and passengers was comically demonstrated by Cinemactor Walter Connolly in The Captain Hates the Sea. Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific last July was washed ashore. It was written by Captain W. J. Fowler, then first officer of Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co.'s Golden Horn which had just been through 18 days of rough weather.

"This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports...

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