WORKING ONE'S WAY to Europe aboard
WORKING ONE'S WAY to Europe aboard the cattle boats taking their bellowing cargoes from Canada to Great Britain was a "broadening" experience for a great many Dartmouth men in college in the 1920'5. This closed chapter in Dartmouth student life is vividly recalled by Charles F. Haywood '25, whose account of his own trip over in the summer of 1925 makes a pallid thing of the "student tour" so popular today.
The exporting of live cattle from Canada to Great Britain was just about at its peak in the year that Mr. Haywood writes about. Although the numbers dwindled alter 1925 and finally ceased in 1940, approximately 500,000 head of cattle were shipped during that closing 15-year period.
Mr. Haywood, a Boston attorney and resident of Lynn, was an editor of Jacko and enjoyed English composition courses at Dartmouth. He has kept up his writing ever since and is a contributor of feature stories to The Boston Sunday Globe. His writing has been crowned by two novels: No Ship MaySail (1942), a salt water adventure novel with a Salem locale, and YouNeed a Complete Rest (1953), a humorous novel about a high-pressure business man who worked so hard he burned out a bearing. Both novels, published by the Nichols-Ellis Press, Boston, were praised by reviewers.
