District Court, D. Oregon September 14, 1899, No. 4,462 (The Glenesslin)

BELLINGER, District Judge.

The libel alleges that on the 19th day of June, 1899, the master of the Glenesslin, through his agents, employed the libelants as seamen to serve upon the ship from the port of Portland to a port in South Africa; that libelants were at the time in San Francisco, and that it was understood and agreed that the ship would pay the cost of their transportation from San