Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-09-27
Chori.. Brs~sr's R,mfaise.nees

Charles Brewer was born In Comhil, Boz.
ton, in March 1904. When abou, seven he
was sent TO Ea,, Sudbury to school. There
happened his FIRST recorded adventure, his fall.
ing of horse and having his cheek deeply
cut and his jaw bone broken. Even at that
early age he wanted to 10 to sea, and when
the war Of 1917 broke on, he urged his mother
to let him Join a phya,eer as a powder
monkey" Blu, Mr.. Brewers father was then
dead and his mother refused to lie, him 60.
However, in common with other school boys,
he turned out to help erect the earhworks oil
Fort Strong, on Noodles Island, which were
built In 1915. In ISi8he entered the store Of
George & Thomas Searlc as an apprentice.
He remained there three years, until he
was y. Then his mother, yielding to the
almost daily expression Of his desire to 90 TO
sea, consulted with Capt. John Pratt, Capt.
Benjamin Rich and Capt. Holland, three old
retired merchants and merchan, captains, and
upon their advice reluctantly conSented to lei,
young Brewer follow his bent" His first
voyage was as green hand on tic Palmer,
owned by the Lee family and bound for Cal.
cutta. His wages S. a month. The
voyage lasted sixteen months, and instead Of
q" curing him, his mother and friends
hoped it would, it only whetted his appetite
for sea living, He made second voyage in
the Palmer, short voyage lasting only FIVE
months. He then shipped as an ordinary seaman
on board the Paragon bound for these islands.
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la long voyage Of 1872 days. She had on
board United States Consul Thomas Croker
and his clerk, Robert Etwell. The second Of
hcer was Capt John Dominis, fs,he,
Of the present Governor Of Oahu and
Maui. Shortly after the Paragon reached
Honolulu, Queen Kapiolani, favori,e wife o
Kamehameha II. died at Lahaina, and tn,
Paragon among several vessels, was chartered
TO carry passengers to the funeral. Youni
Brewer witnessed the funeral which was at
tended, he says, by nearly 1900 natives
His next voyage to these islands was OF
board the Chinchilla, Capt. Thos. Meek
Young Brewer, then only AZ, sailing as frs
officer. During the years ISa6, and 8, TIN
Chinchilla made voyages between China
Sitka and Honolulu, taking American good
from this port to Sitka, buying furs there anc
taking them, together with Hawaiian sanda
wood, to Canton. In 1891, Captain Brewer
then frs, officer Of the Ivanhoe, brought tn
first night blooming cereus to Homo
lulu. Captain Brewers frs, commant
was the schooner Victoria, belongin,
to William French Of Honolulu. That wa
in 1881. Captain Brewer afterwards CON
handed other Honolulu-owned vessels. Cap
tain Brewer was the first to inform tn
whaling captains at Honolulu Of the grea
abundance Of whales in the Okhotsk Sea. Il
1885, Captain Brewer and Henry A. Pierre
founded the firm of Pierce x Brewer. Blu,
in iS43, Mr.. Pierce retiring, the firm took i,
present name Of c. Brewer & Co. Captai
Brewer, concludes that portion Of his reminis
cences which relate TO the Hawaiian Island,
(which he persists in calling the Sandwich
IN islands,, with the following sentences IN
life at the Sandwich Islands, during a perio
Of nearly twenty-sis years, was very pleasar
y one. shall always remember with grafitud
the kindness | received from the many friend
in Honolulu, and especially from II
an Majesty King Kamehameha Ill, who, froI
:, boyhood to his death, was always my hrr
friend"