Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-09
BULLY HAYES.


BULLY HAYES.
The Last Of the Pirates Of the Paeiac-
A Man with No Small Vices.
From the San Francisco Alta
Among the distinguished characters who
| have made their headquarters In SanFrancisco
| in the past was gentleman whose baptismal
| name appears to have been William Hayes,
but who was popularity known among his asso-
ciates by the endearing title OF .Bally Hayes,r
This individual was quiet sleek-faced rascal.
who presented the appearances Of q full-hedged
parson OF the old-fashioned type He was
never known to chew tobacco, to drink, or to
give Inference to an oath. william Hayes
began his career as a skipper Of a schooner
on the lakes, regularly plying between
Cleveland and Buffalo and was very
ners. He was man Of grea. erisinalfiy Of
marked his plunge into crime committed at
this stage of his Interesting career, was unique
teman OF ce1eand, haHns ana Tean send
nephew In Buffalo, purchased q fine riding
pony. blooded animal of great beauty, and
iivered In Buffalo when the boat had reached
It's destination, along with note which he
found that this epistle read as follows:
MY DEAR NEPHEW. send You pony by Capt.
HAYS: hope you will enjoy riding him: Your
Observing that the word "pony" was used in
| this letter, and remarking upon the brevity of
the ncte, Skipper Hayes perceived his opportu-
Upon his arrival in Buffalo he proceeded at
once to toy store and invested in a fine wood
en- hobby,horse, which he delivered to the lad
along with his uncleS note. Then he fastened
to horse market and realized goodly sum
upon the handsome animal he had in tow. A
from Cleveland, and one OF his first inau
was after the health and whereabouts OF the
horse.
nephew with interest.
"Oh, pretty well,' said the boy with an indif-
Where is hep" pursued the uncle.
,;1t, on the front veranda," returned clad,
| little impatiently.
INQUIRY was after the whereabouts of Skipper
IHayes But he had vanished from the
never more echoed to his honest tread He
next turned up in San Francisco, and now lie
Steps upon the stage in all the glory of his new
Title OF Bully Hayes, name which he won by
a consistent course of conduct and which
always afterward chung to him. He set sail for
the south Seas aud became actively engaged in
a peculiar pursuit known as "bIack bfriing"
whereby a man usurps the prerogaIive of Divine
i irce IN disposing of the bodies of the
or 1uiil!i1ng the demands of social etiquette but
tulnhilng them indiscrimnately into q dark
nold ana setting sail fora profitable market. He
conducted this enterprise with such success that
MS lame became noised about and certain
YES, vessels OF her majesty's government, which
lie IN wait for malef;ctors in that locality
closed in upon him, SO that he was prone
TO betake himself to the China seas. But his
thrifty commercial instincts again got the bet
Ter Oh MS discretion, and at Macao ne made
CONTRACT to land 25O Chinamen in Sydney, New
South Wales, at $40 head. Now at that time
some niteen years having gone by, the good
Peep OF Sydney, realizing the evils OF Chinese
immigration, had established an import duty
upon every Chinaman who landed on their
shore, in the shape of head tax of ESQ and in
order to bring his Speculation to a protitab e
issue II was necessary for Skipper Hayes to use
some fines>e, delicate quality in VII ich he was
never FOUND wanting. He set sail at once for
his destination, and six or seven weeks later
Inc Waterman of the coast guard at North
I1eau. foft JACKSON. adjacent to Sydney tele-
grapned at dawn that brig was living Off the
mouth OF the harbor with her wards ali acock-
OH, her sheets unrove, and pumping bright
water. the largest of the two government tugs
anchored In the harbOr at once put out to save
me. ne. e men the tug came alongside the brig
lac csp.ain jumped on the tatraiI and hailed
the tug.
You must save lite. have $50 passengers
OIL board
forthwith $50 Cinnamon, with their scantv
luggage, were tumblei over the side into tho
TUG. The captain of the brig said tn It he couiI
heeP his vessel anoat until they could send
smother tug tor him. whereupon the tug put
oaeh; AS soon AS the tug disappeared inside
the Heads Skipper Hayes stopped pumping.
squared MS yards, rove his sheets set sail and
Was on In the course OF an hour his topsails
! disappeared below the horizon. AS soon as he
1
below to reef in d dig hose which he had
dropped through port and connected with the
bottom OF the pump.
The captain of the tug did not fare &c yell
When ne got To the Circular quay in sydney he
attempted to land his quarter of thousand
M"nsolan passengers, but the officer of her
majesty customs refused to accept them with:
out the payment of the stipulated. head tax:
and thus the tug was forced to lay off for sew.
erai days, supporting the Cinnamon on govern
ment fare until the legislature could be con.
vened 10 pass an enabling act to allow them to
be landed. The consignee of the cargo was
never known, but he undoubtedly got imme-
dlaie possession of his human freight and Bully
hayes received the stipulated sum. He next
turned up in San Francisco sick and penniiess
as usual. He revived old acquainances and
made new friends, and finally was introduced
t TO a gentleman quite prominen in yachting
abundant n1, means, had sufficient faith in
Bully Hayes and the island trade to give
schooner equipped for a commercial voy-
age Hayes engaged q mate who was
married man, took the mans wife along as
StewardeSs, and started off for the islands The
next news from this bold buccaneer was that
he had been killed by the mate, and the
6s was s oGs On the Of one Of
equipped the pirate for the voyage sent a
shooncr down to the islands to investigate,
In expressing his disapproyai OF an atfr.,nt of.
tered to his wife by the skipper, used some
very forcible language. Bully Hayes only
fact way: Every well, guess iii 90 below and
get my gun and shoot you"
The mate had replied, in just as quiet and I'M
conc med manner: ~
''Then l reckon d better kill you now" and
thereupon he caught up the boom crotch and
stove In the shippers head as he was going
q )Wn the comranio1-way. This was five Years
ago, and as the Pacific has been comparatively
quiet and safe tor travel since that day, it is
morally certain that Bully Hayes is dead
silly Girl Undeceiyetl.
THE DANGER OF CORRESPONDING WITH UN-
KNOWN ADMIRERS. e. s..
A telegram from Elmira, N. Y, JAM g. saws: