The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-10
ALL ABLE SEAMEN.
Crew of the State of Maine Get
Their Pay.
THREE or THEM sHANcHAiED.
One catered Into . scheme to Ship
Another Against His Will and
was Caught Himself.

Office of ID. A. Mckenzie. shipping COM
missioner, yesterday when he was paying
off the crew of the ship State of Maine.
The sailors, except the first mate, cook
and steward. who remained on the ship,
came to the Office for their wages in q con-
dition that told plainly of their doings on
their first night ashore. Many Of them
were under the influence of liquor, and
they took particular delight in abusing
Capt. Carver. who vas present at the time,
until Mr.. Mckenzie threatened to put
them all in irons unless they behaved
themselves. He possessed no irons but
little key chain. as he said afterwards, but
the bluff went and they BECAME quiet.
They told Capt. Carver chat they were
going to have him arrested, and q few
minutes later, when some one brought in
United States Deputy Marshal Mudgett
and introduced him, Capt Carver said,
"Well, l suppose you want me-" mo.
don't want you for anything" replied Mr..
Mudgett. and the captain felt as though
the joke was on him.
Three Of the crew had been complained
of in the official log as not being able sea-
men, and the question was for Mr.. Nc
Kenzie to decide whether they should be
paid full wages. The others were paid off,
and these three told to return later in tho
day. when an interpreter would be pres
ent, two of the men not being able to
understand English. The cases were in
vestigated at O'Clock, and Mr.. Mckenzie
decided to pay them in full.
During the investigation some interest
ing facts were brought out. One reason
for paying them in full was that the ships
articles provided for each man receiving
such a sum. and did not provide for a
classification of seamen. 1t appeared
that these three men had been shanghaied
at Montevideo. one of them under circum-
stances that plainly showed he deserved
it. The other two, who could talk no En-
glish, were on the ships articles as John
Peterson and John Johnson, but one
proved to be an Austrian named V. Marc
vich, and the other an Italian named N.
Eaimone. They had papers to prove their
identity, and one of them to show that he
had been an officer on an Italian steam
ship. Both acknowledged being drunk in
Montevideo. but both wrote their names
and receipted for their pay, while ON the
ships articles they had been represented
by "his mark" The third man, I. Car.
wardine. said he was mate on an English
ship in Montevideo harbor. with ELI COM
ing to him; that a boarding house.
keeper offered him IS to sign his
name to the ships articles for somebody
else. who would be shanghaied. The man
consented to earn the s. land assist to
shanghai somebody else, and signed his
own name to the ships articles. No
sooner had this been done than he was
seized and put aboard the ship. but a. he
had signed the articles he had no kick
coming.
1.-The fact that these men were shang-
haied," Mr.. Mckenzie said, ''did not re-.
feet on Capt. Carver, for captains the
world over hired some boarding house.
keeper to get them crews. and as . matter
of fact know nothing about how they were
obtained"
Another interesting incident of the
ships life IVES brought out. 1t seems that
when Carwardine was taken aboard the
ship he said to Capt. Carver: "If go on
this ship you are a dead man." Subse-
auently he drew a knife with the inten-
ton Of attacking the captain, but was
promptly put IN irons By the mate.
The ship will be locked at Schwabach-
er's wharf early this morning by the tug
v. T. Price and begin discharging cargo.