The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-06

Alter the steamers quit puIIlDS on
the MIowera last evening, and the
anchors were out and everything
settled down quietly for the night, the
scene aboard was one typical OF ship
wreck, and although Invested Of the
horrors of what would have been the
case had the disaster occurred at a dis
lance from port, it was still one OF
desolation, and made picture long to
be remembered by those who saw 1t.
The decks, which so short a time
before had been white and free from
all muss and litter, were black and
grimy with coal dust and Uttered
everywhere with the odds and ends OF
wreckage. Chunks of coal, bits of
wood, rope ends, blocks, and gear of
all kinds were in hopeless and, to
landsman, bewildering muss and tam
gle The deck, state rooms and socia!
hall wore q still more gloomy and de-
serted look. Every part and parcel OF
the movable furniture had been
sent ashore in the scows, and
the only piece OF furniture re-
naming in the room was the
piano, which had strangely out OF
place appearance in the midst of so
much desolate ruin. To the imagin-
ative it might have appeared as ut
scene for a DEVILS festival with the
piano as q musical accompaniment
for fiendish revels. The carpets were
gone, and the floor dusty and marked
by the tramp of many coaldust-laden
shoes. The chairs and writing desks
had vanished, and the cushions and
coverings from the wooden settees had
been taken away.
Around the railing above the com
panion way leading down into the
dining saloon were few green shrubs
and ferns growing in pots, which gave
an air of dead life to the whole scene
which put the beholder in mind of a
graveyard, so strangely out of place
did the life seem in the room of DEATH
like stiffness, and the piano at the
other end of the room might well
have been taken for huge coffin
standing on trestles and covered with
a low-hanging cloth.
Between decks the scene was even
| more ruinous than above, if such a
thing were possible. In the dining
| saloon under the little green oasis
! blooming in the desert above, there
was almost as much wreckage and
riffraff floating about, though of q
i. ~ IT, tn a y
All the tables but one had been taken
down, the handsomely upholstered
revolving dining chairs were gone,
the plush cushioning had disappeared
from around the upright stanchions,
and through the litter on the floor
could be traced the black foot prints,
! telling the story of coal jettisoned,
and flying dust.
One table had been left standing
and at this the officers and cabin
help took their meals. The two hand
some handicapped sideboards at the
| forward end of the saloon had lost all
| their drawers, and were piled hi fgf
not, and looked not at all conducive to
| that festivity to which they are sup
posed to commonly contribute.
Under the brilliant, though ghost
| Iy glare of the electric lights
lay the scum of blue ruin and
in the midst of it like the voice OF
fiend newly arrived from the lower
| regions, sounded the shrill unhuman
voice of red Australian parrot, raised
in a querilous protest against the un-
usual proceedings.
Forward the condition was even
worse. Everything throughout the
ship was in a state of chaos, which
could scarcely have been made worse
by art or accident.
On the lower deck forward the
litter and dirt, and where the
coal-dust grated and crunched under
foot-making every step give back 6
protest from the much abused planks,
a young kangaroo danced and skipped
about under the electric lights in 9
silent CHASTITY way, like thing with
out substance.
This kangaroo is joey, the young
boxing kangaroo, the pet of the ships
officers and crew, and the particular
charge of the ships butcher. Joey is
to make his debut in Honolulu sport
ing circles just as soon as the fate Of
the big steamer is decided and the
crew are landed, when it is supposed
he can be engaged for suitable ration
to give pointers to the lovers of the
manly art, on all the latest things look.
ing to the manning and destruction
of the human countenance, and the
raking in of purse and gate money
Joey has two very long hind legs and
tail to match, and with this he
makes a tripod upon which he
raises himself to quite height,
and when properly trained, if he
is angered the hind legs will be the
most dangerous weapons the little fell
low carries, as the big toe jab of the
kangaroo boxer is said by those who