The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-16
RETURNING HOME ON TIE
SCHOONER VlNE.
Their Experiences In San FrancIscc-
Six of Them Desert-TheIr Fond
ness for Beer.

The schooner Vine was tele-
phoned off Diamond Head at
o'clock last evening. She has on
board the Samoans who have been
to the Worlds Fair, and is taking
them back to their home. The
San Francisco Examiner Of Nov.
10Th had the following article about
the Vine and her passengers
II. J. Moors, absolute king of two
mixed tribes, ruling monarch of
the islands of Nassau and Sophia,
the heaviest property-owner in
Samoa, and prospective partner of
Buffalo Bill, is in trouble with this
Government. The monarch of all
he surveys on the other side of the
equator is being interfered with by
Uncle Sans Treasury Department,
and his crowns and sceptors will
not aid him a particle in getting n
lot of his subjects out Of the coun-
try in an irregular way.
Mr.. Moors made big hit on the
Midway Plaisance of Chicago's
white city with a troupe of island
dancers. They left home with no
desire in the way of raiment be-
yond lava-lara, or strip of tapa,
no epicurean longings for aught
more delicate than roast pig and
breadfruit. When they were forced
to travel they were content to walk
and paddle their OWL canoe. Now
they are on their return, with ideas
greatly changed. They wear fore
and-aft caps, four kinds of jewelry,
yellow shoes and blazers, have de-
veloped an appreciation for beer
and the wine that sparkles, and are
fond of horse, cable, electric and
steam cars as means of locomotion.
MooRs' OBLIGATION.
All this civilization has been
thrust upon them in seven months,
and some of them think seven
months of such experience far
from enough.
That is partly the cause of King
Moors' trouble with the Govern
ment. When he was granted per-
mission to land his dancers here
he was bonded to return them all
whence they came after they
should have ceased to be residents
of the Midway. To fulfill this con-
tract he chartered the schooner
Vine, trim craft of 222 tons bur-
den, originally intended for pleas
ure cruising around the world, but
transformed into trader as more
in keeping with the owners purse.
The Vine carries a crew of five for
ward, and when it came to add
ing the king and his family, two
guests and twenty-nine islanders
to considerable cargo of lumber,
things in the schooner's interior
were somewhat cramped. A cook
house was rugged on deck, and
hunks were built three deep on
top of the lumber for the islanders.
The trouble came Monday night
when six of the islanders deserted.
SHOCKING DANCERS ENTICED AWAY.
They were inveigled away up
town by some cheap amusement
caterers, who deluded them with
promises of a lifetime of deer
stalkers, gaudy blazers, jewelry,
beer and street-car rides. They
danced the silva (Which is an ex-
travagant cousin to the Hawaiian
hula), in their own naive way, and
by so doing chased so many ladies
out of the house in which they per-
| formed that the managers con-
ceived they had a strong card-as
long as the police did not interfere.
Consequently the bait was dou-
bled, and the defaulting six did
not return to the Vine, which Cap
tain Won Dahlern had cleared to
sail today.
Mr.. Moors was off on hunt for
his subjects when two of the crew
learned that they would have to
surrender their forecastle hunks to
the mates, owing to the crowded
condition of the cabins, and sooner
than take up quarters with the ma
tives they notified Shipping Com
missioner Gwin that the cubic air
section of the passenger ship law
was about to be violated. This law
calls for 40 cubic feet of sleeping
room for each passenger, and when
the Vines accommodations were
measured she was found wanting.
There were seventeen people booked
for one section which afforded
proper room for only eleven, and
the other compartment was nearly
as bad.
DETAINED FOR TWO CAUSES.
Commissioner Gwin invoked the
aid of Collector Wise, and that OIL
cial at once detailed Inspector
Holmes to hold the schooner until
the law should be complied with.
Captain Won Dahlern had no trou-
BILE in satisfying one of the two
notices served on him-the one In re-
lation to quarters. He simply moved
a ton or two of the islanders trunks
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