The San Francisco call., 1895-11-15
BACK FROM THE ARCTIC.
The Revenue,Cutter Bear Ar
rived in Port Yesterday
Morning.
Captain Healy and His officers
Will Not Talk of Their
Troubles.

The revenue cutter Bear arrived from
the Arctic yesterday and wars and rumors
of wars are in the air. Captain M. A.
Heaty, commander of the vessel, is the
target at which everybody is shooting,
and outside of the foremast-hands he does
not seem to have a friend on the vessel.
No one in the Revenue Marine is better
known than Captain Healy. For over
twenty years he has been making yearly
trips to the Arctic, and among the
whalers is the best-lked man in the
United States. He is skillful navigator,
and during all the years he has been at sea
his ship has never met with an accident.
The GOODNESS between Captain Healy and
his officers began soon after the cutter
reached Bering Sea. The officers are: /:
First lieutenant and executive Of
fcer, A. Buhner! first lieutenant
and navigator, Howard Emery; sec
Z. Daily and Charles T. Coffin, and first
assistant engineer, J. e. Dorry; surgeon,
Thomas Bodkin. Only two of these sided
with the commander; as to the others,
they only obeyed orders because they had
to. This state of affairs has lasted for sew
eral months, SO it can be imagined that
the Bear did not carry around particu-
terS.
The officers side of the story has taken
form in the shape of a complaint forwarded
to the Secretary of the Treasury The
substance of the charges were given ex-
clusively in THE CALL last Sunday week,
and in substance set forth that Captain
Healv had been under the influence of
liquor on several occasions, and had been
guilty of conduct "unbecoming an officer
and gentleman"
On the 18th of September last Captain
Healy fell overheard from the wharf while
boarding his ship at Unalaska. His head
struck one OF the piles and he was seriously
injured. He has not thoroughly recovered
from the effects, but expects TO be as hale
and hearty as ever in few weeks. When
seen at the Occidental Hotel last night he
positively refused to discuss the situation
"If | am to be the subject of an investiga-
tion," said he, "well and good Then [
will be able to talk. If l am not, the least
said the soonest mended. | am known
on the Pacific Coast from San Diego to
Cape Flattery and from Cape Flattery to
Herschel Island. If you can find any one
ready to throw stone at me outside OF
these men who are said to have signed the
communication to the department bring
him along. I'll stand all he can give me.''
'We never had such mean trip was
the opinion of the Bears crew as voiced
ny LHe Sea lawyer. ne oluceTS anu the
old man were at outs and they had reg
ular parrot and monkey time. Captain
Healy is getting along in years and the
youngsters seem to think he should retire
and give them a chance. We have some
queer sub-otficers in this ship and to my
mind they are the ones that should be in
vestigated."
When the officers were seen they refused
point blank to be interviewed. Neither
would they give the names of any of the
officers who had grievances against the
captain. Whatever Information they pos
sessed they said they were going to Keep
for Secretary Carlisle. The latter will
surely order an investigation and the
whole facts of the case will then come out.
During the season the Bear took 155 rein
deer from the Siberian coast to Port Clar-
ence. Captain Healy says the herds are
doing splendidly and that the Esquimaux
are now proof AGAINST starvation.