The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-20
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
The Troubles of Lieutenant
Stoney and the Warlike
Recruits.
A NATIVE SON ON RED TAPE
Sailing of the MonoWai-No Land
Ing at Honolulu-A Big
Fish Yarn.

Lieutenant Stoney is going ahead pick
ing up crew for the Philadelphia, and
before long the big white cruiser of
"brotherly love- will give way to the
steamer Thetis, which will ship number
of men.
Only the best material is accepted, and
the shipping Office at Al Whites is
crowded with would-be recruits. A pref
erence is given to native-born scattering
men in good physical condition. Lieu
tenant Stoney states that he is besieged by
good, industrious and intelligent men, who
beg piteously to be enlisted. There is
often no vacancy on board for their
peculiar abilities or some physical defect
renders them totally unfit for the naval
service.
yesterday" said the lieutenant, ga
locomotive engineer of years experience,
and apparently an excellent man, wanted
to enlist in any capacity. He had lost his
job during the strike, and his finances
were at low water. | never was so sorry
for any one in my life as L was when |
found that he was blind in one eye. That
forever ruined his chances of enlistment"
a sturdy young fellow, fresh from a
Western State, presented himself for ex
animation. He was deplorably unsophis-
ticated, and his manifest uselessness on
shipboard was strikingly apparent. AT
first there was a refusal, but his earnest
ness prevailed with the good-natured naval
officer and his case was taken into consid-
Grafton. Then he took Lieutenant Stoney
unreservedly into his confidence, and was
so enthusiastic over his bare chance of
being accepted that he was told to report
aboard the ship for enlistment. He then
wanted to go uptown to see about redeem
ing his gold watch, which was held by the
landlord for $2-room rent. Its present
from my mother, and | don't want to lose
it," said he to the officer.
"YOu go aboard the ship and II advance
the 50 for your watch and send somebody
for it,
Then the lieutenant turned to the next
subject needless of the fact that he had
fractured that part of Congressman Ma
CURES act which forbids the giving of an
advance to a sailor.
That next subject was bold, bad man.
His chin stuck out most aggreSsjvely. He
was white-faced and chicken-b reasted, and
objected TO the verbal examination as to
his sailor qualifications. 1t was soon
demonstrated that he was not fit for the
service.
"See here I understand that only
Americans need apply" said he. I'm
Native Son of the Golden West, and I'm
a-goin' ter ship, an | want no - red
tape about it. An, cum ter think over it,
l don't care cuss whether 1 ship or not.
I'm a native son, by II"
$50 am l" said the lieutenant; land
if you don't get out of here I'll hammer
the head off your shoulders!
The recruiting officer started for him
and the clatter of the Native Sons bro
gans on the stairway deadened all other
sounds.
The Oceanic steamship Monowat sailed
for Sydney, Australia, yesterday noon
with the following passengers:
For Auckland-George Patterson. For sgd
ney-A1iss Mary Adams, Mr.. and Mrs. John P.
Blake, A. Buttemer, NJ. Carey, P. Carter, Mr..
ana Mrs. F. Courage, Miss Courage, H. Daw-
haugh, John C. Gum, Frank ]. Gum, John
Howell, P. J. Lonergan, Frank Logan, VIII
liam Parratt, Sidney Rosenfeld, P. NJ. Reid. 7.
K. Stubbins, Miss A. Uttley Todd, Joseph
Vardon, Miss Worn, Rev. Herman Young.
No passengers nor freight were taken for
Honolulu. Only mail will be landed in
that port. Neither passengers nor freight
will be carried to the Hawaiian Islands
either way as long as the epidemic is rag
ing there. Mails will be put ashore in
small boats from the outside of the harbor.
A funeral party of sixty-four men, IN
der command OF an officer, came ashore
yesterday from the British cruiser Hya-
cinthe to bury a shipmate. His name was
John Dunn, and he had died at the hos
pital of an abscess in the ear. The vessel
sailed last night for Callao on her way
home.
The steamer Kahului, which ran ashore
on her last trip down the coast, was put on
the drydock yesterday. 1t was found that
her forefoot had been stove in, and only
the compartment bulkhead saved the.
vessel from going to the bottom.
The steam-schooner Sunol returned from
sea yesterday morning and makes rather
tishy statement about colliding with a
whale outside the heads. The monster
broke off three blades of the propeller and
badly disabled the vessel The mate says
the whale was eighty feet long, and it arose
under the steamer like an island. The
Sunol had only been at sea about ten hours
and some allowances may be made on that
account However, one of the crew says
the steamer struck a buoy, and as a fine is
in order the fish yarn is brought into the
case.
A dispatch was received in this City yes
terday, stating that the British ship Edin-
burgshire, bound from London to Tacoma,
had put into Valparaiso damaged by vio-
lent gales. The mate was killed during
storm and Captain Page had been found
dead in his bed. No particulars are given.