The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-19
"'We1l just leave this rum here until


women, too, and they teach school some
where's back inland. Being as they're
going TO the same place as we are we've
got to be decent. If we drink rum we
can't be decent. Therefore, there's not
a-goin' to be u drop o. rum drunk on
this trip. Anyhow, we're on duty; we're
escort for this party o. young women.
There won't be no drunk business on
duty while I'm along. Ye all want to
understand that. Now, git aboard your
horses and into them land packets, and
remember the first blasted jack O. we
that makes break gets his head broke
$50 the start was made. At the head
of the line was the coach of the young
women from Detroit, surrounded by
the bluejacket horsemen, the master at
arms in the lead, and the line of stages
containing the remainder of the party
of men-o'-war's men trailing after. The
school-teachers enjoyed the situation
hugely, from what | heard afterward.
They made some efforts to engage the
master at arms in conversation, but he
didn't place much reliance on his con-
vcrsational powers and didn't have
much to say. Anybody who has ever
made that trip from IIilo to the burning
lake of Kilauea knows how superb the
ride is on the winding road, first
through beautiful green sugar planta-
tons, then through the coffee lands,
and, before the Halfway house Is
reached, through thick tropical jungle.
When the Halfway house was reached,
all hands dismounted and debarked for
luncheon. The young women were es-
corted into private dining-room, and
the sailors, who were expected, ate in
the main dining-room. They were a
happy, good-natured lot, whereas, if
they had brought their drink, about
quarter of them would already have had
broken heads.
well, they made Peter Lees Volcano
house, Mt the burning lake, in the even
ing, and when the school-teachers had
gone to their quarters the master at
arms drew up the men and again adj
dressed them:
"'That bar in there's wide open, you
see,' said he, and all any man o. yes
got to do to get rum is to walk in there.
But the man that does it'll walk out
again with his nose on the other side of
his mug
Delay there, mate, We're not banker
in for rum said the men, cheerfully,
and they put in the evening like de-
ing lake was not to take place until tho
next day. All hands went the next day,
the girls from Detroit still enjoying tre-
mcndously their escort of mounted
bluejackets. The descent was made in
just as good order as the ascent had
been, the expedition arriving back in
Ililo on the evening of the second day.
The leader of the young women from
Detroit made pretty little speech to
the blue jackets.
"I'm sure she said, that none OF
you shall ever regret having treated us
with so much kindness-knightin
| might almost say-for, you see, when
we get back to the United States we
shall all do all in our power to alter the
general opinion held of sailors when
they arc on land. That opinion is, you
know, that sailors of the navy, or any
sailors, in fact, when they get ashore,
drink and carry on
THE blueiackets all grinned in {.
body.
"'But we shall certainly tell them diff"
ferently,' and so on. The young won,
an did her part neatly, badSth men
good-by in the name of all her com.
panions and then the dozen school
teachers from Detroit embarked on tho
Honolulu
"We1l, those girls had no sooner gos
out of sight than the devil broke loose
among that pack Of bluejackcts. They
split up into gangs, and within an hour
all hands were up to their necks in It.
Practically they tore the town of Hilo
to the ground and fired volley over it.
There was no stopping them. They
couldn't be stopped. They invaded the
town, invested it, sacked it. There's
man named Lycurgus in Hilo, Greek,
who owns several rows Of little one
roomed houses. The blue jackets rented
these shacks for the occasion, n pair of
them in each shack, and in these rows
ofhouses they made their headquarters.
Thence they would roll forth in parties
in search of rum and other joys, such
ms few dozen Kanakas to kill, especial.
ly Kanaka policemen, and in general
they had highly enjoyable time.
When their three days. liberty expired
about ten men came back to the ship
more or less the worse for wear. The
other 14o stayed ashore enjoying them
selves. Patrol guards Of the port watch
were sent ashore to haul their was
sailing shipmates back to the ship.
They were glad to get back themselves.
The town marshal of IIilo swore in so
special policemen, all Knnakas. They
all took to the mountains nm hour after
they were sworn in. That starboard
watch of ours just simply owned the
place. The finish came when they ar
rived at the inevitable stage when they
began fighting among themselves. They
disabled each other so that it was pos
sible for parties of the port watch to
go ashore and bring the physically |
wrecked men off to the ship one by one.