The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-01
HAD TWO WOMEN
STOWAWAYS ON
THE AUSTRALIA
Beat Their Way to
the Hawaiian Isles.
FEARED THE ARCHER'S CREW
WEALTHY PASSENGER BY THE
BARKENTINE INSANE.
Licenses for Captains and Mates.
Man Drowned From Steamer
Australia-A Fleet of
Coasters Arrive.
FEARED THE ARCHER'S CREW
WEALTHY PASSENGER BY THE
BARKENTINE INSANE.

The wind chopped around very suddenly
yesterday and brought fleet of coasting
schooners into port. In the morning it
was blowing miles an hour from the
southeast, and at p. m. It was bowling
along at the rate of IS miles an hour from
the northwest. Shipping men say it will
blow pretty hard for the next twenty-four
hours, after which we will get southerly
breeze and rain.
Among the vessels that made an an
chorage was the schooner William Rem
ton, which for twenty days was beating
her way against adverse winds. She sail
ed from Tacoma on January II and had
little else but light winds, head winds
and Gains until she ran into the nor west
er. The sehooners Sacramento s days
from Tillamook, Jennie Thelin and Emma
Utter days from Grays Harder, Ocean
Spray days from VERSIONS Landing,
Parkersburg days from Coquille River
and Sparrow 3 days from Eureka also got
in.
The Oceanic Steamship Companys Aus
tralia from Honolulu was also among the
arrivals. She brought up a very large
cargo, but not many passengers. Among
those who came up in the steerage were
Mrs. NJ Butler and Miss C. Butler. They
search of work. They could not get any
thing TO do in San Francisco, and hearing
that business was booming in Honolulu
they determined TO go there. Mother and
daughter were without funds and how to
reach the Paradise of the Pacific was at
first question they could not solve.
away on the steamer Alameda which left
here month ago. They were soon dis
covered, and when the vessel reached
Honolulu they were turned over TO the
authorities. When the Australia arrived
from San Francisco they were put aboard
her and brought back here.
The women are both honest and hard
working, and assert that they will stow
themselves away on some other vessel and
land in Hawaii again, no matter what
comes or goes. The mother gives her age
as 81 and the daughter as II years: They
left the Australia as soon as she locked.
NO one could have treated us better
than did the officers on the Alameda and
Australia said Mrs. Butler yesterday.
we expected TO find everybody angry on
the Alameda when they found US out, but
they weren't. We proved that We had no
money and only wanted work, so the pur-
quarters in the steerage. The purser also
told us that II we had no money we could
not land in Honolulu, and, sure enough,
we could not. They allowed us ashore,
but only to put US in Jail, and there we
remained until the Australia arrived On
that vessel we were unbidden guests also,
but everybody was kind TO US and the
passage has been a very pleasant one. In
spite of the setback, my daughter and |
are going TO try it again, and We'll land
tltlS lltle. Ju6I YOU walt ana See.
A man named Joseph Sylvia was
drowned from the Australia while the yes
sci was at Honolulu. The deceased and a
young woman named Isabella Perry had
been uptown and on returning to the wa
ter front wanted to board the steamer
Helene, lying alongside the Australia AS
they were passing from one vessel to the
other the woman stumbled and fell over
board. In her fall she grabbed at Sylvia
and pulled him overheard also. She was
rescued, but Sylvia must have struck the
side of the steamer, as he sank and did
not come up again. The body was recov-
cred the next day by the Australia'S crew.
The gunboat Yorktown reached Homo
lulu on January %. She is to join the Ben
nington at Guam, and then both vessels
will proceed to Manila.
During the voyage Of the barkentine
Archer from Honolulu to San Francisco
Henry Heitmann, one of the passengers
became insane. He thought the captain
and crew were conspiring to kill him, and
for the past nine days he has refused
food. When taken ashore yesterday by
Sergeant Bunner and Officer Ferguson of
the Harbor Police he was in a very weak
condition. When searched at the City
Hall a gold watch and chain, two checks
on the Claus Spreckels bank of Honolulu
for $780, a check on the Bishop Bank of
Honolulu for $3.50. certificate of deposit
on the Bank of Hawaii for SIS and s212 in
cash was found on him. Heitmann is
well known here. He is a musician, and
formerly played in the Baldwin Theater.
From there he went to Hawaii and joined
the Royal Hawaiian Band, but latterly