Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-11-09

Pockets and Lacerated the Feelings of
Unc.e sam's Jsckies.
"About as dismal a Fourth Of July
sssver I experienced on board a man.
c'.war." said an ex-sailor OF the navy
now living in Washington TO a report
er, twas Independence day not many
years ago down in the harbor of Homo
aulu. The Bennington had an all star
racing boats crew. The eight had just
happened to be assigned 70 the Ben
nington In a bunch before she left for
her Pacific cruise, and several Of the
oarsmen had been members of the CO.
aumbia's crack boats crew that walloped
all Of the British navy's boats crews in
Eagligh waters n few years before.
The Bennington's cutter was OF
the best In the navy, and she had been
built for q racer. Before we left the
Mare Island navy yard for south Pacific
waters the ships racing crew had easily
beaten all of the other crews of the
ships lying at the yard, including the
tiptnp crew of the Olympia and the
Boston's fine crew. We thought that
we were about as warm as they make
'em after our crew put il on SO many
other man-o'-war crows, giving them a
couple Of minutes the start of us, too,
on numerous occasions and still beating
them disgTacefully
1.-THE people of Honolulu arranged
an AQUATIC festival for the Fourth OF
July-the Americans down there ceIe.
brated the Fourth Just rs enthusiastic.
ally as we do up ho-e-and the Ben
nington's crew fgared in il largely.
Our shin'e c.i,9,s y. rg attic faya in tho
two races talt were ron Ui.. picked
Kanaka CIT vs. nnd the ttiId nd last
race Of the dav Nss ol4 81 which our
crackajack elghs SIMS re lgu4c, the other
races having hqrs, v-En by subcrpz,a9
practically pici Nc random from
aAios. the stroI en.
eve Though .a3 race vas at orr
mercy. lii was To be a four sided affair
u crew Of Kanaka sugar field workers,
a crew Of Kanaka policemen and tie
racing crew Of the yacht Eleanor. be
longing to Mr.. Slater of Providence.
that had nulled into Honolulu harbor
from Japan a few DAYS before. Orr
crew didn't cav much attention to the
YACHTS racing crew and were only fiu-
uring Oh che distance they could beat
the crew Of Kanaka policemen. which
seemed the most formidable.
"The race was over the four mile
course carefully blocked OFT ii the bar.
bor-which was yary SIN ,nfb-bv thc
Honolulu AQUATIC sportsmen and the
start was first rate. There wasn't a man,
fore Or aft, on the Bennington that
didn't stand TO 90 broke 10 the extent
of at least a months nay ON the success
of the R~ennington,s crew and wa had
to give 5 to /. too. for il was peneralIy
conceded that we had the race at our
mercy.
1.-THE start. as 7 said was pood and
the B~enninrtof's crew showed in from,
first and started ont apparently RI MAKE
a runaway race of II. The Kanaka no.
licen,en,s crew trailed after them mil.
ing steadily. the,, tI,,, Kanaka singer
workers and. a good rem lengths to the
rear the E~leanor,s crew Tb;.~.vas tbf
wav II looked for the 6n;sh w;,s, -.
Benninpton's crew rounded the stake.
boat ard started for the retnrn trim
.sSome Of the Honolulu men who had
their money M on the two Kanak,
crews Actually began IN snnare accounts
and the cry sIt,sa all oyer-RenninptonI
was heard ali over the bay. When tbe
stakeboat was rounded. II was notierd
that the E~lsanor,s heat was sort Of get.
ting a move on Itself ard the !
were working like machines al d lon,
steady stroke that certainly looked as
it was cutting dow the BENIN Il
lead and the lead If the two Kama
boats.
1.-TWO minutes after the stakeb
was rounded the Eleanor 4 gang W
right abreast of the Kanaka cutters
gaining ON them with eye4y i Ike, /,
the cox IN of the Lenningt on,s GU
hearing the yells CT warning fror4
Bennington bluejackets ashore. lo,
behind him and saw 10 Eleanor On