The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-01

Captain Wilson, Commander of the
Chilean cruiser Baquedano which sail
ed away yesterday at noon for Yokoha-
ma after a very short stay in port. was
for two years a sub-officer in the Unit
ed States Navy aboard the frlgate PEN
sacola. By special act IF Congress 1t
was at that time, back in the seven
ties, the rule to allow Chile to send two
lieutenants to be educated and to gam
experience in the United States Navy.
Chile in those days had a very sman
navy and Uncle Sans training was
earnestly desired. The Pensacola Is
now a training ship stationed at San
Francisco. Captain Wilson's father
was an Englishman while his mother
was a Chilean.
THE LONE MARINER.
Captain Adolph Frietsch, master OF
the American schooner Enterprise
which was recently libeled by her crew
who claimed brutality on the captains
part, is one of the most celebrated
sailors in the world. This is the first
time that Captain F'rietsch has been in
Honolulu on a coasting vessel and. in
deed. he has not been long in the trade
on the California coast. He is In trou
BILE here and realizes 1t but he does not
intend by any means to allow his trou-
BILE to get the better of him. Captain
Frietsch holds two records-three in
fact. The first two are the record trip
from New York to Queenstown in the
little schooner Nina, 40 feet in length.
in "a days, and the record trip from
San Francisco to Honolulu in the little
Coke, 20 feet in length, in 26 days. The
third record is that he was never
known to have been fixed" by those
who had a grudge against him.
Captain Frietsch told his troubles last
night to an Advertiser reporter. He
said:
II am accused of striking my first
officer 1t is untrue. You see have
not been in the coasting trade very
long and the Union sailors think that
they can do whatever they please with
me. A gang of Union sailors were put
aboard the Enterprise in San Francis
co. / was in a hurry to set away and
didn't bother much whether they were
Union men or non-Union men. BY the
living lingo, though, will never ship
another Union man as long as l live.
not II 1 have to make a speciality OF
Sailing NeSStiS OH ny iuySciA. WhCH
go out of Honolulu / will take nom
Union men, you bet. The men who
came down with me all deserted this
morning, except one man and the cab
in-boy.
IT tell you. the gang shipped in San
Francisco with the purpose of fixing"
me. The mate, Birkin is his name,
said at sea on the way down that he
was going to fix" me. The mate and
the cook were making trouble all the
time. have no complaint to make Of
the rest of the crew during the trip.
| They kicked up their heels when they
| got In port, however. The mate Is no
| mate at all. He can't even take the
sun and knows absolutely nothing
about navigation. He paid no atten-
! ton to his duties and / even had to go
aloft myself to look after the chatting
gear.
II am just going to let other captains
know all about the Union men. The
owner of the Enterprise will look after
his interests you may rest assured. He
| is George w. Kneass, the big boat
builder of San Francisco.
There are lots of shipping firms In
| San Francisco who won't have anything
to do with Union men and there will be
a lot more who will ignore them when
! they know more about them. The
| Union claims to furnish good men but
| they generally furnish a lot of Sound
rels. The gang that came down with
me is about as tough as you could wish
| for. A great many of the captains are
! afraid to make any kick against the
| Union men, but I'm not afraid and l
won't have anything more to do with
| them. This man Rasmussen, who is
| the representative of the Coast Sea-
| mems Union down here, used to be
first mate under me on the Coast.
know that he's no friend of mine but
| that doesn't bother me at all.
II came down with three sailors, a
mate, a cook and boy. Two of the
sailors are Mexicans. 1 have retained
Attorney Davidson to look after my
case"
4 EARNED LLEWELLYN CASE.
| British Consul Hoare writes to cor
rect statement made by him regard
! ing the libel case of the crew Of the
earned Llewellyn. A reporter of the
Advertiser talked with Mr.. Hoare over
the telephone line Thursday night
about the matter and repeated the
words Of Mr.. Hoare as they were spok-
en- to the city editor in hopes Of elimin-
ating the usual telephone errors. Seem
ingly 1t was a failure as Mr.. Hoare
| writes as follows:
BRITISH CONSULATE, AUGUST 81
| Editor Advertiser: An fnaccuracy
appears In your report Of a telephone
communication with me yesterday ev.
ening which shall feel obliged by your
correcting.
The report makes me say that Cap.
tain Griffith told me that they (the sea-
men OF the Carnedd Llewelyn) had
come to him, and that for fourteen days
out Of Honolulu he had had to keer
them on short rations."
The captain did not say this to me
nor did 1 say anything to this effect In
replying to the enquiry from your office
The inaccuracy has probably occurr-
J ed through indistinctness or misunder-
! standing OF what was said through the
telephone.