The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-20
PAID HIGH
FOR CREW
Carefully Guarded in
Honolulu.
Two men LEFT BEHI Nd
Z roubles of b )emfontein-- Runs Into
Alice K'mbaIl--Crimps and
+" Blood Mo ey."

Although the British Steamship
Bioemfontein has had singular bad
luck in her varied career she seems al
ways to have possessed the happy
faculty of coming out of all difficulties
safe and sound.
when the vessel arrived here on
Wednesday from Puget Sound, Captain
Bleiloch. after the boat had been made
good and fast to the Pacific Mail dock,
placed guards at all the points of
egress on the dock for the purpose of
preventing his crew from deserving the
ship. He was very anxious to hold on
to his sailors for the reason that some
of them had cost him very dear up the
Sound. Men are scarce in that part of
the world at present, that Is, men who
go down to the sea in ships are scarce
very scarce, and several of the sail
ors which Captain BlelIoch secured
from erimps cost him $40 each in
"blood-Fnoney" Not only had the
worthy captain been compelled to pay
the shipping this outrageous
sum for supplying him seamen. but he
had also advanced SIS to each of the
men thus secured. Naturally he did
lAVA NttlN W tONt lItiI tlOHOiutu-
a number Of the men on the Bloem-
fontein have been on the vessel for a
considerable time and have a big pay
day coming by and by. some of them
having as much as $500 and $400 due
them for wages. These fellows could
not have been induced TO leave the ship
here. The men secured from the crimps
up the Sound were the ones the captain
was so anxious about.
notwithstanding the watchfulness OF
the captain and his guards. however.
eight of the seamen got away up town
Wednesday night and yesterday morn
ing. Three OF them had a fight with
one of the special guards on the dock
Wednesday night and. overpowering
him. proceeded 10 seek out places OF
liquid refreshment in the highways and
the byways of the metropolis. Five fol-
lowed their example in the morning.
The special guard was disguised; n
couldn't handle thirsty mob.
Captain Blelloch was tuning. Not
only was he eight men short, but he
expected to be out all the good blood
money he had paid for the jolly sailors
up the Sound.
However. the aid OF Captain Flint.
chief of the water 20 Ice was sought.
and pertiy through his valuable ser
vices and partly on their own account
the men all turned up before the yes
sells departure. with the exception OF
the cook and one deck hand.
The captain swore that he would get
away for Melbourne yesterday If he
hat to steer the Bloemfontein with one
hand while he stirred the soup with the
other. And he did get away.
As she was going out of the haTboT
late in the evening. the Bloemfontein
true TO her unlucky reputation, ran
into the schooner Alice Kimball which
was just coming in from the Sound
Very little damage was done, and the
accident was the result of some mis-
understanding and no one can very well
be blamed for the occurrence. 1t was
much the same kind of an accident as
occurs almost every day on the street
when two persons approach each
other from opposite directions. and try
to get out of the way of each other and
end by running into each other.
Captain Blelloch declared that Homo
lulu was one of the most expensive
ports he had ever been to. 1t cost him
pretty penny to stop here.
She put in here for 260 tons of coal
The pilot charges amounted to 800. and
wharf and other charges had also &C
be paid. The inspectors at Port Blake
ley refused to pass the Bloemfonteir
with the coal on deck. consequently
the captain had 20 come here for tht
rest Of the necessary coal to carry the
boat to Melbourne. after having mad,
room for IL in the bunkers on the way
down to Honolulu