The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-05

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tiser reporter yesterday and related to
him their troubles in regard to their
life aboard the vessel.
Their chief complaint was that when
the cook served clam broth while they
were at sea, the captain insisted that
the sailors should devour the broth
while the clans were taken aft and
dished up for the captain
They also complained that since they
had arrived in this port they had had
an experience with fresh meat which
they would not soon forget.
According to their tale they were
served with fresh meat for dinner on
1.-THE day after the arrival Of the vessel
in this harbor and the meat which they
Icould not eat was warmed up for sup:
per. They were not even able to finish
this lot of meat at supper time, and a
great deal Of it was handed back to the
cook. For breakfast the following
morning, so the story goes, the left
lover meat was served up to the crew
in the form of a steak" Even then
there was some left when the men had
finished their breakfast. and the re-
mainder was made into soup for din
ner.
The men who told this tale of woe
had just been paid off and discharged
from the barkentine and were feeling
pretty good at the time on account of
their being ashore and safe from the
possibility of having to work cargo
There have been a great many yarns
lof late, on the part of sailors coming
down from the Coast on different YES
sells, in regard to the food served to
the crew on the vessels
Most of these stories are absolutely
without any foundation and are sim
ply the result of a desire on the part IF
the sailors to escape the necessity Of
having to discharge the vessels cargo
at this port.
Captain Mcneil Of the Planter has
heard the stories which his former
crew have been telling about him all
| around the waterfront, and, far from
being at all put out over the matter,
laughs heartily over the affair and .ie-
MES that there is anything the mater
with the ship except that the crew
were troubled with indigestion on the
trip down from the Coast, on account
or the good Things they WeIr given 10
eat.
Why said an old sailor who is
now doing light watch duty on one of
| the wharves, the fact of the matter is
that the men were fed so much with
homemade pies marked Home, Sweet
Home, with sugar on the top, that
| they nave forgotten what salt-horse
tastes like and wouldn't know a piece
OF dunderfunk ii they ran up against
it,"
Messrs. William Olsen and Christian
Jacobs, able seamen both Of them.
were the members of the former crew
OF the Planter who sought out u repre-
sentative of the Advertiser and unfold
ed their tales OF woe in regard to the
food which had been dealt out on the
PLANTER on the voyage from the Coast
Ihey wished to emphatically deny
everything which had been said about
them in an evening paper and wished
10 especially emphasize the fact that
the captain had eaten the clans at sea
after the nourishment had been boiled
out OF them for the crew.
Those who composed the crew of the
Planter all claim to be Union men: they
are ashore now looking for a chance to
snip again and their places are being
taken by a native crew
THE CRIMPS AT WORK.
Captain Siege of the German bark
j. {. Glade does not want people to
think that he is bad man who waits
around in the dark with a gun to get
even with people who try to steal his
men away from his vessel. But he has
MS eyes open just the same.
AND he has good cause to keep his
eyes open, for the crimps are doing
their best to steal the crew of the
Glade.
The particular crimp who is causing
all the trouble is a fellow well known
On tne waterfront, six feet and more in
nelSnt and adorned with hair of a rud-
oy tinge, while his optics have a habit
OF looking both ways at once. A rather
sood-look1ng little fellow, scarcely more
than boy, who is aching to have his
name appear in the papers as a crimp.
is the Dig mans assistant and does a
great zeal OF the persuading in the
BUSINESS OF stealing men from one YES
sci and selling them to another.
captain Siege is a modest man: he
Is as modest as he is entertaining and
pleasant to deal with, and he is very
much worried over the idea that people
may think that he is a rough man be-
cause they have heard of his keeping a
lookout to see that he is not robbed of
his crew
Notwithstanding the earnest efforts
OF the crimps to steal his men. however.
there is very little likelihood of the men
deserting, for they think too much of
their captain and the money that is
coming to them and the clothes that
they would have to leave behind on the
SNIP, to run away from her
My men are all good men," said the
captain yesterday. land / do not think
mat they will run away from the ship.
- some crimps try to steal them. then
am ready to meet them. I have a
night Waterman and If anything goes
wrong he will sing out to me and it will
not take me long to appear and settle
with the crimps."
STEAMER DAY.
yesterday was steamer day" and
everything was in hustle and hustle
along the waterfront. The Kinau got
away FOR Hiio and way ports at noon
Win large number of passengers. the
Claudlne sailed for Maui ports inst "a
lne sun was sinking beyond the hori-
.Gh' the Mikahala left for Kauai about
.he same time and other Island vessels
sot away on their regular runs to the
other Islands. " ZIG
mere We're crowds to see the differ
ent steamers off. the usual good hv
CROWDS, armed with leis and standing