The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-09
CAPTAIN KAAK WINS OUT.
KNOCK down FoR THE Shipping
MASTERS.
Victory for "a ship Master who Doned
Them Strange Incidents of the
Water Front Row.

The shipping master combination on
the water front has been broken up.
The first victory against IL was won
yesterday, when the German ship
Marie, Captain Kaak, sailed out of the
harbor with crew secured against the
most earnest efforts of Turk a Lewis
to hinder the captain. IN bet $50 Wen
delay the Marie for two weeks" said
Oscar Lewis two days ago. but the Ma
RE Is now on the high seas with a crew
on board and all the captains in the
harbor have proof that il is possible to
get along without the combination.
Captain Kaak refused since his first
landing to have anything to do with
the shipping men. They can steal any
man they want" he said when he ar
rived, IF they don't take my cook q"
In a couple of days the cook disappear
ed. Captain Kaak is the man who
told his crew that he would give any
one of them ten dollars to knock Turk
or Lewis down on the deck Of the YES
sci, if either of the latter dared to come
aboard, after they had been fired from
the ship. When the captain was in
the midst of his difficulties in getting
a crew the shipping men approached
MN again with oVertures but the
plucky German sent them off with a
very short reply.
Captain Blanchard Of the Bengalore
and Captain Chapman of the r. D..
Rice are two more masters who are
likely to demonstrate again that il is
possible to get along without the $40 a
head shipping men. Captain Blanchard
kicked over the traces at once, when he
was given threat that his ship would
be tied up if he didn't deal with Lewis
d Turk. Captain Chapman had a more
strange experience. He was accosted
on the street by two men who wanted
jobs, and he engaged them, signing
them and taking them to his ship Two
days later Turk & Lewis appeared with
demand for 500 each for the two men.
The captains reply was short and to
! the point
| Turk &, Lewis have a bill of $34O
against the ship Luzon. They are re-
ported to have engaged over 5000 a ship
on every vessel that has started round
! the Horn, and this business is done
! without any office or headquarters and
in field where six months ago there
| was practically no business of the
kind. W. e. Mighell, the ship-owner, is
credited with having caused most of
the trouble by making the contract he
made for all his ships, at $40 a man
Captain Carver of the r. d. Rice had
! before made a contract by which Turk
d Lewis agreed to supply him at less
| rates, but at the last moment they tore
up this contract and demanded $40 q
man. There was a row and the Rice
went out with the crew in irons anC
the shipping masters expressing the
wish that they would mutiny.
The latest man to encounter sur
prise from the shipping men is Captain
Bray of the Sailors Home. Lewis
/ stated yesterday morning that Captain
Bray had been bought off by himself
and Turk. He's not shipping am
more now" said Lewis, but he's re.
ceiving our money. We paid him tc
quit. OF course we might take some
of his men if we wanted help but he.
not in the business" About two hour.
later Captain Bray heard the statemen
that he was receiving pay from tn,
shipping men, and he went to look foi
them.
Seven of the men on the Marie wen
out OF the harbor yesterday in irons
In the fight to keep them after they
shipped it was necessary to arres
them, rs they deserted" or were
stolen, and they vowed they would xii
me captain before they got to the
Sound.