The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-06
IS
NO HELL-SHIP

wasn't fit to drink. Why the coffee an
tea was cooked in the same can an the
can hasn't been once washed inside or
out since we left Hamburg. When one
watch was through with it's coffee and
took the can back for the next watch, the
cook would just pour some water on the
grounds. The same with the tea Any
thing was good enough for sailor
THE COFFEE-TEA-POT
The Boatswain went to the galley and
procured the can he had been describing.
Look at that, sir!' he said, that's what
they cook our tea an coffee in-look
herer' and he rubbed his fingers on the
inside Of the can. thereby smearing them
with a black, half sooty, half grimy.
paste-like substance which was evidently
the accumulation of months OF tea and
coffee cooking, distintegration of the lin
ing of the container, coal dust and other
interesting elements.
THE galley's flthy-there amt an.
other word for it, said the boatswain,
look at this rag-that's what they wipe
the dishes with" The rag certainly de-
fled description-it was rich. 'Rich as
weddin' cake, amt it?' remarked the
boatswain.
TALKS OF SICKNESS ABOARD
Several weeks out of Hamburg went
on the boatswain, -four men was laid
UP with the fever. The captain he called
| it Java fever-it wasn't from the Java
coffee at any rate, for its bootleg cof-
| fee what We got at sea. / went aft to
see the captain about the sick men
no one came forward to look after them.
What's this to do with you,' says the
captain, if give the men medicine while
they've got fever 1t will kill them or make
them worse an when the fevers over
they won't need none l s'pose he'd said
they wouldn't need no medicine if they
were dead. / told the mate to look at
w
pretty near dead. Let him go aft to the
captain, says the mate, i amt goin' to
scft-soap no man. That was sick
until day or two before we come into
this harbor. He wanted to go to the
hospital but they wouldn't put him there
an now he's in Jail for bein' drunk.
Then Anderson was laid up with
dysentery for two weeks. The captain
wouldn't see him until the went aft
an insisted. The man was almost dead
when the captain him. then he gave
him a little wine and sago.
CHIPS" HAS A PAIN.
THE carpenter, Hendrickson, had an
awful bad pain in his back and he had
fever too. We got it all down in books
: when these things happened but I can't
recall the day just now. Chips went
, three days without grub, he so bad
off. The mate said there was nothin' the
: matter, that Chips was only loafin'. But
1
Il was laid up three days. The captain
] said / was loafin'. That's when we was
off Cape Horn an the ice was three inches
! thick on the inside of our rooms. We
: never took the trouble to clean out our
Y quarters because intended leaving the
E ship when We got to port / was sick an
e the carpenter was feelin' bad an we
4 pretty near froze in the cold weather
: We asked for kerosene oil SOS we could
keep our lamp goin' day and night. We
got the oil but it cost us five shillins
: We was soaked to the skin day an night
$ for days, our biscuits was wet an every
e thing inside our rooms where the ice
: melted, was soaked. All this on short ra-
e tions was pretty tough.
KEPT WARM IN THE GALLEY.
/, Then all hands went aft and asked for
|, the use of the galley at night. while on
: watch. This the captain granted an we
S managed to keep warm by the fire in the
/ galley durin' the night watches. When
S good weather came on an we had round
: ed the corner. they stopped the galley
: on us"
d Were you ever roughly handled?'
e asked the reporter, did the captain or
: mate ever strike any of the men?"
; "Ol No-never. But then
It Did your officers ever use profane or
e obscene language in addressing you or
IT any of the men?"
It MOO. That is
e Did you have to work in the dog-watch
below?''
NO, sir. Nothing like that
Did you ever have to stand more than
$ your regular watch except, of course, In
y very rough weather."
$ "Only in very rough weather"
''Your, only complaint is that you were
n not given the full supply of food the law
u requires2'
IL THAT and when we We're sick
n Were you given grog off the Horn?"
~ 'Yes-whiskey and brandy
-e $50 I DIDN'T WENT
The boatswain had lots more to say
f. about himself and the ships crew gen
al orally. He is the sea-lawyer of the vessel
l. and the men look to him for guidance
le and advice in this affair. Continuing his
l. yarn, he said: 81 had a row with one
n of the men. 1t was the mates fault
he The mate told this man that I'd sale
De things against him, so the fellow picked
III me up when l wasn't lookin' and dropped
Il me onto the deck and hurted my should
e. er I had to lay up I laid up in my OWL
d room with the carpenter. The mate tolt
N me to lay up in the forecastle; the cap
l.. tain said l wasn't to be Eo's'n any mo-.
as and that l was no good to lay ilp W
lis little lickin' like I'd got. So the ma
Mt told @rne to go to the forecaste So
/ didn't went Afterwards the mate toll
at me ] was bo's'n alright an | must wal
,el till the captain told me for the secon
or time that l was no good before ] went I
ss the forecastie. I didn't take any grog oi
ne The Horn just for spite. because the cap
he. tain said was a, drunkard. When we go
ng to Honolulu / went to the British Vice
Sc Consul and told him I wanted to be pai
off. He said 1 could not be paid off ur
M less the captain was willing. The car
on tain told us at sea that we would get n
ty rights in Honolulu. Well see."
THE CARPENTERS STORY.
we II got sick. off the Horn and was la
w UP a couple of days." says Carpent,
m, Hendrickson. THE captain wouldn
ee. come forward to see me. The mate d
he but | didn't get no medicine that tim
ter Wei. l went to work again for da
aft but that only made me worse and I W.
for laid up sick again. l went aft and to
got the captain that 1 felt bad.
But What's the matter with you,'
nty says.
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