Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-18
CAPTAIN ]EWETT
A Merry SAILOR
Commander of the Latest
Six Masted Schooner
of Maine.
HOW JEWETT EARNED FAME
IN HIS FISHING SMACK
Worked His Way Up by Good Sea-
manShip--Has No Fear of Wind
or Weather--Never
Lost Ship.

btOIEe W. Ntlls. ldunNutu at NdhlA'i
on August II. has been rugged. fitted
out and towed to sea, and by this time
she must have reached one of the coal
ports to take in her first cargo. The
second six-master is still on the stocks
at Bath, and will be launched In a few
weeks. Unusual interest Is felt In her.
not only because she IL rival Of the
Camden giant, but also because she is
tC be commanded by the smartest skip
per on the coast, Capt. Lincoln Jewet:
OF South Portland, Familiarity known
all along shore as Line" Jewett. Capt.
Jewett is a typical Down East skipper.
one OF the active, nervous kind always
In great hurry and afraid OF nothing.
ailOat or ashore. In times past he used
to be regarded by the old and careful
salts as all but crazy: they shivere1
at some Of his feats OF seamanship.
and they predicted a grand smash for
him and his vessel zone OF these DAYS.
Jewett never waits for wind or weather
when there is a possible chance of get
ting anywhere.
When he was a fisherman, sailing
little smack out Of Portland. he gave
the fish dealers there turn which
made their eyes stick out. One cold and
blustery day in winter he came into
Portland with good fare of fish. ami
found the market bare. The weather
had been so bad that no one could get
anywhere or catch anything, and so IL
looked like a harvest time for Capt.
Line with his good fare. The fish deal
ers, however, thought differently.
They argued that the weather was so
stormy that Jewett would have to stay
in Portland and dispose of his fare
there at whatever price was offered.
and so they made pool, agreeing 10
pay only certain price, with the uu-
derstanding that the fish should be d.
vided among them. But the scheme
didn't work. Capt. Jewett told them all
to go to thunder, and, to the amaze
ment of all hands. got under way In 4
bowling snOwstorm for Gloucester.
where he arrived all right and got
high price for his fare. The Portland
fish dealers never tried, after that, 10
get the best Of Capt. Jewett. There's
no tellin' what the critter'll do" said
one of them. And there wasn't.
Capt. Jewetts daring. good judgment
and enterprise soon won swift advance
ment for him and he was graduated
u
good sized schooner In the coastlng
trade. He made quick trips and piled
up dividends for the owners at such
rate that they kept giving him bigger
and better vessels until, in 1894, the
tour-master Charles I. hoffman was
built for him at Bath. This was YES
sci to Capt. Jewett's liking. She was
OF ,3O2. tons net register, carried about
1900 tons of coal and would sail like
a pirate. The way he raced her up and
down the coast made the other coal
luggers stare.
Once Capt. Line astonished the ship
ping world by feat that II without
parallel in the annals of the coasting
trade. There was great scarcity ~
coal in Portland one winter few years
ago, and the hoffman was one OF the
fleet OF fourteen sail bound to Port
land from various places with the much
wanted fuel. They had bad weather
coming down from the capes of the
Delaware, and when furious storm
came up most OF them went into Vine
yard Haven or some other harbor OF
refuge. Capt. Jewett, however, was in
no mood for loafing IN harbors. He
knew that II he got into Portland with
the whole fleet he might have to wait
for weeks to get discharged so he kept
right along, regardless of the weather.
So II was that. while the other vessels
were reported as arrived" at the Vine
yard, the Charles =. hoffman was re
ported In this way:
Passed, sch. Charles Z. hoffman,
Jewott, Newport News tor Portland"
Passed" That little word in the
Vineyard ship news made the owners
of the hoffman look thoughtful, for
they knew what the weather was, VIII lie
sailormen declared the Line" Jcwett
was crazy, sure enough. The snow
storm continued, with bowling north
easter to spin II along, and the next
AFTERNOON, after passing the Vineyard,
the Charles i. hoffman flew In by Port
land Head like towering snow bank.
The lightkeeper stared when she went
by, as II he had seen an apparition,
and when the big schooner came tear
ing up the harbor the few 'longshorc-
men who happened to be about were
astonished. Up she came, with every
thing on her and rounded to of the
coal docks. Then, to the amazement
OF all who saw IL. Capt. Jewett dockeI
49, "'uout tht dlu VI u tuB-ne luSt
brought her to and backed her into
her berth. When he got there all the
Derths were empty and all the steve
dores loafing, so that he got quick dis
patch In discharging. Two days after
ward, on his return trip, when he was
running down by Cape Cod he met all
the rest ofthe fleet coming up and
made few cheerful remarks to such
or them as passed within hail concern
ing quick passages, loahng In harbo.s
and getting around the world general
~. Had he waited in the Vineyard 10:
Tor good weather he would have gone
into Portland with the bunch, and, as
vessels have to take their turn In dis.
charging, he might have had to wait
TWO weeks or more before he got thu
coal out of the Charles +. hoffman.
II was by such performances as this
that Line Jewett climbed the ladder
OF success from the little fishing smack
10 the fOur-master, He has been sue
Gessiul IN other ways, too, and now h.
Is 10 be commander of one of the tWt
wonders of the shipping world-tht
TWO hrst slX-masted sChooners eyel
built.
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