The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-18
A DEEP SEA
COOKS IDEA
Talks About Women on
Shipboard.
WOULD BETTER Be ASHORE
Tells Some Of His Experiences. No,
a Pessimsi. Been Forty
Years Ahoat.

Hundreds of American shippers
travel the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
accompanied by their wives and child
rem. They take their big wind TANNERS |
around the world or their smaller YES
sells up and down the coasts and live |
entirely. on the water with their fami-
lies 1t is not the case however with |
the masters of English vessels. And
thereby hangs a tale as of necessity
there must be a reason in all things
there is a reason in this.
Now if anybody knows anything and
everything aboard a ship it is the cook.
The cook is without exception, In every
case, the most important and indis-
pensable parsonage on any craft. What
he doesn't know isn't worth knowing.
He can tell you all about how a vessel
should be handled, where the captain
and mates are at fault. the weak and
strong points of the ship he happens
to be in at the time and all the stories,
true and otherwise, connected with her
from the time she first was launched
up to the time he favors you with an
interview, standing in the galley door
or the leeward side, smoking a malodor-
Gus pipe and occasionally jerking back
. his head to see that all is well with the
food in process of cooking.
There is but the present time a cook
aboard one of the vessels in Honolulu
harbor who has been to sea something
: like forty years, has sailed on almost
as many vessels and who has also seen
service as baker, steward, butcher,
cook and waiter aboard steamers,
transports, river boats and everything
that floats.
For years he has cooked aboard Eng
lish ships and for years has he also
Q bosed the culinary department OF
American vessels. This is what he has
8 to say about women travelling aboard
sailing vessels and making the ships
3 their homes.
Q Now this amt for no newspaper
article and you needn't think you're
: interviewing me because you amt.
never talk for publication but in case
it happens that you're going to sur
prise me like against my principles,
II why see that l get few copies of the
n paper SOS I'll see what you've got to
> say and that you quote me straight.
90 Now 1 amt a married man myself,
~ worse luck, so maybe you'll think I'm
,r kind of one-sided in what I'm a telling
you Of but s'help me thunder / know
what I'm talking about because l speak
right from my heart and have learned
: many lesson from pretty hard ex-
= perience.
a II don't say as how I'm ladies' man
at all, but I'm naturally a great adj
mirer of the fair sex and do enjoy be-
ing a witness to connubial felicity. !
was young myself once and was a
great fellow with the girls-they all
8 kind Of took TO me. But 1 do draw the
&c line at having women-folks at sea
n, aboard a sailing vessel. You just bet
you don't see no ladies aboard an Eng
H. fish merchantmen, why? Well I'll tell
you.
The owners just know their business
too well; they know a man can tend
better to business when he hasn't any
&c thing else to look after. OF course
more American captains own their OWL
a ships and can do just what they please
than do the English. But here's tbs
III point; you'll find that English crews
stay by their ships longer than do Am
erican crews. English crews amt go
half as many kicks coming agains
their captains as Yankee sailors have
lie It's the women folks that make all tn,
trouble oftentimes on American vessels
There's two kind of women-s sailors
ones the ivy kind that clings; they
or kinder hang round their husbands
necks and tell them to be sure and no
get lnelr leeI wet, ana put on QTy SOCK
after he comes off the nasty, wet deck
NO and make him take physic every tim
- he swallows the tail-end of a suddeI
% squall. Why! I believe they'd max
him carry an umbrella on the poo
Il when it rains if they had their way
Is Thank goodness though, the ivy kim
y OF women-sailors, as / calls them, ain
very plentiful. It's generally the othe
way, and that's the second kind I'm go
ing to tell you about If you'll only qui
asking questions. They're the wors
IN kind, only I'd as soon see them this wa
as the other. This here second kin
90 that's come under my observation 1
CIV the kind that wears the trousers. The
O. go to sea n few months with their hus
bands or fathers or brothers, get owe
their seasickness, and then-take com
II mand. They wear big rubber boots
XII stormy weather beneath their skirt.
III; get into the habit of kind of castin
hu their eyes aloft in critical manner an
no then making suggestions to the man q
10 the wheel. They come hanging roun
er' the galley and tell the cook his busi
.. ness: want him to try fancy dishes tina
ne they've read of in the Ladies' HON
r. Journal or the Wonan's page of som
W. Sunday paper Just as if a deep Sc
~ cook couldn't give 'em more pointers
ses minute than they'd ever heard tell o
an Let EN- catch a sailor splitting tc
r. bacco juice on the deck, or on sa
en- while they are aloft and they'll ru
right to the old man and squeal; ye
they will. Let 'em catch a member
sa the crew coming watch without h
re blooming face washed or his trousel
Ir, unpatched, they'll see about 1t prett
,,o quick.
or why. was to sea once aboard
ar. packet, where the captains better ha
us simply ran the ship. If the man at tt
n wheel let the ship eff the course a hair
all breadth she'd fetch him a rap on h
would ct
r. cheek that would stagger him. ST
,fo bossed the forecastle, the galley ar
',t the cabin, too, by lingo.
r.. But, I'm telling you what's general
~ the case and what thinks good argi
az ment for women folks staying to HON
ile' OF course I've seen times when
III, woman aboard ship was the create
iil' blessing you could want. Didn't
pm and scald my stupid foot once upon
use, time with a gallon or so or hot sou
ihu and didn't the lovely lady doctor it l
for me with the help Of lunk-head,