The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

second engineer of the Inter-Island
steamer Iwalani. 1t seems that a friend
of his made him a present of a particu-
@larly fine turkey in Honokaa. The re-
ceiver of this timely gift was delighted
with his acquisition and started in right
away to fatten the bird up for Christ
mas eating.
The Iwalani is a roller and almost
anything will roll while at anchor at
Waipio. Well, the Iwalan rolled that
night for all she was worth and every
time she rolled she took water on her
deck. She took water in generous
quantities and a good share of the wa
ter went over the unfortunate turkey
hitched all by itself on the port side of
the vessel.
The consequence was that when the
second engineer awoke in the morning
and went to see how his turkey was
getting on he found that the poor bird
had been drowned during the night
that is, the fowl was to all appearances
as dead as a door-nail; but the owner
of the turkey would not give up his
Christmas dinner as easily as his
friends thought he would. He united
the turkeys remains and placed the
bird in the sun. on the forward hatch
way and proceeded to work over it just
IS if it had been a human being. He
rubbed it industriously in his endeavors
70 bring it back to life, and after nearly
two hours hard work, much to the
surprise of others aboard the Iwalani,
he finally succeeded in making the tur-
key stand up and move around, alive
as ever and evidently not much the
worse for being drowned
The proud rescuer of an almost gone
turkey was SO delighted that he gave
the bird the freedom of the ship and
let it walk around the deck in order
that 1t might recover it's sea legs. The
only regrettable thing in connection
with the recovery of the turkey was
THAT the second engineer, in rubbing the
bird to bring it back to life, had rubbed
all it's feathers off and the fowl present
ed funny appearance strutting
laround the deck without so much as a
SOLITARY feather to it's name.
AS result of being tied for so long
by his foot, the turkey was also trou-
bled with stiffness in that particular
leg.
All went well until some little time
after the Iwalani had sailed from Ku-
kuihaele for Honolulu. Then the I'M
grateful turkey, evidently preferring
death by drowning, having had some
lexperience in that line, to being roasted
Tor boiled for a Christmas dinner, made
a grand break for liberty. flew over
the rail and was soon lost to sight far
astern. The last seen of the plucky
bird, it was swimming with all its
might after the vessel as if it had
changed its mind at the last minute
and wanted to live.
The second engineer Is still in possess
sion of the birds feathers, however,
land it is sad that he will make use of
them by stuffing pair of boxing gloves
with the soft material. These gloves
he will use on anybody who says ''tur-
key" to him, or even suggests that de-
llicious fowl in the future.
SATURDAYS SHIPPING.
On Saturday the schooners Aloha and
Jessie Minor sailed for the Coast the
Aloha bound for San Francisco and
the Minor for Eureka. The Aloha took
up load of sugar.
| The four-masted schooner Okanogan
from Port Ludlow, and the barkentine
Archer, from San Francisco, arrived at
tbs port on Saturday.
At daylight the steamship America
Maru, from the Orient, was sighted
and by o'clock she was alongside the
Pacific Mail wharf and had commenc-
led discharging about 500 tons of freight
for Honolulu. j. A. Forrest was the
only passenger for Honolulu, coming
from Yokohama. About midnight the
Maru sailed for San Francisco taking
with her considerable mail from this
city.
The America Maru experienced an I'M
usually rough trip from China and ia
pan. Some of the vessels gingerbread
work was damaged but no serious in
jury sustained.
Captain Going says that the vessels
lof the. Togo kisen Kaisha have orders
to make the trip across the Pacific in
the best possible time Steamers of
other lines must not be permitted to
iapproach the records of these boats AS
lit is. the Marus hold all records for the
Pacific
When the America Maru left this port
captain Going fully expected to arrive
lin San Francisco at the same time as
the Zealandia, if not a couple of hours
ahead of her. The Zealandia had a
start of over thirty hours ahead of the
Maru.
| Among the Island steamers, the XII
nau arrived from Hilo and way ports
ION Saturday, the Noeau came in from
Kauai and the Waialeale and Maui de-
parted on their regular runs.
The United States Army transport
Aztec sailed for Manila at o'clock on
Saturday afternoon.
IN HILO FOR CHRISTMAS.
left San Francisco for Hilo on the I'd
inst. The race down will be interest
ing. The Turner has a full cargo of
goods for Hackfeld & Co. and the Ro-
derrick is full up with merchandise for
the local merchants and plantations.
Her freight offerings were beyond her
capacity. The following passengers
were booked to sail by the Roderick
Gov. Baker and wife, Miss Julia Bro
derrick Miss Pomeroy. Miss Clarke, Miss
Hattie Hilton, Tug Wilson, Mr. and
Mrs. Buck and w. H. Little, wife and
baby.