The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-06
Stirring Yarn OF
A Cape Horn
Trip.
SEA DOGS SPEAK
OF A SMALL WHACK
Skipper Laughs at Trouble Stor-
les and the Coffee Pot
Talks for Itself.

Is the Carnedd Llewelyn ''hell-ship?' |
This is the question that many men |
alongshore have been asking themselves |
after having listened to the stories told |!
by the members of the crew of the big
steel British ship now lying at the old
fsh-market wharf, discharging her cargo. |
Old salts who have been to sea most of
their lives in American and British ves-
sells, both, and who know something of
good ships and bad ships and who have
been before the mast in "hau-ships.' are
apt to shake their heads and hug them
selves with suppressed glee and mystery
when they hear .he tales of woe told by
the Llewellyn's men.
"A 'heIl-ship is it?" said knock-about
seafaring man to an Advertiser reporter
yesterday, ''Welll Well! Let me see. Is
there any talk of blood on the holy
stoned decks or of belaying-pins flying
around loose? Have there been any in
situations in regard to unladylike Ian
gUage used by the skipper or his officers
or the cook to the gentlemen who live
in the forecastle? Is there any reference
to representing of the boys aboard or
of black-eyes or crooked jaws among the
members of the ships company? MOI
I Wen now, there'd ought TO be some or
all of those things aboard q well reg
ulated 'hell-ship,' don't you think so?"
The men of the Carnedd Llewellyn claim
that the vessel is the toughest, hardest
and most uncomfortable ship they ever
! Travelled in. They assert that at sea on
the long voyage from Hamburg to Homo
lulu they did not get enough to eat and
that ii was the intention of Captain Grf-
ffths TO 5tarve them all out so that when
they got to Honolulu they would all de-
sert and so relieve him of the necessity
of ever having to pay them any of the
money due them. AS is well known, the
case has been brought before the British
Consulate here by the crew and the af-
fair may be settled in court.
An Advertiser reporter interviewed
Everybody aboard ship yesterday, gather
ing the stories of the crew and officers
alike Captain Griffiths is master of the
vessel The officers and crew are as fol-
lows: First Mate Williams, Second Mate
Yates Boatswan Soeters, Carpenter
Hendrickson, Watchman Cedarholm
Sailmaker Jensen, Able Seamen Dawson
Wisstrome, Peterson, Anderson, Nelson
IChristiansen, Simons, Ballentyne, Hor-
never mentioned by the crew, being un-
prcnounceable; his assistants name is
Pietrakowski. Then there are two APP
,prentices aboard learning to someday be-
come sailors and eventually shippers. ano
there is a boy. Herman by name. There
was another boy aboard when the Llewel-
llyn left Hamburg but he was lost over
board. Rudolph was his name. So that
at present there are twenty-five people
ION the vessel There were twenty-foul
when she arrived here on August q, but
two deserted the ship shortly after she
put into this harbor
THE. BOSUNS YARN.
2 Yes. sir" said Boatswain Soeters
l''they tried to starve US that's what they
did. an me an the rest of the feller:
stand together and say that we won
take the ship out of Honolulu-not will
this captain and steward. We amt go
,ncthin' against the ship herself. she's al
right She's sound an speedy enough an
the commodations aint so bad, but whel
81 cones to cuttin down on a mans
lvhack at sea, it's a little too much an W
ailt goin' to put mp with it either
II have second-mate's papers myself
lut bein' kind O. fond of an occasiona
sip O. wine or spirits. 1 aint ever ad
ivanced much as a navigator / cam
eboard the ship in Hamburg, Pm Bel
f-ian by birth anu when 1 kind of tum
,lleS over the side, feelin' pretty good, IN
r1ate calls me to him and saysi You'll b
ell right when you are sober. When yo
want anything you come TO me, don
rave nothin to do with anybody else
You're to'sn an just the same as third
officer ar I want you TO keep the me
al IT all the time-don't let up on them
when we was few days out / wa
doin some work when the mate he tell
me it aiut the way for me do. / ain
doin it right and the like. / tells him
knows my business. Well! After tina
/ was kind of discouraged an didn't fe'
much like pushin' the men too hard c
takin' any particular interest in thing
why. The Captain himself has said tim
an time again at sea that neither IN
mate nor the second mate knew anythiH
about their business. They was wors
than boys
I'VE were about ten days out of Han
burg when they began to cut down c
our whack of food. There was plent
below there was provisions aboard f
fourteen months or more. OF course
kicked to the steward and told him v
wasn't gettin' enough to eat. The steN
V ard said it wasn't any use to talk to hir
# that the captain was the man to Sc
Il However, after that for a little while q
e steward saw that me and the carpent
e got more to eat Then the men went a
If and made a kick to the captain and f
n about fourteen days they all of them e
n more food an better cooked, too. y
Il after that it got bad again and Nigh
d little OF it into the bargain. The sol
was like water an the coffee an