The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-03
CARVER WANTED 70 FIGHT.
CAPTAIN BRAY AND THE MASTER
OF THE e. b. SUTTON.
A Long Campaign for Crew-The last
of This Years Round the Hon
Fleet

i'm the office of shipping commissioner
Boyd and it looked as If there was
going to be a first class fight between
two well known waterfront men. zap
tain Carver of the ship h. b. sutton an |
CAPTAIN Bray of the Sailors Home were
the principals The row was a result
of Captain Carvers most Exciting OK
periences i'm consequence Of his deter
mination to get a crew for his vessel
without the aid of the water front
monarchs, Turk and Lewis.
The ship f. b. Sutton did not leave
on Monday as she expected TO- Eof ga
she leave on Tuesday. Last night
! Captain Carver announced that he in
tended to get away the first thing TINS
/ morning, If his crew did not swim as
hore. Carver is an old skipper ana mas
been at sea about two score years, out
he SAYS that he has had the hottest
time on record this trip, getting crew
| in Honolulu.
Carver started from the first to buck
the shipping master business and his
| experience is an interesting sample of
! water front politics. The last time ne
was here. says the captain, ne was
"euchred" by Turk and Lewis. he pald
them for shipping some men VINO dldh I
toe the line when it came to business,
one of them in fact going to the hospital
and dying after he had been duly ship
ped and paid for. This time the captain
said he would not deal with Turk and
Lewis and he didn't, but the good water
front prophets say that he Will next
time, and that he wishes he had this
time.
Big Mccarthy was the first man who
tried to get a crew for captain Carver.
When he found it rather slow the cap
tain went to the Sailors Home and
consulted Captain Bray. Carver want
ed four men and carpenter. as he put
it.
CAPTAIN Bray announced his readiness
TO supply thirty men if they were need
ed and Carver vent on his way re-
| ioicing. But he declares that the SAL
| lors Home man sent him a carpenter
! who hadn't got beyond splitting wood
when he hammered nails in, and three
| sailors who were all wanted in court in
an action against Turk and Lewis.
! The goods" were rejected by Captain
| Carver, and the next time he and Bray
met, in the Office of shipping commits
| sioner Boyd, there was trouble. Bray
expressed the opinion that Carver was
no good and later, says Carver, he spoke
! of Wiping up the floor of the commits
sioners Office with the portly frame OF
| Carver.
Carver was a heavy number in the
ring before he took to the sea and grew
big stomach, and he promptly sldec
UP to Bray and asked him to start the
| office cleaning. commissioner boyl
kept the peace in the Office. carver II
! white haired and has a figure some
thing like a Puck cartoon of Grover
Cleveland, but he loudly challenged
Bray to take a trip round the corner
and have it out and those who know
him say he is a good man to keep on
of fight with.
Carver fell back upon McCarth!
. Hot l,.n no
come into the Turk and Lewis parlol
But Turk and Lewis were "ag1n' Nc
Carthy and the men Mccarthy got ha'
q strange way of coming and going. 1
was a case of now you see EN- ana nov
you don't says the captain. If the,
couldn't get ashore any other way the
would swim and they didn't come bacF
The war went on several days. Nc
Carthy hustled as if his reputation wa
at stake He was to be seen LEADING
sailors about the town and he was re
ported to be good for a drink at an
time. He treated and he coaXed an
on Monday the Sutton had all the me
she wanted. On Tuesday they were a
ashore, but on Tuesday night Captal
Carver said ne had a full list agar
most of them having been recovered.
Last night Captain Carver bid good
bye to his friends in Honolulu and sal
he didn't think he was coming her
again. He says the game is too hare
1T is hurting the port" said Captai
Carver, land ought to be stopped In
falling out with Bray was the unkind
lest cut, said Captain Carver but h
averred, Bray had given him work
Just the same as Turk and Lewis.
9 The e. b. Sutton is the last of tn
sugar fleet to leave for New York, con
=, pleting Hawaiis list of vessels to g
. round the Horn. Her fight with tn
shipping masters has cost her three
2 four hundred dollars worth of time.
1T all shows" said water front ma
| who has been watching the fun, "tf
Il folly of trying to buck against Turk an
Lewis. They have the game in the
hands and any captain who tiles
fight them is up against it. WhateV'
may be said against them one thing
certain, that if man wants to get
crew in Honolulu he must so to the
for it, for they are the only ones her
under present conditions, who can fl
a vessel"