The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-28
GOLDEN BEAK--A RAFTING GOOD
SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU AND
YOKOHAMA STORY BY BASSETT

hold your hand he goes back to the /
and tells the other young
sters about it. 1t would certainly be |
wrong if he did, but young ladies who |
firt with casual young men do expose |
to that sort of thing"
Then / saw Mrs. Potwin IN new |
phase: Mrs. Potwin in a temper. She |
Jumped out of the carriage fortunately |
we We're toiling up a HID, and vowed shell
would go back to Honolulu on foot. that
she would never speak to me again; that
no one had ever spoken so rudely to her
before: that 1 was not gentleman; that
no Englishman ever was a gentleman,
and much more to the same effect. And
of course / had to beg her pardon seven
times before l was forgiven. If l had
lost my heart to the whimsical little
woman l might have thought all this
very charming, but as l had not, it SEEM
ed very absurd and indecorous for me to
be coaxing her back to the carriage with
in eyesght and earshot of the English
speaking Kanaka driver, while she was
stamping her little shoe-heels into the
mud and calling the whole island to
witness that I was no gentleman
I was sorry, too, when the time came,
that we had arranged to dine together at
the hotel that evening, for after brief
visit to the ship she came ashore again,
dressed as if to go to a ball, and was
delighted to find that every man in the
dining-room stared at Der all through
dinner. And then and there 1 determin-
ed that when we reached Yokohama,
where there We're civilized English peo-
pie who knew me, and whom | did not
want to have talk about me, I would
not gid my person with the splendor of
Mrs. Potwin's rays. This was, no doubt.
a wise resolution to make, but when 1
made it l did not know that Mrs. Pot
wins given name was Ysonde, did /
know that, instead of being only a flip
pant, flirting little person, Mrs. Potwin
was lady whose purpose il. life was to
occupy a throne
1t was not until we had crossed the
meridian of one hundred and eighty de-
grees that l began to be seriously inter
lested in the career of Ysonde Potwin. On
the evening of the day when he had first
begun to count ourselves east of Green
witch instead of west of Greenwich.
was listening to the pursers stories with
? a patience born of long practice, when
amazed myself with the discovery that
he had something new to say.
Have you noticed" he asked me. THAT
there is anything strange about oui
friend Mrs Potwinl
81 can't say that / have" I replied
''She is an American, you see, and / have
not known a great many American wom
en-, anu uOn tHlflh we nave WoIiien u
precisely her sort in England. With u:
they are either little more careful or {
little less careful"
II don't mean that" said Mr.. Cham
berlain. She is dreadful little fiirt
and of course she is divorced, and Their,
are all sorts of stories about her. Blu
haven't you seen anything remarkable II
/, the way the Japanese take care of her?'
mo, nothing very special said l
Il q a
Japanese stewards always are, and
fancy that servants, like other people
, are always ready TO wait on prett.
/, woman
There's more than that" said the pur
ser. II have to keep my eyes peeled o.
board this ship, / can tell you, and Their
> isn't much going on that l don't know
: You see, 1 really have most of the re
sponsiblity. The engineer tells the stok
j, erS to keep the boilers hot, and that's a
: he has to do. The captain tells the quar-
: termasters to steer the course that til
chart shows, and that's all he has to dc
: And between them they keep the boa
: moving until the time comes to dro
anchor. But whether she is moving c
: not, my work goes on all the same. Her
u are all of you passengers, cooped up o
: board like animals in a menagerie, an
Z have to see that You are fed and keI
l. in order. You see, I have two difficu
II classes TO deal with-the drunkards an
e the missionaries. When we touch at HI
l. nolulu there is always lot of men goin
e down there to have a spree. 1t is re.
o ular Fiddlers' Green for the men WI
e keep respectable eleven months out
II the year, and then make even with a
y awful racket. They come from as f;
1 east as Chicago, just to go down to HI
IL nolulu and let off steam long way fro
sr home. Then there are all the wild your
- foil xx-hnS for,o
lie Jaran and China because they have bee
1r getting into trouble And when there
IL too much whiskey and soda in the smol
L ing-room, or when the poker game ge
10 stiff enough to make mischief. / have
* demonstrate. Sometimes it's ticklish bu
; mess The purSerS on the boats fro
"a New York to Liverpool are nothing b
y baggage masters Any fool could
u their work. But on these long runs
e man has a great deal to think about
IL can tell you"
"a I professed my profound respect f
~ the moral sway exercised by Mr. Char
As berlain, who continues:
u "As for the missionaries going to CT
rs ma or coming home again, they are
re ways quarrelling among themselves, al
their wives always pick on some WON;
IL aboard the ship and say she ought to
- put down in the steerage because s
er wears better clothes than they do Al
ei the worst are the missionaries wives
a the way home from China They ha
p got in the habit of being waited on by
We lot of cheap servants out there, where t
converts wash dishes for the sake
H. being under Christian influences A
or when they get on board they have
W look after themselves and their babi,
er' and they won't turn out of their cabi
We in the mornings, and altogether they lie
IT. the chief steward dreadful life So V
n see I have to keep kind of general s
er pervision over everybody's morals a
og manners. And there is something We
n queer about Mrs. Potwin. I don't me
rs. that she doesn't behave herself-she's
at lady as far as I know, and l make 1t
Mt rule to take people as I find 'em-but I
by stewards Japanese boys are all afraid
he her. He knows Japanese ways and ia
n anese tricks as well as most foreigne
as but he says he can't make it out. Y
~. know there is always one steward tn
In call the captains boy, who stands l
m, hind his chair at table and looks aft
o. his cabin, and 1t is always an understo
re thing, In the pantry aboard ship, tn
i the server takes care what he gives IL
ne boy to take to the skipper. The fiji
ne thing the chief steward saw was til
II the captains boy was changing plat
I'm after he left the pantry, with the b