The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-01
MUTINY IN THE HARBOR
ANGRY CREW DRIVES SKIPPER
UP THE MAST.
Crew Had Nothing to Eat or Drink for
Two Hours-Rescued by a Gasoline
Launch.

What threatened to be a serious mu-
| tiny right at the mouth of the harbor
Wednesday night was happily nipped in
the bud by the timely arrival of one of
| Young Brothers launches with a relief
force who took the beseiged captain off
| and towed the rest of the crew ashore.
The crowd was not turned over to the
authorities however, as there was some
flaw in their shipping papers. The
! crowd consisted of Commodore Arthur
Merry, Cabin boy j. w. Harrison,
| Bowswain's mate G. E. Guest, Chief
Engineer Fred Lowell, and able seaman
w. w. Thayer.
They took the yacht Dewey out for a
sail about o'clock in the afternoon
and went as far as Diamond Head as
there was good breeze. The w ind gra-
dually died down and when out by the
spar buoy the crowd found themselves
in dead calm. This was about
o'clock and as there seemed no probabi-
lily of having to wait longer than half
an hour or so every body thought the
matter a good joke. A little squall did
come up and the yacht was finally
brought up to the entrance of the har-
Dor but here the wind died away Ieav-
ing the outfit practically as badly off
as before
All the refreshments" had succumb-
ed to onslaughts during the first be-
calming and as the crowd had no other
means by which they could hurry along
the slow moving minutes, the stay be-
came irksome. For nearly two hours
they hoped prayed and swore. At last
the quarantine launch was sighted,
'Oh give us tow, bartender" sang
the crowd wildly waving hats and flags
at the little craft as 1t came speeding
toward them. But the engineers liver
must have been out of order or the ma
rine regulations negative for he over
looked the quintette of supplicants. At
ter this occurrence the crowd stopped
hoping and praying and devoted their
energies to swearing.
AS seconds passed into minutes and
minutes became hours, and visions of
broken dates doomed up, the crew be-
came more mutinous and three of the
hands openly rebelled and refused to
recognize the SeamanShi~ of the COM
modore. In vain he protested that he
was hungry too and wanted to get to
dinner. The mutineers would have
none of 1t and declared that he was an
old sea dog who wanted to stay outside
all night for the sole purpose of getting
them home sick
FINALLY a subscription was taken I'D
to hire one of the Japanese sam pans TO
tow the hungry sailors over to the Hea-
lani Boat house but the Japs were look
ing for other fish and wisely steered
In fact when the Commodore ordered
all hands piped forward to caulk the
espre de corps, more mutterings were
heard and the Bowswains Mate de-
clared he didn't believe in mixing EN-.
Here you fellows" commanded Mer-
ry, "abaft there"
This order was regarded by the crew
as such on infringement of the rights
of American sailors that. Able Seaman
mayer, who had hitherto Rugged the
sides in the throes of seasickness, was
aquiver with righteous indignation and
boldly went to the Commodore to resist
this fresh encroachment.
Say you false alarm of a navigator"
he bawled at the commander ION behalf
of meself and me shipmates there, we
demand better food. You've got to take
us off this hot air grub and give as the
real old salt pork that we get ashore, |
with plum duff to throw at the sharks |
or Wen SILVER your timbers.'
That's good" hoarsely growled the |
crew as their spokesman turned to them |
for approval.
The Commodore trembled with fright |
as he elutched onto the stern rail but |
he made bold stab for his life" SILVER |
me tlmbers well yez, yez gang O. hood |
lums: Now look ahere you needn't |
think just because you're a'practicing |
law ashore that you can come any ships |
lawyer work on me. I'm the boss here |
and what 1 say goes"
well tell the Dewey to go'' was the |
eager response but the Commodore was
speechless upon that score so matters |
grew worse.
Hi shipmates there's tobacco and
rum in the starboard locker" cried the |
Cabin Boy, and followed by the balance |
of the crew Chips" led the fying |
wedge below. The Commodore saw this |
was his opportunity so he tried to bat
tan down the matches but the matches
would not bat and Chief Engineer Low
ell who neither smokes nor drinks sum
monded his ship mates from below in
time to prevent their being locked up.
Two blows of the sledge hammer had
shattered the lockers which resembled
Did Mother Hubbard's cupboard so
when the crew reached the deck they
were transformed into mob of pirates
Lhirsting for any old thing At last as
4 compromise they decided to go over
to the port side at this was the nearest
approach to any liquor aboard.
The sudden list threw the skipper
against the side of the cockpit and the
iull thud of his anatomy against the
wall was received with a chorus of
ierisive delight.
TOO bad amt it," bawled Harrison.
did 1t hurt you" yelled Thayer, nav
[ didn't hurt me-" rejoined the COM
nander but | wish you would come of
he tripod you Chief Engineer, you"
Finally the crew commenced singing
ihanties. They sang to the bartender
hey told how they wouldn't get home
i'll morning, tears came into the eyes
If Lowell when the chorus announced
hat there would be a hot time in the
I'D town that night but when the crowd
started singing "Chrsofo Colombo"
Merry dropped the tiller and skinned up
he mast.
What no" he began
"What the"
Ship ahoy" howled the Commodore
s his eyes eagerly penetrated the dark
less OF 1880 p. m. Sure enough It was a
eliet expedition. Captain Merle john
on in the gasoline launch had come to