The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-08
APPRENTICES
ARE HAPPY
Carnedd LleWeIIyn Boys
Speak,
COOK HAS A WORD TO SAY
Sailor Wanted to Holy-Stone the
Deck With the Steward
Herr Wuston.

IF you Will listen to me vonce al
ready, Hester News Reporter, l viii tell
you Something's dot will help you out of
dot dream about dot coffee kettle vot
you writed about in der baper yester-
day, aind it?'
1t was the steward aboard the Car
nedd Llewellyn talking; he was full of
a big yarn about the grub admins
tered to the crew off Cape Horn, and
backed his assertions up by entries in
a big log book which showed just ex-
actly how much food had been given
the men on the voyage each day from
Hamburg to Honolulu. d. Wustron is
the cooks name; he says it's not I'M
pronounceable as charged by the crew.
Look here now vot l got in der book
off der Horn-Sunday-sea pie und
soup-soup und sea pie. Vot are dose
fellers kicking for so much? Dond they
get der best of good cooking? Aind
been handling der grub for twenty
years und know how to do it already.
l can make duff so light as a feader,
und bake der bread chuSt as veil as der
steam pie shop. I'm Cherman und
have been to sea for thirty-five years
not good cooking!-ach! dot vos Won lie
Il gives der men so much as der law
says So und more. l steal der sugar
from aft ven We was off der Horn be-
cause l see dot der fellerS vas needed
Something's to tighten dere hearts in der
cold vedder. Und butter und MARINA
lade dey gets all der time. Der men
dey never growl at sea; vat for dey
growl in der port. Der captain vas
chentleman und treated dem fine und
der mates vas too easy on der fellers
altogeder.
Il want to dell you about dot coffee
kettle. My boy vat helps me in der
galley, dis is his first trip to sea, und
he vas very dirty, dot is not my fault,
isn't it? Und watts dot about der duff
you puts in der baper? Dere vas only
a very leetle red paint vat got into der
! duff. Not so much as a moudful vas
spoilted."
While the cook was conversing with
the reporter, George Dawson, a MEM
Der of the Starboard watch, who had
been listening to what was said, rushed
at the cook and, in language not polite
! informed him as he shook his fist in
his face that he was liar and several
other things which reflected on his an
tecedents, as well as himself. Dawson
| also declared that if the cook had been
several years younger he would take
him out of the galley and muss up the
deck with him.
Willie Point and Eric F. Harris, aged
eighteen and nineteen respectively, are
the apprentices aboard. They gave
their story in regard to the Carnedd
Llewellyn. Point and Harris are smart
young fellows and good sailors, being
already able to qualify as able seamen.
They expect Someday to be masters of
vessels themselves. They have been
aboard the Llewellyn for three years
and have seen three voyages in her,
speaking highly of the ship. Their first
voyage was from Hamburg to Calcutta,
thence to Bristol. The second was to
Honolulu, and thence to Peru, thence
! to Hamburg. So they have been in
Honolulu before and have many friends
here. These boys say that they always
got their whack of food at sea and,
in fact, more than their whack. They
say that they could get along with
more food if they had it, but could not
object as long as they received as much
and more than the law allows. Accord
ing to their stories they have always
been very well treated, and have moth
ing whatever to complain of. They are
allowed 81 week spending money in
port, get all the tobacco they want,
had their grog with the men off the
Horn; have every opportunity to learn
navigation, and are never worked toe
hard. While every man in the fore
castle has been sick at different times
during the voyage from Hamburg, the
boys have not laid up once. They have
had their fingers frost-bitten and are
well acquainted with salt water boils
but all that comes to the round-the-
Horn sailor, and they do not complain
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