The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-20
Clock Keeps Tab
On Steamers
Rolls.
Union Men Hot EAftel
Shipping Masters
Who Run.

exact record has been kept OF the
number of times a vessel rolled at
| sea during an entire trip.
| A record of this kind was kept,
aboard the Inter-Island Steam Navi-
CATION Company's fine steamer Hama
| lei on her last trip, by Purser Clap
| ham. Chaplain, besides being the ar
] fist of the fleet, is something of a
genius. The method he employed
however. is exceedingly simple. al
though only one person in a hundred
would be likely to think Of it.
/ About 6 o'clock yesterday morning
the Hanalei arrived in this port from
| Makaweli, Waimea and Nawiliwili
with 5000 bags of sugar. She sailed
o'clock in the evening. so that the
round trip of the steamer to Kauai
| including all stops at ports, occupied
exactly four and half days, or 10S
! hours.
| Just before the Hanalei left her dock
in this harbor on Friday evening last,
Purser Clapham noticing that the
large clock in his cabin had not been
wound up for a long time, and that it
was not recording the flight of time,
decided to put the time-piece to a
novel use. This was not the first time
| that the idea had struck him.
The clock was located on shelf
put up athwartshps in Clapham' 8
cabin. Like most clocks, it has pen
dulum Clapham had often noticed
that when the ship rolled the pendu-
lum of the clock would follow the mo-
ton of the vessel. When the steamer
rolled gently to staTboard, the pendu-
lum swinging in that direction would
say tick, and record a second on the
face of the clock. When the vessel
rolled back over to port the pendulum
would fall over that way, too, say
| tick" again, and register another sec
ond. OF course, the rolling of the Ha-
nalei is nothing at all uncomfortable
and it mustn't be supposed that be-
cause a clock registered every roll she
made on her last trip that there is
anything cranky about the splendid
little steamship. All vessels roll more
or less.
Upon leaving the wharf at this port
Purser Chaplain moved the hands OF
| MS CLOCK SO IHdI IHey lluiCdleu lHS
hour of twelve. He did this that he
might the more easily tell exactly how
many times the Hanalei rolled during
the entire trip.
Every now and then Chaplain would
take a look at his novel rolling indi-
Gator and see that it was working all
right. 1t worked like charm. The
clock faced his bunk, and he watched
it's working before he fell asleep at
nights.
When the Hanalei arrived in this
port yesterday morning at o'clock
Chaplain commenced to do some figur-
ing. The hour hand had gone round
the face of the clock three times,
showing that thirty-six hours were to
be reckoned with. He reduced these
hours to minutes and then reduced
the result to seconds and, behold, he
1 had the number of times the Hanalei
had rolled since she left Honolulu. His
figuring was as follows: One roll OF
steamer equals one motion of pendu-
lum, or one tick; one tick equals one
second therefore, number of seconds
in time recorded on face of clock
equals number of times steamer roll
ed; set clock at IL when sailed from
Honolulu; hour hand travelled three
times round face of clock; thirty-si
hours equal 129,60O seconds Therefore,
the Hanalei rolled 129,600 times during
her round trip of four and a half days.
In four and a half days there are 1885,
800 seconds; 129,600 into 3SS,S00 goes ex-
actly three times. Therefore, it took
the Hanalei three seconds to roll one
way, or six seconds to roll both ways,
first to starboard and then to port
Every time the minute hand of the
clock marked the half hour the clock
struck. There are 1900 seconds in a
half hour. Therefore, every time the
ship completed 1900 rolls the clock
struck. Sometimes the striking would
awake Chaplain at night. Another
1880 rolls" he would say, and then
turn over and go to sleep again.
The rolling of the Hanalei is hardly
perceptible to any one on deck, as a
general rule The clock, however, rec
orded the slightest movement. This
record, of course, includes rolling in
the different ports touched at, as well
as during the time at sea. 1t does not
follow that the vessel rolled at regular
intervals of three seconds, one way.
That is only the average.
Shipping Masters Rum Race.
There was some excitement little
before o'clock last night on the cor
ner of Hotel and Fort streets.
Turk & Lewis, shipping masters,
were quietly sitting in a cigar store
talking politics and discussing business
matters, when Captain Sodergren, for
merly of the bark Hesper, walked in
and accosted Mr.. Turk.
rs this Mr.. Turk?' enquired Sober
gren. Then, receiving an affirmative
answer, he continued: 81 want to say
something to you. Will you oblige me
by accompanying me around the block ?
Both you and your partner, Mr. Lewis,
can come along if
4 Sodergren did not have a chance to
finish what he was going to say before
Turk & Lewis were out of the place as
fast as their legs could carry them
The last seen Of Lewis he was going
to the police station to seek proec-
ton.
On arriving at the station house he
asked for Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth. Chillingworth was not there
however, and Lewis went away.
A large number of Sailors Unior
men We're seen outside the cigar store
while Sodergren was talking to Turk
& Lewis. There were fifteen or twenty