The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-29
NEW SHIPPING GAME
VESSELS REPRESENTED WITH
ALL HOME COMFORTS.
How Puget Sound Operators Induce
Men to Ship-How Captains Front
Lawn Got a Gardener"

For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain, Puget Sound shipping
masters have the heather Chinee beat
en- from the start According to stories
which come from the Sound country,
they are simply wonders at their bust
ness and it seems a shame that such
marked talent should be wasting it's
fragrance on the salty air. shipping
sailors at So to $50 a head, when there
are so many people in this world, look
ing for the opportunity of buying gold
bricks.
Evidently the shipping masters have
adopted the most up-to-date methods in
their enlistment of sailors. Instead of
simply doping Poor Jack, as in former
times, and carrying him aboard the ves-
sci, they draw bright and alluring pic
lures of life on the ocean wave. Ac-
cording to the stories they tell a sailing
ship is an ideal spot, place of pastoral
retreat.
The Portland Oregonian has the fol-
lowing on the subject:
In the palmy days of the late Jim
Turk and the later Bunko Kelly, the
Puget Sound papers devoted much
space to the wickedness of Columbia
River shanghaiers. but from recent
events, the headquarters of this indus
try has apparently shifted to Puget
Sound. The Victoria Colonist prints the
following:
"A dispatch from Everett gives par
ticulars of more shanghaing by the
Crimpers, who for blood money, rang
ing from So to $50 per head, make
practice of supplying crews to sailing
vesselsc on the Sound. The dispatch,
dated November IL, says that Tom
Sercy, an Everett youth, has been shan
ghaied in Seattle by the crew of a lum-
Der schooner bound for South Africa.
The tidings reached the boys mother in
a letter which the lad was permitted to
write before the departure of the ship.
Young Sercy claims that he was drug
ged with liquor and carried aboard.
"On one occasion not long since a Port
Townsend sailors clearinghouse man
shipped a farmer on a sailing ship as
| purser, the farmer thinking that his
duties would be taking tickets, etc, and
in another instance the same man ship
ped a gardener to the ship, buying him
a spade, rake and watering can, before
plying him with whiskey and carrying
him on board. The gardener was told
1 that the captain of the vessel had soil
! placed on one part of the ships deck in
beds like hot houses. and the gardeners
! duties would be to tend these When
I the gardener woke up at sea, he found
that he was common sailor"
These new methods will have to come
here sooner or later. and there will
soon be the utmost rivalry among the
| local shipping masters as to which shall
introduce the most attractive methods
They say that Oscar Lewis, with his
influence in politics, will promise every
seaman seat in the native legislature
after trip around the Horn, while
Agent Baugh of the Sailors Union viii
probably require the members of the
union to learn to sleep in feather bed!
before he Will agree to ship any more
But "Crimp' Mccarthy has the Grove
| beaten thus far. Already negotiations
it is understood, are under way for
lease Of the hulk of the bark Topgal
4 liant. When he gets out of jail he vii
= establish a roof garden over there II
/ Rotten Row and crowd the boat wit
5 Syrens in hula skirts and tell tn
0 patrons that that is only a sample q
Q the delights and sport of shipping ~
his line of vessels,