The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-11


old sailor to his mates over their duff
and fresh tinned-meat at the midday
meal on Sunday, June LIST, when all
danger had past and the bark was
sailing along as best she might In her
crippled condition. What did I tell
your he repeated, wiping his mouth
with the sleeve of his shirt and pre-
pairing to have an after-dinner pipe.
Didn't / say as how we'd have BAG
luck, a leavin' Newcastle on a Friday?
Don't it figger out all right and prop
er? Here we goes and leaves port on
Friday, May 18th; just exactly thir-
teen days afterwards, on May 31st. we
gets dsmasted in a bloomin' gale. [
always was a fellow to take notice OF
them kind of things" and the old man
lit his pipe and smoked in satisfied 81
lence.
..Aint you forgotten somethin' ?"
said one of the other hands, who had,
during the old mans conversation.
been consulting lot of chalk marks
on his bunk, calendar of his own
manufacture.
The old fellow did not deign to no
tice the remark of the younger hand.
May 31st was a Friday. too" tri-
umphantly announced the youth. My
bloomin' OATH look a-here, we sailed on
a Friday; after thirteen days we was
dismasted. and that day was Friday.
How's that. old man?'
Notwithstanding the fact that the
bark st. James came into this port dis
masted, the vessel was as bright and
as clean and as freshly painted as a
brand new steam launch on a holiday
excursion
Pretty flash packet, thfsl" remark
ed Crimp Mccarthy to his two sol
diers,' as he boarded the st. James il
the stream to see what business he
could have with the crew
"Phew. look at her sticks, though:
seems as if she must have been taken
a-back kind of sudden
Mccarthy walked forward to inter
view the foremost hands. where's
Lewis and Turk?" was the first ques-
ton that the sailors asked however
This surprised Mccarthy and he went
back to looking aloft and criticizing
things
At present the ST. James lies in the
stream. Her cargo is consigned to
order. Considering the condition she
was left in after the gale, she made
remarkably speedy passage from the
Colonies
what kind of a ship is the St.
James," asked reporter of one or
the crew.
All right, 1 guess"
Get plenty to eat ?'
''Ye-e-s."
Other members of the crew had the
same thing to say, and they said 1t In
about the same way. What they will
say after the runners of the Sailors
Union have finished with them remains
to be seen.
1t has become so now that people
on the waterfront are on the lookout
for complaints against officers of al
most every ship arriving from Austria
liza. 1t is such well known fact that
the Sailors Union is in the ''jobbing'
business that it is the expected which
is more likely to happen than the un-
expected.
When Captain Tapley was told of
the recent conspiracy against non-un-
ion shippers he smiled and that's all
he said.
The bark St. James was built a,
Bath, Maine, in the year 1888. She is
a vessel of about 1900 gross tons; Is
21S feet inches long; Al feet inches
beam. and % feet inches. depth OF
hold New York is her home port.
The Bark G. D. Bryant.
The work of discharging the fire and
water damaged cargo of the bark G.. d.
Bryant at Irmgard wharf, still contin-
ues 1t is thought that everything will
be out of her by tonight While the
cargo is practically ruined, the dam
age to the vessel herself will amount
to very little, almost nothing it Is
thought
The damaged hay was sold at auc-
ton yesterday, the principal purchasers
being Chinese. The soap ana flour
from the vessel will be sold today.
Excitement on the Bryant.
An officer of the bark c. D. Bryant
and boy working on the same vessel
had an alteration on board yesterday
afternoon. The boy was apparently |
not working in a manner to satisfy |
the officer, who was experimenting the |
discharge of the vessel.
Suddenly the officer grabbed the boy |
by the back of the neck and, getting |
him up against the bulwarks, snatched |
a Delaying pin and made a motion to |
strike his victim. The lad struggled |
and called for help. The captain of |
one of the Island steamers in port hap
pened to be on board at the time, and |
nterfered before the officer of the bark
could do other than administer a good
shaking and a few hand punches to the
youth. Captain CoIly also appeared on
the scene and ordered the officer to
1esist, or else get off the vessel.
1t was said that some of the dam
aged beer had found it's way to the
head of the officer in question.
Although the boy was plainly Ioafing
to the best of his ability, say those
who witnessed the incident, the officer
acted in an entirely uncalled for man
ler when he seized the Delaying pin.
Steamers Get Away.
Yesterday the Pacific Mail steam
ships Colon and Peru sailed for San
Francisco, the Peru departing in the
morning, and the Colon leaving In the
afternoon. The following persons left
IN the Peru: C. K Lyman, Mrs
Moore. John Piver, I. r. Burns, Miss
=. c. Amman, Miss Ross, J. L. Upman,
2. POLITE, Captain o. Rice, Rev Will
lam Kincaid, Charles Greene, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nation, A. r. Server, W. A. Ro-
lenberg, w. T. McClennan, Miss Nc
Clennan, Mr.. McClennan, E. OImsted,
Mrs. Scrimgeour, NJ. NJ. O'Shaughnes-
~, George Stratemeyer, Mrs. S. b.
Cheek daughter and maid, E. Koepke
r., w. Macfarlane, Ethel Angus, NJ.
?. Prosser, DIR. T. E. Bailly. Miss N.
>. Hawley, Miss c. B. Albright, Miss
Mary Kinney. c. B, Wells, wife and
wo sons.