The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-04
Captain Potter's
Passenger.
Freak.
Delaying Pins Figure in
Trouble Aboard
BaIclutha.

~. EyERAJ, more vessels arrived in
- port yesterday. The American
barkentine J. C. Pffueger, Cap
tain Potter. made port from San Fran
cisco after a pleasant passage OF nj
teen days; the American bark Amelia,
CAPTAIN Willer, arrived from the
Sound after a voyage of twenty-five
days, and the American schooner Vine'
Captain Small, came in from Mollen-
do. Peru, with a cargo of nitrate, max
ing the trip in sixty-six days. The
schooner Helen A. Kimball, captain
Hansen. also entered port, coming
from Kahului. She is bound for Fan
ming Island.
Captain Potters New Charge.
Captain Potter, formerly of the Am
erican bark Alden Besse. brought the
barkentine T. C. Pf1ueger here from the
Coast yesterday He does not like his
present charge as we'll as the Alden
Besse. She cannot sail as well, he
says. The Pflueger was at first full
rugged ship: then she was made over
into bark. and then, after rough
experience with the elements, and car
rying away some of her yards, she
was converted into barkentine. Now,
while she Is a vessel of larger dimen-
sions than the Alden Besse, she does
not carry nearly as much canvas. Cap
tain Potter says that 1t takes a gale
to send her along. Very pleasant
weather was experienced coming down
from the Coast; not single calm was
met with. The Pfueger is at present
at the Railway wharf. On Thursday
she expects to move to the Oceanic
wharf. where she will probably remain
a week, discharging her general car
go.
Lively Woman Passenger.
On the last voyage of the Alden
Besse to the Coast from this port, Cap
tain Potter, now master of the Pf1ue-
GER had several passengers along with
him.
Among them were man and his
wife The woman made things pretty
lively throughout the passage. She
was continually having chills. but the
captain doubts very much If they
were genuine, as she demanded whisky
found 1t very hard to get along to-
gether. She said he was fish and
ought to be thrown overheard. Then,
after she had recovered from the chills
and the whisky she would make 1t up
with her husband, and they would be-
have like lovers for while. She
slapped her husband on the hand a
few times, and went SO far as to ad-
minister sound slap on that gentle
mans face. reiterating her statement
that he was fish. This was once ar
ter she had just recovered from the
chills%
TheAgreatest surprise came one day
when Sshe borrowed pair of trousers
from one of the foremost hands and
climbed to the top of the foremost and
daredSher husband to follow her. When
she came on deck again she. did a cake
walk, much to the delight of the crew.
and the embarrassment Of the captain
and the rest of the passengers.
This woman and her husband came
down here on the City of Picking. They
were here only day or. 80, ana then
returned to the Coast on the Alden
Besse. the man claiming that he had
been robbed of thousand dollars
while here. Captain Potter is of the
opinion that they were couple of
adventures.
Trouble on the Balclutha.
Deputy United States Marshal E. r.
Hendry brought two men ashore yester-
day from the American ship Balclutha
which arrived in port on Sunday from
Newcastle. The men We're the first and
second mates, Hatfield and johnson. and
were placed under arrest on a warrant
sworn to by Olaf Endlen, the carpenter
OF the vessel, who alleges that the two
mates assaulted him on Sunday morn
Ing while the vessel was about ten miles
on port. The carpenter says that a be.
laying pin was used in the attack and
SHOWS very badly cut head to support
his story.
Later IN the day the mates were re-
leased on $1,000 bail each to appear be.
lore the United States District Court a,
O'Clock this afternoon.
1t Is said that the carpenter and the
second mate were engaged in some alter.
cation when the first mate interfered
and all three were mixed up in a lively
scrlmmage, the fight resulting in a Gu,
and battered head for the carpenter. The
carpenter does not seem to be certain as
TO which man struck him with the be.
laying pin; he knows that he was hit
with that fayorite marine weapon and
that is all. The mates will have little
or nothing to say in the matter except
that the carpenter was altogether in the
wrong. The carpenter declares that the
mates were in the wrong.
Anything but friendly relations existed
between the carpenter, Chips" as he
was Familiarity called aboard ship, and
the two officers during the voyage from
the Colonies.
II the stories of the members of the
crew of the Balclutha can be believed
there is likely to be great trouble for the
two mates in this port. The crew claims
that the Balclutha was g. regular .hel
ship" coming up from Newcastle and
that Delaying pins flew around the decks
like leaves in autumn They say thai