The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-06

L of the harbor yesterday morning
land. She arrived here on June 10 from
Hamburg with a cargo of cement She
discharged most of her cargo here anc
takes the balance to Portland.
The Hilstono cleared from this port or
Thursday. She had signed on crew
secured by Mccarthy, the shipping
master. When the time came for the
men to be put aboard the vessel moi
one of them turned up.
| If vessel in foreign port does not
get away within forty EIGHT hours after
she has cleared, she has to enter and
clear again. When the men engaged by
Mccarthy did not turn up, therefore
Captain Richards was in something of
dilemma.
Richards had already told Lewis and
Turk, the shipping masters, that he did
not want anything to do with them,
and he hardly relished the idea of look
ing to them for crew after his treat
ment of the famous pair, even in an
emergency.
1t appears that when the heavenly
twins first offered to ship a crew for
the HilSton they proposed to supply
men at quite nominal figure. The
men they agreed to supply were not
only TO go in the ship to Portland, but
were to sign on for the trip home to
England.
+ first r1aa JA6 n H.
ards that he would not be able to get
away yesterday morning, and he saw
the necessity of re-entering his vessel
and clearing again staring him in the
face.
In MS trouble, when the men secured
by Mccarthy had failed to show up and
no one else came to his aid, Captain
Richards finally made up his mind to
appeal to Lewis and Turk. The two
shipping masters We're ready and will
ing TO be of assistance, but informed the
captain that, while they could put
crew aboard in an hour, if need be, it
would cost him a little more at that
late hour than it would have if he had
gone to them in the first place.
Captain Richards needed the men and
considered the sudden rise in the price
of sailors justifiable under the circum
stances. The result was that he told
Lewis and Turk to go ahead and get
him crew. This was quickly accom-
plished and the Hilston was enabled to
leave port in good time with a full COM
plement.
The Hawaiian '"GraceT Darling"
A story of heroism of the sea, which
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kamaainas of these Islands, but which
has never been fully told In print, is
that of a certain noble native woman of
Waimea, Kauai, who, at the risk of her
life. swan out through the breakers in
terrible storm to a little schooner 60
ing to pieces on the rocks and rescued
the captain Of the vessel, the only man
aboard, taking him safely ashore on her
back while the skipper. who was not
swimmer. held on to the hair of her
head
Pilot Macauley. who remembers more
of the history of the Hawaiian Islands
than has ever been published. was in a
mood yesterday afternoon
and told the story to an Advertiser re-
porter AS nearly as possible the ac-
count is given in the captains own
words
"Of course you have heard the story
of Grace Darling, he began. wv ell,
the woman I am going to tell you about
did more than Grace Darling ever
dreamed of doing. Grace Darling took
a boat and went out to a wreck through
the surf with life line, but this wo-
man, this native woman of Waimea,
swan out through the breakers to
schooner fast going to pieces and brought
back the captain on her back, the long
hair of her head helping him, who could
not swim, to hold on and reach the
shore in safety.
But 1 will commence at the beginning
so that you may have the whole tale
About ten or twelve years ago. some
time Whereabouts, there came to the Ha-
waiian Islands the little schooner Nettie
Merrill. The Nettie was originally
pilot boat in the harbor of New York.
She was a beautiful craft and she could
sail like a witch. She was of about 12O
tons and was commanded by Captain
Crane, one of the real old coasting cap
tains.
well, the Nettie Merrill was bought
in by the Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company and the captain was supposed
to retain the command when the vessel
changed owners.
''One day she was bound for Kauai
from Honolulu. The weather was very
nasty at the time and the wind was
blowing strong from the south. All in
dications pointed to a severe kona. There
was a poor crew aboard the schooner
and it was about all that Captain Crane
could do to get anything out of them.
They We're mostly negroes and as tough
and lazy and shiftless lot of men as
ever went to sea.
"One of the companys steamers towed
the Nettie out of the harbor. AS soon as
she got there the captain ordered the
foresail up. Well, the crew managed to
get that sail hoisted without falling over
board and then the command was given
to hoist the mainsail. About this time
the steamer had let go and the schooner
was shifting for herself. They started
to hoist the mainsail.
The captain was handling his craft
very carefully as he had no desire to get
blown in towards shore. The wind was
strong from the south and he wanted to
get as far out to windward as possible.