The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-09
Mariposa Off For the
Golden Gate Yes.
terday.

J Yankees grow-Maine.
| He has done great deal of trading
with African ports in his time, and
when he is in a reminiscent mood,
which is most likely to happen when his
vessel is safely in port and the work
of the day is done and he is enjoying
a meditative pipe, he delights in telling
his friends, of whom he has host the
world over how he used to get ahead
of the shippers of English ships in Al
goa Bay years ago. They used to guy
him a great deal, as it often happened
that he would be the only America.
skipper in port. They always called
him "Yank," to which title he has the
very best rights, having been born WITH
in few miles of Bath, Maine, ana he
| felt special pride in thus representing
his country.
| One day, so the skipper tells the yarr,
while the English captains were spin
ming funny stories about the Yankets
| in some popular ship chambers estab-
lishment, one of the Britishers asked
Captain Kellar a question intended to
floor the jolly sailor.
Tell me, what is Yankee, any
way?" said he.
"Why,/ a Yankee is an Englishman
improved upon" was the unhesitating
reply. This settled the Englishman'5
hash for\ a while.
Captain Kellar has been going to SCI,
for forty years. Most of. his voyages
have been in the Pacific, although he
has traded a great deal in the Atlantic
and has, in fact, been round the world
more times than he can recall, if ques-
toned suddenly.
He has been master of the bark
Palmyra for the last ten years, and has
served in many vessels before her. He
at one time commanded the Bonanza,
and was also skipper of the Elizabeth
Kimball, which was put ashore on
Easter Island, waterlogged, in 1868.
| The last voyage of the Elizabeth Kim
ball was a memorable one, and viii
never fade from the mind of Yankee
Kellar The captain had his wife
aboard that trip, and the experiences
met with were hard for all hands. es-
lpecially woman.
The old Elizabeth Kimball was loaded
with lumber at the time she was beach
ed on Easter Island. She met a sue
cession of severe storms and became
waterlogged. AS the captain expressed
it, the ship was full of lumber and
the water didn't float as WELL The yes
sci was far from any port at the time,
and it would have been foolhardy to
attempt to take her on her voyage or
| to put back to where she came from.
1t was decided that the best thing to
be done was to run the ship ashore on
Easter Island.
/ There were a couple of hundred ma
tives on the island at the time, and the
people of the KimbalI were treated in a
most friendly manner. There were
plenty of yams and sweet potatoes and
fish to eat and, after the Kimball had
been put ashore, her crew experienced
no hardships.
Captain Kellar and his men built 4
lsmall schooner from the ribs and plank
ling of the wrecked Kimball and, sever al
weeks after the Kimball had been
lbeached, the little schooner started out
for Tahiti with the captain, his wife
and the crew of the Kimball abe ard.
Tahiti was reached without difficulty.
and there Captain Kellar sold his
schooner for $3.50. From Tahiti the
Grew of the old Kimba1l sailed to San
Francisco in French barkentine.
The bark Palmyra is at present dis
charging coal at the navy wharf for
the army. From this port she will sail
in ballast for the Sound. In the Sound
the Palmyra will load lumber, prob
ably, for Cape Town. Pope G. Talbot
are the present agents for the PALMYRA.
The bark was built at Bath, Maine,
in 1876. She is vessel of a little over
1900 tons.
When she goes up the Sound she will
probably have a new rigging put on
her. Her shrouds are something like
fifteen years old, and are apt to TIM
Bile to the decks pretty soon unless
something is done. They are wire ropes,
: but even wire gets tired and falls 70
pieces after years of the action Of The
elements.
Mariposa for the Coast.
The rain came down in torrents yes
terday afternoon about the time that the
Oceanic steamer Mariposa, Captain Rem
ME. was getting ready to leave for the
Coast, and those who had assembled on
the wharf to say good-by to departing
friends did SO at the risk of getting wet
taking cold and feeling generally uncom-
Portable. This did not seem to affect the
size of the crowd, however. for as many
J people as usually turn out at the going
away of Coast steamship were on nand
great throngs, besides the fact that they
were more or less wet, was that LEY
were packed away under the sheds in
stead of swarming out to the edge of the
wharf to be as near to the steamer as
possible.
Berger's band was in dry place and
the music as usual, added a charm to
the occasion that was in no way affected
by the inclement weather.
Just for moment the rain ceased as
the steamer was getting away from the
wharf. AT that moment the crowd rush
ed to the edge to throw leis and to re-
ceive them from the hands of their de.
parting friends, as tokens of farewell.
There were many people going away
most prominent among whom were San
Parker and family, Robert w. Wilcox
Fred Beckley and A. de S. Canavarro
The members of the Legislature were
practically out in force to bid aloha tc
Parker, Beckley and Wilcox.
1t was half past o'clock before th'