The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-10
p. M. S. S. PERU. NOW IN PORT.


stories as to their rights and their
wrongs, and get them to believe that
/ they have been treated like dogs.
| They ply them with liquor and pipe
dreams and coach them in stories
which they are to tell. OF course. nc
sailor tells the same story as rule
Even when the whole forecastle hangs
i together and spins the same yarn. the
cook has another tale to tell. the car
penter still another, and the cabin boy
| Jet a different one. The captain may
he in the wrong. as may also the
mates If they are, they are pretty
sure to be punished; if they are inno-
cent, however. they do not always
stand the most elegant chance against
the testimony of ten or dozen fore
mast hands.
Even where a captain or a mate is
guilty of striking a man at sea, it as
very difficult for landsman to APP
preciate all the circumstances leading
up to the act.
The shipping masters in this port are
we'll aware of the work of the union
men in inducing sailors to make COM
plants against their officers, and the
. police, those of them whose duty is on
the waterfront, are also familiar with
these facts.
/ A number of men from the ship EN-
lily Reed were in the United States
Marshars office yesterday, telling more
of the particulars of the voyage from
Newcastle.
John Kemp. one of the 'roremasl
hands of the Reed. whose story ap-
peared in the Advertiser of Monday.
had further particulars to give an Ad-
yertiser reporter yesterday.
Why. do you know that Captain
Baker threatened the mems lives with
a revolver on several occasions during
the trip up?" said he. We'll, he did:
and he says TO me, one day. says he.
I'd give months pay to give you
a good licking. And on another coca
sion he said: I'm mixing medicine for
sick man: I'll mix it so strong that
he,I never be able to get on his feet
again. What do you think or that
Mixing medicine so strong that poor.
blooming sailor chap couldn't walk.
He meant to poison him, that's what
he did. and you can say that 1 said So
me, John Kemp. American seaman
! fore the mast. Then he made another
remark On the table one time. before
the mates, just after he had struck the
Russian Finn; the mate said that he
had knocked some skin off his hand
hitting one of the hands a crack on the
head. The captain said he WAS a
blooming fool to waste his skin on a
good for nothing sailor. That's what
he said, only he didn't use quite such
elegant language.
Il wanted to get some underclethes
from the slopchest one day, and went
aft and asked the skipper the price of
shirts, He ffared up in a minute. Did
you ever hear of such rank imperti-
nence, said he, this chap wants TO
know the price Of shirts: the price.
mind you Anybody'd think / kept a
blooming grocery store Then he add
ed to the mate, pointing to me; You
keep the beggar on the move on deck:
he ought to be well ashamed of him
self, asking me the price of shirts
These are only a few of the facts
What we want is justice; we want to
see the captain and the mates get their
deserts. It is a shame that American
seamen are treated the way they are .
The claudlne for Maui Ports.
Wfder's steamship Claudine, Captain
Parker. sailed yesterday evening at S
o'clock for Lahaina, Kahuluf and way
ports with the following passengers:
j. a. McCandless, H. A, Isenberg. Mrs
Anger and son. Mrs. Otis. Mrs. G.
Waterhouse, Mrs. c. H Dickey, Miss
Mary Green, Miss L. Green, G. NJ.
Hancock, f. Dekum, Edward Kealo-
ha, Miss a. Kealoha, John Querino,
Rev. E. G. Silva, wife and child. Miss
Dias, Leong Sui, Rev. E. Takimasi,
L. Barkenhausen, c. D. Lufkin, N w
Aluli, l.. NJ Judd. Miss E Saffrey,
Mrs A. Lyons, Miss E. r. Akana.
Miss L. Arnold, Miss r. Akana, Miss
L. Awana. Miss ziegler, Miss NJ. l.
Ziegler, Tan Young and wife, Master
E. Cockett, Miss L. Meek, w S. stan
ley, Rev. E. w Thwing, Miss NJ. Sui
Ivan. Miss S. E. Treadway. Miss
Knapp, Miss n. ]. Malone, Ching Yas,
c. Ming Hymn. G. E. Ward, Cheong
Hung, Cheong MIN, Cheong Chow. g.
A. Jordan, L. Barkhausen, Wong In,
/. NJ. Coulson. Captain Murray and
wife, Miss F. r. Naukana, Misses CD
Naukana, Levi Joseph. Jr.. and a
number of Porto Ricans,
Booked tor Hllo and Way Ports.
All accommodations on Wilder.s
steamer Kinau. sailing tomorrow at
noon for Hilo and way ports, are tax
en-. The following is a list of those
who have engaged passage to the Big
Island: c. G. Spencer. r. S. ogilvie,
Mrs. F.. Waterhouse, Mrs. Danford,
Hon. W. B. Wailima and wife, Miss
Mary Crews. Miss J. Taner, Give Da-
vies and wife. ]. c. Rfdgway, W.
Booth, A. F. Judd and wife, J. t. Les
son. E. A. Knudson and servant. w.
II. Rock E. ]. Hardee, w H. Mixer,
Aileen Mott, Miss C. E. Bray, Mrs. j.
c. Brown, Miss L. Horner, Miss J. Ma
hiwa, T. Aoki L. Cheong, J. Cummins,
E. r. Stackable. Miss Julia Dias, Miss
Bendixen. Mrs. A G. Steele. Master E
Kaohi. Hon. j. B. Kaohi, David Kock,
Miss c. MahiSa, Miss L. Maflika, Ka-
ne Koolua, z. B. Turner and wife
Miss Ellen Kalawe, Miss Nawahe,
Rev. S. Olivia, Mrs. Cough, Miss A
Perry, ]. II. Van Gieson and wife, A
L. Thomson. B. j. Zabrieskie and
wife, Miss R. Richardson, Miss K.
Cornwall, Master c.. Ahrens, Miss E.
Kaohi Mrs. E. Naauao. Miss ]. C.
Carlson, S. NJ. Ballou and wife. Mrs.
W. T. Patty, Miss NJ E. Patty. Master
W. W. Patty, Charles Simpson. DR..