The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-29
EVERY DAY SCENE
ON WATERFRONT
When Girl Meets Girl Then
Lock Out for Kiss
Squalls.

This is almost an everyday scene on
Honolulu wharves.
They were couple of young ladies
from Chicago-you could tell that from
their rosy cheeks and the habit each
had of running their fingers over their
hair as if to keep the lake breeze from
blowing it away They were making
their first trip to Hawaii, and making
it, too, in a sailing vessel, which took
considerable time on the passage.
When their vessel came alongside the
wharf in Honolulu there was great ex-
element Some of their friends were
assembled to meet them, while sailors
on adjacent vessels were lined up at
their rails to watch the fun. for sailors
always expect fun when they see skirts
trailing along on a windjammer's deck
At first there was a waving of ting
lace-edged handkerchiefs. A moment
later and a handsome Chicago girl, one
hand holding up her hair and the other
gripped firmly to her skirts, was stand
ing on the fo'cs'le head and shouting,
amidst tears and laughter, to her,
friends on the wharf.
'Oh, it's you, is it? oh, ha, ha, ha-
Say, it's been such fun! All fine wealth
er and the ship didn't wash into our
cabins once Come aboard, won't you?
Can't you climb up that rope? Won
der if I could jump? How are all the
folks? Do you always have such nice
sunsets here? Are there any letters for
us? When does the next mail go to
San Francisco? Have you no ferries
here? Is that mountain the volcano?
How long will it be before we can get
off this ship?"
All these questions were fired out by
the Chicago girl in less time than it
takes to think out the arithmetical
problem of how much is two times
two?"
Then the Chicago girl broke into hys-
tericaI laughter. Those on the wharf
did the same.
The girls on the wharf then started
20 introduce an old white-haired gem
tIeman Papa, that girl in the blue
dress is Miss -; Miss --, this is
father" ooh, we are glad to see you.
sir,' shouted the young lady from the
Windy City; but papa only growled
and shouted What did you say her
rame is?" The other girl was brought
to the side of the vessel and the same
introduction took place.
/ How many trunks have you"
shouted the practical old man, who
wished to know how many hacks and
IN pet
the girls and their baggage home.
i've got one large trunk" shouted
Miss Calumet avenue.
And so have l." shouted her Jack
son boulevard sister.
And a small one"
$50 have t.
land a band box"
$50 have L.
And another small trunk
Eyes, and so have IL
land I've got some stuff in a crack
er box"
20, yes: and I forgot those things
kave in a soap box"
A laugh started at this point by tbs
Illinois nlaidens, echoed all along the
waterfront, and they went on rehears
ing their possessions. This hard worl
was finished by the girl with the wayy
hair declaring that she also had {
camera.
= By this time the old man was Quak
, ing in his boots, but the vessel hat
, been tied up to the wharf and witt
: more nerve than an old sailor the TIVE
girls were clambering down over tn
rome ladder and onto the wharf. Bot
q Miss Chicagos insisted that mo on
. look" but it is doubtful if there wa
anybody who turned his eyes from tn
blushing damsels.
, There was the usual hugging mattel
o on the wharf, interrupted by the Chi
+ cago girl pertly saying that her frien
is strong on kissing. Yes" said tn
Honolulan, you know, a mail steame
goes away from this town nearly ever
week" There was more laughing an
t my dear girling," and then the Who'll
e crowd clambered on board again, jus
e to see the dear little places that tn
n girls had rested in during the wear
/ nights of the voyage down. Meanwhil
: the captain of of the vessel stood o
. the deck SuppTeSSli-S d grave SiiiA1
: NO use talking" he said, lit take
e these Chicago people to make thing
n move. They are hustlers, and ca
It assure you are jolly good fellows on
y sea voyage"
A half hour later as the procession
hacks and heavily loaded express was
ons moved off the wharf. a grizzled o.
sailor turned sadly toward his shi
saying: Wish I'd taken my chanc'
when 1 was a lad-wouldn't be leadir
this lonely life here-Fd have who
blooming, happy family Of bright your
people like that"
/ Six bells were chlmed on his vess'
2. and at varying intervals for the ne,
Of FIVE minutes every vessel in the harb
< cnimed it's bells for the same evenir
hour