Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-21
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You see," said the lake engineer.
in reply to a question had asked, its
strange the sort OF things that will
stick in your memory longest. Take.
Tor instance, an experience i had a
few years ago. expect I'll forget lots
OF more important things before | for
get that.
There wasn't any railroad along the
shore then. and all the little towns and
the summer resorts depended on the
shore boats, sometimes one and some
tines two. that piled up and down and
carried freight and passengers.
Some OF those small places have
GOOD harbors and some you cant get
near in rough weather although they
have docks quarter of a mile long.
This place am going to tell you about
vas one OF that kind.
That summer Capt. Jim Elliot and
!. we bought the Kittie Clark. She
was stanch little craft. and we figur.
ca to run her ourselves and save ex.
rense. Ours was the only shore boat
then.
made this village | speak OF on our
way down and took on a passenger a
young boy who bad consumption and
was going away TO some sanitarium to
sec If his health wouldn't improve. He
didn't look TO me as II he would ever
be any better in this world, but we
brought him down. and he took the
train and went wherever he was go.
ire.
1T got along in the fall. The re.
sorts were all closed and business was
pretty near over for the season. It's
Just about then we got our first and
often our nastiest storms. The big
treightcrs run longer, but we were
not working for anybody that expect.
ed us to risk our lives for the sake
of making another trip, so we were
, ready to lay up.
/ When we were about starting up.
shore, thinking probably we wouldn't
make but one more trip. II here didnt
come this consumptiye again. wanting
, to be taken home. and this time he was
on his last legs, certain.
He did not look as though he
would live twenty.tour hours. and what
made II worse, II was fixing for spell
/ OF weather, and twas likely to be
, about all we wanted to do to run the
boat, without taking care OF any sick
folks.
still. II didn't seem the square
thing not TO carry him. as he hadn't
any other way Of getting home. So
Captain Jim and | talked II over. and
we got him aboard and into the cap.
tains berth, and there he stayed.
Then we got that spell o weather
: 1t rained and blew and frOze till every
thing on that boat was sheeted over
with ice, her captain and engineer in
cluded. We made out to keep headed
up the lake, and that was about all
[ That little Kitty Clarke would &c
\ ahead bit, then she'd stop and kind
o SILVER as the sea took her. for al
the world the way a horse will wher
e It's in mortal fear. Seemed as II she
i was something alive and fighting fol
|. every next breath in those smotherinl
waves. Well. that was just the wa,
with that sick boy. He laid ther,
y struggling to catch mis- last breath. ant
d the captain and we'd run in ever!
e few minutes to see II he was alive yet
O and give him a swaller o. water.
, When | look back at that now. I
" seems like kind of blurred.ovc
u nightmare, but one figure in 1t stands
e out clear enough. That was the boy
mother. When we finally pounded on
!, way TO within sight OF this plac,
:. where the boy belonged, there sh
= stood watching for us, clear out to tn
e very end Of that dock. She had
shawl over her head, and the win
q thrashed and switched her clothes 4,
If II would tear EN- TO tatters, but sh
appeared TO lean way out over the We
ter to get nearer to us. ] don't kno'
as | ever saw anything that SCENE
to mean more. Course | knew We
enough that we couldn't get into tina
- place for hours, and she knew IL q
=. well as we did. All we could do wa
to beat along up TO Tawas and dro
anchor there till the weather cleared
( and that's what we did.
n. We were pretty near worn out wit
Nv all we'd been through but We turne
- in and took care OF that boy. We di
- all we could think of to keep life /
him. and in abolr twelve hours, whe
things let up a little, We went baC
~ flying.
" 'lnere was mat woman Standln
ht out there looking, looking as II she
m waitel there all the while-she ha
be for all know. We got her boy of q
". right, mad he died in his own bed, wit
her tending to him.
Il don't know as | can make you 81
II the way | do" the engineer resui
ed. after a pause. 81 suppose | sense
II more. my mother being dead. 81
. died when I was little, mother di
There was a snarl of MS boys. ! us'
TO wake up nights and hear her pra
NO ing that the Lord would spare her t
I'd we got some bigger Well. whenev
get TO thinking about that wont
bo standing out there all alone, with Il
10. wind and the sleet and the mad la
he itself beating over her, It puts me
mind of mother. expect somewhe
~ she's waiting with Just that same lo