The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-19
BROWN SCORED
IN FINE MATTER
Also Gave Some Facts Concerning
the Cruise of the
Herman.

Captain Brown and his treasure
schooner Herman are now at the bat
or in other words are now having their
innings, and the waterfront is expected
to root vigorously
The captain has scored. He has up
set the custom house by making an
appeal to Washington and securing a
reduction of fine inflicted by Collec-
tor Stackable, from 800 to So.
When the schooner Herman arrived
here from San Francisco some weeks
ago her second mate declared that there
were many things in the vessels hold
which We're not on the Herman's man
ifest. For this alleged negligence on
the part of the skipper the vessel was
fined 800. Captain Brown Immediately
wrote direct to Washington ami COM
planned to the Treasury Department
that he had been fined unjustly. He
pointed out to them his experience on
the sea and showed that the fine was
eAtSaSlNe. 19 81 result AlIe DePdl tl4lGII
sent Captain Brown a letter by the
mali which reached here on the Hong
kong Maru in which it was stated that
the fine had been reduced to So and if
! he would call on Collector Stackable
he could get his $95 back. The captain
without delay called for his money.
Captain Brown is we'll known in the
East, He is a Providence, Rhode ISL
and. man. and has big business there
He has a fine house at Providence, anC
a summer house at Newport, and the
story goes that he is very wealthy and
controls a large interest in severa
Eastern banks.
Skipper Brown was happy yesterday
afternoon and for the first time since
he has been in Honolulu consented tt
talk about the Herman cruise
We are not going to Cocos Island,
said Captain Brown, for there is M
treasure there. 1t was removed from {
cave on the island in 1850. 1 am tn,
only living man today who knows
one of the party that removed it.
can go and put my hand on it at an.
time l want it. That's ALL"
Captain Brown related that this re
moval of the sixty million dollars
worth of treasure occurred in 1850 an
in the same year he has also spoken o
having arrived at the Bay of Port
land near the border of the States o
Victoria and South Australia, Austria
liza, and to have taken UP very larg
area of land and started life as a squat
ter. He had thousands of sheep an
is said to have prospered during all tn
BaIlarat gold excitement Of 1852
Captain Brown seems unwilling I
tell any part of the story as to hoy
the gold was removed from Cocos Is
land but it has been stated that a mu
tiny on board the vessel left only a fey
, men living and that they placed tn
gold on an island to the westward G
/. Tahiti. Afterwards they took each
= small portion of it and decided to leav
the big lump until later years. Brow
= is said to have taken his portion t
Australia and started work as a squat
ter in the manner mentioned. The
the other survivors Of the gold shi
died and Captain Brown remained a
the only one left of the Inflated treas
I | urc party.
At the time the treasure was remoy
| ed from Cocos Island the captain wa
u very young man. The unhapp
| deaths of every member of the part
but himself caused him to consider tn
T gold as something haunted and ur
lucky. He prospered in business an
could not bring himself to decide to .
after it. Now at this late day he ha
determined to get it and has his sma
party along to share the spoils. He