The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-12
THE TROUBLES OF
CAPTAIN BROWN
Says Reporters Have Faxed All
Kinds Of Yarn About
Herman.

There may be and probably is treas
ure in the South Seas but the devil
himself couldn't find it, said Captain
Brown yesterday. The Captain has
been beseiged for the past four months
by reporters and all sorts of people
who want to know all about his trip
and he is now getting tired Of this al
though he has made a unique collec-
ton since he first commenced getting
ready for the mysterious cruise.
The Captain now has what he calls
a Liars Bible" This is a scrap book
filled with newspaper clippings concern
ing the Herman. He characterizes ii as
the biggest collection of yellow lies that
have even been printed about any one
thing. According to the Captain imagi-
nation has run riot in every newspaper
office of each seaport he has been in.
down to see MIN and that a CONVERSE
ton something like the following oc-
ours:
Reporter: "How'dy do Cap'n..I rep
resent the Daily Knowit''
Captain: Pleased to meet you. Mis-
ter"
r.. What's all this yarn about you
chasing after gold sharks and angel
winged whales in the South Seas?''
c.: Its fake from start to finish.
I've denied it dozens of times. This
schooner is owned by myself and / am
taking a few friends on pleasure
cruise. We go TO Honolulu. Tahiti,
then back towards China, through the
Torres straits to Singapore; then
around the Cape of Good Hope and off
to New York. That's the whole story.
Have cigar?'
r.: Thanks. looks like a rafting
good Havana. Well. 1 am glad to be
set right over this fake treasure story.
Good bye"
After such an interview the Captain
says he can't sleep until the paper con-
tanning that reporters article is print
ed. He has seen some funny things at
sea and some funny things on land
yet he says he gets all the excitement
of life out of what the newspapers say
of him. After the above interview the
Frisco newspaperman stopped at the
first saloon after leaving the schooner
hunted up an old sailor who had been
in the South Seas on whaling trip.
paid for two five cent beers and got
the true information concerning the
treasure hunting Herman. With bated
breath and berry accents the sailor told
him that many years ago Captain
Brown sailed the ship Melton Park
around the Horn TO New Zealand On
the return trip he had three passengers.
A frightful gale came on and Captain
and passengers thought the ship would
be lost In the midst of the gale they
made a vow that if the ship weathered
the wild fury of the elements they
would make a voyage TO the South
Pole. The vessel got out all right and
few months later Captain Brown and
his friends fitted out South Pole ex-
plorinE expedition. This was done
quietly and few weeks later the lit
tie craft wiggled through the ice and
found a land of green hills, sparkling
brooks. and fine tropical fora, sur
rounded by q calm sea at the spot
where the south pole should be.
Strangely enough they found the pole
itself and discovered that it was stick
ing few hundred feet out of the
ground and was of pure gold. They
sawed off portions of it-enough TO fill
the schooner, and set sail for New
York. Then after again getting through
the ice the vessel had succession OF
storms which drove her up into the
Marshall Group where she went on
reef. stove a hole in her bottom and,
sank in forty fathoms of water. All ex-
cept Brown We're drowned. He escaped