The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-26
STATE O. MANNER
IN HONOLULU
Skipper Blanchard Has a Re gu
lar Down East Farm
Aboard.

wall I guess this ar a regular State
o. Maine ship and I guess we got a
regular down east farm aboard of US.
Climb on board. mister"
| 1t was Captain Blanchard. a medium
sized. jolly. fat as a ball OF New Hamp-
shire butter man. who commands the
| full-rigged ship Bangalore. which ar
rived yesterday, forty-seven days out
from Tocoptlla, Chilli. who was talking.
| "Just trot along up to the front door
here and we'll go down and see the mis-
sus." Down in the cabin of the Banga-
| lore the reporter found pleasant faced
New England housewife with her small
| son. In the cabin there was cozy fur
niture and everything was as complete
| as a New England cottage-even to tise
extent of a wood stove and a sewing
machine. Everything was spotlessly
clean.
II caIIate this is pretty near UP to
the mark and o. K. all around as far
as homestead aboard ship goes" said
the skipper, land I sort o. reckon
you'll be surprised when you see our
barnyard, coWShed and other things.
Come along
The Yankee skipper led the reporter
TO what he termed the "barnyard' on
deck, where there were chickens. hens,
hogs, rabbits, cats, monkeys. and even
a cow. The COW, half Durham and
half Jersey, Is a handsome animal.
Dina1 as she Is called. was tied up to
a stanchion and stood leisurely chewing
her cud under the foc'sle head. Around
her there was hay, carrots, sweet pota-
toes. and a barrel of salt. We've had
that crittur aboard ahere for about
seven months and yer betcher she's all
right. She give about fourteen quarts
of milk a day when we first got her.
but now she seems inclined to keep
watches like the rest o. the crew, work
ing only half the time. and so only
manages to squeeze ont about four
quarts of milk a day. Those monkeys
there in that cage seem to kinder be
jealous of the COW, for every time we
feed the COW they set up a tremendous
holler Jock, the big monkey. is a
darn clever beggar. When the carpen-
ter brings along q bucket of water the
monkey gets tin can and swears in
all languages until the carpenter gives
him water. Over on that side we got
two por1ers. Fat, amt they? One of
them has been aboard this ship year
and t'otherS only been on since we left
Chilli Those hens there don't amount
to q hill o. beans, but that lamb there's
got story back of Ii. We brought it's
mother aboard in Tocopilia and I'll be
doggoned if she didn't go ahead and
have a lamb week after we left port.
Cats? Yes, there's thousands of 'em
aboard. This places a regular cat farm.
I got q cat for each member of the
crew and a few more besides. Wall.
you We seen the farm. I've always had
cows aboard my vessel. and my father
also had one when he was sailing
around the Maine coast long before tn
war"
The Bangalore is a very we'll equip
ped vessel. It is ship-shape in every
way and does not lack anything. Cap
tain Blanchard has a Japanese crew
and says they make excellent hands be-
fore the mast on a sailing ship. He
has one boy aboard who sailed out of
Honolulu with him some two years ago
and the captain said he would not let
that Japanese go for a barrel O.
doughnuts."
The Banga1ore is a ship of 1860 tons
and came here in ballast to load sugar
for C. Brewer & Co., Ltd, for New
York or Philadelphia. On her way to
Honolulu she stopped at Hnp for or
ders. The vessel hs' rery fine weather
all the way over. She is, at the Rail-
way wharf.