The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-08
4 MERRY
OLD TIME
BlackEyes Aboard
the America
Maru.!
Especial to the Advertiser.)

Z /
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 2s.-Some O.
the men passengers OF the steamship
! America Maru must have had a merry
I time in Honolulu when that vessel stop
: ped there on its last trip here. The Amer.
: lea Maru arrived yesterday, and from the
looks of a number of the passengers
one might have thought that there had
been an insurrection aboard.
The Chronicle has an interesting ac-
count of the trip, as follows:
; When the good ship America Maru,
twenty-nine days out from Hongkong,
tied up at the Pacific Mail dock yester-
day, and the passengers, loaded with
grips and much travelling impedimenta.
began dribbling in ones and twoS down
the gangplank the big bluecoat on the
wharf looked hard, rubbed his eyes and
| whistled.
| Some iv thin has been loaded with
more than bundles he said; and they
looked the part. OF the men, about
every fourth who disembarked had
his right optic in mourning. Most of
| those still able to see out of the right
eye showed the left eye a mere narrow
! slit in a dark purple cloud of gloom.
One passenger had strips of court plaster
1 over the right brow. An elderly gentle
man lmped a little; but all looked hap
! py.
| There is considerable mystery connect
ed with the shipping of this cargo of dis
/ colored organs of vision. Persistent In
quiry among twelve different passengers
| elected eleven different and inharmoni-
Gus explanations One would have it that
he fell down the companion-way during
a storm. His friend insisted that there
was no storm during the voyage, but
that during a fierce game of cricket on
I lan1 hi hal ctr -yr-ff bnn
Jules Clerfayt. the new agent of the
Trans Siberian Railway, will tell you
with a twinkle in his good eye. that he
thinks he remembers dumping into
constellation at the end of an obStreper-
Gus cabby's arm in Honolulu. Captain
p. n. Going said little, but looked wise.
They had a day off at Honolulu and
later Il fancy dress Christmas entertain
ment on board" said the captain. Along
about midnight, in the sInokng-room, 1
understand a few old scores We're evened
up, but really 1 don't knew what it was
all about The next morning 1 found
had on board damaged cargo, so to
speak-a lot Of passengers laid up in
their hunks for repairs, with little
squares of beefsteak On their eyes. But
then, we had a number of college men
on board who received bumps on the
nose playing handball; besides while
practicing athletics, some of them We're
thrown down by n high roller l believe
mo doubt a high roller had something
to do with it," admitted Peter Fitzgib-
bons, son of DIR. Fitzgibbons of Califor
MIA street as he nursed sundry abra-
sons OF the knuckles. You know there
are several kinds of high rollers. Who
said / fought an eight-round battle with
the New York lawyer? You VIII have to
see him for further evidence"
Seeing him was evidence enough. Law
yer L. Gilespie's face looked like a Tien-
only
ne said, .'er-I mean 1 .
winding up a large music box Christmas .
night and had turned 1t only seven
'ounGs-Mr. Clerfayt here counted them
the metal handle slipped
IF and struck me above the eye, and on +
he nose, cutting some bad gashes.' 6
1T was this way" said a gentleman
Who had counted the rounds. and pre- {
umably held the watch: Gillespie, who &
5 stfapping specimen of gentlemanly +
ully, applied such an opprobrious cpl :
bet to young Fitzgibbons that nothing
nut blood could wipe it out. The result e
vas an eight-round go with bare knuck- I
es, any old rules. Gillespie was badly +
finished and was confined to his state
DOM for several days after. 1 wasn't
here myself, but 1 heard that some 9TH
r gentlemen became involved and be- d
ore quiet was restored each gentleman
eemd to be initiating tn Irishman at
Fair-whenever he saw
cad he hit it, Il
Lieutenant-Colonel Spicer of the First W
'arine Battalion said. I'VE had a spir- =
ed Christmas, but really 1 was asleep
hen the black eyes and abrasions were
cquired by the other fellows, and. be Il
des, have heard that this triflng "
Amage was done shore, when we
opped day at Honolulu. But it was
lovely voyage. Isn't the weather beau W
fulT And that is the story of the OIL
range cargo of damaged optics from ~
le Orient.
FREDERICK O'BRIEN u