The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-17
T-ME RECENTLY rcported "lnternntlonal Incl.

NuOuL tNclNC years ago u Nlg llUCTlN UillN'
comprising the whole sttrhoard watch Of about
40 men, went ashore at lIio, Hawaii, from I'm
american gunboat TINT was returning to the
Mare Island navy yard from tlrccycar cruise on
the Asiatic station. One uf the members of this
liberty party was the crews mascot, Jap dog
that had been picked up starving, in the streets
Of NagasaM by one Of the men, who brought the
animal aboard the ship, fed him up and taught
him many dNcrting tricks, such US walaing on
his front feet, pretending TO die OF grief when
an onerOus drill was announced, threatening and
bulldo1ing the amused skipper on all possible oc-
casIons. and so on. The dog developed into an
amiable and sagaCous animal, and the blue
jackets, s0iloi.likc, became nightly attached to
the bruc, particularly because the dog utterly
declined to have any truck or dongs whatever
with the officers of the ship, which trait struck
the enlisted men as being powerfully discerning
on the dogs part.
Vancouver dropped her anchor alongside the
American sunhoat in llilo halbor ON the day the
American liberty party went OH the beach. and
the British skipper gave one Of his ships watches
liberty. The watch comprised about 2GO mcn
The American and English liberty parties didn't
fratcrnizc in llio. At that time there WAS bit
OF uglincss OH between Canada and England on
the one side and the United states on the other
owing TO the Alaska seal fisheries matter, and
two countries. the sailors of the respective coun.
tries, by mutual and tacit consent, refrain from
cutting each others trail TO save argument and
worse trouble. The American shore party rented
from Il Greek named Lycurgus. one OF the lead
ing citizens Of lIilo, u row Of twelve onc.stoyy
shacl;s. partly furnished. tur their headquarters
during their thlcc.dlv liberty. They distributed
themselves in these comfortable shacks, laid IN
their stocks OF drinkabcs. and settled down to
lp pt a nilIp ilmlprnp. N A
cards. strmming banjos aud guitars and that
sort of thing.
The mcn.o'.war's men from the British ship
had no sooner hit the beach than they made for
the Waterfront groggcrics and inside OF few
hours they were surclargcd with rum and sali
that they didn't know their mess numbers. Thus
conditioned, they could think OF hut one scheme
that promised sutiicicncy of actioH--a move-
ment on the American works; that i, the lycur-
gus row of shacks wherein the United Strtcs
bucilckcts were enjoying themselves and mind
ing their own business. Tie American tars didn't t
know anything about what was in progress until
they heard n series of agonizcd dog ycps pro-
cceding from the lane in front of the Lycurgis
row. All OF lhcm recognized the yclps at once
us issuing from their Jap mascot dog. They'd
turned the dog loose to give him chance to nose
around the soil and get his land legs. The
Americans all scrambled to the shack doors TO
see what allied the dog, and, in the gathering
they saw big British leading stokcr'
holding the animal up by the hind legs and
punching him in the stomach, and all tie rest
OF the limc.juicc liberty party masscd together
and csging their drunken shipmatc on.
That enough. Oddly enough, the first
American mdn.o'.war's man to jump for and
punch the abuscr of the Jap dog was himself II
cockncy who had done his twelve years in the
British navy. But his American shipmatcs were
right behind HIM Taking into consideration all
OF the revolutions and counter revolutions that
ever occurred in the Hawaiian Islands, there
never were such doings as ttCn and there cnsued
in LycuguS lane, llio. At first it was all list
work, but when the limc.juiccrs, borne back in
spite OF their overwhelming numbers, began to
hurl rocks, the Americans took to that game,
too, and they went the BritiShcrs one better by
tearing the weather boards oil IycurguS' smcliS
Tor use weapons.
The uprOar in the Swift.fallCn darkness was so
terrific that it was plainly heard by the watches
on the American and the British war-
Ships which were anchored not far from the
shore. The half of the Slips company remaining
on board the United States gunboat knew what
was in progress from the noise, but they had no
apprehension of the outcome until something
happened. The something that happened was the
Jap dog. The dog had escaped from the melee.
and, taking chance on the sharks with which
the harbor is infested, had lcapcd into the water
and Swum out to the ship, around which he
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