The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-22
MICHIGAN SAILS
ON WEDNESDAY
Police Looking for Lads Who
Have Taken French
Leave.

II was Sunday. Crowds of people
we're. as the sailors say. 'rubbering all
o,,ar the Mohican." The training ship
vas receiving visitors. All the brass
work had an extra polish. The mes
,eneers were guiding ladies about the
ship.
Two Young women were being SHOWN
rbrough the quarters on the berth deck.
They stopped to make some opser'a-
lions, one saying: 'Oh, isn't this love
| Iy. Ethel? Don't you wish mat you
were a boy so that you could JOIN the
Navy? L tell you it's immense. Jus'
F.! then they were startled by deep. mu-
sicaI bass voice which said: 20, life
on the bilIowing ssea, my friends IL 5
the iolIiest game in the world don |
| +biplx 7 guess nit WHO'S that!
asked both girls in one breath On.
that's a prisoner in the br1g, repheu
the Iandsman at their side; we've got
two in there and that's all there's room
for or there would be more in there.
You see we've always got Fellows I'M
der sentence who are waiting their turn
no go in there and serve them. Those
tw,1 fellows in the brig now are. reck-
oned the rrneanest on the Mohican. NO
| bodv's got any use for them and they
have raised particular thunder here
Coming over from Yokohama our Off
GERS read the riot act to them and they
. were court-nartialed with the reSul
: that they are to be given bad conduc'
discharges when we get to the mann
Hand. They are kept in there now s.
that they won't run away while were
in Honolulu"
; The girls ideas about the sea hao
undergone. "a quick change and IN
lrT
MANY of the boys were successful II
getting away from the ship. Well
renlied the talkative messenger, "a To-
of them run away the last time W.
were in Honolulu and five of then
have deserted this time. They are II
hiding somewhere in the town now :
reward of $40 is paid for the arrest o
each of them"
The young fellow in one of the com
| partnents of the brig was now mur
0 muring something about home and
0 sweet home. SO the girls moved up t
0 Ithe gun deck and We're initiated Will
0 others into the mysteries of a dit.
U box" Each man aboard is provide
G with one of these small boxes and thei
: contents are usually strange and won
i derful to behold. There. are Nritin
:, paper pencils. pens, ink, needles
thread and many little nick-nack
picked up in Oriental countries ana ia
eific Islands. In the boxes one see
l. photos&aphs of cute looking little ia
= girls which the owners treasure care
: fully although there is only about on
3 chance in ten thousand of them eve
z seeing each other again. There ar
Jap gods and idols. and in fact enoug
3 small things to start curio stor
q with.
z You have great chances for eettin
& cuIios Does the department ait Wash
4 ington send the boat to ports wher
& you can get plenty of them?"
Il guess not" responded the sea
man: they don't fit these boats on
u just to let us collect curios."
& a launch with boat filled with mem
4 bers of the Y. NJ. and Y. w. c. As. cam
b alongside and the young men an
B young women clambered aboard
s. hold a religious service. There WEI
& big bundles of magazines for distr
& button among the many young fellow
e aboard
4 1t is expected that the Mohican wi
b sail for Puget Sound on "wednesday
q She is still lying in the stream an
q will remain there until sailing time.