The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-21

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The Chinese and Japanese soda water
and candy sellers along the waterfront
now have a lively competitor in the
person of a young Italian who passes
from ship to ship and through all the
waterfront offices carrying an open
basket in which he has a large display
of sweets. He passes around in a
harmless way and stops in front of
| each person with the simple remark
Candy" He is said to be doing quite
business.
WHEN BUSH WAS AN ATHLETE.
An old timer on the waterfront tells
story of the old whaling days John
Bush once went out before the mast on
whaler of which Captain Andrew
Fuller was mate. Years later Captain
Fuller found himself serving as harbor
master in Honolulu and taking orders
from Bush who had then risen from
the life of the sea to become Minister
of the Interior of Hawaii. But in the
whaling days Bush was noted as an
athlete. The whalers had a habit of
climbing up the rigging hand over
hand. Bush could beat all of the sail
ut ercar MI hi
rigid as a piece of iron would pull him
self hand over hand to the highest rig
ging of the ship.
CLARK AS A CABIN BOY.
At about this same time Charley
Clark, former boss of the Kalihi camp,
was serving as a cabin-boy on a wha-
Ter. He is described as having been
Just like the usual run of boys,
full of tricks, but a hustler at his
work"
Trips MARINES.
Captain Trip is another of the old
time whalers who have good old yarns
to spin of the Arctic. Trip took
many a crew of Hawaiians away to
the north. His greatest trouble was
that the natives would stand around
on deck and permit their feet to be
frozen. To prevent these occurrences
Trip converted his sailors into ma
rines., He armed them with brooms
and marched them around the deck at
a lively pace until all evidences of cold
in the feet had passed away. Trip
had guns aboard but he thought it SAT-
er to use the brooms as drilling pieces.
HOW wILLER LOST A SHIP.
Captain Willer, who sailed the old
bark Ceylon until she was so full of
hard luck sometime ago. He made
trip or so in command of the bark
c. d. Bryant until another man who
was to take the vessel was ready. He
arrived in Honolulu and handed over
the ship to the owners. Then he hied
himself away to his home expecting
the other man to at once take COM
mand. But the owners of the vessel
had some trouble with the new captain
with the result that he was fired and
it was determined to give Willer per-
manent command of the bark. The
vessel was ready to sail and so Willer
was needed at once. But after hunt
ing high and low no trace of the mas
ter of the late Ceylon could be found.
Another man had to be given the place
but to make up for his loss Willer got
into the Harbor Masters office. He
is said to be one of the hardest work
ing men on the waterfront.
MAHANY HAS MANY FRIENDS
HERE.
Captain Mahany, of the shin Helen,
Brewer which is now long overdue on
a voyage from Java to Delaware
Breakwater, has many friends in Ho-
nolulu. He has been here often. One
skipper said of him yesterday: Ma
hany is a smart fellow. He is a. very
good sailor and has made some good
trips with the Helen Brewer. He
keeps his vessel in the pink of condi-
ton and in the matter of handling ms
crew 1 believe he would rather fight
than eat. 1 think that he will reach
port all right although if he were dis
masted in the Indian Ocean his crew
might have starved to death before
assistance could be secured for them
He left Java during the hurricane
months and it is possible that he
struck very bad storm in trying to
round the Cape of Good Hope"
YOU WOULD NOT KNOW MA
CAULEY.
Cantain Macauley who was formerly