The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-28

Sea-Going Barks Today Are Merely Steamers
While the Vanished Clippers Bred
Real Seamen.

big ship largest square
under the American flag the British bark Kea
this recently the foreigner
there wagging South Street where
the old deepsea doing
in clouds of rich tobacco smoke The old their
due brought
gotten ships and anecdotes of long since dead
One of them of Captain who his training the
Black Ball line ships memory,
he would his ship inO hell
pay piotage" When the with a
as sailing master on transport by curious streak of chance
Bermuda He had signed Captain
ashore vowng
on his head by buckeg the old tub across the Western Ocean
to the Canal Hong Kong ships
waiting The put
crew and fairly puhauied the underengned and leaking old
tin of the China give up her
ghost one sticky
afternoon the
him another ship Caribbean
Being what he knowing
De written he looked at the little Quartermaster Captain of
ers long and hard that the boy WINGED spite himself
and there doubt about who
Then the cold man" had the he might
look em They lot of little brownsknned gentle
of Porto Rico taken aboard ship
waters The Manifested sized
them while they trembled their pointed He
made them little speech which they understand they
very great to be obeyed swiftly After
his ancient he began divide
watches and boat
Jesus Antonio Maria Silva de Torres senor."
Jose Juan Fernandez y Hondras, Excellency"
"Alonzo Maria de la Conception Dominguez Es
Captain eyes Einding wrath Tue
They the names of their grandmothes and their
great unce second cousins
they Won't have that heather custom ship of mine
ooG T Of Roa but butt meyer on mind a it's too
you don't want to forget it. you'll hear from me-"
Isl senior" softly and in terror.
the others and while might up the lot
Donovan and Mulcahe and Rooney and oTooe
Hara Ie go to mass like Christians and Christian ye
dye know" the Captain ashore the following day.
of the bla'gyards had heartbreakn'@
He type of the old school of sailors, big hairyched
men with bull voices, n every sense.
In the old pamy days of the packet
known the faraway ports the world
the Rs bore names that testified to the pride and high honor
who had been touched by the mystery the
Victory Shenandoah Constellation Many
& ve Fe% is Te g bu the @ old yards along the
alns were the pick of the seaaring profession
with spos seas was
patriotism soicitude through
their long VOYAGES When of them creeping with
and rugged down o their handwOrk
say proudly
q knowed them shrouds wouldn't old
man cycling the hempen cOrdage shrewdy
The great feet magnificent clipper ships which this country
for speed oday
or o are ending their careers mserab as
Cape Horn to the newly discovered California they
manded by the celebrated Mckay
I d cco IN A4gHs ool In a great storm OIL Valparaiso
Captain Mckay put her under jury rig and made
Hook was made the marvellous time Of 50 dav On this
the great sbp said to have made oi nanca miles in % Sa1
Another famous Mckay clipper the Flying Cloud logged 34
miles in days In fair breeze these beautiful ships used
overhaul cumbrous steamships early
carrying A study English
with everything snugged down and barely holding his
and vanishing like witch to ewrd peek through the glasses
would show Yankee clipper defantly carrying royals
Extracts of the Florence 1000 tons