The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06

man VITO wsge On bsard ~ shtp b help
give jack hA send-o6 hoped to the centre
and offered 10 square sss $50 debt them and
there. but Jack wouldn't have It that way.
Not much hs said, 'Thess tarc-
chswcrs arc just trying 10 work IN sdGs ON
me. and they're not going to got away with
IL. They're not my preferred oredlsors-
not that know of-and they're no more
entitled to frame up game like this on mo
than any Of the others. I'll just postpone
my trip up for while, that's ALL
'Tbree DAYS later the M,owers, bound
up to Victoria from Australia. dropped In.
Jack got in with couple Of the Miowera's
firemen and mace the rifle to stow away ON
her for the ride up to the Coast They
helped him to get grip containing few
duds on board and slowed away In one Of
the coal bunkers, and then they tucked
Jack in a waste-locker In the engine room.
But he didn't get away with the scheme.
| The half kanaka harbormaster, who was
ON the side of the pair Of half Kanaka
grocers, suspected that the independent
| Mr.. Boland would be trying to stow away,
and an hour before the Miowera's banked
| fires were poked up for the cruise, he went
aboard the steamer and. after searching
| her from cathead to mizzen rail and from
| signal yard TO rolling chocks, he naileu
| Jack huddled up under the waste IN the
| engine-room locker. Jack didn't say any
thing. He squared his jaw, kept his tongue
between his teeth, and went ashore t ..
| get away from Honolulu without asking
the by-your-leave Of the pair OF half
| Kanaka grocery keepers became all but
an obsession with Jack Boland: His Homo
| lulu friends begged him to allow them to
| square up the measy $50 debt. but no
IL. ~ s,t, 10 hnv,
mot by damsite, not giving you
| good-natured ducks short answer, was
Jacks invariable reply to such suggestions.
| IL il is the will Of God that remain here
| for a million years, all O. X, but I'm not
| going to knuckle my forehead and pull my
| for permission to get of these islands-
nix. But Ill get away, all right just
you watch me.
| corralled Jack in the act OF making MS
escape as a stowaway on the Mlowera,
| put into Honolulu for water. The schooner
was owned and commanded by young
| San Franciscan and he was on his way
! down to the Fills with a cargo OF calico
and beads and such like to trade with thena-
| tives. Jack got in with this young schooner
skipper and asked to be allowed 10 Wolk
his way down to the Fijs, where he would
| be able to catch one Of the up-bound
Australia steamers and work his way to
the Pacific coast by that means. The
schooner skipper sized Jack up and told
him that he wouldn't let him work his
way to the Fijis or anywhere else, put tnat
to the Fits.
Amy old way, SOS I get away from
here Jack said, and he got his gear on
board the schooner The schooner had
her clearing papers all right, and the harbor,
master never suspected that Jack would
attempt q getaway on trader pound
for the Fijis.
4Ths schooner swept out Of the harbor,
and Jack felt pretty good with himself.
Five days later she got into blow on the
French Frigate Shoals and was wrecked.
All hands were picked up ~ q British
bark bound for Honolulu and nine Gays
later Jack was tossed back onto the Homo
lulu strand.
Several OF the young officers attached
to one Of the American men-o'-war IN the
harbor, seeing how things were with Jack.
arranged scheme. The man-o'-war was
under sailing orders for the Mare Island Msnd
rugged Jack out with suit Of bluejaoket
clothes and struggled him on board
| couple Of DAYS before she was due to up
anchor for the Coast. This was dead
against the regulations, but the young
officers figured 1t out that neither the old
and they took the chance The man-o-war
was just getting ready to sail back TO the
States when another steamer got IN from
San Francisco, carrying orders TO the
commander Of the man,o-Tar 70 remain
ashore, shed his bluejacket toys, and waited
for something else to turn up.
aThen a seamen's strike broke out up in
San Francisco and nearly all Of the sailing
craft that drifted into Honolulu haroor
from up the coast were shorthanded. JACK
tried to ship on whole lot OF them. but
he was snagged in the act every time by
the relentless half harbormaster.
and had to 20 ashore. Then he made up
| his mind that his only chance was TO be
shan ghaed The short-handed ships were
shanghaing all the beachcombers that they
SotcheIp S n tbe Sn got out to sea- '
Jack developed a pretty tidy SAX drunk
| one night and made it seem worse than 1t
really was. Then he strolled among the
waterfront groggeries, bawling ribald songs,
and waited for press gang to come along
and shanghai him. He got away with this
yard a buckle bo's'n's mate OF an ex-
ceedinply short handed San Francisco
bark loaded with agricultural implements
for Japan, handed Jack stunning olp.
behind the ear, and then. with a couple OF
hands. loaded him into a sampan and car.
RED him off to the bark. He was tucked
into the glory hole until the bark pulled
| ont, and a month later he jumped the ship
| in Yokohama.
He worked FOR few months as ship
ping clerk for an American house IN Yoko-
hama and then made his way back TO
Chicago. When he reached Chicago, he
found that the bank that had failed on nun m
was paving off creditors at the rate OF 30
cents on the dollar. That gave him neat
little start, and he settled down again
to the real estate business in the windy
burg saw him there not very long ago
a7Ever going back to Honolulu asked
him.
hungry as no replied:
I think not It's a great place, all
right but a fellows liable to become too
damned attached to it"
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