Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-01-07

The murmurs died away a. young
Brooks sprang up the ladder and re-
ported that everything was ready. The
boy officers choked down something
that rose In their thrOais as they walk
ed nervously M and down their divi-
SONS. 4 heeting thought they gave ~
home. mother. hours Of play 50 far
away. 1t was the first battle for many
of them. Down on the berth deck In
front OF the hatchway little Payne
looked to the printing OF his pistols
and whispered a word or Two to his
men. who stood with their muskets
pointing down through the gratngs
covering the hatchway. He wished he
had been up on deck with the rest
fighting great gun or attached to the
side of the captain. but the captain
had told him that the post Of honor
and importance was here. and here he
would stand There, on the starboard
side. his young messmate and friend,
MrCollin, gave another careful inspec-
ton to his three old is Founders. firm
~ resolved to give such an account
with them, If they did not burst, AS
would decide the action.
Caswcll and Mayrant were in the
forecastle TO fight the two guns there.
Mr.. Mcase, the purser rs brave a man
as ever stepped a deck, though no
guns. Stacey. the sailing master,
stood aft by the wheel to assist in
working the ship. Brooks and De
Chamillard were on the poop near
Jones. Tanning, with his DULLES in
the maintop. was anXiously wishing
that he, too, might have a place In
the center of the conflict. the gun deck,
little knowing what decisive moment
was in store for him.
They were nearer now. well within
gun shot, yet there was no sound from
either ship. The tense expectancy OF
the moment was becoming unbearable
tC the younger hands, What were the
captains Of the ships about? Why
didn't they fire? Away of on the hor-
lion flashes of light and the deep boom
OF artillery reverberating across the
water told that their consort had
joined In battle with the Scarborough
Why were they so slow? Suddenly. in
the midst Of the silence. broken only
by the soft sigh of the summer wind
through the top hamper, the splashing
OF the blum bows as they forced them
selves through the ripping water
came the sound of hail from the
English ship. the words Of which were
indistingnishabe
Il don't understand you" cried
Jones, then he turned to the quarter.
master and said softly:
over with the helm. Hard a-star,
board" As the wheel was put ovei
by the skillful hands Of the quarter,
master and his mate the great shiT
, swung slowly to port and rounded tC
OFF the port bow of the English ship.
The Englishman hailed again.
This Is the United States ship Bon
Ilomme Richard" shouted Paul Jones
in reply, at the top of his voice. spring
ing up on the rail the while Stand
by" \ culver and shiyer went through
the ship from her tops to her very
vtals. Fire"
Streams Of light leaped out in the
darkness. Clouds of smoke rose al
once from the sides of the Richard
only to be met and brushed away by a
bl oadside which had been delivered nc
less promptly from the English ship
Goans and curses and yells and
cheers rose from the blood stained
decks upon which men wriihed In the
agony of CHASTITY wounds or lay con.
torted in hideous death where they
hau fallen, for at close range both
broadsides had done fearful execution
The desperate men ran the huge
guns in and out and loaded them with
frantic energy and kept up continu,
GUS cannonade upon their foes. The
roar OF the great guns drowned every
other sound as the two ships sailed
side by side in bitter conflict, but The
trained ear Of the American captain
had detected another sound cOinciden'
with the first broadside which told @
tale of disaster, When the logger,
heads had been applied TO the printing
of two of the IS Founders they had eX.
ploded with terrific conclusion, killing
and wounding nearly every man Of
their crews.
McCollin, who commanded the bat
terry, was struck by piece Of iron and
received dreadful wound. He re,
manned at his post, however, clinging
tcnaCiously 10 broken stanchion for
n moment until he recovered himself
II little, As the frightened and APP
palled men shrank away from the re,
naming gun Of the battery, not YET
discharged in view of the dreadful eX,