The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-26
THE LINER CAPTAIN.
HAS HIS OWN TROUBLES WHEN
SUMMER TRAVEL OPENS.
Subjected During the Voyage to All
Kinds of Annoyances by Com
planning and Particular
Passengers.

When the tourist tide sets in heav-
lily for Europe the trials of an ocean
liner captain and his chief steward
increase. Both require a large stock
of patience and diplomacy to handle
the complaints which are registered
daily in their presence, says the New
York Herald. The inexperienced trav-
eler swho learns that he has made a
bad selection in his cabin complains
because the passenger agent from
whom he purchased his ticket did not
advise him to better advantage. Then
there is the woman who objects to
the bands playing outside her port
lOle, and the man who insists that
one concert day is not enough. Not
at all unusual is the man who brings
on board the ship enough milk and
cream from his dairy to last him dur
ing the entire voyage. He insists that
his valet be permitted to visit the cold
storage room each day and make sure
that his private stock is being proper
~ used and cared for. One chief stew
ard recently had a regular tilt with a
woman who insisted upon using her
own German coffee pot with an alco-
hol lamp. no matter what the weather
or what dangers its use entailed for
table with her.
One Friday at luncheon on a boat
which serves an elaborate array of
cold buffet dishes an irate passenger
demanded to know why the greater
part of the made dishes were COM
posed of fish. That night after din
ner a party of Episcopal clergymen
waited on the captain and complained
that only one fish dish and a fish
chowder had been served for dinner
The man or woman who makes the
greatest trouble for the captain is he
or she who has saved money for years
to make this trip. and wants to be
sure of getting the moneys worth.
Not long ago an Italian liquor dealer
who frankly admitted that Is years
before he had left his native land in
on palatial ocean liner His wife
did not like the slow service of the
dining salon, and he insisted that all
her meals be served either in her cabin
or on the deck though she was per-
fectly able to go to the table. One day
she was eating luncheon on deck, and
an invalid who occupied the next deck
chair ordered broiIed chicken from the
grill room. The Italian woman looked
disdainfully at the fricasseed chicken
served from the regular luncheon
menu. and when her husband came on
deck she complained that she had been
Disseminated against by the deck
steward.
One of the most unreasonable COM
plants ever registered with the chief
steward came from a Chicago woman
who had engaged the stewardess to
dress her hair each night for dinner
One afternoon a terrific storm arose
and that night only so out of some $50
passengers appeared at the dinner
table After dinner the Chicago wom-
an appeared before the chief steward,
complaining that the stewardess had
failed to keep her hair-dressing ap-
pointment, and she had been subjected
to the annoyance of having to arrange
her own couture under most trying
circumstances. And even when the
steward explained that his subordinate
had over rs seasick women passengers
on her hands, the Chicago dowager re-
fused to be pacified and vowed she
would cut the tip she had promised the
stewardess. a threat which she car
ried out faithfully when the boat
locked at Southampton.