Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-09-15

on account of the necessarily hurried
preparations for the start.
AT the livery stable they found IA
nice-looking American young women
waiting for buses to take them up to
the burning lake.
Nov, these bluejackets hadn't seen
American women for a long time and
the sight Of them was good for sore eyes.
They all saw at once that as the young
women-they were all school-teachers
from Detroit, Cleveland and Cincin-
natl, who had dubbed together for a
vacation in Hawaii-were bound up to
the burning lake, the projected drunk
would sure have to be called of for the
present.
1.-THE master-at-arms, who was going
along, passed the word around to this eff.
feet, and then a remarkable thing hap
pened. Every jack in the bunch
of bluejackets deposited his two bot
ties in a corner of the livery stable, sub
ject to claim when he should return to
Hilo from the trip up to the burning
lake. The men had intended to blast
holes in the sugar plantations on the ride
up, and such-like, but, out of Difference
to the young women from their own
Land, they simply passed the drink up.
''The seven-hour trip to the Volcano
House, which sits close to the edge of the
burning lake, was made by those school
teachers under circumstances which
they are not likely to forget, for they had
all the way deferential gang of $50
strapping American bluejackets, who
kept their distance and yet performed
all sorts of kindnesses for the American
girls.
mot drop did a man of them drink
that day or the following day. on the
afternoon of which they escorted the
young women back to Hilo after all
hands had seen the appalling lake of
fire.
when the young women left the
buses at Hilo the spokeswoman of the
party made neat little talk. thanking
them for their 'knightly conduct telling
them that their noble behavior toward
women in a strange land had complete
ly upset all their preconceived notions
as to sea-wanderers ashore, and all
that sort of thing.
"The jackies grinned during tho
speech Of the little lady, and some Of
them winked solemnly at each other.
A boats crew was made up to row the
party of girls of to the steamer that
was waiting to take them back to Hon.
olulu.
1.-THE young women were no sooner
quit Of Hilo beach than that postponed
drunk began to happen. For three solid
days Hilo became a sort of Cripple
Greek, Devils Gulch and Deadwood
rolled into one. The gang simply took
the town apart and fred a volley over
it. They put the cops on the run, and
q hundred special officers, Kanakas.
were sworn in to preserve order.
Twenty minutes after they'd been
sworn in the bluejackets heard Of it, and
then the whole layout of Kanaka mar
shals took to the mountains and stayed
there till it was all over. Chain guards
Of marines were sent ashore from the
ships to gather in the riotous gang, but
the sea soldiers no sooner hit the beach
than they Joined the gay, glad throng
of bluejackets, and the devil was to pay
sure enough.
AT the end of three days the whole
port watch was sent ashore to gather in
the whooping starboard watch, and the
next morning about 125 bluejackets and
marines, many of them with broken
faces and heads, and all of them perme
ated with that tired feeling, had to face
the skipper at the stick. It was the
most fatigued and funny-looking lot Of
returned liberty men that ever looked
at, and I've seen the aftermaths of blue
Jacket DRINKS in good many corners
of the earth.
'But they postponed the drunk out of
Difference to women, all right, and I
guess that wasn't an instance of the
ctvilizing and uplifting influence of the
American girl in strange land