The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
PVRILS or PEARL HUNTING.
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IN tho ntsi piacr tho arbitrary diatfihr-
iiun ~ ,itles cnrsg,l Hiscurd Everybody
drew u bsdsa out " blank envelope W The
Battery. tefufe tho departure nnd after
ffedsfick Evans had got his tearing the
legend our Louder " with bic picture on
u. surrounded ~ u foset'e ~ orange and
black, the othnr. Il rev theirs and tpuk u
ohahcr X ta wrprcp HenVpn became
Admiral, william y Whitehead WAS u pilot,
without power 10 act until the water became
scarce and TRACEY Harris four years prr-i
dent ~ Tho Princeton club, iccame thirf
Inspector " M . tartren. with tho rank
81 Major General. Rccor ding a. tho gilt
letters ON his black bad ~. cot Norman
Dixie once sheriff 81 King and not q Prince
ton graduate at all. but n Brown man,
became n plain clothes man " hy tb" draw
ing ~ lota. lie had u AMT case full ~
evidence, but was marunncd ut Pleasure
Bay and not brought back on the yacht
NOnpareil.
The McCarter-, Of course. couldn't he
kept down, even at a drawing Of lots, 50
Tom was chief ~ pJiiCe with the privilege
Of ordering Norman Dixie into the fo'C~'le,
and Uzal was the fire thief, Ie also had
the melancholy satisfaction Of being the
oldest living graduate on sea or land, 80
far a. the pearl expedition was concerned.
Jim Bishop was surgeon general, but
after performing one successful operation
on a block Of ice with an axe for the first
aid to the thirsty he didnt do much but
prescribe for himself. David MCCord.
whose badge bore the legend chaplain
was almost ~ reCreant TO his high Office
as SurgeonIGeneral Bishop. He opened
the thirst parlor on the quarter deck with
appropriate services, but devoted himself
for the rest Of the day to seeing to 1t that
1t was kept open. He might have done
a great deal Of good at Pleasure Bay as a
missionary IL he had been 20 disposed, but
he was ~dreadfully worldly for a chaplain.
Theodore W. Church was the purser,
but most everybody else was made "a mere
able seaman by the drawing Of lots, 80 The
spirit of mutiny was s~mOulderlng, even as
the band played Hail to the Chief " v hen
Fred Evans of SO led the way up the gang
plank at t he Battery and the lines were cast
of. This mutiny was famed into open
fiames as the boat passed he one Statue of
Liberty. There was only one I here on the
outward bound trip. just to show how
democratic he could be "Our Leader"
E,-anu uuau u-nI zinu nm 4 ha fnrIg "a ri Iapk
with William A. Minott a common seaman,
hen q breeze caught his yachting trousers
and the malcontents said that Fred Evans
vas wearing Harvard socks. That's when
the smouldering spirit of mlItiny was famed
into a fame and lie flame was fed by Our
Leaders," socks.
After that exposure of the waltz all the
mutineers agreed that Evans should be de-
posed, but they disagreed as TO whether he
should be thrown overheard or deprived
of the minist rations Of the chaplain and of
William Of the Princeton Club on the quar-
ter deck. There was also friction among
the malcontents as to who should be the
new leader. The conservative wing Of
the mutineers wanted to elect Tom McCar-
ter, but it was discovered by spies that
McCarter wore Harvard hair that was
Just az roseate and passionate as Fred
Evans's socks, so he failed and never got
above the head of the constabulary all day
long.
tracey f1HTTlS WAS IlIluIiN SCleCltu as
chief, but his inspection Of the canteen
wasn't close enough 10 suit he radicals,
80 his administration only lasted from
Robins Reef to Quarantine. 1t was during
his brief but tempestuous reign that the
American liner st. Louis, with Mrs. Nicho-
las Iongworth, the Presidents daughter,
on board overhauled the pirate craft Non.
pareil, and all the pearl hunters manned
the rail and dotted their yachting caps,
which had been furnished by the commit
tee. The caps were elastic and gained
a quarter size every hour to meet all the
trying circumstances of pearl hunting on the
Shrewsbury.
William s. Whitehead, the pilot when
water was scarce, was the only man who
could harmonize all the elements after
and was in power for the rest of the way
to Pleasure Bay. There it was that Fred
Evans came into his own again. He got u
chance to play left field on Bill Minott's
baseball nine against Edward W. Harris's
through a patch of daisies which his sup
porters had picked out purposely in laying
the diamond. When ne stood up on
the base, declared safe by Alexander Red
ding Guile, the umpire, Evans's objection
pollen. All the mutineers again
him as "Our Leader the band
played once more Hail to the Chief, and
the glad Evans again led the appeal in long
for Mother, mother, pin q rose on me, for
some are blind and some can't see And
nobody questioned his leadership for the
rest of the day. Evans always believed in
botany.
After harmony had been thus restored
the hunt for pearls really began, Clarence
Porter, Princeton '95, the son OF Gen. Horace
Porter, having previously staked out the
claim. 1t was a hard, trying search, but
the tedium of pirate life was relieved from
time to time by Bill Caldwell and Clarence
Ilingworth, who seemed to know the best
methods of fighting melancholia down on
the banks of the Shrewsbury.
Bum Browlee brought back the only
real pearl that was discovered in the course
OF the days search. He said that he found
it in a Little Neck. Some other hunters who
were apparently jealous said that Bum
had taken the pearl down the coast with
him and kept it concealed till after every
body else had given up clans and taken
to HOLSTERS. But Bum. ignored all these
taunts and kept his pearl all the way home,
and 1t lost nothing Of it's lustre on the sea
voyage home.
1t was an e~ventful trip home. When of
the Romer Shoal the Nonpariel ran into a
fierce wind squall. Alexander Mofat,
whose word goes a long way bee ause he
once kicked four goals against Harvard
in a single game, treasured everybody
that there was no cal danger and that the
ship had only entered the edge Of the storm,
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