The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-27
HALF 4 CENTURY
ON THE OCEAN

Tnat the sun OF the windjdmmer is
setting on a long and honorable career
is certain. That the day Of the SAIL
ing vessel as a freight carrier is pass
ing is evidenced by the fact that. with
the departure of the bark Amy Turner
for the Coast this morning. the har-
Dor is left clear of every sail except
the few small local boats.
But few sailing vessels remain In
active service, most of them being tied
up to docks or anchored in mud fats
on the mainland coasts. There is no
activity In the ship yards in building
sailing ships, for there would be little
or no work for them IL they were built
For years past not a single vessel OF
the type of the Amy has been built,
and 1t is certain there never will be
another one launched. Time was when
a large part OF the income OF the is
lands, first at Lahaina and Hilo ana
afterward Honolulu, was derived from
the sailing fleet. Wealth rolled into
the Golfers OF the storekeepers with
| such regularity that they began to con-
slider 1t a vested right. and without
| thought OF the result encouraged to
| the limit the establishment of a steam
er line. With that came the decapi-
tation Of the goose that laid the golden
| egg, for while the sailing masters laid
in most of their supplies for a voyage
| here. the steamers come with their
| larders and their slop chests filled to
| the lid and doors. While sailer
| would remain here for weeks, the
! steamer leaves in a few days. Their
meats are brought in cold storage and
II Is not a sure thing that they do
not carry a water supply to last them
round trip. Cheaper rates and
quicker service on the part Of the
steamers has decreased the demand for
freight space on the vessels which for
years were the mainstay Of the sugar
industry in these islands.
With the wreck of the Title Star
buck off the coast OF Chile. news OF
which reached here yesterday. the SAIL
ing fleet is lessened by one. The Tillie
has been in the deep water trade for
years and has carried many thousand
tons of sugar from Hawaii to the Del
aware Breakwater- Captains Warland
and Curtis, the latter formerly mas
ter Of the Tillie Starbuck, were in the
same trade for time.
And this brings to mind Incidents
in the life of Captain w. c. War
land of this old-time sailing craft
Fffty-three years ago today he came
int this port as sailor before the
mast on the bark Falcon, making her
1 a
He was rather reminiscent yesterday
in talking over the events.
I'VE locked in front of the old Gus
tom House, at what Is now Brewers
wharf" he said, land the harbor was
full of sail, for in those days this was
a calling port for whalers in tranship-
ping the oil and bone to vessels going
round the Horn to New Bedford. AL
around, where the business places are
now, was free of such structures, and
for a distance on King street, In both
directions, grass houses occupied the
places of the more modern dwellings
of today. Kawaiahao church, as / re-
member, was about the same as II Is
now, as far as the building itself Is
concerned.
zone feature of the trip which star
tied me was the visit of young men
and women to the ship before we
reached the dock. People of both
sexes swan out to her before we en-
tered the channel and came up the
side to visit us and when leaving dived
from the yard into the water, the wo-
men wearing holokus. During that
trip King Kamehameha visited the
! ship, for it was different then-people
! held the captains of sailing vessels in
greater respect than seems to be the
, case with men of the present genera
> ton.
IT was before the mast on the bark
| Yankee, Captain Jim Smith, in 1890.
4 and was in San Francisco at the time
of the yigilantes. Captain Smith took
a great interest in the doings there
q and became a member Of the organic
alton and as young lad had to be
Q in with the crowd and marched with
), the others to the jail when demand
Z was made for Casey and Corey. That
q was a lurid day. We had little can
II non drawn I'D in front of the jail and
q the leaders of the movement raped
i on the door and made a demand upor
o the TAILOR for the prisoners. This wa;
I at first refused but when time was
O given and a threat made to blow tns
n jail into smithereens the men were
surrendered and taken to room FOL
y trial. A few hours later they were
o hanging from the windows of build
: ing on Sacramento street. Two others
|. Heatherington and Brace, were hang
A ed on a scaffold on Davis street Wher
4 II came time to leave San Francisco
we were met by tug outside tn'
v heads and four men put aboard. one
!. of them, the father of prominent
I coast federal official, and told that II
they ever returned to San Francisco
O II would be to their death. The father
8 of the man 1 referred to stayed here
e for a time but grew weary and finally
I decided to return, which he did. bu
d on reaching the coast there was
L great hubbub and the man was put
= under arrest but in some way the mat
ter was settled and he escaped punish
n ment.
: I'm that year. 1856, I was here will
a the Yankee and on the 18th Of Jun'
= was outside Kawaiahao when Emma
e Rookie was married to Kamehameh;
e ". There was a great time then and
i palms and flowers were strewn from