The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-24
HALF A CENTURY
On THE OCEAN
Captain Warland's Remarkable
Career---0ld Times
Recalled.

setting on 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 flats
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 if they were built.
For years past not a single vessel of
the type of the Amy has been built,
and it is certain there never viii 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 it 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 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
it is not a sure thing that they do
not carry a water supply to last them
q 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 Iessened by one. The Tillie
has been in the deep water trade Tor
wears 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, We're in the
same trade for a time.
And this brings to mind incidents
in the life of Captain w. Z. war
land of this old-time sailing craft.
Fifty-three years ago today he came
into this port as a sailor before the
mast on the bark Falcon, making her
first stop on a voyage around the Horn.
He was rather reminiscent yesterday
in talking over the events.
1--WE 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. All
around, where the business places are
now. was free of such structures, ana
for a distance on King street, In poth
directions. grass houses occupied the
places of the more modern dwellings,
of today. Kawaiahao church, as l re-
member, was about the same as II Is
now, as far as the building Itself IS
lone feature of the trip which star
tied me was the visit of young mem
and women to the ship before we
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.
oI was before the mast on the bark
Yankee, Captain Jim Smith, in 1886, 1
and was in San Francisco at the time
of the vigilantes. Captain Smith took
a great interest in the doings there
and became a member of the organic
alton and as a young lad L had to be
i'm with the crowd and I marched with
the others to the Jail when demand
was made for Casey and Corey. That
was a lurid day. We had little can
non drawn up in front of the Jail ana
the leaders of the movement raped |
on the door and made a demand upon |
the tailor for the prisoners. This was
at first refused but when time was
given and a threat made to blow the |
iaiI into smithereens the men were |
surrendered and taken to room for |
trial A few hours later they were |
hanging from the windows of build |
ing on Sacramento street. Two Others |
Heatherington and Brace, were hang |
ed ON a scaffold on Davis street. When |
- came time to leave San Francisco |
we were met by a tug outside the |
heads and four men put aboard, one |
of them. the father of prominent |
coast federal official, and told that II
thew ever returned to San Francisco |
If would be to their death. The father |
Of the man l referred to stayed here !
for a time but grew weary and finally |
decided to return, which he did. but
ON reaching the coast there was a
great hubbub and the man was put |
under arrest but in some way the mat |
ter was settled and he escaped punish
ment.
o. +ba+ 1-ear 1886 I was here with |