The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-21

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The yacht leaked a little as might
not much but enough, as sailors say, TO
keep her sweet.
There is a library of nearly a thous-
and books aboard, principally works
on travel, the art of writing and the
facts and romance of the sea.
WORK AND PLAY.
Reading and card-playing helped
while away the crews leisure hours.
A monograph aboard was not uncased
during the trip.
| London wrote on sea as he has been
in the habit of doing on land. that il
| from s a. m. till noon every day. His
wife typewrote while Jack dictated.
LoNDoNs LOCATED.
| Mr. and Mrs. London were located at
Albert Warehouses; residence at the
Peninsula and greeted the newspaper
man as one in sympathy with the craft.
Jack was arrayed in a white negligee
shirt, duck trousers and wore a dilapi-
dated pair of rubber shoes. Mrs. Lon
don was attired in navy blue boomers.
| jacket of the same color and black
stockings. She looked healthily tan
ned and had on her head a lei of lima
and fragrant jasmine. Right here II
may be said that she Is a good sailor
and did her regular trick at the wheel
with the rest of the crew. Mrs. Lon
don was a Miss Charmion Kittredge.
JACK TALKS.
\"You see. I'm having a good smoke"
said London. as he lounged comfort
ably in a wicker chair on the shady
lanAi. "I. used to smoke from eighty
TO a hundred cigarettes a day and was
in doubts If their use was altogether
begeficial to me. So / decided to cut
them out and soon after leaving
Frisco dumped all the tobacco over
board. I'm going to smoke hot and
heavy today but tomorrow will go on
a regular Northumberland allow
ance.
THE trip so far has been a great
success. There has been such a good
chance to work aboard the boat. There
are absolutely no interruptions-no
phones. no messenger boys and none
of the uncatalogued Deliberations which
afflict one on shore.
THE Shark, / know, Is disorderly
and incomplete, but I'll have every
ing here for Tahiti. / expect it'l take
all of two months to have the engine
fixed and get the yacht in the shape I
want her TO be. We are then likely
to put in a month or so round the other
islands.
Pearl Harbor is a dream. The COM
ing through the breakers into the
placid water of the lagoon is sight
1 shall never forget.
DOESN'T HUNT COPY.
1--WE shall remain here and work as
quietly as may be. I'm sick of the
hotels and steamships.
Primarily 1 started on the trip for
the fun of the thing; secondarily to
work. And when 1 say that l. don'tl
mean that I'm chasing copy. / don't
think 1 ever do that. 1 see things and
assimilate impressions. Were to hunt
for copy 1 do not imagine that
should be very successful.
MY first book, The Son of the
Wolf was written in Alaska. was
up there and If 1 hadnI
taken to writing would probably havel
either been prospecting now. or a MIL
lionaire.
WILL NOT LECTURE.
II have been asked to give a lecture
here. but will not do so. / do not
think that 1 shall ever lecture again.
[ am a writer, not lecturer. People
come to see me, not TO hear what
have to say.
II was in Honolulu in 1898 on a seal
ing schooner, and passed through, en-
route TO the Orient, during the Russo
Japanese war"
LONDoN'S NEW BOOK.
Mrs. London was charmingiy COM
regarding the trip and her
husbands work and declared that IL
'elt so good to be ashore that she felt
rs if she would like to remain here
forever.
Jack has just finished new book
,alled The Iron HILL 1t is future
novel and will be published shortly.
Coming down he wrote one short story =
md two boat stories. He broke his
contract for boat stories with the Cos :
nopolitan Magazine. He asked to be
.llowed TO do so and his request was
,indIy granted. In place Of the SnarN r
tuff the Cosmopolitan accepted Jacks 4
ramp stories, the first of which has z
ust appeared.
1--WE are both going to be so busy
While here; too busy, am afraid. to re-
Give many visitors, much as we
4 L.