The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-28
WOULD GUST
WHITE OFFICERS
japanese Think They Can Win Con-
troll of the Pacific Without Any
Foreign Aid
UBLE ON TBNYo MARU.
Pantry Boys Quit French Chef-Stok-
ers Haze English En-
gineer.

SAN FRANClSCOs Sept 1.-THE
Japanese plans FOR une commercial
supremacy of the Pacific ocean have
run upon an unchartered rock at the
very outset, and the alterations be-
tween the Japanese and white officers
on the new steamship Tenyo Maru, OF
the Togo Kisen Kaisha, have develop
ed an unexpected dilemma confront
ing the Japanese owners, the horns or
which are:
With white superior officers, no
peace.
Without white superior officers, no
! passengers.
Peace is desirable, but passengers
are almost equally necessary to sue
cessful steamship companies. During
the operation of the smaller boats or
the line under the able management of
w. H. Avery in this city, there had
been little trouble. Each ship carried
a white captain, purser and chief en-
gineer, as well as a white chief stew
ard and chef. 1t is true that Captain
hilip Going found it necessary to
discharge no less than three Japanese
first officers, but discipline was main
tanned With the advent of the Is 900
ton triple-screw turbine Tenyo Maru
in the service the Japanese became i'm.
bued with the idea that they were
fully able to run the boat which they
had built. Then the trouble began anC
continued until Captain Going fount
himself gone at the end of the frs
round trip of the Tenyo Maru, wher
she reached Yokohama.
A French chef had been engaged n,
the company to make nice little cake
and pastries, but he found that TN,
japanese boys" in the pantry refuse,
= to obey his orders.
p Engineer Seaver, who was in chare,
OF the engine room, found himself sub
Ject to a particular annoying form O
e torture Whenever a member of tn
crew or engineers department passe
down the alleyway by his stateroom II
would bang with his fist against tn
: thin partition by the engineers bunl
, This, when kept up for the entire voy
!, age, was not conducive to sleep.
The troubles of the captain with n
officers were so great that Going le
- the service at Yokohama, and Captai
Bent took his place. 1t is reporte
that this change did not remedy ma
ters, however and that the Japane,
t. officers and crew continued to fost,
the idea that they were quite comp
- tent to run the ship and that IL
white men in uniform were there as
OF mere fiction, for the deusion of viii
or passengers who felt more comfortab
20. when they believed there was a viii
IN man on the bridge
lis Further than this, the friction e
. tended to the management of the lii
a. and the Japanese began to overri
the orders of Assistant Manager Aver
:, under whom the steamers had gain
=, a popularity among white travellers
w. What the outcome will be is still
problem but on the arrival of t
lst Tenyo Maru on Tuesday it is intimat
nd that there will be a thorough exam
CT tation of the state of affairs on boa
and that discipline will be insisted
,rk on at all costs.
for An easy solution would be the d
or charge of all the white officials,
the shrewd owners of the line real
-oi that without passengers and with,
profits the mastery of the Pacific oct
AZ. would be more costly than the Wet,
in the Russian war. They look III
this eXpedient somewhat as they wo
W on the suggestion of decapitation a
lcure for toothache, or hari kari a
E panacea for Indigestion. The rem
,ve would be certain, but the pati
would die.