Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-18
,hanghaied
His Mate
IATE OF SHIP WILLIAM P. FRYE
FOUND HIMSELF FORCED TO
GO AROUND THE HORN

1T wasn't exactly Snangnal,
yplrined Herman X. Smith, first
uTt, of the American full-riGged
MP William p. Frye, to New York
"ening Telegram reporter. 1T was
st friendly Kidnapping; but,
.evertheless, my wife did not know
Shere / was for more than five
months, and myself never thought
I'd be mate of the Frye"
Smith left San Francisco on No
vember 2. but he was not aware of
IL until the next day. when he found
himself two hundred miles away
from the Pacific Coast port, on board
the great steel ship commanded by
Captain James Murphy better known
as Shenandoah" Murphy.
The Frye left San Francisco with
cargo of 100000 cases of salmon
and 1900 tons of barley. Captain
Murphy, according to >the story he
spun at the Bush Stores, where the
Frye's cargo is being discharged,
needed mate and Smith looked like
likely first officer to him. Smith
paid a social call on the Captain on
the evening of November 2, and he
never awoke to the fact that he was
to take deep-sea voyage until the
dull grey dawn" of the morning af-
ter
The minute that the William p.
Frye tied up to her pier in South
Brooklyn, Mate Smith sent a telc-
graphic dispatch to his wife. telling
he would be on his way home within
the hour. Then he packed up his
belongings, which were few, was
paid off by the skipper, and took a
fast train to the West.
81 never was treated better aboard
a ship than | was aboard the Frye
by Captain Murphy" he declared. 81
had good time with the skipper the
night OF November ,. and I've had a
real enjoyable passage of Il since we
went down the Pacific AMI came up
the Atlantic, by way of the Horn, and
arrived safely in New York which !
never expected to see. So nave no
kick coming"
Captain Murphy, after he told
Smith that he was bound for New
York via Cape Horn and that he was
to be Murphy's first mate, discovered
that Smith was a steamboat mate and
had never been on sailing vessel.
The five months that elapsed since
the Frye left Frisco, however, have
served TO make first class windjanl.
mer sailor out of the "rhanghaied'
mate.
Captain Murphy has made fifty.
eight voyages around the Horn. He
has been a master for tn,rty-sevcn
years and he started before the mast
when he was thirteen. He kent at II
except for two years when nc became
OF age, but he quickly drifted back to
the sea again and stayed there. lie
has never lost ship and he has com.
manded eight full.rigged American
vessels before he took the William r.
Frye. He has been captain of the
David Brown, Alexander, Northamp
ton, Yorktown, William +. Babcock.
Kenilworth, Shenandoah and the Arth.
ur Sewall
In the Yorktown in 1878 he made
the voyage from Manila to New York
in ninety-nine days. and on the She.
nandoah he made the run from San
Francisco to New York in 1896 in
ninety.two days, Two years later he
made the trip from the Pacific to Liv.
erpool in nincty-eight days. lie com.
manded the Babcock for nine years
and the Shenandoah eleven years.
Captain Murphy remembers the
good days when forty.six American
built sailing ships left Bath, Maine.
In one season. The Frye Is a steel
ship throughout and her luxurious
cabins are second only to the finest
to be found on the great transatlantic
steamships Of today