The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-20

! tOh, this is easy; | could do 1t all
day. And he looked as If he wanted
to keep it up forever. During the
transfer of the fruits the battleship
band and the quintet club alternated
with stirring music. Every selection
sung by the Hawaiian boys was greeted
with cheers.
1t was a noticeable feature that on
every ship cameras were out by dozens.
Coal begrimed bluejaekets snapped ex-
pensive kodaks at the barge, indicating
that the young men are making the
most of the cruise and laying up knowl-
edge of the places they visit not only
by memory, but upon the sensitized
films.
Leaving the Connecticut amid cheers,
the barge went to the Wisconsin. The
passage of the fruit to the battleships
was accomplished much quicker than
at the Connecticut owing to the lower
freeboard. The same sort of scenes
were enacted there as at the Connecti-
cut.
Then the Rhode Island and the New
Jersey were visited. 1t was at this
boat, perhaps, that the greatest fun was
had during the trip. The sailors chaffed
and laughed and cheered, and the band
and the quintet club played often. Cap
tain Switzerland, who watched the pro-
ceedings from a gun window, with Mrs.
Switzerland and Miss Switzerland
taking a decided interest in the pro-
ceedings, sent marine to the barge
to express. on behalf of the men, his
appreciation for the courtesy shown his
ship. The captain also personally
thanked the committee, and said that
no no
remembered the hookupu as an enter
tainment which was frequent and not
unusual, as it is today.
:" Rest assured, gentleman, said the
captain, "that each man aboard the
New JERSEY will receive his full share
of the fruit. -
When the barge came up with the
New Jersey, the men were on the dock
coaling ship amidst swirling clouds of
dust The captain courteously called
them all aboard. 1t was said that the
New Jersey was making record for
coaling, but in Difference to the enter
tainment afforded, he gave up the OPP
portunity to make the record, that his
men might see the entire show. :.
AS the barge approached the Georgia
the Hawaiian quintet club played Dixie |
and the battleship band responded with
Z" Summertime - The men of the ship
were ready helpers to get the fruit |
aboard and did it with record speed. |
The crew were willing targets for ba-
nanas flung up to them by the diving |
boys, but kept their eyes on the pine |
apples.
quarantine wharf, with the yellow flag |
at the fore. was visited. The crew, /
which has had no opportunity to come |
ashore, was unusually interested In the |
good things to eat, for their only |
thus far have been eating |
and cleaning ship. A few stray cocoa
nuts which got aboard by the airline |
were objects of interest to groups of |
the men. Few seemed to know just how
to open them, but battered them on
stanchions and anything that presented |
a hatehet edge A couple of young
sters had apparently never opened or
eaten brand new cocoanut. They
gazed at the interior of the nut, pecked
at a piece of the meat, gazed abstract
edly into the distance while they tested
it, and finally began devouring the con-
tents.
Just how the crews will manage the
cocoanuts is a question. Certain 1t IS,
however, that every blueJacket Will be
put to test, the ships carpenters will
have a time keep a watch on their
hatchets and axes, but the bluejackets
will get to the inside just the same.
Today the barge viii be redecorated
and three separate loads of fruits will
be placed aboard for three of the ships
now at the outside anchorage, which
will come into the harbor today. The
,ther three still outside will have their
aookupu taken out in launches.
Mr. Dillingham; and his lieutenant,
Messrs. Kimball and Waller, are de-
serving of much credit for the splendid
manner in which the hookupu was car
led out, and in addition, Captain Lane
s entitled to equal credit for the man
ler in which he worked the unwieldy
barge into the slips and alongside the
without touching close
enough to break the proverbial egg.
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