The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-19

one of the famous old time ship mas
ters. Captain Samuel Samuels, who
sailed the historic clipper Dreadnougnt
| in the days of the American clippers. !
Captain Samuels was as well known up
and down the Pacific as on the Allan
tic. The story of his life will be read
with interest wherever American YES
sells carry the American flag The obi
tuary notice in question is reproduced
here in part Capt. -Samuels broke rec
ords under sail and died at the age of
So.
Had Captain Samuel Samuels per-
formed his deeds of note to the credit
of the British or German flag instead
of as an American, he would undoubt-
eddy have received titles and decora-
tiOns among the highest honors of the
nation. Preferring to remain a humble
citizen, albeit with claims against the
! government long unsatisfied, he died
May Is in his apartment in the United
States, Clinton and Court streets,
Brooklyn, N. Y, at the age of 50. He
leaves an invalid widow (his second
|
living. One son, Captain William s.
Samuels, is Lloyd's agent in Philadel-
phia, and the other two reside in San
Francisco
Standing about feet 10 inches. of
powerful frame and marked individual
ity, Captain Samuels was a man once
met not soon to be forgotten It was
his total lack of fear, his indefatigable
attention to detail and his great execu-
tive ability which undoubtedly gave
him success. In conversation Captain
Samuels has told how he made the fam
Gus ship .DreadnOught win records sim
ply by driving her ANY one can sal!
a ship in the daytime said he, but
was always on deck at night" ne
would tell of having a little shelf built
in the after companiOnway Of the cab
in upon which he could recline but
not quite long enough to stretch at full
length, 50 that if he stretched to fall
asleep he would wake up. Thus he
could take some rest, but know in
stantly if any change was made on
deck. He mas also said that the win
ming of the ocean yacht race with the
Henrietta was not due to her super
iOrity as a schooner, but to the super
Tor seamanship exercised in driving
her to the limit of her capacity with
out moments relaxation Captain
Samuels was not a man in his active
days to waste time. What was to be
done was done with a jump, or he
: knew the reason why. He was pre-
eminently "a man to take hold and dc
things" and SO long as his eyesight
and health lasted there we're few who
could equal him in capacity for OBJ
tanning results in whatever he under
took. One of his maxims was; You
never can tell what the other fellow is
going to do, so that the better course
often may be not to give him a chance
to interfere even if you have the right
of way. Better to avoid collision
than stand upon your rights"
HIS CAREER SXETCHED.
The active career of Captain Samuels
was contemporaneous with the rise
and glory of the American merchant
marine, in which he played a conspicu
Gus part. He was born in March, 1928
In his book From Forecastle to Cab
al in published by Harper & Bros, hi
has graphically told his earlier bic
graphy, Of which the following is ;
: summary: Ran away from an unpleas
ant stepmother in Philadelphia at thu
age of II ana shipped as cabin boy OF
the schooner Hampton Westcott t
- New York. Boy in schooner Rio t.
~ Newport, r. l., and Mobile Seaman
~ in revenue brig Jefferson. Shanghaie,
~ aboard Baltimore ship Belvedere t
Liverpool. Seaman in the ship Emil
to Galveston. This ship he stated, wa
owned in Liverpool by Messrs. Field
ing Bros, owners of the first iron bull
u ship, the Ironsides. Galveston at tina
o. time comprised not more than
u houses and the population included on
" ly one white woman, the wife of tn
& British consul.
q. After an experience as a member {
the crew of the Texas frigate Housto
IL he deserted in New Orleans and weI
Is on the stage, becoming popular as
a dancer and vaudeville artist, but wa
shanghaied on board the ship Ocmu
et gee to Liverpool. Then he was SCI
- man in the ship Chester to Philade
phia and in the ship st. Lawrence O
a trading voyage around the world, a
ter which he became second mate {
/ the ship Henry Pratt to Liverpool
VI chief mate of the British ship CaedC
MIA 1900 tons, TO New YORK, with 81
re emigrants. then to Quebec and LoI
don; mate successfully Of the shiI
Leander, Metoka, Rockall, Vicksbur
n Wabash, Jess6Te, independence Maj
haitian and Angelique in the transa
lantc trade. The latter was a Dutc
n ship and was the vessel Of which !
VI first became master, at the age Of 2
taking hGr up the Mediterranean
Z. He afterward brought the Angeliql