The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-18
LOST VIOLET
NOW RESTORED
The Dog Watch Aboards S. S
Roma Was keptsBusy
Friday.

WHITE DOG; IS paid for right animal
delivered to First Officer Lucas. stnlr.
Roma, Railway wharf, before ?. nj.
today.
The above notice appearing in the
classified advertisements in the Adver-
tiser Friday. was responsible for a
remarkable state Of affairs aboard the
good oil burner Roma, Captain Lawson.
The ad. was inserted by First Officer
Lucas; the ships dog, Violet, well
bred bull-terrier, having strayed or been
lost or stolen since the Roma arrived
in this port.
Violet was a good dog. She knew
some cute tricks and possessed fighting
ability which endeared her to everyone
aboard the tight little steamer.
One of Violet's tricks was to grab
a rock in her mouth and early every
morning repair to the. door of the gal
ley and knocking against the door with
the rock held firmly between her teeth,
intimate to the cook that she wanted
an early breakfast. 1t is said that
Violet has used the same rock for the
last seven trips of the steamer.
Violet as a fighting dog, according
to the word of her enthusiastic admir-
ers, is second to none. 1t was only
few weeks ago, so says Chief Engineer
Zimmerman, who bred the animal, that
the dog got into an alteration with
another bull terrier, outside an Oak,
land saloon.
"Take your dog away exclaimed
an onlooker to Zimmerman, s1or she II
surely be killed. +"
''Oh, let her stay and eat him up,
replied the genial engineer returning
to his glass Of steam beer.
And eat him up Violet did, for it
was a dead dog that lay stretched in
the gutter when Violet had got through.
Bright and early yesterday morning
the officers and crew Of the Roma were
aroused by pattering Of feet on the
deck and the barking and growing of
many dogs. It was the newsboys who
had been the first to read the ad. in
the morning paper and had risen nobly
TO the occasion They brought dogs
of high and low degree. Black, white,
brown, fat, lean, NANCY, fox terriers,
bull terriers and unmitigated ki-yis.
With them there was nothing bidding.
Captain Lawson, aroused from dreams of
that dear Frisco, looked over the plans
and specifications Of the newsboys'
products, but nothing that answered TO
the appearance or reputation of the Ia
mented Violet was encountered and the
crowd was respectfully but summarily
dismissed
Along about a. m. the bootblacks
aud their canine finds commenced to
arrive. They had grey dogs, black
dogs, red dogs, piebald dogs, dogs with
phenomenally long legs, and one poor
thing with only three legs. The little
news merchants and their mongrel
ours went the same way as had the
newsboys and their dogs.
Ard loud and clear above the top
hamper of the gallant steamer foated
the waiting of the captain of the Roma
WHO IH1usGn VI DG CUIulOiLGQ Lux tdS
loss of his darling dog
Along about 8 a. m. arrived fat
kanaka from the pound in whose arms
pure white bull terrier reposed con-
tentedlv
Tt was the great and good dog Violet,
and when Captain Lwson saw his pet
he shed tears of unfeigned glee and
ordered grog served to all hands and
a triple portion to the native man who
had brought Violet back to the fold.
The latter also got s..
It appears that Violet had exercised
the sailors prerogative of taking trip
up town and while knocking at the
doors of restaurants with the same old
rock which had for so long done duty
at the door of the galley, had at
tracted the attention Of the dog,catch-
err and been run in for vagrancy.
All day long dogs were presented at
the steamer and at Ills p. m. guard
was set at the wharf gates with in
struetions to shoot on sight any dog
either walking by itself or being car
ried.
II wanted my dog back said
Captain Lawson, but there seems to
be an impression abroad that I desired
to purchase couple of hundred dogs
at So a piece. When want something
again III advertise in Honolulu S
morning paper, all right; that is If I
need anything real badly
Meanwhile Violet reposes on a soft
spot of the forward scupper. with a
carnation lei round her shapely neck
and mutton-ehop within reaching dis
lance.
ST spoke on a wireless telephone