The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-23
ROSE KEPT HOME
BY HIS INJURIES

badly injured in runaway accident
last week, has been confined to his home
by his injuries, principally those to one
of his legs and to his feet, and is still
unable to get downtown. His horse be.
came frightened at a road roller and
bolted. His driver was thrown out at
once. The buggy overturned and was
dragged some distance, with the deputy
clinging to the canopy stanchions until
the horse ran into big wagon. The
deputy had a narrow escape, and, al.
though he was hurt, he stuck to his
duties until night time, when he had
to remain at home.
&N y - - y - y y y - - y - y - -
there was one chauffeur, but not a sin.
gle sailor. 1t was all American, with.
out exception, but there was not in it
man even from the seaboard States.
All came from States in the interior.
One was from as far west as Kansas.
We read in sea romances about how the
old salt grumbles when he gets down
In the forecastle and finds that in the
whole ships crew there are only two
or three able seamen besides himself,
but in this crew of the Foohng Suey
there wasn't a sailor.
1t didn't look like very promising
crew to go to sea with, and yet there
was good material in it, and the Foohng
Suey had two good and able masters,
and so, the ship being ready and the
crew aboard, Captain Willett sailed.
There were, to be sure, favoring cir.
cumstances which the skipper very well
knew.
In those seas the trade winds blow,
and Captain Willett knew that for two
or three weeks anyway the ship would
have favorable winds and weather, a
time for the crew and an advantageous
time in which to begin their school
ing, and they certainly did need
schooling in sea matters. They didn It
know one rope from another, and there
were men aboard who spoke of the
masts as poles and who addressed the
captain easily with essay, captain, I"
go green and new to the sea were they.
But these men took kindly to the
teaching. The mates were drivers, but
not hazers; they kept the men busy,
but they didn't drive them too hard,
and there were men in the crew who
were pretty lean and soft and couldn It
have stood much heavy driving at the
start. And then it was all new to
them, and it i easy to imagine that
to some, if not all of them, it must
have been pretty close to a terrifying
experience in some of its work at the
beginning. In those first days men
would come down from aloft in a drip
of sweat, partly, perhaps, from the
exertion, but more, very likely, from
the fearsomeness of the climb; but
they were all game and they all i'm
proved.
So in this fine favoring weather the
drill went on with the ship making
south all the time toward Cape Horn.
In this fine weather they were taught
to handle sails. At the cost of time,
but with gain in the crews experience,
the captain would shorten sail on the
ship and then put sail on her. and 50
the men were worked in all their
duties to the constant improvement in
them, and then the Foohng Suey had
a good Chinese cook aboard and there
was plenty to eat, and the men got
fat and strong, and in two months, by
the time the ship was in the latitude
of the Horn, it was very different
sort of crew. They were fit and in
good condition and they had all learn.
ed to obey orders, and they knew what
to do when they were told and they
could go aloft in very good shape. OF
course, they were not sailor men; you
don't make sailors in two months, and
30 captain and officers got less sleep
than usual, and when weather was com.
ing they started getting in sail earlier
than they would have done with a
smart crew.
The Foohng Suey on this trip was
fourteen days getting around Cape
Horn, ten days of calm and four of
windy weather. They passed the Horn
finally on the Fourth of July, but
they didn't celebrate very much, for
on that day they had heavy south.
westerly gales with snow squalls, and
with that unframed crew, even all
American as II was, they were kept
fairly busy handling the ship,
Two months later, after four months
and half at soa, the FoOhng suey
arrived Ia New York, and here this
strangely assorted crew were paid OIL
aud discharged. When they stepped
ashore they were, 10 be sure, not real
sailors, but they were husky, Ablo
lot of men aud an pTotiy salty. Some
Of them had learned faster aud learn
cd moro ana taken more klndly 10 tho
sea than olheu, but while none OF
them might be able 10 make a good
spllee on No many . thing that SALON
may be called upon 10 Do, all could
Aaad and reef nnd steer aud ID u al,
together probable that sofsa ofeHs
nlRhi bo Raihrfed ihan ihls VI al
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