The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-12
SURGEON GOT
WORST OF IT

Captain Saunders, commander, and |
DR.. bewis, surgeon, of the Pacific Mail |
steamship Manchuria, settled a diff |
Guilty with their fists while in Oriental |
waters, and had it out on the upper
deck. Just what was the cause of
the difficulty is uncertain, and few
persons aboard the Manchuria yester-
day had much to say. It appears,
however, that the commander had the
best of it. AS far as could be learned
the differences arose over shore leave
of the surgeon. 1t is said the surgeon,
on arrival at San Francisco, may lose
his position. The Shanghai Sun had
the following story of the affair,
which reads something like Jack Lon
don's description of the Johnson
Burns go in Australia:
"During the, call of the s. s. Man
churia at Nagasaki, an incident took
place which interrupted the usual mo-
notony of the voyage and considerably
| Jared the nerves of the majority of
the passengers. Both the participants
in the affair are gentlemen of high
professional standing and are we'll
known along the China coast, being in
the employ of the Pacific Mail S. s.
Co.
son the afternoon Of December 2,
the ship then taking coal through the
numerous chutes to fill the huge bunk
ers, commotion was observed on the
shelter deck, which attracted the at
tention of a number of passengers in
the immediate vicinity. Captain
Saunders was seen in the act of vent
ing his spleen in vicious attack of
verbiage upon DR.. Lewis, the ships
surgeon. What occasioned the We
hemence and warmth Of the distin-
guished captains utterances is ques-
ton of doubt, as some say it arose
over the late political disturbance in
Frisco, while others hold that deroga-
tory remarks concerning the captain 8
whiskers caused the outburst. Words
seldom used in classical English pass
ed between the two gentlemen; orator
zeal vituperation, given with great
dramatic effect, caused those in the
immediate vicinity to move from the
heated atmosphere, as it seemed as if
only gun-play could settle the dis
pute, but they were disappointed, as
neither carried his smoke ordnance.
"The manly art, as personified in
clipper ship style, settled the contro-
versy. Captain Saunders whiskers,
softly undulating in the fresh breeze,
were noticed to change to tufts like
porcupine quilts as he swung with his
mighty left for the medico's think
tank. The blow was well directed, but
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skypiece and sent the Knox floating
with the tide. The Johns Hopkins
graduate stepped back, somewhat sur
prised at such stiffness, and then
made vicious rush, only to find the
shippers hirsute appendage.
"Once more our friend with the
hemp appendage paused and looked at
his adversary disdainfully, and then
swung with his left, only to make a
terrific dent in the atmosphere. eau
ton then became the skipper's watch
word, and he displayed as much ring
generalship as Joe Cans or young
Ketchell. The medical man, however,
determined to end the battle there and
then, became raging whirlwind and
went after his man as a bull terrier
chases friendless cat, forcing the
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rules were. disregarded, and place
kicking substituted.
"The first officer arriving upon the
scene, he embraced the medico and
endeavored to carry him to his corner,
J but Pea Soup Gas the men lovingly
designate their captain) launched a
kick at Pills which found soft rest
: ng-place on portion of the first of
fcer's anatomy. This caused the mate
to release the doctor, who in turn
|, aimed vicious right at Pea Soups
, solar plexus, missed and again took
the unfortunate first mate in the
: wind. Loud cheers from the assem-
bled multitude drowned protests from
an elderly person who had tainted at
the first sight of blood and whiskers.
Money freely changed hands on the
outcome, one Celestial placing loo to
, 40 on the bewhiskered son of Nova
Scotia. The chief engineer, arriving
, upon the scene, blocked terrific rush
of the hero of thousand storms, hung
ON to his coat with bulldog tenacity,
and led old whiskers to his boudoir,
: in anything but a spirit of amenity.
The tonsorial artist of the ship soon
} had him rested under the influence of
: good rundown, and in the remarka.
} BILE time of one hour his commanding
presence was noticeable on deck with
his spinach redyed and shampooed
} quietly reading volume of BenneI
McFadden's physical Culture
"The doctor, angry at the unsatis'
factory conclusion of the mill, repair
ed to his room, there TO efface the
! traces of the encounter. Chief Officer
Rice is still suffering from the several
severe abrasions of the skin received
in the clinehes.
: 81 am reliably informed that the
missionaries on board held an indigna
ton meeting, the outcome being pc
titon TO the Home Board of Foreign
Missions TO present the captain with q
few works Of the late Henry Ward
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