The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-01
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picture of Norwegian hunter in a
hand-to-hand fight with a great bear,
the hunter plunging his knife into the
vitals of the bear while being Rugged
in the bear deadly embrace. The
captain and crew went ashore, and
Purdy was left in charge of the boat.
while they went inland. In some wav
the crowd missed bear which ambled
down toward the boat. Then more
bears showed up and Purdy was
scared. The Norwegian method of
killing bears faded from his memory
and he thought only of fight
That voyage completed, Purdy went
to Boston in 1s4s and signed up on
the brig General Worth for Mobile.
There he joined the government steam,
er General Marcy; he thinks this is
the name she bore. She was sent to
Vera Cruz to tow vessels in and out
of the harhor and assisted in bringing
General Scott s army back to the Unit
ed States. He saw the American flag
hauled down from the old castle After
the towboat went out of commission
he went to Cincinnati, and at Toledo
joined the crew of canal boat After
many experiences on canals and rivers
he went home, but was soon stricken
with the California gold fever, while
he was working on a farm. That
farm, he says, was in the vicinity of
the place where Theo Timby, who, he
says, was the real inventor of the mon
itor turret in 1871, tried his experi-
ments with monitors. He was a farm
laborer' son. He tried the turret on
scow anchored in a small stream. The
turret model, according to Purdy, lay
in the Patent Office until Ericsson used
the principle. The matter was placed
before Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy under Lincoln, but the result
was unsatisfactory. and Lincoln was
sought and the principle and model ex-
planned to him. Lincoln advised go
ing ahead with it for practical use,
saying that if it did half what was
claimed for it, it would do wonders.
In 1851 rPurdy was shipped on the
ship Corinthian, and arrived at Laha-
ina in the spring of 1852, and then
came on to Honolulu. q / used to see
the king ont ON the streets occasional
ly,' said Mr.. Purdy. ''The parlia-
n'ent house was down yonder point
ing toward the Kawaiahao church. The
crew left the ship here. One of the
men who ran away from the ship was
named Provost Purdy afterward saw
him in Australia and then as a naval
officer during the civil war.
81 was in Honolulu at the time of
the big row, when one of the sailors
was supposed to have been killed in
the fort. The entrance to the old fort
was down on lower Fort street, and
! where the street now runs through to
the waterfront. I was one of the
crowd that tried to break down the
gates to get inside. Where the pres
ent Salvation Army hall now is was a
/ building, and down at the foot of Nu-
uanu avenue there was a stone build
ing, near where we generally filed our
+; casks with water. Overhead was the
| police station.
! " A policeman named Sherman tried
! to arrest man in the 'Frigate
/ Blonde a building where the present
Salvation Army hall is located. Burns
is the man they tried to arrest. He
Hawaiian subject was put out of COM
| mission. Finally native hit Burns
on the head and they carried him into
the fort for safe keeping. Then we
J heard that Burns had been killed in
side the fort 1t seems that Sherman
: struck Burns while the latter was in
! handouts. We tried 10 break down
! the gates, and if we had secured Sher-
man we would probably have lynehed
him.
+ HThere was lot of trouble, and
! although there was Yankee sloop-of-
war in port, called the Portsmouth, still
they sent over to Hilo to get the
frigate st. Lawrence here. But every
thing was o. X. then.
.While we were hanging around The
fort a policeman came out and some
, body sang out. There he goes, and
we run after him. He ran down to
/ the police station. One of our fellows
followed him inside and got cut with
/ a eutiass Jim Lockwood fell off the
/ varanda and we carried him up to the
Frigate Blonde When we got back
! the station was on fire. We got lines
cut and pulled some butcher stalls and
! fsh stalls away. A man rode up on
atrseback and said the consul wanted
! to see us. We went to his place and
! he advised us to dispense and not de
stroy property. He said that Sherman
would he tried and if convicted would
get his deserts. So we quit. kzS'a
I s'The next day we see hearse come
/ out of the fort and we halted it. They
had British flag over the hearse.
That flag disappeared quickly. A chap
/ lain was there-I think his name was
! Damon. Damon said: I'VE are going
70 Bethel church. The crowd shouted
something. but dispersed. We thought