The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-04
SHIP WAITS; BUT
OH, SUCH ANGUISH +!
Women Frantic When They See
Sherman Slipping Away From
Them at Wharf.

sprinting, loud cries Of distress,
! laughter. bysteria and tears by the tub
I-tbese were some of the things which
fgnred in an incident which took place
at the naval wharf yesterday after
noon. when the transport Sherman
sailed for San Francisco.
| All the passengers were supposed to
| have been on board when the gangway
was lifted-but they were not. Just as
| the troopship was beginning to move
away from the wharf an army captain,
whose name could not be learned dur
| ING the exciting time that followed,
came through the main gate OF the
wharf, carrying a baby and a satchel
or two in his arms. His wife was close
| behind. and She TOO was running some.
| The distressed officer let loose a yell
that would have done credit to a Sioux
INDIAN on the warpath. He was cover
! ing about seven feet at a stride, and
| his wife was making shorter. but quick
er, steps.
| Before the captain and his family
reached the edge of the wharf where
the steamer was pulling out, a girl Of
! perhaps twenty-five dashed through the
gate ard came running toward the
steamer. She was too badly frightened
| to speak She was dead certain she
would be left in Honolulu for at least
"A month Then came another army
captain, accompanied by his wife and
another woman.
| BY that time the officers on board
had seen the plight of the seven per
sons on the wharf and had given orders
to stop the sherman till they could get
aboard
) A rope ladder was thrown to the
wharf. The distance from the steamer
to the wharf was a half dozen feet or
more. and it was no trouble for the
men to climb up the side of the Sher
man. But to the women it was a
perilous undertaking. One of them be-
came hysterical, and~two of the others
spilled large quantities of tears in spite
Of their efforts to preserve their com
posure.
One of the large square portfolios
was opened and d half-do men shov-
ed over the ladder. and stood on one
end of it so that the women could get
aboard without danger of being tilted
into the water.
While the men were opening the port
hole the women began to get rid of a
lot of small belongings they carried in
their hands. Bundles of merchandise
purchased in the city, packages of can
dies and bags of fruit, baby clothes
and many kinds of women S wearing
apparel were hurled into the hold OF
the Sherman and the men inside
would have been inundated had some
of them not been amateur baseball
players.
Three of the women managed to get
aboard through the hole. but the hys
terical one was afraid to take the
chances. Persons on board and ashore
tried to assure her there was no dan
ger. but she baked.
a single rope was tied around her
waist to render the undertakings per
fectlv safe She went up the ladder
slowly and with about as much fright
as if she had been shipwrecked in mid
ocean. There was a scramble when she
Itried to get on deck, and three or four
men reached for her with their sooty
grimv hands. It happened that she
was dressed in white, and every time
a finger touched her clothing it left a
print. The men who helped her to gel
aboard were sorry for her when she
was trying to reach the deck Of the
ship. but when the trouble was over
they turned aside and laughed heartily.
Fortyfve Babies.
The stork has been a busy ola bird
in the Philippines during the past few
months. On the Sherman there were
forty-five babies, probably the largest
number that ever crossed the Pacific
on a single steamer.
The decks were like overcrowded
nurseries. One passenger remarked
that It was the largest number of IN
lfants she had ever seen on a steam
ship and that they We're long on yell
ing.
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