Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-08
SEA CAPTAIN AND
CREW co HUNGRY
Master of Attached Ship SaddIed
with Two StoWaWays and
Can't Find Owner

Shifting his quid of tobacco from one
cheek to the other and hoisting a pair
of sea breeches another notch mast
ward, Captain A. w. McAll;ster,
sturdy old sea cog from southern
waters, and master of the good but
illfated ship Alden Bessie, tied up in
San Pedro harbor under writ of at
tachment from the United States dis
trict court, stood before Marshal Leo
Youngworth yesterday and told the
federal official he thought this was an
'Ell of country"
McAllister has bis troubles. He IS
under orders from the immigration
service to deport two forlorn looking
subjects of the mIkado, who slowed
themselves away in the hold of his
vessel and were not discovered until
the Alden Bessie was pounding the
high seas between Los Angeles and
Honolulu. The ship is to be sold at
public auction by the marshal to re-
lieve an $500 attachment levied by an
unpaid stevedore and wharfsman at
San Pedro.
After the marshaI's sale the sheriff
and state authorities will have their
sale. It's owner, A. w. f. Thompson,
is enjoying his liberty under $4,000 bail
and awaiting a hearing on two sep
arate embezzlement charges in Justice
Baird's court.
The sea captain is broke. To make
matters worse the butcher, the baker
and the groceryman have refused the
ship credit and as a result the captain
and his two charges are going hungry.
If he allows the aliens to escape he is
liable to a fine of from S100 to $1,000
and Imprisonment in the county Jail.
He appealed to the federal authori-
ties yesterday. Neither the immgra-
ton bureau nor the district attorneys
office could find him loophole through
which he could feed himself andp the
Japanese. United States Marshal
Youngworth, however has interested
himself in the sailors behalf and is
endeavoring to find Thompson, the
owner of the vessel. Youngworth
thinks Thompson may come to the
crews rescue with a few dollars. In
the meanwhile McAllister is saying
complimentary things of the claws
course" and is pining for his wife and
children under a matched roof over in
the islands.
The history of the Alden Bessie dur
ing the past few months has been an
eventful one. 1t almost hints at
hoodoo. 1t arrived at Port Los An
geles from Honolulu September after
fourteen stormy days at sea that
played havoc with empty beer bottles
in the hold on their way to be refilled
from the breweries in Los Angeles.
McAllister discovered two Japanese
who slowed themselves away in the
hold of the bark and on his arrival
here delivered them into the custody
of the federal officials. The immigra-
tion officials appointed a special board
of inquiry which ordered the aliens
placed in the charge of the sea captain
and deported on the return trip Of the
Alden Bessie.
Hardly had two-thirds of the ships
cargo been loaded when the wharfs-
men demanded their money and at
tached the vessel. Thompson, the
owner was arrested on two embezzle-
ment charges sworn to by a local
brewery Captain McAllister ran short
Of funds and the ships larder was
empted. He is wondering if it will be
safe to make any more trips in the
Alden Bessie and the old shippers
around the San Pedro docks are talk
ing in low tones IF hoodoo.