Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-27
MILLIONAIRES IN
ROLE OF SAILORS

mate had been sent to his bunk by the
captain, leaving the second mate to
get the sails set This is quite "a job
for a crew of sailors, and with this
gang Of cowboys" as the mate call.
ed them, II Is mercy that he didn't
go crazy.
Trouble for Mate.
The louder he would shout the more
we stood and gawked. Scarcely any
of us had ever been "aloft" before, and
hence were 10th to go. The time We
took in climbing mp should have been
sufficient to set the sail, but, worse
than this, when we did get up we did
nothing but hang over the yards, hold.
ing on with both hands. Sail after
sail the mate would finally come aloft
himself and threaten to chuck all
hands off the bloody yards" Then
and only then would we let go with
one hand and loosen the gear of the
sail. 1t was late in the afternoon be.
fore all the sails were set
At 6 p. IN. they called out the first
! mate to pick watches" As he was in
his bunk, the second mate got all the
good men, including four OF the six
sailors. This BODIED i'll for the first
mates men when he came up and saw
what he had And so 1t turned out,
for he turned out the third day out,
and from then on the other watch got
little sleep.
We soon began to learn few things
about the sailors work, such as coil.
Ing rope with the sun. going to the
galley on the lee, when aloft one hand
for yourself and one for the company,
how to tie bow-line, hitch brace,
etc.
Study in Men.
Also. we got acquainted with the
men. They were of all shapes and
sizes, and from all corners of the
globe. A few were intelligent men,
notably one, Sam Atkinson, an at.
tractivc fellow of g. who has held
every position on shipboard and seem.
cd to know the details of every man
and vessel that ever sailed the seas.
He was a fine stOry-tcllcr, and during
the night watches he would entertain
us for hours with sea talks. Many of
the stories were of a kind with Lon.
don's THE Sea Wolf" and we shall
never forget them. Sunrise Clark,
"Tanglefoot Townsend" Cracked Nc.
Kensio" and "Windy Jones" were
some of the wild and cruel actors who
are still very much alive along the
coast.
The third day out the mizzen t'gal.
liant halyards carried away.
The fourth day out the royal hal
yard carried away, falling on the man
aloft, breaking his teeth, cheek-bone
and thumb-bones. He caught in a
chain, which alone kept him from
coming down by the run" AS an
example of what life is at sea, he was
put to work the next day.
As the hold had to be prepared for
the cargo in addition to the regular
work of the ship, II was work, work,
work, till even those who were used
to It nearly played out. So the fourth
day out we went down below decks
in the hold and tween decks to clean
out the waste of the previous cargo,
paint the Cteelwork and Skin" or
"dunnage" the hold and tween decks,
that Is, to put on q second flooring for
the cargo Of sugar.
This work lasted until the day be.
fore we reached Honolulu work
and much more fatiguing than work
on deck, in that 1t was hot and stuffy,
without the bracing fresh salt air.
Each watch had four hours on and
then four hours of, and when you had
crawled into your bunk for your four
of, squat might come up, the mate
Sing out" "All hands on deck" and
then you must go to work again.
Alas for Romance!
Four days of this took all the no.
nance out of us. We crawed out to
work and crawled back into our hunks
and had little to say. We had gotten
used TO the swearing and shouting and
soon ceased to mind 1t. The whole
crew were alike. The work was too
hard 49, it took the spirit out of all of
them
But just when our spirits were low
est Dupont raised them for moment
by falling into the scuppers on rainy
day with our dinner all over him. The
, whole starboard watch saw It and
laughed as they hadn't laughed since
we left. An hour afterward the hos n
was still laughing at the incident.
A Bath at Last!
! Sunday finally came, when some Of
us took baths (salt water), some wash.
ed their clothes and some slept.
| Monday of the second week we
again went below to paint and dun.
mage below deck. This was merely
common labor; that is, labor which
didn't require the knowledge of an old
tar but nevertheless was just as hard
and more unpleasant. The fact that