The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-10-10
BOARDS
WRONG SHIP
BY MISTAKE
Miss Nettie Stone Embarks on
Mariana Believing She Is
Sailing on Umatilla for Oak
land Home and Is Put Ashore
at Honolulu in Practically Pen
niless Condition.
(From Thursday Advertiser. }

Carried more than two thousand
miles off her course, facing veiled
threats of the brig and being turned
over to the police authorities because
she refused to pay her fare, and finally
landed almost penniless' on an island
friend. This is the plight of pretty
Nettie Stone of Oakland, who was east
ashore in Honolulu when the Canadian
Australian steamer Mariana arrived
from Victoria last night
But for the aid of kindly passengers
who took her in charge during the
brief stop, the friendless girl, with but
a few dollars in her purse and scarcely
any baggage, would have been com
pelled to walk the streets These pas
sengers were X. Dorsey, who is en- route
TO Sydney, and X. T. Prince, who
stopped off here. They found their
way 20 the police station at eleven
o o'clock last night, explained the condi-
tiOn of Nj stone to Captain Baker,
and that kindhcarted officer at once
sent call to Police Matron Mrs. Annie
Poole.
Guest of Police Matron.
Within half hour Mrs. Poole had
the friendless and unhappy young
woman in charge as the guest of honor
at Mrs Poole 8 cottage home. She Will
be kept there until such time as ar
rangements can be made through some
chatitable method of sending the girl
back to her anxious parents at Oak
land
With big tears yelling into her eyes
as she spoke last night, the frightened
young woman explained the manner in
which she came to be carried away
from Victoria on steamer bound for
Australia. She had been visiting
friends at Victoria ahd had arranged
to return home. Her ticket to San Fran
cisco had been purchased, her trunks
checked, and she was to have sailed
on the steamer Umatila, she saws. She
went to the big wharf. where the Una.
tilla was moored. The Mariana was
close by. Through, mistake by herself
as well as the friends who wera there
TO see her start on, heE-hQmeward vow
age, she boarded the Mariana. Both
were scheduled to leave within few
inmates Of each other.
Finds Herself on Mariana.
Stone was aboard. Not until the ship
was well out of the harbor did she learn
of her plight. She searched for the
purser, appealed to him to stop the
ship, showed her ticket to San Fran.
cisco and asked that arrangements be
made to get her ashore. 1t was too
late, she was told, the big ship must
maintain its schedule and not only
would she be required to make the trip
to Honolulu, the first stop, but she
must also pay her fare.
Passengers on the ship, according to
a statement made by Dorsey last night,
learned of this, a united protest was
made to the captain and not only was
Miss Stone not required to pay her
passage but she was given first cabin
accommodations She was somewhat in
convenienced because of the fact that
all her clothing with the exception Of
n few articles she carried in her hand
satchel were aboard the Umatflla.
The steamship company's officers, it
was reported last night, refused under
any circumstances to arrange for Miss
stones passage back to Victoria or
on to San Francisco. If this is true,
it is probable that either Mrs. Poole,
the kindly police matron, or charitable
people of Honolulu will be called up
on to see that the young stranded
woman is provided with transportation
back to the Coast Her case will be
more thoroughly investigated today.