The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-07
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Liner. WERE moi. l..
IN BEACH M|XUP
0iIer And Walters Composed
Gang That Started Row
With HaWaiianS
M'BRIDE TELLS HOW
BIG MELEE STARTED
Someone Soaked Him In Face
And Henry Defries Was
Mauled

Several of the members of the en-.
gineers department of the steamer
Great Northern called at The Adver,
tiser office yesterday, and denied that
any of the men connected with the
department were connected with the
free hght which took place at Waikiki
early on Sunday morning.
According to these men there was
one oiler mixed up in the fracas, the
remainder of the men from the steamer
who figured in the scrap being walters.
Thomas Gegan, a fireman, speaking of
the matter, said:
owe have been royalty welcomed
and entertained during our stay in
Honolulu and arc taking away with
us nothing but tho pleasantest mem.
cries. The men of the engineers de.
partment are a well.behaved, self-re-
speeding lot and do not want to have
it thought otherwise of them. We are
al looking forward to returning to
Honolulu in the near future and want
to feel that we are welcome -
McBrtde's Version OF Trouble
Olaudius Mcbride, one of the par
Elephants in the affair, made the follow
ing statement yesterday:
f'I was one of a party at the Sea
side Hotel on Saturday night About
half-past eleven clock we started to
leave the Seaside for the purpose of
going to Heinie's Tavern. Just out
side the lane leading to the hotel we
saw a crowd of Great Northern men,
with whom was Frank Cleghorn. Sew
eral automobiles we're standing nearby.
"'Standing together were three Ha-
waiiRn ho' ', one of whom was Henry
+ Defries. I heard the sailors say, Let s
90 over and get the nfggers. The
Great Northern bunch numbered about
twenty fVe. n,
"Seeing that the sailors were pick,
ing on the three Hawaiians | stepped
between the two factions ana told them
that had lived here for twelve wears
or so and that Hawaiians, weren't mig,
gers and that | was going to see fair
Was Was soaked In Face
"The sailors persisted in abusing the
Hawaiians and finally rushed them. In
the melee someone soaked me in the
face. Four of the Great Northern men
had Defries down and were pounding
him hrutally when | took a hand and
knocked one of his assailants through
hedge.
"The sailors then picked on me and
said that they were surprised that /,
white man. should come to the de.
Tense Of lot of dirty -niggers. Frank
Cleghorn sided in with them and just
as had nv hands busy with couple
of the sailors, John Lishman came up
and, seeing how matters s-0od said Il
me and the Hawaiians, Hold them II
Won can, some of the boys are coming.
1--WE held the crowd as wt, as We
could and were mighty. gla when re
Inducements appeared md took a hand
in the unequal combat. A free floral
| fight followed, in which the Grea,
Northern men were utterly routed, anC
in which Cleghorn was so badly uset
up that he had to be taken to tn
hospital for the purpose of having hi
head sewed up.
" During the mixup a little Hawaiian
named Kalei hit me in the face. H
was mad clear through with all haole
lust then and whenever he saw n whit
head he hit it. When John LishmaI
yelled to him that I was on his sid
he burst out crying. Just how tn
trouble started in the first place | an
unable to say.
Duke Kahanamoku, who was in tn
fracas, according to the first report o
the ARRAY, said yesterday that he wa
not involved.