Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 497, 15 January 1902 — DEEP BLUE SEA STORY [ARTICLE]

DEEP BLUE SEA STORY

Finn and Chink od Same Ship to be Avoided if Possible. KJONESS FOLLOWS J MURDER CAPTAIN AND WIFE ARE KILLED BY TROUBLE LOVING CHINAMAN. One of New Crew of British Ship Langdale Relates Experiences at First Mid-Day Meal and Warns H s Mates—Polishing Galley Tinware has an Awful Sequel. From time immemorial the foc’sle • f a deep water ship has been the paradise of all students of character ; n<) stories of real life are told there Yesterday at noon lime a Republican reporter visited the British -hip , l-angdale. a short time after the arrival on board of her new crew. "Bunks" had been distributed. a bottle of whiskey passed around. and. sitting on their chests, (be crew began to partake of their r .May meal, and while eating, they proceeded to make acquaintance by nr ans of mutual introductions. Finn and Chink Combination, fine of the apprentices came down the forecastle ladder and in a myst’ nous way conveyed the Information f iat the new carpenter was a Finn. \n old sea dog, a typical Yankee s.iiloj discarded his stew, pushed aside his cup of tea and exclaimed: “Now. boys, don’t you have nothing to do with a ship that has a Finn and a Chinaman aboard at the same time. I’ve heard that Lake steamboat men :tui -nnd a priest and a gray mare together, but if they can beat the Finn and t’hlnk combination they’re giiod "About eight years ago. 1 was on lia s with a general cargo for Sing re We were through the doldrums. had caught the southeast trades and were making down to clear San 'mine. The carpenter was a Finn, a gnat big fellow about six feet three, hut so soft and gentle that you couldn’t rile him He was always niillng. and wv used to play tricks on him just to see if he would rattlt wasn’t any use. though. Where any other man would have Jumped up and let us have it. he would just say, laughingly: ‘All right, boys; I was a lokere too.’ Cook Loved Trouble. Th« cook was the laziest, worst ■ tupered Chinaman that was ever in • ;:p’< galley. He was always in trouble, and went about looking for tc re The captain was on to him. ..r.d had called him down often • ;mugh. Well, one day the skipper’s v went Into the cabin to do some cooking and found the tins she want- < d to ns. were rusty. She asked the • o k w hv he let them get like that, si id when he started in to chi-ek her she went and told the old roan. In half a minute he came running forward and hauled the Chinaman out of th* galley by his collar. The longboat was lashed keel up over the main hatch Before the Chinaman ■ Id think the old man had him over the keel. and. passing a line undcr the lioat, made his feet fast on ca, h side. Then the skipper called the cabin boy and told him to give the Chink all the tinware in the galley. In ause h* wasn’t to be let down until b< had polished it all so that you could see your face in it. • Heirs Work to Pay.” Well, ho sat up there most of the day as ugly a looking picture as you’d want to see- When the skipper was on deck he would watch him out of the corners of his little slant/ black eyes black and beady like a snake’s. \iong after supper—the cabin hoy cooked it—the first mate cast him loose and he goes to his bunk off the galley and stays there Next morning a little befoe sunup, when my watch was turned in and asleep, one of the on decks comes running tn and yells: “•Hello. Hoy! port watch! aft with ye in a hurry. There's hell’s work to pav aboard’”* We run aft and down to the cabin and found the other watch in the cuddy, staring as If they were stupid and saving nothing. 1 looked in and it was a heartbreaking sight! Hear vc fend I’ll never see the like again’ Captain and Wife Dead. The poor old lady was lying Ib the big bunk, wilh an awful gash In h>*r forehead, and her white hair was all daubed with blood. The vaptain was on the floor with hia bead split open. Blood was every- j -•here. They were both atone dead.

We stood a minute just looking at each other. couldn't speak, but the Finn was the worst. .His face was as white as your shirt, and he was shaking all over. All of a sudden he threw his anus up in the air. fell down on his knees and called out: ‘O my Got; my Got' half pity; th*- poor gentle old lady and the pooc old man.' Cook it Revenged. “It was the cook s revenge We start ed looking for him and found him crouching down in the forechains an-} der the channel close to the water. The Chinaman saw us. and he got scared; his foot slipped and he went into the sea striking his head as he fell. Somehow his long pig-taii flew loose and jammed fast in the V between the chains and the side, a foot above the water, and this towed him along with ns. The mate sang out to get. hold of him and pull him up. when just then we heard the Finn give a bellowing roar; then he ed into the carpenter’s shop just behind. and out be came iu a shake with his ax swinging around his head and shouting like he was crazy: ‘Off the rail or I murter ye!‘ he yelled. And then he came for us. Finn Has "Bear Shark.” ■We didn't slop. Some went up” on the forerigglug and the rest scattered aft. Then ho got over on the forechannel, cut the pigtail with one stroke and the Chinaman went off astem. and the Finn said: ‘Ha ha. tat was a good jokes. I vas a jockers too. They vas goot boys. They wouldn’t have poor young scragged for t'e murdering Chinaman.’ "We saw what was the matter with the carpenter. The mate said that there was a name for that kind of fits that Finns have. ‘Bear shark,’ he said, they were called, and it is a pretty good name. too. for that Finn looked as ugly as a grizzly and as fierce for man meat as any shark ■ ! evftr saw.”