Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 497, 15 January 1902 — BIRTHDAY FEAST ON THE SHIP FLORENCE [ARTICLE]

BIRTHDAY FEAST ON THE SHIP FLORENCE

CART. SPICER IS ENTERTAINING Number of Skippers Present at the Dinner Table and Have a Jolly Good Time —Songs, Yarns and. Music During Best Part of Night A jolly company of mariners joy fully braced the mainyard last night on board the American ship Florence Captains Amesbury. Whitmore and Calhoun did the pulling on the star board side of the dining room table, while Captains Rasmussen. Sigelhurst and Swenson had charge of the port side. Captain Spicer, the popular master of the Florence, was at the wheel, and successfully steered his company through an evening of joy and pleasure. « Yesterday was t aptain Spicer's birthday, in honor of the day all the skippers had "dressed their ships" and relegated the log books into the darkest corners of the cuddy. For last night's proceedings on board the Florence were not to be related in the best and truest book in the world after the Bible As soon as the whistles of Mono lulu gave the signal that 5 o’clock had come and that it was time to change watches, a crowd of skippers boarded the Florence and told the stevedores that they were relieved for the day. The yards were braced square, the sails furled man-o' war style, and everything put in shipshape form. A visit was paid to the gallery and secret orders were given to the “chef." It developed afterwards that the skippers have good and kind hearts sometimes and the older* given to the “chef" were to the effect that a share of the good things in store there should be given to th" i-rewr. The supper comprised all the delicacies of the local market and some of the older skippers took a hand in the conversation and told yarns which would have made a whaler's hair stand on his head. There were toasts to "Sweethearts and Wives." to ‘ Friends Across the Sea. to "Ah ( rent Skippers." and others. Captain Rasmuss-n had brought over his phonograph and it was nearly eight bells when he was told to go ‘ “Way back and sit down." • I