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Show Ships Pestered by Stowaways Q Youth Finds Thrills in Trying Try-ing to Beat Way to .v Honolulu. Honolulu, T. D. One of the chief divertisements of the usual ocean voy-flge voy-flge between Honolulu and mainland ports of the United States Is the uncovering un-covering of stowaways and their transfer to. passing ships in mid-Pacific. Scarcely a trip is made without the passengers being entertained by stirring incidents connected with stowaways. As the Zitj of Honolulu was passing pass-ing out of the harbor at Honolulu on her last trip to Wilmington, the Los Angeles port, she met the Calawil of the same line coming Into port. Both ships stopped and the Calawaii let down a lifeboat to transfer two stowaways stow-aways In tht City of Honolulu. While the transfer was being made one of the stowaways, Edward J. O'Hara, twenty-two years old. of New Orleans, jumped overboard and started to swim 't ashore, two miles. Unaware of Sharks. Either O'Hara was Ignorant of the fact that the waters outside the reef here are infested with sharks, or he was willing to take a desperate chance to reach the islands of his dreams. At any rate, he started out with strong swimming strokes for the distant palm-lined shore, while the passengers of both the Calawali and the City of Honolulu lined the decks to watch the ontcome of the dangerous exploit They shouted their encouragement to the young man. The small boat delivered the other stowaway to the City of Honolulu, and in the meanwhile the one who had taken to the water was making fast progress toward the reef where the white breakers piled a flood of water into the more quiet Inner harbor. It happened that the officer of a submarine which was cruising nearby saw the stowaway jump overboard and strike out for shore. The submarine subma-rine started in pursuit of the daring swimmer. It came alongside the stow-away stow-away in the course of 20 or 80 min utes and a life preserver to which a rope was attached was thrown to him O'Hara was hauled on board and was delivered to port officers. He was permitted per-mitted to remain here, as the law of deportation applies only to aliens. The Other stowaway was made to work his way back to WilmlnginD on the City of Honolulu. Most of these stowaways, both on the ships plying between San Francisco Fran-cisco and Honolulu and between I.os Angeles and Honolulu, are youths of seventeen to the early twenties twen-ties in years of age. They are much more numerous during the college vacation period, and this Is explained by the statement that many of them are students who are merely seeking adventure. They know that the worst thing that can happen to them Is to be put to work, once they are discovered, or to be returned to their port of embarkation. Once Honolulu or the mainland ports are reached, they are permitted to go ashore and go about their own busl ness. Searching the ships for stowaways Is a daily performance on these boats Many Methods Adopted. Many ingenious methods are adopted adopt-ed by stowaways to gain free passage across the Pacific, it Is not a dlflleull matter for them to get aboard while the ships are In port and once aboard they are able to select whatever hiding hid-ing place may best suit them. One of the most unusual Instances of a successful voyage of this kind was that of a young college student who. by some means not known to the ship's officers, gained access to one of the best and highest-priced first-class cabins cab-ins which had not been sold and was therefore unoccupied. This young man was well dressed a good conversationalist and no sus picion was aroused among the stewards stew-ards and passengers whom he met that he was not a paid passenger. He evidently had gotten aboard before the regular passengers began to nrrlve, as he escaped being asked for his ticket. He was careful to go in and out of the stateroom when tlft room steward for that section was not looking look-ing and he kept his door locked at all times. After the nrst day or two out of the port of Wilmington, however, he took his meals In the first class dining room and his table companions enjoyed his conversation very much, they afterward after-ward ' declared. This stowaway reached Honolulu and then wrote a letter to the steamship company thank ing Its officials for the splendid treatment treat-ment he had received and promising to patronize the line again when he got ready to return to the mainland. |