departing Seattle daily (except Monday) at 8:00 a.m. Olympian did not last long on the Bellingham run, being taken off after just five days because the business on the route did not pay the expenses of so large a vessel.Olympian was returned to the Victoria route, with an excursion was scheduled to be run on October 1, and carrying fifty tons of wheat to Victoria on October 2. Near mutiny October 1891 A major dispute, in full view of the passengers, broke out among the officers and crew of the Olympian just after the steamer had left Victoria on October 20, 1891. According to the first assistant engineer, Henry F. Smith (b.1859), the deckhands had gotten in the habit of using the fire hose to wash off the decks. In the past the carelessness of the deck crew had resulted in the fire hose being inoperable for several hours, depriving the vessel of fire protection. When Smith attempted to forbid the a deckhand from using the firehose on this occasion, a dispute broke out, which led to the exchange of strong words and fighting between the deck crew and the engineering staff. Reportedly Captain A. N. McAlpine had drawn his pistol on Smith when Smith had threatened him during the course of the dispute. When Olympian reached Seattle, the entire engineering department, except the Chief Engineer, walked out on strike, seventeen men in all. The affair was investigated by the U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service. As a result the license of first assistant engineer Smith was revoked for insubordination which nearly led to a mutiny, and the licenses of a number of other officers, including Captain McAlpine, were suspended for thirty days for failure to keep order on their vessel, among other things. Hard feelings persisted between McAlpine and the engineers, who, after McAlpine's license suspension had expired, refused to serve under him on Olympian. Probably to calm things down on Olympian, McAlpine was reassigned to the older, smaller and slower sidewheeler Sehome. This did not improve matters for McAlpine, as Sehomes engineers also refused to work under him. One source reports that “the difficulty was not adjusted until every steamer of any prominence on Puget Sound was tied up.” The pilot and the engineer unions were at odds with each other, and it took some time to settle their differences. Both McAlpine and Henry F. Smith, the first assistant engineer,