The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-15
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Items Of Interest from All Over the
Globe.
wHALER SEA BREEZE BURNED.

Globe.
wHALER SEA BREEZE BURNED.
The P. M. S. S. San Jose, which
arrived at San Diego Jan % from
Panama, had on board for San Fran
cisco thirtyeight men from the Amer
lean bark Sea Breeze, owned at San
Francisco by James McKenna, and
in which Captain Worth sailed from
there for the Gulf of California to
secure wood at Madre Island for a
whaling expedition to the Arctic
via Honolulu. The regular COM
mander, Captain Green, was to have
met the vessel at Honolulu on her
return from her southern trip after
sperm whales. The vessel secured
enough wood by January 16 and
was to weigh anchor the next day,
but early in the morning a fire broke
out as they lay in twenty fathoms
and she was burned to the waters
edge and sank. The forty-three men
composing the crew had escaped in
small boats to the island and its
Governor sent them to the main
land at San Bias in two schooners.
When the San Jose came down they
we're taken by her to Mazatlan to
the nearest Consul to get papers for
passage, but he declined to assume
the responsibility and said they
would have to straighten it out at
San Francisco. Five of the wrecked
crew remained below.
The Sea Breeze was built at New
Bedford, Mass, in 1853, and has been
very successful craft. She was
valued at $28,0O0, of which $13,5OO
is covered by insurance. An inter-
esting element in the history of the
old Sea Breeze is that she was the
last vessel to sight the Inflated Jean
nette. On September 3, 1879, late
in the afternoon, the Sea Breeze was
lying to the southwark and eastward
of Herald Island when a steamer
hove in sight and passed within half
a mile to the northward. She was
recognized from the description as
the Jeanette, and the Sea Breeze
signaled her, but the signals were
unanswered. That night the jean
nette was again seen working into
thin ice to the northward, and was
kept in view till we'll along into the
following night. This was the last
seen of the Jeanette by any vessel.
OBITUARY.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus La
mar, Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, died sudden
ly at Macon, Georgia, January %.
The late jurist was born at Putnam
county, Georgia, September 1, 1925.
He became a lawyer, then a profess
sor in the University of Mississippi
for a year. Elected to the State
Legislature in 1858, he retired to his
plantation at Lafayette the next
year. He was elected to Congress
as Democrat, serving from 1857 to
1860, when he resigned to take seat
in the Secession convention of his
State. He then entered the Con-
federate army as a lieutenant-colonel
of the Nineteenth Mississippi Regi-
ment, of which he afterward became
colonel. He shared in many of the
battles of the Army of Northern
Virginia, but i'll health finally COM
PEELED him to leave the army and he
was sent as Commissioner of the
Confederate States to Russia. After
the war he was again successfully a
professor in the university and a
member of Congress. In 1877 he
took his seat in the Senate for his
adopted State. He held COM
handing position in the Senate and
in the councils of his party because
of his ability, and when Cleveland
became President in 1885; Mr.. Lamar
was selected as Secretary of the In
terror. This position he resigned to
accept position on the Supreme
bench, the first Democrat appointed
to sit in that body since the selec-
ton of Stephen j. Field by Presi-
dent Lincoln, and though he has
been more than once on the point OF
resigning because of ill-health
Judge Lamar was still a member OF
the Supreme Court at the time OF
his death.
Bishop Phillips Brooks, the ia
nous Episcopal preacher, died on
Jan. % at Boston. He was born in
Boston on Dec. ID, 1896. e.s,
CABLE CAR EXHIBIT.
A. S. Hallidie, inventor of the
cable railway, is arranging for an ex-
hibit of that method of rapid tran
sit at the Worlds Fair. In it will
be seen every stage of the progress
of the cable method of street trans.
portation.
Mr.. Hallidie, when asked what
prompted the invention of the coble.
road, said he was walking up Jack
son street, from Kearny, in 1869 and
was watching the efforts of five
horses struggling up the hill with
one of the Omnibus Railroad Com
pany's overcrowded cars. One o.
the horses slipped on the wet cabble
stones and fell, throwing down the
horse behind him. The brakes were
put on and the horses urged to re-
gain their footing. The brakes were
insufficient to hold the car on tn,
steep incline and it slid backward
dragging the horses down the hill
to the street below.
"This incident prompted me-" sale
he, "to devise some better method
of street transportation up the hills