The San Francisco call., 1897-02-25

teen sailors. Like everybody else on board,
they too have a large stock of faith for
their wages for the most part consist of
prospective profits in the South Seas. The
highest-salaried officer aboard is the first
officer, who will receive IS cents per month.
Four cabin boys signed for % cents
month. The rank and file of the crew will
work for so cents a month. There will be
a boatswain, cockswain and many other
petty officers at cabin boy wages.
Captain Petersen expects to reach
Leyuka within sixty davs. From that
point to the Solomon Islands is over 1900
miles in a northwesterly direction, and
the course is tortuous with islands and
coral reefs. Here all definite ideas OF the
voyage END, but with the best OF weather
over 100 days will be spent in getting
this far.
Somewhere in the vague ideas that
float through the brains OF the promoters
of the expedition they have a plan to
drop portion OF the expedition on one
island and the vessel is then to proceed 10
a second island and land the remainder.
Relnhart had u lucid interval yesterday
long enough to realize that ne and his
colonsts would probably have some diff
Guilty in landing anywhere in the South
Seas without the consent of the authori-
ties that be. Almost every island in that
region Is under the protectorate of either
England, France or Germany.
By way OF getting nttle information
along the sc lines Reinhart called on Brit
ish Consul Warburton to learn that he
would have to consult the British Governor
at Suva if he wished to locate his rsgi-
ment OF adyenturers in either the Fiji or
Solomon groups. German Consul Rosen-
thai was sought for information about
New Guinea, which is one OF the prospec-
tive promised lands, and he told his callers
that permission to settle there must be OBJ
tanned from the New Guinea Assoeia-
ton" 1t is in the programme of the ex-
pedition, if stress OF circumstances should
warrant il, to place itself by means of
q declaration of naturalization under the
protection of soma of the foreign protec-
torates to better aid IN any struggles with
natives. Once the passengers are safely
landed Captain Petersen and Reinhart say
they will return to San Francisco with q
cargo of mahogany. They then anticipate
taking a second installment of colonisIs to
the South Seas.
Reinhart SAYS he has now over 1900 ap-
plications for berths on the vessel. He has
organized his colonization scheme into an
incorporated society, with a permanent
secretary and office in the Mills block.
What the outcome of the expedition
will be IS a matter of interesting conjec-
ture. The scheme owes its inception TO
fake story in a sensational morning news
paper about an island in the South Pacific
that was desolate of men by reason of war
and "black birding" This weird narrative
declared that the crew OF a passing ship
had been entreated by the great mum bers
of lonesome women to remain and marry
them. There were other like embelish-
ments and the 'AdamIess Eden" island
began to be taken seriously for a time.
Subsequently the myth was exploded in
the newspapers, Reinhart, so it is said,
at first had in view the idea of supplying
the dusky and sband-hungry females
with mates. Subsequently, when the
story was exploded, he changed the char
acter by calling it a colonization scheme"
What the end of 1t will be remains to be
seen.