The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
SWIFT RUNS
 TO HONOLULU Remarkable Sailing Time Made by the Hyde and
 Hitchcock.
Death of" Mother" Carter, Who Has Resided in Hawaii
 Since 1882.
An Incident in Military Discipline and It's Bearing on an Alleged Inn
 pending Revolt.
Correspondence of The Call.

HONOLULU, Feb. 3.-Not since the days of clipper ships have the perform ances of the ships Henry B. Hyde and s. P. Hitchcock, which arrived here on the 30th and 29th ult, respectively, been equaled. The Hyde arrived here at sundown on the 30th, after a sensation al run of nine days four and one-half hours from San Francisco, time record ed from anchorage to anchorage. The Hitchcock practically made the run in nine days seven hours. AS nearly as can be learned, but ohe sailing vessel has ever beaten the record of the Hyde. She was the famous old clipper ship Fair Wind, built for speed rather than for carrying capacity. She is reported to have made the run in eight days seventeen hours. But that was long ago, in the days when speed was con- sidered the most important quality for an ocean trader and vessels carried clouds of canvas.
 The Hyde is built rather as a carrier than for speed. When she sailed from San Francisco on January 21, Captain Colcord, her new master, was not thinking of a speedy run, but rather of making his vessel ready for her long voyage around the Horn. But when the winds blew favorably and the ship cut the water at regular steamship speed, he became interested in his work and put her to a test. She did some wonderful work. Her smallest days run was 210 miles, and her greatest 29O miles.
 On the 29th ult., death claimed a mo- in hn rf N Carter, who passed away quietly in her sSth year She was reverently known as Mother Carter. Mrs. Carter was born at Hallowell, Maine, and was the daughter of John and Hannah Lord, names of. peculiar interest in the ante pioneer days of California. She arrived in Honolulu in 1882, and in the follow ing year married Captain J. o. Garter, one of the best known and most promi- nent seafaring men of the Pacific in the earlier days of Hawaiian history. She bore six children, one of whom was H. A. P. Carter, Hawaiian Minister to Washington, and a surviving son is J. O. Carter, now in Washington repre- senting the cause of the Hawaiians. surviving daughter is the wife of Rob- ert Levers of the prominent firm of Levers & Cooke. No less than twenty eight grandchildren and sixteen great
 
 ty in mourning her departure
 An incident in military discipline has been turned to account by a certain faction of the more rabid annexation ists as favoring views of an impending revolt. It has been found more con- venient for military discipline to re- move the officers of the National Guard of Hawaii from their former barracks in the Executive building (the palace) and to place them In more comforta ble quarters in King Kalakaua's bungalow, closely adjacent, and to have the men in charge of their non-commissioned officers, who in future will be primar- fly responsible for any breaches of dis cipline. instead of first worrying the officers out of their quiet repose to lis- ten to picayunish details which are haIf the time condoned out of good nature. This fact, in conjunction with certain fndiscreet and amusingly bloodthirstv made at a semi military gath. | erfng, at which only lithia water. coollv | Iced, and ginger ale, delicately spiced | were spilled, and only target ..possi. | bles" recorded, have been taken ad- | vantage of by those who want a whole | feet of American war vessels stationed | here for the benefit of trade, and the | most baseless rumors have been fabri 'ated and ordered to be circulated abroad. There is no truth in them.