The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-08
GOOD SHIP SAILS.
Morning Star Has Started
on Her Long Journey.
Many Friends Waved Good by VIII
Touch at Many IsIandS-On
Good Mission.

| There was a large crowd of we'll
wlshers gathered at sailing of the mis-
sionary steamer Morning Star for the
South Seas at o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon. Prominent among those pres
ent were the A. T. Judds, the Hiram
Binghams, the o. H. Gulicks, Captain
and Mrs. j. Bray, Mrs. Geo. Carter,
Prof. and Mrs. w. d. Alexander and
many Hawaiians who came to bid good
bye to their countrymen
| Services were held on board for the
departing missionaries conducted by
Rev. o. p. Emerson of the Hawaiian
Board Of Missions There was a Scrip
ture reading, some hymns and then
Rev. 0. H. Gulick spoke words of en-
couragement to those on board bound
for so good a mission. 1t was feelingly
responded to by Mr.. De la Porte, lay
missionary, who with his wife and
child are on board going to the station
ON Pleasant island The venerable DR..
marks and offered prayer and the ben
ediction was given by Rev. Mr.. Kaaia,
who has been for many years among
the Gilbert Islands.
| And so the faithful little barkentine
moved out in the stream with smoke
pouring out of her curious mast head
smokestack. Finally her bow was
pointed for the channel and an hour
later the Morning Star was out Of sight
way off to the southwark
/ Captain Garland is in command and
with him are his wife and two children
as passengers for the voyage. Captain
Isaiah Bray who has had command Of
the Morning Star for some time past
will remain in this city Mrs. Simpson
with three children go to Ruk to join
her husband Miss Wilson, teacher,
is returning to the Carolines. Mr.. and
Mrs. De la Porte and a two-weeks' old
infant are making their first voyage.
Mr.. De la Porte was connected with
the local Peniel mission for some time
and is studying for the ministry. He
will be connected with the Kusaie
mission under DR.. Rise, NJ. D. Lanien,
Marshall islander, who has been en-
gagged in translating the bible into his
native tongue is returning home with
his wife. John Higgins of the Gilbert
islands and his two children who came
TO Honolulu on the last trip of the
Morning Star is a passenger. All told
there are sixteen passengers on board,
iY,o thncn ~ from
San Francisco
The Morning Star will, as customary
in her voyages, sail most of the voy-
age. The first port reached will be
Butaritari in the Gilbert islands, thence
to Kusaie where she will begin a cruise
through Micronesia. The Marshall ISL
ands and Pleasant island will be next
visited in the order named. Ruk will
be touched in passing on her return
to Kusaie. The cruise will occupy
about eighty days in all. From the
Marshall islands the Morning Star will
go to the Gilbert islands and from Ku-
sale during the summer season of that
latitude will carry the pupils from the
Central School at Kusaie to their pa
rents on the different islands. After
sixty days spent in visiting various
missions the children will be returned
to their school. Ponape will be the
extreme western limit of the Morning
Stars cruise Before returning to Ho-
nolulu she will again visit Ruk, thence
to the Mortlock islands the end of her
voyage.
Ten months will have elapsed and
by February 1st, 1900, it is thought that
the Morning Star will be back in this
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