The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-22
NEW PACIFIC LINER SIBERIA READY FOR HER LAUNCHING

1RS HE small island schooner Ada,
which arrived from Kauai yes
- terday afternoon, brings a story
concerning her collision with the
schooner Blanche and Ella, which diff
fers in important points from the ver-
sion given by the captain of the Blanche
and Ella, The captain of the Ada says:
During the night of Tuesday, October
18th, we were off the west side of Kauai
holding a southeasterly course in orde"
to clear point projecting from the
land. The wind was easterly and we
sailed along all right without suspecting
any danger. At about a quarter to two
the collision with the Blanche and Ella
occurred. We did not see any lights,
although two men were on deck, and
we did not see the Blanche and Ella
until just a few moments before the
smash occurred. We shouted to the
schooner to keep clear and yelled out
to ask where they were going, but we
received no answer before the crash
came, when a number of voices started
yelling on the other vessel. While we
were still foul of each other we were
SO excited that we did not notice if she
carried any light, but few minutes
afterwards, when we We're clear, we
did NOT see any lights on her. We
shouted to her to stand by until we
had found out what damages we had re-
ceived, but the Blanche and Ella only
waited about five minutes. whereupon
she disappeared In the darkness, and
that was the last we saw of her"
The captain further says that while
the Ada was holding a sOutheasterly
course the Blanche and Ella was stand
ing out from the land and struck the
Ada on the starboard side. AS has been
stated before, the captain of the
blanche and Ella claimed, that he and
his crew saw a red light and that this
confused them and made them think
! that the people on the Ada had made a
I mistake in placing their lights and had
| their red light on the starboard side
and their green light on the port side
| instead of vice versa. This story is
substantially disproved by the evidence
! offered by the appearance of the Ada
She was struck on the starboard side
just at the forward rigging and in the
| collision her starboard lantern, a greer
light, was smashed and the remains
thereof were exhibited by her captain
This proves that the green lantern wa
carried on the starboard side as 1t ough
to be. The Ada received considerable
damage In the collision. The Lantern
and the gear which carried it wer
smashed, parts of the forward riggin:
Iware ruined ana the foresail was rent b.
the bowsprit of the Blanche and Ella
Besides this the forward boom of tn
Ada was broken and a big piece o
the board railing was smashed out
. All these damages were fixed tenn
Z porariIy by the crew of the Ada, who
when they had ascertained that thei
vessel was not leaking, Yentured acros
the channel to this port.
. When they arrived here Manage
Lansing went on board and told tn
crew to tell him the straight stor,
without holding back or altering any
thing for fear of his anger. The stor
which Is given here is the one told b.
the crew to Mr.. Lansing in the presenc
of an Advertiser reporter. While it i
substantially the same as the one toll
by the captain of the Blanche and Ella
/ il differs in the very most importan
/. ,point, namely the lights carried, and /
is likely that the whole case will b
aired in court.