The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-16
ECLIPSE WAS SOLD 'GOOD FOR PAPA ITA
BROUGHT ONLY $1,000 AT SALE
LAST WEEK.
Archie Young Secured the Boat-Wlll
Operate Her-Something Of Old Ha-
waiian Navigation Company.

The sale Of the gasoline schooner
Eclipse was consummated last Satur-
day for the sum of $1,000. Archie Young
paid this amount which was slightly
less than the upset price.
The sale was to have been a public
auction and was conducted by Morgan
az the Irmgard wharf. The upset price
was named at $I250 Various shipping
interests were represented and rep
resentative from the Board of Health
was also on hand. Nobody seemed de-
sirous however of bidding as high as
the upset price, so 1t was announced
that the sale would be held on Tues
day of the present week. Archie Young
then announced that he would pay ST.
600 for the boat, and this offer was ac-
cepted and the deal consummated, by
which the Eclipse passed out of the
control of the Hawaiian Navigation
Company.
1t has not been positively decided
what will be done with the boat. One
report is that she will be kept on the
Hawaii and Maui run, and another re-
port is that she is to be put on a Kau-
al run. Mr.. Young Will probably de-
eide in few days what disposition will
be made of her.
The passing of the Hawaiian Navi-
CATION Company removes quite an in
teresting organization from the inter
island marine. In fact, the history of
the company is very unusual from the
fact that the earnings always were
up to estimates yet the company gra-
dually went to the wall.
To Captain D. II. Ward, formerly
master of the schooner Rosamond is
due the credit OF organizing the COM
pany. Originally NJ. McChesney &
Sons and Allan Herbert brought the
Surprise down here from San Francis
co at a cost of about $4,000. This boat
was put into the Kauai trade but on
her first trip to Honolulu, she was
loaded too deeply with sugar and found
to be leaking. Considerable of her
cargo was damaged, the loss to the
company being about 81, 700. Other peo-
pie were interested in the matter and
the Hawaiian Navigation Company
was organized, and the Eclipse, anoth-
er gasoline schooner, was brought from
San Francisco. Her cost has been Civ
en- as high as $3l GOO She was put on
the run to Maui and Kohala and Kona
ports. She did very well, but bad
management or ineffective clerical SER
vice contributed to turn what should
have been & profit into an actual def
cit The company was organized dur
ing the early part of 1900. Last year
the Surprise was wrecked off KoloG
Kauai and this left the company with
but one vessel.
Captain Ward was highly impressed
with the practicability of the character
of craft. He figured that with reason
able regularity and celerity, the boats
could be made to pay. Leaks appeared
so frequently, that nobody seemed able
n a xHrau On ne "a
company's supposed profits were being
eaten up. Numerous acrimonious
meetings of stockholders were held, but
no action that was taken seemed to
have any beneficial effect Captain
Ward offered to take the Eclipse over
to the Philippines when he was through
here in March. He thought her well
fitted for a profitable trade there, and
he stood ready to guarantee a profit to
her owners. But the controlling stock
holders refused to let her go, and the
history of the management was con-
tinued to the last chapter. In March
the vessel could have been let out on
a paying charter. In June after three
more months of a losing career it is sold
20 pay the debts of the company.
Finally the Eclipse was turned over
to the American Shipping Company,
but after being operated by that organ
iaatiOn for a few months 1T was de-
cided to sell the boat and clear up the
Indebtedness of the old company.
No announcement has, as yet, been
made regarding the matter of who
shall be master OF the boat. 1t is hop
ed that Captain Townsend her master
under the old company, will be con-
| tinued in command of her, as he is one
Of the best of the inter-island captains,