The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-02
1.-THE king" is HERE LOSS OF THE IROQUOIS
MARCUS ISLAND EXPEDITION
ARRIVES.
capt. Rosehill Makes Port with Julia
T.. Whalen Yesterday-WHl Go To
New Possession Soon

The King of Marcus Island is here.
He arrived yesterday afternoon in
command of the little schooner Julia
Il. Whalen. Captain A. a. Rosehil is
the king and, after remaining in
port for about a week, he will resume
his voyage to Marcus Island where he
expects to take off the first load of
fertilizer for the new company, of
which he, w. G. Peacock and Thomas
Fitch are the members.
The Julia f.. Whalen is as fine a lit
tie vessel as has come into this port in
many months. She is about 16 years
old and was built at Essex, Mass. She
was in the fishing trade on the eastern
coast, but when the demand for vessels
for the Klondyke trade was made, her
! owners sent her out to San Francisco
and put her into the Alaskan business.
| she was operated successfully to vari-
Gus Elondyke points for several trips,
| but for over year previous to her pur-
/ chase by the present owners, she had
| been in the Samoan trade She was
| the property of the Samoan Estate and
! Navigation Company and, after car
! rying supplies and material to Samoa
! for firm in the government contract
! ing business, she was sent down to
! New Zealand and Australia.
Captain Rosehill and Mir. Peacock
went to san Francisco a couple of
months ago for the purpose of outfit
ting AN expedition to Marcus Island.
The Julia e. Whalen had arrived short
! ly before they reached the coast and
when they saw the little schooner, they
decided she was what would serve their
| purpose. She measures S2la feet in
| length, 231a feet beam, and 10 feet in
! t. Ia
Marcus Island syndicate paid about
$1,000 for the boat and then expended
considerable more in fitting her up for
the particular business for which she
was secured. Captain Rosehil was
not satisfied with the boat being refit-
ted, but he stayed awake nights COM
ing down from San Francisco, painting
| and cleaning her. In fact he and the
mate steered with one hand and WELD
ed the paint brush in the other during
the voyage. The result was that when
the vessel came into port yesterday she
was as spick and span as if she had
just come off the ways.
Only three sailors were brought down
by Captain Rosehill. They were Sa-
means whom he found aboard her at
the time of the purchase. They are not
the smartest sailors in the world, how
|
the English language, and Captain
Rosehill and the white mate had to
| make signs to them most of the time.
No cargo for Honolulu was brought
by the boat. She carries six months
supplies for the Marcus Island trip. II
| is the intention of Captain ROsehill to
remain in port a week. During that
time he intends to secure some addi-
| tiOnal help for work at his new posses
sion, as a good boats crew will be re-
quired when it comes to taking the
! guano from the island out to the
schooner. The exact number of men tC
be taken from Honolulu he has not de-
termined.
Aside from the natty appearance of
the schooner, she demonstrated that
she is a crack little boat by her per-
Torrance on the way down from the
coast. She took only Il days to make
the trip. The schooner Helene started
the same time that the Whalen did, but
was beaten by the smaller vessel. In
fact, Captain Rosehill declares that
but for calm streak which he enCoun-
tered shortly after leaving San Fran
CISCO the schooner would have beaten
| the Zealandia down by getting into
/ port some days ago. 1t was quite a
coincidence that w. c. Peacock, the
financial hacker of the expedition
should arrive on the same day that the
schooner reached this port.
The Julia E. Whalen left San Fran
cisco June 81. She made 225 miles the
first day, and 295 the second. Then the
wind which had been blowing strong
westerly died away and the vessel got
in a calm belt, and, for week, she
simply drifted along at the rate of
about 80 to 70 miles a day. The trades
We're caught five days before reaching
Honolulu. Dirty weather was expert
enced the night before making port.
Marcus Island is a small guano patch
in the Pacific ocean about 5000 miles
west of Honolulu, and perhaps 10OC
miles southeast from Yokohama. Cap
tain Rosehill took possession of the ISL
and nearly twelve years ago, when he
was in command of a missionary pack
ct. He raised the United States flag
on the island. After returning to the
mainland, he asked for title to the ISL
and. The matter hung fire for some
time, but recently Thomas Fitch, the
attorney, succeeded in securing from
the United States government recog-
nization of Rosehills claim to the land
As soon as this tide was granted, the
new company was organized. Rosehil
is the only partner, however who will
| visit the island on the present trip.