The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-03-11
AlBATROSS
COMING
Will Bring Several
Fish Commits.
sion Experts.
Especial 60 the Ad,er,iser)

SAN FRANCtSCo. FEB. 2I-The
United states Fish Commission eNpe-
dlticn 20 Hawaii viii sail In day or
Two from this port for Honolulu The
party will continue the work 50 ably
begun by President Jordan @: star
iord University, and Professor Jen-
kins, last summer. Charles H. Gilber.
who is the head OF the zoology depart
ment at Stanford University, viii be .
IN charge OF the expedition. and Will /
be assisted by Professor e. g. Nutting .
OF the zoology department Of the Uni
versity OF Iowa, J. o. Snyder, instruc-
tor at Stanford In zoology, and Walter
X Fisher, a Stanford graduate, who /
has done special work In natural his |
tor, Investigations
EUGENE FIELDS WIDOW HERE. /
on the Sonoma will arrive in Homo |
lulu Mrs. Julia = Field, widow of the
distinguished dead poet Eugene Field, |
whose verses have made a world laugh !
and weep. Mrs. Field has been in Ala !
media for some days visiting the fam
Uy Of Henry * Field, cousin OF Eu-
gene Field.
Mrs. Field is well known to all those
who love the work of the Western poet,
and who are familiar with his life, as
the sweetheart whom he wooed so Inn
petuously and won against the protes-
tations of her relatives. She was Julia
sutherland Comstock, and lived in st.
Joseph, Mo. She was but sixteen years
old when Field met her. and shortly
afterwards he went to Europe. He
stayed six months, and then returned
and welded Miss COmstocE, despite
barriers interposed. Often in his writ
ings he has sung her praises, and told
OF her struggle to keep the family
purse from being continuously emptied
by his improvidence.
Mrs. Field lives in Chicago, where
her husband spent the last years OF
his life. Her daughter who made quite
a reputation as a reader of her fathers
poems, is now married, and the other
children are at college. Mrs. Field is
accompanied on the Sonoma by par
ty OF Chicago friends. They expect to
remain about three months, and may
go on to Samoa and FIT
MURPHY STILL AT WORK.
Francis Murphy, the apostle of tenn
perance, Is in Los Angeles, conducting
gospel temperance meetings in the
Young Mems Christian Association
Hall Mr.. Murphy is not as strong as
he was in Honolulu, and finds his work
says OF him:
During the early years of the Penn
sylvania oil fields excitement, when
lie in the Allegheny mountains was
as strenuous as ever was lived in
western mining camp, name that was
known from Pittsburg to Scranton was
Francis Murphy, the keeper OF dance
halls and saloons. Murphy was great
In his work Of creating intemperance,
as he has been since in promoting total
abstinence.
In 1870 Mr. Murphy delivered his first
temperance lecture. He began then
crusade against drunkenness that
swept on and on, till the name or
Francis Murphy was known as wide
as the world. AT one series OF meet
ings in Pittsburg $4,000 people signed
hi. pledge and became "Murphys."
Mr. Murphy is now &C years of age.
His hair is almost snoM white, and he
shows in a growing feebleness the
weight of hard work that he has done.
But he has no thought OF giving up
the work He has returned only lately
from a trip to Australia and New Hea-
land and before coming south held
meetings at Sacramento and other cit
les in the northern part of the state.
During the Spanish-American war ne
served as 'h"Pi"'" WA"
Cuba.
Mrs Murphy, who for a number OF
years worked with her husband, has
given up travelling, and makes her
home at Fair OAKS near Hacraiieiito'
where they own large ranch.
TO LOAD OIL FOR HAWAII
The Standard Oil Company, il is un-
derstood. is in a project to build an
electric railway from Ventura to Bak-
ersfeld. The purpose of the road is to
carry oil from the Bakersfield wells to
tho mort of Ventura, where line OF
tank steamers will receive it for Ha-
wall and the Orient. The original sur
yeys were for pipe line to carry oil
from the Kern and Sespe wells to the