The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-28
NEAR END
OF CRUISE
AIbatross Goes to
San Francisco
Soon.
TRIP FIRST TO
BIRD ISLAND
Fish Commission Workers in ha-
waiian Waters Successful in
Securing OF Specimens.


i IF you should happen to meet some
wild eyed fisherman who comes from
Mokapu point and tells story of a
strange steamer that came within an
ace of going ashore on the point the
other night and got away just in tine
to save herself, don't you imagine thar
you have a big piece of news in sight
i for although a steamer did describe
almost those same antics she was
never in any danger. and we are the
steamer" said Captain Thomas Of the
! United States Fish Commission steam
er AIbatross on Saturday. while the 9TH
er officers on board enjoyed hearty
laugh.
1t seems that during her sounding
and dredging cruise the Albatross' corr
mander decided one evening to APP
proaeh Mokapu Point to make sound
ings and he approached quite close in
shore to make his work as complete
as possible The fishermen in the vi
:, c;nity saw the strange vessel and in
a few minutes decided that sn.; was go
ing to destruction. They PREPARED
i lights in their boats and on shore TO
warn her and momentarily expected
the fine steamer to go ashore but MOTH
ing of that nature happened. As soon
as captain Thomas had completed his
work he sailed quietly away. leavins
The fishermen Wondering as 20 the fats
of the craft which had approached 81
near the shore, yet had got off il
) safety.
The Albatross returned from iif
1 teen days cruise on Saturday and he
work for the United States Fish Com
5 mission in Hawaiian waters is nov
l nearly completed On leaving Homo
lulu on July she went to the Pen
+. gum Bank to take sOundings ant
dredge From there she went to Ha
wall and made a sounding and dredg
ing cruise right around that island TO-
distance of 1000 fathoms out from
shore. Leaving Hawaii she continued
her work along the weather size o
Maui. where a very favorable bottom
for dredging work was encountered
and then worked on through, the Molo
kai channel, up the Kaiwi channel anc
around the northern side of Oahu Is
! land, coming into Honolulu from tn
: direction of BARRIERS Point.
Il On July 81 the vessel will go to Bir6
Island an uninhabited speck on tn
: ocean 2e0 miles from Honolulu. Hers
! she will complete work that she was
: engaged upon some time ago. She vii
, sound and dredge ali around the shore
and make Investigations on the islanS
: itself on her previous trip there TIT
surf was beating so heavily that the
AIbatross was unable to land anyone
on the island. Captain Thomas found
bank there over which the water Is
very shallow. This bank is about eigh
miles off the island and he wishes L
complete a survey of it. on the way
hack from Bird Island the Albatros'
win do some work around Niihau Is
land. arriving here about August a.
DR.. Jordan. chief scientist for tn
! Commission in the Pacific Islands, Is
now in Samoa doing the same class OF
work as he did in Honolulu about q
year ago. 1t is expected that he WI
return TO Honolulu on the Oceanic liner
Sonoma on August IS. and if he is sat
isfied that his work is completed in the
Hawaiian waters the Albatross VIII
sail for san Francisco at once. On ar
rival at the Coast she will probably
undergo some repairs, as the class OF
| work she is doing does considerable
damage to a steamers equipment.
DR.. Gilbert, who represents DR.. Jor-
dan in the work in Hawaiian waters
told a reporter that the dredging done
BY the AIbatross on this trip was about
the same as that done previously pu'
. that several new kinds of deep sea
; life had been secured. He describes
the deep water about these Islands as
simply teerning with forms Of life
many Of them very novel and beautiful
The AIbatross has carefully preserved
on board an enormous collection OF fsf
; and other deep sea life from these
waters.
Between Waianae and BARRIERS Poin
the dredges brought up a great many
: | shrirnps of different varieties, clever
; kinds of shrimps coming up from the
bottom in one haul
Il off Waialua two sharks were caugh
; and clinging TO the bodies Of the sharks
; were found one of the strangest Of al
hsh-the remora suck fish. This sucl
; fish has its sucker on the back Of ~
head and when it once fastens TO
|. sharks body it il Impossible for IN
; shark 10 get it off.
Among other sea curiosities secure
were some strange varieties Of Sc
; urchins and a peculiar starfish. In
latter is peculiar and new kind o
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