The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-27

Memorial to Victims
of the Apia
Storm.

VALLEJO, Aug. 1s-The terrible
hurricane that swept over the harbor
of Apia, Samoa. March Is, 1859. wreck
ing German and American ships and
carrying death and destruction in its
wake, was today brought wildly be-
fore the public. when a handsome
bronze tablet was unveiled with APP
propriate ceremonies at ST. Peters
Chapel. The names of the men who
lost their lives during that awful time
We're placed in conspicuous place on
the wall of the beautiful little church.
there to stand during future years as
a reminder that those who give up
their lives while serving their coun-
try's flag in the tumult of storm are
no less valiant than those whose light
goes out forever in the din of battle
The tablet, which is a companion of
the one unveiled some time ago in
memory of the officers and men who
lost their lives during the Samoan
trouble at that time, has been erected
through the efforts. not only of Amer
leans, but also through the contribu-
tons of representatives of the English
Scotch and Irish nationalities, surviv-
ors of the hurricane. Much credit is
due to Chaplain A. A McAlister. u !
S. N, retired, but now on duty at Mare
Island, and to Lieutenant Samuel L.
Graham, u. S. N. both of whom were
On duty on the wrecked vessels, and
through whose fundamentally in a
large measure the money for 1.-The tablet
was secured. /
The tablet itself is handsome piece
of work carved beautifully in bronze /
and bearing the words:
ITO the memory of the officers and
men of the United States navy and
marine corps attached to the Trenton, |
vandalia and Nipsic who lost their
lives in the harbor of Apia Samoa,
during the hurricane of March Is. !,
1897
Below these words are inscribed the !
names Of the officers and men.
TRIBUTES TO OTHERS.
The unwilling of the tablet today was
also made the occasion of the blessing |
Of the handsome new carved reredos
recently added to the altar, as well as
he OLE - |
of the late Bishop Kipp, and the sane
tuary lamps, recently donated by Rear
and Mrs. Bowman H. Nc
Gala, in memmory of Admiral Porter,
Rear Admiral Godon and Rear Admiral
Alden.
large number of invitations had
been sent out for the affair, the list
of guests including prominent people
Of San Francisco, among whom were
British Consul General Bennett, DR..
d Evelyn, president of the British
American Union; Right Rev. Bishop
Nichols of the Episcopal diocese of
Sacramento. The exercises opened at
3 O'Clock with the singing of America,
by the reading of the evening
prayer, the services being conducted by !.
Chaplain A. A. McAlister, U. S. N. The
Right Rev. Bishop Nichols blessed the
altar gates and the reredos, delivering !
at the time a few remarks in which he
dweit on the life of the late Bishop
Kip, In whose memory the gates had /
been given, and who during the years /
between 1854 and 1864 visited Mare Is
land, then only a small and compare
lively Insignificant navy yard. and at |
intervals conducted services there
Bishop Moreland blessed the sanctu- |
airy lamps and made few remarks on |
the subject of the three great naval |
officers in whose memory they had |
been given to the chapel.
The three great officers, Porter Cor !
don and Alden, formed the subject Of
Rear Admiral McCalla's speech, and he