The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-28
BOOTY WORTH
THOUSANDS
Secured from the
Wreck on the
Shoals.

Island schooner Lavinia, owned and
commanded by Captain weisbarth, left
Honolulu for French Frigate Shoals.
With crew of young natives and by
means of appliances secured specially
for the purpose, Weisbarth sailed away
to wreck" the French bark Connetable
de Richmont which has been stranded
on the coral reef there for some months.
Old waterfronters regarded the ven
ture as a foolhardy one. They were
sure that Weisbarth was wasting his
money and his proposed departure was
for some time the object of all ridicule
| on the wharves. Yesterday, with his
grim looking face tanned to almost the
color of leather, Weisbarth entered
port again. His small vessel was load
ed deeply. The skipper returned not
| with n hard luck story but with booty
from the Frenchman valued at thous-
ands Of dollars. Pumps, windlasses,
anchor. SAIL wire cables, ropes, haws-
ers. and about everything else under
the sun that Is found on a well equip
ped steel sailing vessel were slowed
under the Lavinia's one small hatch
and the wonder is that Weisbarth and
his small crew OF natives were ever
able to take away such large amount
Of stun. One item of the Lavinia's
cargo. anchor chains, is said to be of
such quantity and quality that 1t is
worth about $4,000. This in itself is
booty that pays the venture.
Weisbarth has been away from Homo
lulu about two months. He went down
to the Shoals in three days His re-
turn journey occupied eleven days.
Every hour and every minute of the
time that Weisbarth and his men spent
on the Shoals was occupied in
hard work. Around the dan
gerous reefs and small rocks known as
the French Frigate Shoals the Lavi-
MAS crew enjoyed unusually fine
weather and this In n measure is ac-
countable for the success of the VEN
ture.
DESTRUCTION BY JAPANESE.
Captain weisbarth went to the Shoals
armed with authority to send away
any Japanese bird poachers who might
be found there. But he had no chance
to exercise this authority as the Japa-
nese had deserted the place after hav-
ing massacred about all the birds that
rendezvous in that portion of the Pa
cifc ocean. Captain Weisbarth found
evidences of great slaughter. The small
island on which he had previously met
with Japanese bird poaching party
was covered with the bones of thous-
ands of BOBBY and gooney birds. So
destructive had been the work of the
Japanese that the party saw but few
birds where Weisbarth had seen count
less thousands when he first visited
the wreck in the schooner Ada some
months ago.
MAY GO AFTER BIRDSKINS.
Along the waterfront the query yes
terday was: "Wil old Weisbarth head
: for Lisianski Island and secure those
Japanese birdskins?" The general
opinion seemed to be that wesbarth
would discover that he had some BUSH
ness to attend to over at Laysan Is
land, the guano island ninety miles
from Lisiansl1i Island. And weisbarth
has business over that way which will
send him hence in few days He
says that he has an arrangement to go
over to Laysan on IA guano carrying
errand for Max Schlemmer. People
figure that If the Lavinia can reach
French Frigate Shoals in three days
she can, with a bait of twenty thous-
unprotected on Lisiansd Island, reach
that place In almost steamboat time.
But this is a matter which weisbarth
does not talk about. He is quite clev-
err old skipper In the wreclking line and
has tackled tougher propositions than
the securing of few bird skins on
an uninhabitated island. So 1t would
not surprise the waterfront If Weiss
I Sl1Ian1V tn vic
friend Max Schlemmer. There are
any number of people on the waterfront
who are willing to chip In a dollar or
SO to send the Lavinia off.
No disposition has yet been made of
the goods that Weisbarth brought from
the wrecked Frenchman but he will
probably dispose OF them at once for
a sum which will place him In pretty
prosperous position.
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was at Tentsn," he answered. 1.-THE
| brigade was active throughout the
Boxer trouble from Taku to Pekin.
They only lost 800 men during the en-
: tire campaign Two of the regiments
We're reserved for humiliation at Ku-
liencheng, But" he added In the tone
Of one who finds a poor consolation
In great misfortune "the Chinese
ara not 10 DE compared as lighters
with the Japanese"
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