Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-05

geographically separated. so far that no
political or social friction need arise. Let
the two peoples remain apart! This,
hope and believe, will be the sober conciu-
hope and believe will be the sober conclu-
sion of the American people.
Many Ships Stranded.
Honolulu has been having a singular ex-
perience in the stranding of three large
steamers in rapid succession. The sister
giant ships of the P. NJ. S. s. Co., the Man.
churia and Mongolia, both suffered, and the
United States transport Sheridan also
stranded. The Manchuria ran upon Wal
manala reef twenty miles east of Honolulu
August 20. On August 80 the Sheridan
stuck upon reef twenty miles west of this
city, and on September 10 the Mongolia
slipped onto reef at Midway l., the cable
station LOO miles west of us. The Man
churia pulled off from her perilous
position after twentyseven days of effort.
The Mongolia got off after five days, barely
in time to escape a destructive gale. The
Sheridan continued in peril for thirty-seven
days, but fortuna tely during all this time
the pacific character of Hawaii's ocean re-
manned undiSturbed. The two large ships
have already made their way under their
own steam to San Francisco. where they
will receive extensive repairs. The Sher-
idan will have to be towed thither. Her
plates are badly strained and opened by
her humping on the reef
The two ships beached have received
heavy injuries to their machinery, which
were measurably repaired by our great
Honolulu iron works. Unfortunately, we
have no dry dock. and only a small marine
railway, not adapted to large ships. In
overdue time we may hope for the compile
ton at Pearl Harbor of the splendid dry
dock, which is planned and located, but
whose construction has not yet been ordered.
But our traffic of large steamers is steadily
increasing. With the immediate opening of
the Tehuantepec isthmus transit it is sure
to grow rapidly, without waiting for the
Panama canal. 1t would seem to be an i'm
perative necessity to proceed at once with
the construction of Pearl Harbor dry dock
as a hospital Of refuge for this great central
steamer traffic of the Pacific.
Honolulu had the great pleasure of ex-
tending a most satisfactory hospitality to
our shipwrecked guests on the three ships,
and one without cost to ourselves, through
the liberality of the ship owners in provid-
Ing for their passengers at our hotels and
in ultimately forwarding them to their des-
tinations. The successive reports of disas-
tiers were startling, especially when the
floating of the Manchuria and the stranding
of the Mongolia were announced by simulta-
neous telegram and cablegram. The Man
churia had the services of the distinguished
wrecking expert, Capt. Metcalf. 1t is espe-
cially noticeable that In each case the three
ships were pulled off by the power of their
own winches. exerted upon hawsers led to
The power is applied successfully to the diff
ferent hawsers, one tautening, while the
others slacken. All application Of direct
towing from other ships to one fast upon q
reef seems comparatively unavailing. 1t
fails to apply the steady, unyieldtng strain
which is necessary.
Story Of Along.
Many of your readers will probably feel
an interest in the fortunes of the noted and
very worthy Along family of Honolulu.
whose founder and father lately deceased
at his home in Macao. China. where he Is
understood to have had a large Chinese
family. Chun Fong, Along, was a Chi
nese mercantile gentleman, VINO acquired a
considerable fortune in Honolulu partly by
a successful sugar plantation near Hilo.
His wife here was Miss FayerW ca Their, of
One-fourth Hawaiian blood, by whom he
had thirteen daughters and three sons, all
of whom, except one son, are living, and,
except one daughter, married The twelve
daughters were all married to reputable
white gentlemen, mostly in professional life.
One of them lives in California. as the wife
of Rear Admiral Whiting, L. S. A. Mrs.
Along lives in her fine residence in Homo
lulu with majority of her daughters,
tablished in their own homes in various
parts of the city, some of them with large
families. With the usual eXaggeratiOn the
Along family have been often written of
in American papers as being milionaires. l
40 not suppose tflat the OLD EentemanS Tor
tune ever reached million, but cannot say.
Comfortable appointments of property
were usually made to the children upon
their marriages, but nothing like large
wealth.
Approach of Elections.
With the early approach of the November
biennial elections local politics are very
much in evidence. AS usual there are three
parties republican democrat and home
rule-the last the weakest. 1t seems prob
able that the republican candidates will
more generally be elected, especially the
delegate to Congress, Prince Kuhio. There
will be, however, a strong opposition to sew
eral republican candidates from the better
class of our voters, led by the Civic Fed
Grafton" which is organized for the pur-
pose of directing such opposition to the
election of unworthy nominees of the lead
ing parties. The four gentlemen of high
character who form the executive commit
tee have just published their list of candi-
dates selected as we'll as Of those republican
and other nominees whom they most posi-
lively object to. Those whom they most
oppose are c. F. Chillingworth
for the senate A. M. Brown for sheriff. H.
c. Vida for deputy sheriff Of Honolulu, and
A. v. Gear for supervisor of Oahu county
OF Brown they use the following language:
Our governor, G. r. Carter, has repeated
ly denounced the corruption of Sheriff
Brown In collision with the gambling and
other vile resorts Of the city. The repub-
lican primaries have been largely organized
under his direction. Aside from this re-
form Issue, which 1t Is hoped will purge in
some good degree the republican party,
there is no prominent political movement
The candidate for sheriff named by the
Civic Federation is Curtis P. Iaukea, who
two years ago contested Prince Kuhio's
election al delegate, and now is the nomi-
nee of the democrats as sheriff
kuhio will doubtless be reelected as del
egate. KAMEHAMEHA