The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-05
AUTHORIZED To
START On
YACHT
Committee Has Enough
Funds to Begin
the Work.

The building of the new yacht, which
will represent Hawaii in the coming
transpacifc race, was authorized last
night at a meeting of the committee
which has the affair in charge, and
while the entire amount needed for the
work has not yet been subscribed, it IS
believed by the committee that there
is no further doubt in this regard. The
following were present at the meeting,
which was held in the rooms of the
Commercial Club: Commodore Cooper,
Vice Commodore Lyle, 0. L. Sorenson,
C. T. Wilder, Admiral Beckley, r. W.
Shingle, H. P. Roth, W. FL. McInerny
and members of the press.
A special committee, consisting of
Messrs Cooper, Wilder and McInerny,
was authorized to take charge of the
building of the yacht and to make such
purchases as should in their judgment
seem fit. In the next few days cable
gram will be sent to Crowninshield, the
designer of the new vessel, ordering
sails, and such equipment as can not
be purchased in this city. The start
ing of work on the hull will be COM
menced at once by Messrs. Sorenson &
LYLE, who will have charge of this
work. and will be carried on under the
supervision of the committee as quick
ly as possible.
The fact that all the plans for the
vessel are not yet at hand, will posi-
bly, cause some little delay, though they
are expected to arrive today on the
Maru. The building of the yacht will
be started and each week Messrs,
Sorenson & Lyle will turn over to the
committee vouchers for all labor and
material which have been used and will
be given a draft for the same. The
builders will accept no profit, and in
this way make what is probably the
largest and most important donation
toward the yacht which will be re
ceived from anyone firm.
The treasurer of the committee was
authorized to turn over to the Water
house Trust Company the donation
blanks which have been received from
the public, and the firm will look after
the collections, holding the money sub
iect to draft by the president and
treasurer The collection of the funds
will be commenced today.
The meeting was started with the
reading of the minutes, which were ap-
proved in due course, and report by
Commodore Cooper, on the status of the
plans and of the various communica-
tions which he had received, followed
In this report it was stated that the
donation of spars for the yacht, which
had been arranged for through T. w.
Hebron, by a California lumber COM
pany, could not be made, as, owing
to the present financial stringency, the
work on their plant would be delayed
and it would be impossible to get the
needed material out in time.
A report was then made by Treasurer
Wilder. In this it was stated that
there had been in the neighborhood of
$500 subscribed and that little over
$500 had been expended. Besides this
it was stated that there were other
sources, yet to be heard from, which
would probably bring in a considerable
amount more. While all the money
necessary to equip the new yacht has
not been subscribed it was felt that
there was sufficient on hand to go ahead
with the construction.
McInerny stated that there were sew
eral sources of entertainment from
which he hoped there would be goodly
results. On next Monday night a per
formance of "Finnigan the Million
aire' is to be given at the Orpheum,
as benefit for the yacht fund The
Elleford company will give a special
performance some night during their
engagement, at which all the receipts
will be turned over for the same pur-
pose. The Wild West Carnival, which
win take place on December II and ID,
will give half the receipts to the fund,
and grand baseball carnival, at which
there will be new and spectacular stunt:
of all kinds, win take place on New
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