The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-03
YACHTS STUCK
IN THE MUD
WikiWiki Filled and
Sank and Wharf
Broke Away.

Damage to the streets in the storm
of Tuesday morning is widespread
nearly every section of the city having
suffered. In no place are there any
very serious washouts, but the numer-
Gus small washouts and cuts will in the
aggregate call for the expenditure of
a large amount of money in repairs.
Road Supervisor Johnson reports the
washout on Manoa road as the most
serious, while the road on the Pukaki
hill also suffered. Already the road
gangs are out and at work.
At the Nuuanu reservoir the damage
done was slight. The previous storms
had washed away about everything
that was movable. leaving little for the
last and worse storm to do. At the
done at the work with the exception Of
some concrete work. Nor will anything
be attempted as long as the barometer
remains as low as it does. When work
is recommended the first thing to be
done will be to clean out the gravel
and other material washed into the
excavation at the inside of the con-
crete wall, which was filled up with
the material from the temporary dam
above in a previous storm
Along the o. r. & L. right-of-way
there was surprisingly little damage
done, even the new roadbed along the
Wahiawa branch being little affected.
Neither has any particular damage
to the county roads been reported at
the office of the County Engineer.
AT PEARL HARBOR.
Pearl Harbor had its share of the
storm, especially among It's fiotilla of
yachts.
Macfarlane's schooner-yacht La Pa
Iona is ashore off Banning's Point and
will have to be dragged over about
forty yards of mud before she gets
into deep water again. At low tide
the vessel lies in eighteen inches of
water. The yacht draws about six
feet.
H. E. Picker's yacht Spray is ashore
just off the Hawaii Yacht Clubs head
quarters and is in about twelve inches
of water at low tide. The yacht draws
4 1-2 feet. The Spray is absolutely un,
damaged. She lies about eighteen feet
from the clubhouse veranda. 1t look
ed as if the vessel had sought safety
from the storm by starting to climb
the steps of the clubhouse.
The yacht Wikiwiki filed with water
and sank opposite Sorenson's wharf. |
The matches were off the boat at the |
time. The vessel was raised yester- /
day. None of the boats lost their an |
chors, but dragged them. /
Vice Commodore Lyle will go to
Pearl Harbor today in the yacht Ha-
wall with the necessary tackle to float |
La Paloma and the Spray. Captain |
Picker states there will be no trouble
getting the Spray off, but with the La
PaIoma it will be a job
The Macfarlane wharf was washed
away. The clubs wharf remained in
act and the railroad wharf is all right.
The waves broke entirely over all the
yharves.
Tt will be impossible to float either
If the yachts except at high tide. The
high tide, large, comes at sos this
morning, and SO no attempt will be
made to float them, as the tackle will
lot be on hand. 1t is likely that the
ttempts will be made at the next high
ide.
Captains Macfarlane and Picker are
amage resulted to their boats. Mr.. 4
'icker spent the afternoon at the har-
or
Nearly all the trees in the park ad- ,
oining the clubhouse were blown over. q
One landmark of the older days of I
honolulu went down before the storm
the old fiagstaff at the Cummins' I
omestead at Pawaa. This flagstaff a
ith it's gilded horse weathervane has '
Gathered the konas of many years, T
fall at last on Tuesday. La
David Dowsett is also a loser by the |.
orm, the high winds completely de-
corrugated iron building at q
IS place in Nuuanu. On Monday the
ind tilted this building, which was
yenty by thirty feet in size, from its
leaving it so that the
saviest gust on Tuesday morning got %
sneath it, lifting 1t high enough in
e air to break an electric wire
retched at the ordinary height and
en to drop it, the fall smashing the :,
OGDEN frame and twisting the iron =
to uselessness. II