The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-01-04
YACHTS STUCK
IN THE MUD.

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 cali for the expenditure of
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
present time there Is nothing being
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 1t 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 its flotilla Of
yachts.
Macfarlane's schooner-yacht La Pa
Iona is ashore off Banning's Point and I
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.
II. E. Pickers 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 filled with water
and sank opposite Sorenson's wharf.
The matches were off the boat at the
time. The vessel was raised yester-
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
Paloma 1t will be job. Il
The Macfarlane wharf was washed
away. The clubs wharf remained In
tact and the railroad wharf is all right.
The waves broke entirely over all the
wharves.
1t will be impossible to float either
of the yachts except at high tide. The
high tide, large, comes at 5:o5 this
morning, and so no attempt will be
made to float them, as the tackle VIII
not be on hand. 1t is likely that the
attempts will be made at the next high
tide T,
Captains Macfarlane and Picker are
congratulating themselves that no
damage resulted to their boats. Mr..
Picker spent the afternoon at the har-
bor
Nearly all the trees in the park ad-
joining the clubhouse were blown over.
One landmark of the older days OF
Honolulu went down before the storm ;
in the old Flagstaff at the Cummins'
homestead at Pawaa. This flagstaff
with its gilded horse weathervane has
weathered the konas of many years.
to fall at last on Tuesday.
David Dowsett is also a loser by the
storm, the high winds completely de-
a corrugated iron building at
his place in Nuuanu. On Monday the
wind tilted this building, which was
twenty by thirty feet in size, from its
leaving it so that the
heaviest gust on Tuesday morning got
beneath 1t, lifting it high enough In
the air to break an electric wire
stretched at the ordinary height and
then to drop 1t, the fall smashing the
wooden frame and twisting the iron
into uselessness.
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