Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-01
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by RICHARD BARRY


L. $. .. KANSAS, MAGDALENA
BAY, Lower California, March ~.
II is done. We have slipped anchors
in California bottom and the Cali
fornia balm is on our brows.
But three months ag0-Or was II
yesterday felt the SHOWS OH
llatteras and watched the MayiiOwer,
with its President, grow dim on the
Virginia shore.
Then into the soft smooth Carib-
bean and the warm blow of the
south; then the luscious tropics,
where Neptune, pausing on the Equa-
tor, halted us till he properly made
every land-lubber one of his trusty
shellbacks; then the south temper
ate with its sweet-sick breath from
the savannahs, and again the snow,
this time from the glacier peaks Ot
Magellan, and then the Pacific, sun
NY serene and cool. up which we
Crept for six weeks, straight from
the tip of the Andes to the top;
then cut the neck from the tossing
Gulf of Tehuantepec, rounded the
gray lee of San Lucas and swiftly
dug our sea-battered noses into the
Bay of Magdalena!
And here we are--the continent
circumnavigated; three zones and
five climates survived, the roll OF
South American republics complete
on our visiting list, not n propeller
out OF place, not gun trunniOn
rusted, not a boiler condemned, six.
teen battleships of the first class
quite ready and willing to start out
this sunny and CCOl forenoon, for VT
have weeks coal in our bunkers
a months provisions in our hold and
enough ammunition in our maya.
zines to put any respectable navy out
of business in an hour-we are
ready to start out, say, without no.
tice, and prove 1t.
Which we are going to do; this
minute | can hear the ammunition
hoists bringing up the first round OF
S-inch for the preliminary run on
the target range.
Railroad Trains 0utdone
And on time; to be exact, two days
ahead of time. When they made III
that schedule in Washington, some
one was kind enough to forget that
February in 1905 has twenty-ninc
days, so we were as well OFF as II We
were sailing west across the inter,
national date line.
We lost day from Trinidad tc
Rio, but we made 1t up from Rio &c
Punta Arenas, and then we picked
up another day from Callao here
Hence we are two days in front OF
the timetable.
Can you mention transcontinen.
tai train, after thirty years on the
run, that can do that, or, to be more
fair, an ocean liner with that pleas,
ant habit?
Thirteen thousand miles in three
| months, sixteen battleships constant,
ly In tactical formation, no one evel
more than eight hundred yards from
its nearest neighbOr, and most of thI
time but four hundred yards, trans,
ferrlng the sea power of the nation
the second navy of the world -
from the est to the west coast of tn,
United States through one of tn,
most dangerous channels known t
navigation, without accident or de,
lay, and on a little better than SEIZED
ule time-that is the record.
Since God made the world 1t hai
not been done until now. Nor any
thing like IT.
1889 Miles in 81 Days.
II you wish to be precise, 1t wai
1889 miles in eighty-seven days;
but the twenty-fOur hours we grew
gray In Rio de JaneirO wandering Il
our months mail would arrive beror,
we showed OFF can safely put on an
other three days (you can ever
stretch it to three weeks); while Tho
tide-rips we fought in Possession ba!
and the northwest currents we buck
ed the other side of the passage will
easily make up the odd lOl miles,
Someone may detect boustfu
note In this plain record of a grea
event, If so, it must be ascribed e