The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-03

| into the channel instead of waiting
outside for the quarantine doctors, 1
am sailing under a coastwise license.
and I expected the quarantine grounds
| to be inside the harbor off the quar-
antine station, where I intended 10
anchor for the rest of the night. I
think it is pretty hard luck, after
! coasting up and down the Pacific
Coast and going in and out of every
difficult harbor and landing, to go
ashore, in channel that a man can
enter blindfolded, because lighthouse
has been moved"
/ With the spread of the news yes
| terday morning that the Despatch had
gone ON the reef. many people went
! down to the waterfront, and all kinds
of opinions were expressed concerning
the after. There were some who were
disposed to question whether the ves-
sci went ashore in making the light
house turn to come into the harbor,
| or whether it had failed to change it's
course in the channel where the chan
mel turns toward the Waikiki side of
the harbor, and SO had gotten over
to the Eva side of the channel and
onto the reef. All the officers of the
vessel, however, absolutely flout this
suggestion and assert that the vessel
went ashore in making the lighthouse
turn.
A number of photographs were made !
of the vessel as she lay on the reef. |
captain Orwell, United States Army |
Engineer Officer in charge of the |
changes in the harbor necessitating
the change of location of the range
lights, took photographs showing the
exact position of the vessel in relation
to the line of the channel and to the
line of the range lights, and the old
and new front range light sites.
The bow of the Despatch as she lay
on the reef was within fifteen or
twenty yards of the foundations still
remaining Oh the IlOuSt 81 AOlAS Oh~N |
pied by Lightkeeper Williams.
The dredger Governor, owned by E.
]. Lord, will begin this morning the
work of dredging away the old light |
house point.
The Despatch is vessel that is
within three tons the size of the
Mauna Loa and !. is of very similar
build She is a wooden vessel of 69S
gross tons, built in Fairhaven. Wash |
ington. in 1899, and can carry about |
1000 tons of freight. Her master is
Erik Kokerwitz: her first officer, |
Leonard E. Atwater, and her second
officer, Albert E. Winslow. Her chief
engineer is Thomas o. DAILY; first as
sistant engineer. Frank P. Killion;
second assistant engineer, John T.
Schneider. and she has a crew of 13. |
She has been engaged in the trade up
and down the Pacific Coast and is a |
very stanch vessel of good power,
though not a fast-sailing vessel For
the first five days out of San Fran |
cisco on the present trip she met
heavy southwest winds. Then she
struck the trades and had good wealth |
er the remainder of the way.
She is intended by the American |
Hawaiian Steamship Company to dis
tribute freight to other ports in the
islands and TO gather sugar from other |
ports for their vessels in this, thus
making it unnecessary for the COM |
pany's larger vessels to go to these
smaller landings either to load or TO
discharge. And also to enable the
proposed biweekiy service between
here and San Francisco to be main |
tanned by the Nevadan and the Ne
braskan. She brought twenty-five tons
of freight for Honolulu, and the re-
mainder about 900 tons, is for Eieele
and Maxwell.
Leonard E. Atwater, the first off,
Ger of the Despatch, was formerly
resident of the islands. and has many
friends and acquaintance here.
The Nebraskan. of the American
Hawaiian, is in the harbor, and if I
necessary could undoubtedly pull the I
Despatch off the reef, if her services
are needed.