The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-06

ters are taken up with considerable
portion of the ships provisions in
boxes and many boxes of Bibles, die.
-tionaries and hymn books. One large
box makes a splendid mess table and
smaller ones settees.
It is understood that the vessel acted
a little crankily on the voyage, as she
did not have sufficient ballast. Proper
ballast will be taken on here.
The Hiram Bingham is registered as
a fve-ton schooner with auxiliary pow
er She is sixty-five feet in length and
twenty-five feet beam. She was built
at San Francisco by Anderson, the man
who built the famous "Snark" for
Jack London.
Besides the captain, his son and
daughter, there is a crew of three men.
They are F. Peterson, Oscar Lind and
Charles johnson. None of them has
ever been to the Gilbert Islands.
Captain Walkup is well known in
Honolulu. He preached in the Old Fort
street church twenty-eight years ago.
He passed through Honolulu about eight
months ago on the S. S. Orland, from
Ocean Island en- route to San Fran
cisco to superintendent the building
and launching of the schooner. Both
Captain Walkup's children will return
to the United tSates. Miss Walkup
will teach physical culture to the mem
bers of the Elgin, H., Y. w. c. A, and
VIII Walkup will take postgraduate
course in agriculture at Oberlin.
The Naval Station was interested yes
terday afternoon in the marriage of
Mr.. Branch, formerly a wireless opera
tor in the service of the United States
Navy at Honolulu, but now the chief
electrician of the Kahuku station of
the Inter-Tsland Wireless Telegraph
Company, and Miss Lyon of Beretania
avenue. The wedding took place yes
terday afternoon at the home of the
brides parents. and shortly afterward
the young couple left for Kahuku on
the afternoon train. Mr.. Branch is con-
sidered an expert in wireless telegraphy
and the Naval Station people regretted
that he did not reenlist when his term
expired recently. But the offer of the
local wireless company was tempting.
Waiting for the Lantern.
The nearness Of the completion of
the Honolulu harbor lighthouse will
cause the engineer s department of the
Army to keep a lookout for the lantern
which was shipped from the East last
month. 1t should arrive here shortly
and the work of installation will be
brief. The concrete building is COM
pleted and the roofing is being laid on.
The tower is complete and the lantern
dome protection is in position.
One of the dredgers employed on the
dredging contract was taken off the
work yesterday and eight days from
last Thursday the other dredger viii
bank its fires and from the contractor s
standpoint the great work of charging
the harbor and deepening it to thirty
Eve feet will be considered complete.
The Army engineers department has
been sounding the harbor, following up
the work of the contractors. and with
4 final survey the work will be taken
over by the United States.
Within a short time the buoy which
now marks the former sic of the old
lighthouse, will be removed, and the |
additional water area viii be opened to
rattle. The use of this additional wa
,erway viii be welcome to the pilots, |
as it means a short cut from the chan !
mel to the Eva end of the harbor and