The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-12
MARINE
Kukui from Acapulco

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Cantain
AlDert Mech has been ordered to com.
mand and conduct from the A4Iap+ie
20 the Pacific coast feet of six ou.
lighthouse vessels. The feet will oon
slst of the lighthouse tenders Manzsn.
lta, which viii be the flagship of the
Meet; the Sequoia, the Kukui. and I;ob+.
SHIPS Nos. SIS, 81, and 90. All of tbasa
vessels were recently completed bv shin.
yards on the Atlantic coast. The Sc.
quota is intended for use in pnoet
Sound and the Kukui for use in Hawai-.
ian waters. The. vessels will start on
thelr journey from the lighthouse head
quarters at Tomkinsville, Staten Island.
IN September, and they win proceed at
the rate of seven or eight knots per
hour 1t IS estimated that about 100
days will be consumed in the erpise To
San Francisco. The Kukui will leave
the feet at Acapulco and proceed thence
direct to Honolulu.
VALLEJO, September 1.-The NAVY
Department officials in Washington have
directed that the monitor Wyoming be
placed IN commission as soon as possible
without the yard forces working over
time on her. In accordance with the
orders received yesterday, the work
on this vessel must be completed not
later than Saturday, September 26th, so
that the monitor can be placed in com
mission on the LIST of October. When
the ship is commissioned her name will
be changed from Wyoming to Cheyenne,
as the Navy Department wishes to name
one of the new battleships now being
constructed en- the Eastern coast Wyo-
ming.
Buford Has Lucky Thirty
If the army transport Buford makes
only her regular speed she will not ar
rive here until Monday forenoon, or
nine days out from San Francisco. The
delegation of island school teachers
known as the Lucky Thirty is
aboard this vessel and if she arrives
only on Monday most Of those who
teach in the Honolulu schools will have |
to go direct from the transport to their |
school rooms. Those from the other
islands viii be a couple of days late.
The school teachers booked to return
from their visit to the mainland, where
most of them attended summer schools, |
are: J. B. Alexander and wife, Miss
Jennie Allen, Miss Jean Angus, Mrs. L. /
c. Biekford, Mrs. /. L. Creighton, Mrs.
Grace Crockett, Manuel de Corte, Miss
Margaret Mossman, Mrs. Laura Sabey,
Joseph de Silva, Miss NJ. Alice Smith,
w. w. Taylor, Miss Isabella NJ. Weight
man, Miss NJ. Ida Ziegler, II. J. Stew
enson, wife and daughter GUAM; Mrs.
Marian Theberath, Miss Anna Danford,
Mrs. Eldora Deacon, Miss Anna Deas,
Miss Mary E. Fleming, Miss Mollie
Grace, Miss A. Greene, Miss Mary
Franco, Miss Ann z. Hadley, Miss Ag.
mes Judd, Miss Mabel Ladd, J. v. Mar
ciel and wife, Mrs. Lille G. Marshall,
Miss Alice A. McCord.
Among other passengers viii be
Major MeKinstry, Chief of Engineers
of the Department of California, who
is to inspect the harbor work here. 1t
is likely that he viii look into the pill
kia between Captain Orwell of the local
army engineer 3 office and the eontrac-
tors working on the harbor enlargement.
He will also make an inspection of
lighthouse work. He will be accompa-
MED by Mrs McKinstry. The wife and
of Paymaster Goodman, U. s.
A.. both well known here socially, will
visit the islands for few weeks. The