The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-08
MARINE

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When the transport Bsford left for
San Francisco about 5 clock yester,
day there was a passenger aboard who
took bunk II. the brig and viii have
a personal attendant with loaded
rife. This was Fred Harpe, formerly
La private IN J1e hospital corps, who
once made q rather spectacular attempt
70 desert. " men the transport Thomas
was about 20 leave for San Francisco
SIX months age, 4 drunken soldier came
on the dock and get into an alterea-
ton, during which he pulled revolver.
He was promptly disarmed, and then
was recognized BY the police and Fort
Shafter officers as man who was
wanted az the post.
4 robbery mad been committed the
night before al the arsenal The place
had been found broken open in the
morning and the interior ransaeked.
Two revolvers an3s lot Of cartridges
were missing. Harpe had deserted the
day OF the robbery. The revolver he
pulled on the dock was one OF the
missing guns. The other was. never
found. Harpe got two years SEN
tence II AIeatraz fer the theft Of one
revolver. Had the other been located,
a couple of years more would probably
have been added 70 the sentence.
Among other passengers from Homo
luiH we're Customs Inspector Cooper.
who has a five-weeks7 vacation on the
mainland. -Four marines from Camp
Very went t. Mare Island Among
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catcher OF the Diamond Head team.
The Baford arrived from Manila via
Nagasaki yesterday morning, after a
pleasant and uneventfuI trip. She car
ried full list of cabin passengers. and
a number OF easnals IN the Storage
Miss II. Pershing. sister Of Brighten
erai Parshing Is q through passenger.
General Pershing and wife leave Manila
presentlT fnr New York via the new
trans berian railway an1 Paris.
MAKING CHANNEL SHALLOW.
That lang wh5tish strip which shows
mp through the channel waters about
half way 10 the oEing indicates that
the channel Is becoming quite shallow
there. It Is ren0rted that one deep
laden steamer touched the sand spit On
arrival. One has only 10 lock from the
out from the Waikiki side of the chan
mel toward the Eva side. From Tan
talus the strip locks ALMOST like
point Of land rising above the surface
A dredger would fnd that the sand
bank was really quite high. As there
i no appropriation at present available
this sand spit may keep on growing
until an emergency appropriation Is
necessary TO dredge out the dangerous
point.
Il has formed from an immense
amount Of sand blown of the naval
reservation. The suction dFedger is
now at work polishing up the floor OF
the harbar where the new dredging has
lust been completed. When completely
polished the newly tlredged sections
vii he deeper than the original har-
Dor. The old lighthouse site has been
taken cat and steamers ean readily
pass close 10 the new seawalI- A new
appropriations viii be necessary to
dredge out the aid Summer island and
the present site eff the quarantine
x haTf. whenever that structure is NOV
ed back 150 feet % accord with the
new harber lines. With the quarantine
wharf moved back Honolulu harbor
viii be a splendid anchorage basin with
plenty Of room fer maneuvering the
largest steamships.
LOST HIS ANCHOR.
DR. Sanford the eptician, il one Of
th. doughtiest mariners ashore He is
the awuer IF a small yacht. He knew
nothing Of navigation when he became
master Of this craft but he started in
to learn. with Pete Barron, his swim
ming instructor watching with father
Nv interest from the Healani boathouse.
The doctor acquired knowledge of
cruising while in the baTbor, but it Is
when he essaye7 to 20 outside 20 the
deep. blue ocean. that he found that
there were q few points about naviga-
ton there that he had not learned in
side. Something went wrong with the
cen+erhoard and then the yacht drifted
toward the Kalihi reefs. When close
ia them the doctor gave the order TO
his crew. consisting Of one person, to
heave the anchor overheard That was
done literally. for the anchor did 60
overheard and was lost. The anchor
rare for some unaeeoHntable reason
was not tied To the anchor. Captain
Naeaulav and Pete Barron saw the
pilikia and went ont to the rescue
DIR. Sanford. however. Is still picking