The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-27
THETIS HERE TO PATROL.
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ter. Most of her service since has
been in the Bering and Arctic seas.
She is strongly built to withstand the
pressure of ieepacks, and her bow is
fitted with a steel nose over ironwood.
The hull is heavily braced inside.
Destructive Pelagic Raids.
Captain Jacobs was in command of
the Manning, stationed. in the Boring
Sea, but was detached and given
charge of the operations of the entire
revenue cutter feet in northern wa
tiers, with headquarters at,Unalaska.
There were twenty three japanese seal
ing schooners in. the northern waters,
and all were boarded by the revenue
officers. One was seized. While the
sealers do not attack seals on the is
lands now, they remain outside the
three mile limit and wait for their
prey. According to Captain Jacobs,
while they may have physical right
to destroy seals outside this threemiie
limit, yet he believes that their moral
attitude in the matter shonI dictate a
kindlier policy toward these denizens
of the frozen seas. A seal mother rears
| her young on the islets in order to
provide food for Herself and her young
she takes to the water ana swims out
| to sea. After passing tie three-mile
| limit the Japanese sealCfaWxatch for
| these mothers and kill thGss If they
| fail to catch them on the way out, they
! get them when returning toward the
| land. The young die and as a result
Uncle Sam s rich seal rookeries are
fast becoming impoverished.
Agreement With Japan.
/ Captain Jacobs states that efforts
have been made to arrive at an agree,
ment with Japan regarding pelagic
raids, but SO far without success. David
Starr Jordan of Stanford University is
the head of commission which has in
view the stopping of this wholesale
depletion of seal herds, and in a letter
to Captain Jacobs, shortly before the
Thetis sailed for Honolulu, Doctor Jor
dan wrote that he expected favorable
legislation on the subject during the
coming year.
The Thetis' officers are Capt. W. V
E. Jacobs, commander; First Lieut.
Henry w. Pope, executive officer; Sec
ond Lieut.. George E. Wilcox, navigat
ing officer; Second Lieut.. James l.
| Ahern, watch officer; First Lieut. OF
Engineers James H. Chalker, in charge
of machinery; Second Lieut. James E
| Sheedy, Third Lieut.. Hugh Bss tRebin
son. Warrant officers: Boatswain vii
liam Hallberg, Gunner Henry En- Smith
Carpenter Rudolph Hardensen, Machin
ist Wendt. The crew numbers sixty
five men.
Has Wireless Plant.
The Thetis is equipped with wire
less telegraph plant, which has been o.
| service while the vessel was patrollins
IN the frozen seas, and it will prove
of inestimable value in her patro
work among the Islands. The Theft:
came down in ten days under sail, al
though her auxiliary steam was uset
in order to keep her in the steamei
track between Seattle and Honolulu
The auxiliary power does not prope
the cutter at great rate, only seven
ty revolutions per minute being at
tanned.
The cutter is moored in the stream
off the foot of Fort street. Yesterda,
morning, during the heavy blow an
swell from the south, one of her sterl
lines parted.
Captain Jacobs called upon Acting
Governor E. a. Mott-Smitb on Satul
day and will receive the Acting Gov
ernor on board today.
The crew of the Thetis are enliste
! for year, and the officers state tina
this period guarantees a good lot o
men for the service