The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-13
REACHED SHORE
ONLY To DIE
Captain Walkup Did Not Go
Down in the Schooner
Hiram Bingham.

Captain and Reverend A. c. Walkup,
Of the missionary schooner Hiram
Bingham, did not 60 down with his
craft when she capsized in the South
Seas. The captain and his crew reach
ed shore in lifeboat, but starva-
ton caused the death of the brave
and devoted navigator and missionary.
In a recent issue Of the New York
Herald, an account of the loss of the
schooner was published. This account
gives rather more particulars than did
the article published in the Advertiser,
which conveyed to the many friends of
Captain Wallup in Honolulu, the first
intimation that the missionary had
come to his death. The Herald's ac-
count is as follows:
The announcement in the Herald
yesterday exclusively of the tragic end
to the faithful labors of the Rev. AL
fred c. Walkup, an American mission
airy among the Gilbert Islands, was a
great shock to the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
and also to thousands of Sunday
school children the country over, to
whom Mr.. Walkup was known as their
"captain missionary
According to. the special cable des-
patch to the Herald from Sydney, N.
S. w, Mr.. Walkup was on the Hiram
Bingham H., the missionary vessel,
when it capsiZed in a squat off the
Caroline group. Mr.. Walkup and the
native crew of four took to the boat,
in which after three weeks of buffet
ing storms and suffering hunger and
thirst the crew finally reached Ebon
Island, but Mr.. Walkup had suceumb-
ed to starvation. The children, it was
reported, had left for this country.
Mrs. Walkup died some time ago.
1t was through the Herald that the
New York Office of the American Board
of Commissioners, in the United Char
tiles Building, No. 287 Fourth avenue,
first learned of Mr.. Walkup's fate. IF
any cable had been sent to the board.
it was stated there, it was to the Bos-
ton office. The Rev. DIR. G. G. Cree
gan, the New York secretary of the
board, is on his vacation.
The Hiram Bingham IT. cost $37 900.
and it was largely paid for by thou
sands of children in the Sunday schools,
mission bands and Junior Christian
Endeavor societies of Congregational
churches all over this country. The
children called the Rev. Mr.. Walkup
their "captain Missionary because
he Ifxyna I
time cruising among the Mieronesian
Islands, preaching and teaching, super
intending the schools and the work of
the native pastors in the mission sta
tions the American board maintains
there.
American boys and girls have al
ready paid for half the little ship by
taking out shares at ten cents each.
All shareholders were called "ship-
mates Of Captain Walkup.
The Hiram Bingham No. 2 was. a
| memorial to the Rev. DR., Hiram Bing-
ham, veteran missionary among the
Micronesian Islands, who died sudden
y in hospital at Baltimore, October
"A last. DR.. Bingham came from the
| South Sea Islands to attend the an
nual meeting of the American Board
1t was he who first preached the Cos
| pei to these dark eolored people and
reduced their spoken language to
writing.
| Captain Walkup departed in his new
| motor vessel from San Francisco last
| November. The vessel was SO feet
long and Is feet beam, with an auxili.
airy gasolene engine of 45-horse power,
This is the fifth vessel that has been
built in this country by the Amer
lean Board and sent to Micronesia.
| Each was known as the Morning Star
The first went in 1856. Two of the
four previous boats met with the same
fate as the Hiram Bingham.
| Captain Walkup first left this coun.
try for the Gilbert Islands in 1880
After visit home he returned to this
group in August, 1907, and was great.
~ disappointed at not having obtain
ed new boat then to take the place
OF the Hiram Bingham No. /. which
was then worn out in fhe service.
| Mr.. Walkup was one of seventeen
missionaries sent by the American
board to Micronesia, six of whom are
men. In the fourteen islands there are
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