The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-12
MARINE
Fleet Saluted the Aloha.

ITfudS HlOEufliS carry, ne DtIieNtu tudt
the day of reckoning had come. With
great clouds of smoke pouring from
their tunnels, eight monsters of the
deep. battle painted, shot up over the
horizon in close formation, and, in al
most less time than it takes to tell,
were within short distance of the
undertaken schooner. Captain Welt
hunat wasn't sure just what show he
had against the fighting ships, but he
hauled up the stars and stripes to
the masthead, to show that he was
still in the game. Almost directly to-
ward the Aloha, came the squadron,
still in close formation, until it seem
ed as if the warships must surely run
the schooner down. The war vessels
split in formation Just in time, how
ever, and shot by on either side of
Captain Weitkunat' schooner, each
one of the cruisers dipping her colors
as she passed swiftly by. Captain
Weitkunat says that they shot past
SO close to his vessel that he thought
for moment that it would be good
bye to his jib boom.
This is the first trip that Captain
Weitkunat has made to this port i'll
seven years, though he still has a
number of friends who remember him.
The Aloha is a crack lumber-carrier.
She is locked at the Railroad wharf.
No Scarcity of Lumber.
, There are more lumber vessels in
this port at the present time than
there have been in considerable time
past. The Aloha arrived Friday from
Aberdeen, and yesterday the Benicia
from the same port was sighted, com
ing inside during the afternoon.
Yesterday morning the big schooner
Helene, Captain Thompson, arrived
from Gray's Harbor with a large load
of lumber 1t was only last Monday
that the W. G.. Watson arrived from
Grav's Harbor, and the schooner S.
G. Allen is still discharging. Both of
them brought lumber. The w. G. Wat
son discharged her deck load here, and
has been ready to leave for the port
of Hanamaulu on Kauai with the rest
of her cargo for the last two days.
She is prevented from leaving, how
ever, by the fact that schooner Ad-
miral is at present diseharging coal
there. Hanamaulu bay is so small that
it can accommodate but one vessel at
time, and for this reason Captain
Stream is prevented from leaving for
the Kauai port as soon as he would
ke He has been ready for sea for
two days now, and will sail Monday.
Captain Stream S Good Friend.
Captain Stream, the master of the
schooner w. G. Watson, now in port,
thinks that the schooner Mary Winkel-
man. which is also in this port at the
| present time, is one of the best friends
he has, for it was through the kindly
offices of the latter named vessel that,
he believes, his wife s life was saved.
Several years ago Captain Stream
was beating up the Washington coast,
in the schooner Emily Claudina, head
ing for Gray S Harbor. A terrific gale
was blowing, and when Steam arrived
off the Aberdeen bar he found that it
| would be impossible to go inside with
the storm that was blowing. Almost
without warning, the rudder of Cap
tain Streams boat was torn from the
stern of the vessel, and from that
moment on he was actually helpless.
| Mountainous seas were the order of
the day, and the wind was blowing
| with great velocity. Distress signals
were sent up during the day, and dur
lg the night, others were burned. 1t
was the fact of the night distress sig
mails being burnt that probably saved
the life of the Captain s wife, for in
the morning another vesseI-the Mary
| Winkelman-was seen not far from
| the wallowing Claudina. The Winkel-
man had seen the night distress sig
| mails, and had hove to during the night.
Captain Stream communicated with
the master of the Mary Winkelman,
and, as he saw there was no hope for
his vessel unless a tug boat should
come outside-a jury rudder proving
of no value against the strength of
| the wind and seas to right his vessel
he arranged to have his wife taken on
board the Mary Winkelman. This was
| accomplished in the face Of almost
leaving her husband s vessel in life
boat. Willing hands on the Winkel-
man rugged continuance known in sea-
faring parlance as boatswain s chair,
to which the shippers wife was
dashed and lifted to safety. Her
husband, however, refused to leave
his ship.
During the following night the two
vessels were separated, Mrs. Stream
going with the Mary Winkelman and
the Captain remaining on his helpless
vessel. The Mary Winkelman arrived
in port several days afterwards, and
to Mrs. Streams glad surprise, her
husband was On board the tug boat
that met the schooner on which she
| was a passenger. She had believed
him dead, for she had slight hope that
the vessel would survive the terrible
storm. On the other hand, Captain
| Stream did not know whether or not
his wife was alive, and the mental
agony that both of them suffered aged
them greatly in the few days they
| were separated.
The Emily Claudina, of which
Stream was master, was wrecked, but
the Captain and crew left her in a
| lifeboat shortly before she hit the
breakers, and by the merest chance
were picked up by the schooner Min
ME Game. The Emily Claudina is
well know to oldtimers in these Is
lands, having at one time belonged to
Spreckels. She was in the sugar trade
between this port and San Francisco