The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-14
REACHED SHORE
ONLY TO DIE


Captain and Reverend A. c. Walkup,
of the missionary schooner Hiram
Bingham, did not go down with his
craft when she capsized in the South
Seas. The captain and his crew reach.
ed shore in a lifeboat, but starva-
ton caused the death of the brave
and devoted navigator and missionary.
In 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 walkup in Honolulu, the first
intimation that the missionary had
come to his death. The Herald's &C.
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
| 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 squall 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 succumb.
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.
titles Building, No. 2s7 Fourth avenue,
first learned of Mr.. Walkup s fate. II
any cable had been sent to the board
it was stated there, it was to the Bos.
ton office. The Rev. DIR. G. c. Cree.
gan, the New York secretary of the
board, is on his vacation.
The Hiram Bingham II. cost $S7 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.. Walkur
their s'captain missionary because
he lived on the boat and spent his
time cruising among the Micronesiar
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 was 6
memorial to the Rev. DR.. Hiram Bing
ham, veteran missionary among tn,
Micronesian Islands, who died sudden
ly in a hospital at Baltimore, October
"a last. DIR. Bingham came from tn,
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 colored people and
reduced their spoken language t.
writing.
Captain Walkup departed in his new
motor vessel from San Francisco las
November. The vessel was 60 fee
long and 16 feet beam, with an auxili
airy gasolene engine of 45.horse power
This is the fifth vessel that has beef
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 tn,
four previous boats met with the sam,
fate as the Hiram Bingham.
Captain Walkup first left this coun
try for the Gilbert Islands in 1880
After visit home he returned to thi
group in August, 1907, and was great
ly disappointed at not having obtain
| ed new boat then to take the plac,
of the Hiram Bingham No. l, whicl
was then worn out in the service.
, Mr.. Walkup was one of seventeen
{ missionaries sent by the American
, board to Micronesia, six of whom ar,
men. In the fourteen islands there ar,
r sixty-two places for regular churcl
worship.