The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-16
CREW MAY co UP To
COAST FOR RACES
Contracts and Payment for New
Myrtle and HeaIani Barges
Off on Sierra.

VII Oit SiCi d.
1t has been suggested to members of
the Healani Yacht and Boat Climb IN
one or two occasions recently that tbev
Try TO bring barge crew down here
from the Coast for the regatta dav
races ih honolulu harbor 10 mako tho
public interest more keen and now tho.
are working on a scheme to bring this
about. They nave held all along that
| the expense would be too GREAT How.
ever they think now that thew have
! found way.
| Both the Healanis and the MyrtIes.
are to have two new barges buiI+ in
San Francisco. The contracts and first
payment went off Wednesday by the
Sierra. which sailed for the Coast. These
will probably be completed in the
spring and, instead of having them
shipped to Honolulu at once, a plan is
brewing to pick crew OF oarsmen.
either all Healanis or part Mvrtles to
go up TO the Coast and enter the spring
| regatta held by the boat clubs around
| San Francisco.
This sort of thing will stir up a lively
interest both here and in the States and
from Hawaiian promotion standpoint.
1T Will 60 long way toward loosening
up the legislature to come through with
a regatta day appropriation as suggest
ed by senator Charles Chillingworth re
Gently l. NJ. Hale of Hilo is passenger
on the Sierra which sailed for the Coast
Wednesday and he has been authoriz-
ed to sound the boat clubs around Frisco
on the proposition of having a crew OF
Honolulu oarsmen compete with then
over their own waters.
Arouse Interest.
If this scheme goes through interes
will be aroused in the States and tn,
Hawaiian public and the territorial
Legislature viii be more likely to favo
featuring regatta day here in the fal
as an attraction for tourists. and tn,
likelihood of Coast crew coming down
here then would certainly make it WORT
while to spend little public none,
to put the waterfront in shape to ac
eommodate the citizens of these island
and the visitors from the States.
Chihngworth suggested a while ag
that the legislature appropriate fv
hundred dollars year to erect bleach
ers on the wharves and fix up the water
front for regatta day. making the boa
races feature to attract tourists a
well as the Floral Parade The town ha
grown too large now for the two boa
clubs to accommodate all the citizens an
n keep open house on this date and Chi
hngworth thought, aside from the PR
motion idea. that there ought to b
some provision made for the masses VIII
manifest a hearty interest in the r.
G. gatta day events each year.
Fastest Barges Ever Here.
The two barges ordered by the H
waiian Rowing Association are TO be
nearly alike as it is possible to mab
them. They are both to be built at Il
same time. Alfred Rogers built Il
boats now used by the local clubs. b
James l.. Torbert, an old Honolulu oar
man now located on the Coast. has bee
looking into the boat building busine
and he ran across a man by the nan
of Thomas Il. Keenan,, in San Francisc
who has been turning out some spec,
boats tor the oarsmen on the Goa:
Torbert has been in correspondent
with Tom King, president of the Myrt
Boat Club and the Hawaiian Rowll
Association. aud on Torbert 5 advl
and the representations made by hee
An in letters forwarded here the L
local boat clubs have decided to g
keenan, chance to turn ont the L
fastest barges that ever glded OK
Hawaiian waters.
Negotiations have been going on
some time. and Wednesday King, as pre-
dent Of the Myrtle Boat Club, a
II James T. Jaeger, the new president
the Healani club. signed the contra'
forwarded from keenan, by TOrbert
- thpv were sent of on the Sierra Nednt
day accompanied by 4 draft for IS
as the first payment on the two boa
- The contracts were drawn IN duplie5
II and King signed one while Jaeger
fixed his autograph to the other. Tie
is how they read:
Bilding Contract
q hereby agree 10 build 1of )
two six-oar racing barges. These nare
are 10 be built according to the loAI
irg general Specifications: flanhlas
be OF sugar pine. ribs OF OAK, IRA
and bracings OF cedar, copper fastet
.brougbour; each fitted with SIX roi
seats and a coxswain' : seat: sNi
bronze oar locks, n'ekelplated; seN
pairs spoontoed shoes, six double z, gFo ..
. ed racing cars, TO be oiled, s3eliaeS
and vanished and TO be Grated ana
Tvared on the wharf in san France.
..The approximate dimensions Of
two boats are as follows: Len u
f"~rv-ane feet; beam, thjrty-si men
5enth thirteen and one-half inches.
vril1 huiIl and deliver these t"o oal.
as above for the net sum Of $lo'5' 7
able a. follows: Oue-third on the 81
irg OF the contracts. ope-thiTd when n,
ho7-s are plauked and the balance w
The bin Of Iadtng Is delivered
In his letter forwaTdins tae (
traits 10 Tom King, Toroert says
mart.