Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-05
Shipping
SMALLPOX ON TRANSPORT
CAUSED Change IN SCHEDULE
Damaged Wheat viii Pe Destroyed = Fourteen Thou
sand Miles Without an ACcident-PIenty of Freight for
Alden BeSSe

barge. which is the inevitable fate of
nearly all steam and sailing vessels
that ESCAPE the elements and the
reefs.
The Zafiro for many years operated
between Manila and Hongkong. She
was owned by the China and Manila
Steamship Company at the outbreak
of the SpanishAmerican War. Adj
miral Dewey, in dire need of coal for
his battleships found the HafirO and
the Nanshin filled with fuel cargoes al
Hongkong. He bought both vessels
with their coal, for 1000, 900. During
the war he used the Zaliro as a dis
patch boat and she was sent to the
navy yard at Brcmerton afterward
and there rusted until fifteen months
ago, when she was sold to the junk
operators. Although used in the Navy,
the Zafiro never changed her British
register
Sixty-One Years a Sailor.
Captain J. Warren Holmes of Mys-
tic. Conn, has probably made more
trips around the Horn than any other
man living having record of eighty
four voyages past that stormy point
TO his credit, says the New York Mar
inc Journal. besides having broken
all records in windiammers between
E,s11l oic ri
the age Of Sc is living ashore now
more for the reason that he has out
lived his calling as commander of
sailing ships than through incapacity.
siXty-one years, and during that time
never met with a serious accident of
any kind He hegan his career as a
cabin boy in a ship commanded by
Captain b. Latham. In 1910 he Joined
the whaler Leander. His first trip
around the Horn was made in 1912,
and his second trip in 1S45 as master
of the Leander. Captain Holmes said
in recent interview he was never
more than sixteen days making the
400 miles from the fiftieth parallel
on the east to the fiftieth parallel on
the west and has made it in nine.
Other ships commanded by him were
the Seminole, the Charmer and the
Alexander Gibson.
Daring seamanship Recorded.
IP 1 Il "a of
manship on record is about to be at
tempted by Captain William Shofton,
an officer Of the mercantile marine
who, when an apprentice 10 years
old, was styled the boy Captain" for
having safely navigated to port the
large sailing ship Trafalgar when all
the officers had been incapactated.
Captain Shofton has undertaken to
bring from Japan to England the
burned-Out British steamer Hartford
4413 tons. The Hartford caught fire
at Barracuda, north of Vladivostok,
after loading cargo CT timber for
Melbourne. Although most of the
vessel was burned out. the engine
rooms, protected by the bulkheads
ESCAPED destruction. The engines
were workable with slight repairs.
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Local Notice to Mariners.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - Oahu ISL
and--SIy side - Honolulu Harbor -
Entrance Gas Buoy, 2, temporarily re-
moved for rechargng. This buoy was
temporarily removed for recharging
January 8, 1911 and its position marx
Cd by a second class nun. The Gas
Buoy will be replaced as soon as
practicable.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS-MOlokai Is
Peninsula-Molokai
Light-Station-Cha Characteristic of light
changed.-January /. 1911, the char
acteristic of this light was changed
from a white flash every 90 sec, to
white flash every 10 sec, without 9TH
er change
LlirIine on Way to Islands. u
cable received at the Office of
Castle & Cooke confirms the sailing
of the MatsOn Navigation steamer
Lurline from San Francisco at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The.