Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-10
WATERFRONT NOTES
Cutters Preparing

Cutters Preparing.
The United States revenue cutters
ordered to patrol in Behring sea are
making ready to start northward. The
work of the patrol this year substan-
TALLY will be modified on account of
the ratlhcation OF the new fur sealing
treaty entered into between the Unit
ed States, Russia, Great Britain and
Japan. and instead of a number of
vessels massed around the pribyloys
Islands the units of the fleet will be
distributed along the Alaska coast
line and in Behring sea. Il is under
stood that the Manning, McCulloch
and Tacoma will take the Behring sea
patrol, with one of them making n
trip along the Aleutian group as far
west as Attu Island, another will
cruise the waters adjacent to the
Pribylovs, and the third will take the
inshore Islands, perhaps cruising on
the North Pacific as far east as Ko-
diak island and vicinity. As usual,
the Bear will make the trip to Point
Barrow, the northerly apex of the
Americas. The Rush, having head
fh"i W y l' WI Nlbll tue tHll-
neries in Southeastern Alaska as far
south as Dixon entrance South of
Dixon entrance the United States will
have cruisers on duty part of the
summer to protect the seals as they
make their way northward along the
coast
In Storm and Mutiny.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, April 6. i
After a hazardous voyage of l44 days,
marked by mutiny, death and disaster.
the sailing vessel William p. Frye Is In
port here from Philadelphia today
Trouble started almost before the yes.
sci, with a crew of green hands, left
the Delaware river, Nov. 10. A free.
for-all fight started among a number
Of drink-craZed sailors, with the result
that three jumped overheard and two
more drowned. In December the ship
fought destruction for week in a gale
of Cape st. Rogue, and was saved Just
as the crew were about to abandon her
in despair. For three days In Janu.
airy she rode on Southwestern of
Cape Horn that shifted her cargo. Al
leg of one OF the sailors was broken
in the storm. Finally, after several
more small storms, when everyone
thought the voyage was about to end.
adverse winds kept the vessel cruising
about in the open sea few miles off
port for days, unable to make the har.
Dor.
New Sound Wireless Plant Planned.
Tho DnUni Snnn1 MAUI IN
Gals have received advices to the Of.
feet that the Navy Department In.
tends in the near future to make Ia.
toosh the most powerful wireless sta.
ton on the Pacific Coast when the
plans being worked out to renew the
navy plant at the entrance to Puget
Sound are put into effect Being al
connecting link between the chains Of
stations in Alaska and the United
States and being in range of the path
OF travel Of many trans.Paciic liners,
the Navy Department has decided that
the Tatoosh station shall be one of
the most powerful In the country. The
plans contemplate putting In moro
powerful mechanism with facilities for
greater frequency and radius. The
Their apart to give a greater spread to
the sensitive listening wires. Tho
masts are to be increased In height,
the experts at the navy yard, Puget |
Sound, recommending that the pres.
ent wooden masts be superseded by
steel masts 300 feet high.
IA
General Strike Now Predicted.
A number of firemen and other
members of the crew of the Nippon |
Yusen Kaisha at Kobe were trying to |
persuade their -workmen ut Yo-
kohama and elsewhere to join in the :
movement to strike for an increase of +
wages, at the time of the departure of /
the Buyo Maru for Honolulu. Up
wards OF two thousand men on board |
Japanese steamers outside the Ship
ping Companies Union are reported
to have expressed their willingness to
support the movement. These men,
through their representatives, have
sent petition to the shipping com
panies and private owners asking for
an increase of wages.
N
Officers Shift in Pacific Mail.
Several changes In the Pacic Mail
service have been recently made and
are just announced. S. II. Shepherd,
purser of the City of Panama, has been
to the same position on
he steamer Newport, succeeding +. Il.
Barrett, II. II. Berg, formerly freight
'lerk on the Newport, will take the pc.
sltion vacated by Shepherd.