The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-14


Kea will be of unusual interest not
only to shipping men, but also to the
thousands of residents of Honolulu
who visited the waterfront while the
/ Inter-Island steamer was partly sub
merged off Quarantine Island. The
remarkably short time in which the
vessel was raised from a most peril
Gus position and floated, sound and
unchanged, has excited no little com
ment. Many of the old-timers on the
waterfront differed radically in as
signing the credit for the achieve
ment, but in all quarters Captain
Miller himself came in for a large
share of praise. This statement.
crediting the whole affair to the
whole working force, is probably Just
| and true Captain Miller writes as
follows:
Since many have asked for my
views as to whom the credit is due
for floating the Mauna Kea, | would
| say, first, to Mr. Kennedy, president
of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company, who gave me carte blanche
and placed the equipment Of the com
pany and of the Hawaiian Electric
Company at my disposal; to Lieuten-
ant Hepburn and Mr. Sheedy, mana
ger and chief engineer of the Hawaii
an Electric Company, and their able
! assistants; to the Inter-Island port
captain, Captain Haglund; to Captain
Freeman, master of the Mauna kea,
and his deck staff; to George Ward,
master mechanic of the lnter-Island,
and his assistants; to Master Ship
wright Stone and his assistants; to
the diver, Sam Lyle, and his helpers,
and others who Loyalty and ably as
sisted me in their different capaci-
! ties, is due all the credit of floating
the S. S. Mauna Kea
without their loyal and able help,
/ 1 individually could have accom-
! plished nothing. l have been con-
nected with salvage and maritime af-
! fairs all my life, and | must emphati-
cally say that more intelligent, will
ing, loyal crew of workers | never
! before directed, and all the credit,
without reserve is due to their COM
bined efforts, laboring under the most
Adverse circumstances.
! FREDERICK &. MILLER"
NO ROOM FOR S. C. ALLEN.
The lumber bark S. c. Allen, twenty
seven days out from Point Ludlow,
was sighted off Diamond Head this
morning bound for this port The
question of where to put the new ar
rival was rather perpleXing, for there
is no berth open now where a lumber
cargo could be discharged. The NJ.
Turner, now at the Allen & Robinson
wharf, will probably be through dis
charging Saturday. But when she
went in there the Mary Foster, which
had formerly been in there, had only
discharged the deck load, so when the
Turner goes out the Foster will have
first claim and will have a weeks
work ahead of her. HaTbOrmaster
Foster arranged this morning to have
the Allen moored out in the stream
on the other side of the harbor near
the present mornings of the old Mo
hican, and she will prbably have %
lie there until the Foster gets out.
MONGOLIA A DAY LATE.
The Pacific Mail liner Mongolia,
scheduled to arrive here March %
and to depart for the Coast the fol-
lowing day, left Yokohama a day be-
hind her schedule, according to cabled
advices received at the local office,
and will get in here Saturday, March
%, and leave for the Coast Sunday.
She is bringing about 1000 tons of
Oriental cargo for this port and will
have room for 100 cabin passengers.
WATERFRONT NOTES.
The Matson steamer Wilhelmina
sailed from San Francisco for this
port yesterday at noon.
The Korea, which left this port for
the Orient February 26, arrived ut
Yokohama March 8.
The schooner Defender, which has
been loading sugar at Hama, sailed
for San Francisco March IL.
NILE NOT HEARD FROM.
The Pacific Mail liner Nile, which
was scheduled to arrive tomorrow but
which left Yokohama two days late,
has not yet been heard from and the
agents do not expect her before Sun
day. 1t is not known here whether
the Nile is equipped with wireless. On
her former runs it is said that she
touched at points where the wireless
outfit was not required by law for pas
senger ships and it is possible that
the plant will not be installed until
she reaches San Francisco. This will
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