The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-26
OCEANIC LINERS HAVE EXCITING RACE
Sonoma On Trial Trip Attempts To
Pass Sierra But Fails---Resumption
Of Australian Service---Alert
Has Bad Collision

round trip from San Francisco and
will then be held up for a few weeks
at the Union Iron Works in San Fran
cisco, the chief changes being made
to be in her tunnels.
While the Sierra is in drydock, the
SonomG will take her run until July
2, when the Sonoma leaves San Fran
cisco for Australia via Honolulu, ar
irving here on the eighth, at Page
Page on the fifteenth and at Sydney
on the twenty-second. On her return
! trip, she will leave Sydney July q,
arriving at Page Page August 2, Ho-
nolulu August 8, arriving at San Fran.
cisco August Is.
Meanwhile the Sierra will have tax.
en- up her local run again, leaving San
Francisco July 16 and arriving here
July %; leaving here July 81 and ar
irving at Frisco August Q. From
July 2, the Sierra will leave SIN Fran
cisco on Tuesdays at monthly inter-
walls.
The Ventura will go on the Aus
tralian run on July 30, arriving here
Aunust 5, Page Page August IL and
Sydney, Australia, August 10; leaving
Sydney for San Francisco August "a,
arriving at Page Page on August 30,
here September 6, and San Francisco
September IL.
| The Sonoma and Ventura sailing
days from San Francisco are on Tues
days. Officers of the Sierra, most of
whom were on the old Alameda, have
not been able to enjoy a Sunday in
port for ten years owing to the way
that the present schedule is arranged,
but with the new schedule, they will
be enabled to spend Sunday in port
at each end of the trip.
ANXIOUS ABOUT ALERT.
Local harbor ofncials are anxiously
awaiting news of the schooner Alert
row 81 days out from Grays Harbor
and due here at any time. 1t is known
that the Alert had a collision with the
barkentine Gardiner City three hun
dred miles off Point Reyes on the
morning of April IL.
Apparently the Alert was unlnjur,
| ed by the collision, for after Offering
assistance to Captain Lund of the Gar.
diner City, which was refused, she
disappeared over the horizon.
The Gardiner City was only save
ty the skill of Captain Lund WIZ
brought her into San Francisco ninl
days later looking as though she ha(
been attacked and boarded by pirates
several times over.
The Gardiner City sailed from San
Francisco in ballast three weeks ago
bound for Port Gamble to load a car,
go of lumber. The cause of the col.
! lifion is given as thick weather. No
lights or any warning came through
the night until the Alert, which was
laden with lumber struck the Gardin-
er City on the starboard cathead at
a. M, shortly before che watch was
to have changed. The Alert's ancho.
, raked the barkentine, cutting away
the rigging. The foremost with its
square yards broke off short and came
against the main and mizzen masts. /
With the exception of few of the
spars and splintered wreckage tae en-. ,
tire upper works crashed over the !
side into the ocean. Erwin Stube, the ,
second mate, had narrow escape, as
he came from below through ths aft
er companionway. A portion of the
nizzen mast came down on the after
house, missing him a few feet The !
Alert was apparently not badly dam.
aged by the impact. Until morning
she stood by the Gardiner, City, and
at dawn the skipper of the schooner
cried out to Captain Lund through his !
megaphone:
Anything I can do for you, Cap.
tain?"
NO" beloved Captain Lund, gaz- !
ing a!oft where his sticks should have
been, 81 think you have done enough"
There was no answer from the
Alert's master and the schooner soon
squared away on the horizon.
Then came the task of rigging the
jury gear. Captain Lund fshed his
fore topgallant yard from the sea and
stuck it up for the foremost. He made
a mizzen mast out of the spanker
boom and main topmast and slung
across this improvised stick a couISe
of pin rails, dashed together, for a
yard. What was left Of the rags form
ed sails together with pieces Of can
vas from the locker. Five days passed
before the Gardiner City was able to
get upon course and begin her slow
and crippled voyage of 700 miles back
to port. On April 14th Captain Luud
sighted the Star of England, a salmon
packet, bound for the Alaskan can
neries The packet sent off a boat,