The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-15

l.. Ping Sun, and tfty-eight deck pas
sengers.
Pacific Marine News: From DR..
Louis A. Bauer, who is in charge of
the magnetic survey of the globe I'M
dertaken some years ago by the Car
negie Institute of Washington, d. c.,
it was learned the other day that the
big job will be finished in June, 1913,
when the non-magnetic brigahtine
Carnegie will arrive at New York and
end a 65,010-mile ocean cruise. This
is one of the greatest scientific tasks
ever attempted Navigation has al
ready reaped large benefit from The
work of scientists who have spared
neither time, trouble nor expense in
! getting reliable data. The work done
/ by the Carnegie and by the Galilee
show that the compass charts used by
Inavigators contained many errors.
The work recently completed in the
Indian ocean, for instance, divulged
errors amounting to four and six de.
grees. AS these errors are discovered
the scientists engaged in making the
survey notify the photograph officers
of the principal maritime nations. In
this way the worlds navigators de-
rive immediate benefit from the dis
coveries.
The Carnegie is the only vessel of
it's kind in the world. To secure ac-
curacy in making observations it was
deemed necessary to construct a YES
sci of non-magnetic materials, The
| brig Galilee, in which the first ocean
work was done, was made as nearly
non-magnetic as possible. The instru-
ments were installed on a non-mag-
netic platform constructed amidships,
high above the deck. There was
much magnetic material in the Gill
1 lee, however, that could not be elm
/ mated and which had more or less
of a disturbing effect.
| The Carnegie is an auxiliary brigan-
/ tine and the only magnetic material
on the vessel are the piston rods of
/ the producer gas engine. The metal
work of the engine, the shaft and pro-
peller, the vessels anchors, galley
stove and heating stoves are of man.
ganese bronze The fastenings are
all copper
The Carnegie is now in Manila.
After a preliminary cruise of 5000
miles, she left New York in June,
1910, for three years cruise. From
! New York the little survey ship went
to Porto Rico and from there to Para,
! Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and
Buenos Ayres From Buenos Ayres
| it crossed the Atlantic to Cape Town
and thence to Colombo. From Manila
the Carnegie will proceed to the Fiji
! Islands, across the Pacific to Acapul-
co, cutting the Galilees tracks and
checking up on previous work. Round
the Horn the little ship will make its
way and then back to Cape Town.
From Cape Town it will return 10
New York with its work finished.
In connection with the work being
done by the Carnegie, land expedi-
tons are making magnetic surveys in
China, Australia, Asia Minor and
South America In fact the Carnegie
Institution has observers in every
part of the world from Greenland to
New Zealand. This is the first sys-
tematic magnetic survey of the globe
ever attempted.
New Australian Line.
SEATTLE, January 5.-The with
idrawal of the Weir line steamships
from the run between Puget Sound
San Francisco, the South Seas and
Australia has led to the establishment
iof a Waterhouse mail steamship line
between the Pacific Coast and Aus
Itralia, with headquarters at Seattle.
The five Weir steamships will be re-
placed by the Belle of Scotland, Hen
tllh lDoSu, OJIdJudlIlS anu OJldIuSll-
idrick. The Weir liners used to call
at Samoa, carrying the German mails,
land at other South Sea ports, but the
Warehouse boats will sail direct from
! San Francisco to Australia.
1t is understood among shipping men
that the Weir boats were withdrawn
from the Observation-Disclosures service
through an agreement with the Union
Shipping Company of New Zealand.
The Union line will now have no COM
petition to the Cook, Friendly and Sa-
moan islands, Guam and Tahiti; but
the Waterhouse line, making the run
direct between San Francisco and Aus
Itralia, will be a sharper competitor
than the old Weir liners we're for Aus
Itralian business.
SAN FRANCISCO January GA. S.