Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-14
WATERFRONT NOTES
Eassina Of AGED p m. Skipper.

with the passing away of Captain
Aaron NJ. Burns at the Bellevue Ho.
tel In this city, says the San Francis
co Chronicle, the last living sea cap
tain who commanded vessels for the
old Pacific Mail Steamship Company
plying between San Francisco and
Panama, was launched upon his final
cruise. The end came to Captain
Burns shortly after 3 o'clock. He sue
cumbed peacefully to the ravages of
old age, being in his eighty-seventh
year, after an Illness of two weeks.
Captain Burns was one of the nota
BILE figures of the early history of San
Francisco and California. He arrived
here in the early part of 1850, having
been in Panama in the employ of the
Aspinwalls a year before. His name
was the eighth on the roll of the old
Vigilance Committee. He was q
member of the IIarbor Commission
from 1870 to 1873 and of the Board
of Supervisors during the adminis,ra.
ton of former Mayor Pond. Captain
Burns came here from Philadelphia,
his father having been a sea captain.
The younger Burns went to sea at the
age of IL and commanded a vessel
when only 81.
Captain Burns Is survived by q
widow, daughter, Mrs. Jason Gould: ;
a stepdaughter, Mrs. Ermentine Poole
Long, and a granddaughter, Miss OF.
| i've Long. The funeral services viii
be held at an undertaking establish
ment at 1922 Suffer street at 2:3G
o'clock Friday afternoon, with the In
terment in Mountain View Cemetery
| N
To Cross Ocean In Motorboat.
NEW YORK, N. Y, June 3. - The
latest project of Thomas Fleming Day,
editor Of the Rudder, is to attempt a
voyage across the Atlantic ocean in a
35-foot mOtorboat. He sailed last year
from Providence to Rome in the tiny
yawl Seabird, but save for the test %
seamanship, this was not such a feat
as the proposed motorboat trip, for the
| Atlantic had been crossed in a small
sailing craft before.
Day expects to start either from
Boston or New York during the latter
part of this month to traverse the
waters In which motorboat keel has
never left track. Queenstown, Ire.
land, is the port Of destination select,
ed by Day, and the voyage will be
doubly hazardous, because the route
will lie along the steamship lane and
the motorboat will be but a speck on
the waves of the Atlantic.
The boat selected for the trip is OF
unusually heavy construction, with O
tank capacity for 1000 gallons of gas
oline. Her speed is about five nauti
cal miles an houy loaded and six nauti
cal miles an hour light. Day figures
that she will cover In ocean travelling
an average of 140 miles day.
There are accommodations on the
boat for a crew OF FIVE men-two II
the engineroom and three on deck
The motor IL from ten to l2.horse
power and the englneroom crew will
stand siX-hour watches, Provisions
for ninety days and 200 gallons o.
fresh water will be carried.
Capt. William Thompson. a pioneer
shipmaster in the employ of the Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha, was a returning
passenger TO Seattle on the Ava Maru
Capt. Thompson has been IN the EN-
ploy of that company for twenty-seveT
years, and fifteen years ago was II
command Of the Kinshu Maru, the sec
ond Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer Il
visit Seattle. ....
For number Of years he has beer
In the Orient In command of steamers
operating In Chinese and Japanese wa
, tiers and this is his first visit to Seat
: tie in three years.
!, Capt, Thompson says that the com
pany IL replacing all the European
and American masters in its emplo!
with japanese captains, and as he ha'
considerable property in Seattle h,
resigned to look after his interests
here. He Will remain in this cit!
/ shout ten days and then visit Mime
, apolls, where his family is now resid
+. Ing, but he intends returning here Il
4 make this his home.-Seattle Elk.