Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-07
Frear Looking we'll
Afte r his Trip,
Talks of Things
he has seen and
DONE Attorney
General but just
Recovered from
long Attack of
SeaSickneSs

Ending its twenty-three days cruise
to Midway and Laysan and inetrmedi-
ate islands the u. 9. revenue cutter
{. 8. Cochran and bearing Governor
Ftear and Former Attorney General
Alex. Lindsay, steamed into Honolulu
harbor and dropped anchor at its old
berth at 1920 o'clock this morning.
An hour later the governors parting
salute. of thirteen guns, was fired as
the territorial executive and his party
drew shoreward in the ships launch.
In the official parry returning were
only the Governor. Judge Lindsay and
IGvid T. Fullaway, entomologist for
tie u. S. Agricultural experiment sta
ton, who has been making a large
collection of insects among the isIandt
visited by the Thetis.
Tanned almost to a nut brown and
With the spfIghtly carriage Of boz.
Governor Frear's verbal assurance
was unnecessarxsto. prove the beneti-
cial effects OF his long outing. and
whiie thefe,,Wa no sea salt in his
beard his face Indicated long exposure
10 the salt breezes. Ssses.
Judge l.indsay also is deeply tame =
CsSyernof Freaf declared that he-the
Ccvernor-had not been seasick day
hut the Judge did MOI attempt to re,
iterate the statement in his own be-
held. Captain Cochran remarked; =
He was perfectly well when he
came aboard at Honolulu, and he II
perfectly we'll as he leaves the sE,T
today. .'Nough said'"
Land certainly looks awfully goo
10 me" commented Lindsay.
Ali are enthusiastic in their praiS>
cf the trip. however. and are brf''
full of fish stories the like Of whicl
fright make an aged fisherman turn
pale, and OF yarns concerning birds
and animals they have seen. They
brought home three wild canarins
captured on Midway. and say thr
golden hued songsters aided mateli
ally in beguiling the long hours
aboard, snip by their bursts of wilC
music. They also brought severa
huge turtles and one seal. The seal
is dead, however, and is to be stuffcf
# the warm weather along the rou,,
has not ruined the carcass.
NONSIuOT EICdi was 81 CllIuSluS
tic in retailing accounts of their al.
ventures that he had little time 10
discuss his work on the Legislative
affairs, to which he had expected tC
give considerable attention during the
vacation jaunt, though it is under
stood he has been able to prepare a
general outline of his ideas on the
various subjects for submission 10
the legislature. The more serious
work on these matters doubtless lie
mains to be- finished however.
Had a bully time" declared the
governor. forgetting himself so far
as TO fall into Rooseveltian phrase
clogy, and while We didn't stop al
any one island more than a few hours.
and in no instance an entire Gay. we
had some great sport, swimming ir
lagoons of water almost crystal clear
where there are miles of beaches be
vond compare, better than Waikiki
ever could be made
At Laysan island the party of sCien
lists, sent out by the department OF
agriculture to clean up that island OF
the rabbits which are infesting and
running the place, was dropped. In
this party are Commodore G. R. Sails
bury. George Willet, the Los Angeles
pOliceman-scientist W. S. Wallace.
specialist on forms of sea life. and A.
NJ Bailey, taXidermist
The governor and Judge Lindsay
went ashore with the scientists and
used the % rifles to good purpose OH
the rabbits, killing, so Lindsay says,
fifty of the poor defenseless little an
imals in one or two hours steady
shooting. Compelled to desist. by
weariness and the heated gun barrels.
they returned to the vessel and sailed
away. On their return TO I4aysan
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