Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-04
KENTUCKIAN AND
MONTANANH HEAD
TOWARD CANAL

. Seventeen days steaming from Hilo
: and Port Allen is believed will bring
two Observation-Disclosures steamers well
within the breakwater at Balboa, Pan
: ANA Canal Zone.
The Montanan, laden with more than
5000 tons of sugar and scattering ship
ments of preserved pines is reported
to have departed from Hilo on Satur-
day, its destination being the Pacific
terminal of the Panama canal. That
this vessel with its cargo intact will
enter the great new waterway is he
prediction yentured by shipping men
The Montanan was taking on the last
of its cargo at Hi,o on Friday. AL
though seriously handicapped by the
excessive rain prevailing at that
point for some weeks past. the Mon
tanan is stated to have sailed with
full cargo.
! The Kentuckian which loaded sugar
at Honolulu and finished the shipment
at Port Allen is understood to have
gotten away from the Panama canal
, on Saturday evening. The vessel car
ried about $500 tons of island pro-
ducts. Should the canal not permit
their passage to the Atlantic the Ken
tuckian and Montanan will be dis
charged at Balboa the cargo trans
shipped either by rail or lighters to
the Atlantic.
| That the canal will be formally OPP
ened to commercial liners by Aug. Is.
is the belief expressed on the main
land
/ A Washington dispatch of July %
says:
. Opening CT the Panama canal to the
worlds commerce on August Is next
was announced tonight by Secretary
Garrison. Probably the first vessel
to pass through the great waterway
will be the Cristobal, a war depart.
ment. steamer now at Colon.
There will be no formalities in the
epoch-making event, all ceremonies
being left for the official opening when
the international feet passes through
the canal in March 1915.
Garrison's announcement was made
in this brief statement:
+ The Panama canal will be open for
commerce to vessels not needing more
than thirty feet of water on and after
August Is, 1914.
The official opening of the c9nal as
heretofore announced, will be in the
month of March, 1915. An approp-
rate announcement will be made
when a greater depth of water than
thirty feet has been secured.
On the fifteenth day of August Col
onel Goethals will inaugurate the COM
any generals plans be they ever SO
wise, and the secret purposes of the
government and the conduct of oper-
atoms $50 sacred from the enemy be-
come public property. The recent aer-
oplane disclosures of the defenses of
Panama show he veniality of an un-
scrupulons Scoop" and proves they
will be continued |
No country can arouse it's patriot
ism, inspire its citizens in peace, in
spirit its soldiery on the march, in
spire its army to lay down its life
on. the battlefield, or secure the RET
spect of nations in the panoply OF
peace or in the smoke of battle with
out its national anthem.
Circumstances caused you to COM
pose the national anthem of Ha-
wall, and few national anthems pene.
trate as deep into the heart and soul
as the old Hawaiian anthem. Though
now only territorial and local, it stirs
us as no other can.
Herr Berger, bandmaster, while
your feet are still busy in marching
our streets and performing social cour-
tesies, and in leading our Hawaiian
National Guard, where vigorous, man.
ly loyalty is nearest my heart and
efforts, newt to the good government
1t supports, realize the Bible states
we may expect lives of but three
score and ten, yet you promise to be
an exception. i
- You will be fortunate in being able
to leave with us and coming genera
tions a memorial that will be played
and sung by thousands upon tens of I
thousands now, and by future genera !
tions, with deepest reverence and
most patriotic sentiment, Hawaii Po- {
noi'' II
In behalf of your associates and ,
companions, the Hawaiian Band, I
now have the honor to express their j
intense sentiment of affection in pre- !
senting for them this baton with ]
which may you still long lead them
and inspire the National Guard of Ha-
wal. and citizens of the Territory of /
Hawaii, whose loyalty no one Hut the
Almighty knows how soon may be put {
to the test. {
Aloha nui! Is
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