The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-09-04
STATE NAMES ONLY.
! FOR BATTLEsH|Ps

IUH UHl ILGullH y
The committee on maritime affairs Of
the Chamber Of Commerce Of Honolulu
received letter from Jcsephus Dan
iels, Secretary of tho Navy, yesterday
stating that il would not be legal to
name battleship in honor Of the Terv
ritory Of Hawaii. The law provides
that the names Of States shall re used
until one battleship is named for each.
State and there are still number Of
States having no battleships so named
The wording of the law is that 9bat.
leships shall not be named after any
person, place or thing until all the
names OF States are exhausted.
other Vessel Would DO.
Tho committee passed motion that
application should be made to the
Secretary Of the Navy TO heve a cruiser
or other war vessel named " Hawaii. ~
A letter from Walter II. Frear stated
that all those present ut the hearing
from Hawaii tbefore the engineer
hoard when the argument for extension
OF Honolulu harbor was presented,
seemed to think a very strong case
was made out. All were impressed
with the unusual interest taken by the
board in the subject matter Presented.
Stayed Awake 10 LECTION.
The head of the stcnographie firm
that reports these meetings told Gov
ernor Frear that the Engineer board or
dinarily puts its feet on the table and
goes to sleep, with one eye on the
clock. At the expiration Of the hour
allotted the board wakes up and adj
journs. The enpincers were much in
terested in the Honolulu brief AMI al
lowed FIear to talk an hour and half
Then they pored over the maps and
charts, asked many questions, and dis
eussed the work at much length.
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officials took the matter up and after
a conference at which Consul Rodiek
Captain Won Sehoenberg, Rear Admiral
Moore, United States Navy, and Act.
ing Collector of Customs Ranger Sharp
wero present, the neutrality regulations
were consulted and il was decided that
tho Nurnberg might take on $50 tons
OF coal and sufficient stores to carry
her to the nearest German port. II
was also decided that she could re-
main in port twenty-four hours
While tho Nurnberg was in the har'
bor she maintained a lookout in the
crow : nest constantly and il was
said that the Germans had lookout
on Mount Tantalns, who communi-
Gated with the lookout on the cruiser
with signal flags, Mount Tantalus
commands an excellent view of the
harbor approach and the waters for
miles around p: "a
Seek war News.
When the Nurnberg tied up at her
pier her crow was anxious for the lat.
est war news. os.,iors were Sent to
the office Of The Advertiser, where
they obtaircd largo number Of yes
tcrday's papers. This supply was not
was not long before another detail OF
tho crow returned 10 Tho Advertiser
office with nh express wagon, which
they had filed with papers Of recent
dates. BY this means more than 1000
copies Of The Advertiser were dis.
tributed among the visiting. bolliger.
ents.
Sailed Under Sealed Orders.
According TO Captain Won Sehoenberg
the Nurnberg last visited San Francisco
July 20, sailing from that port to Ho-
nolulu en- route to TsiDgtau. 1t was
the intention of the Nurnberg to re.
main here three days on that occasion,
hut Mt nine o. clock the night Of the day
she entered port the wanderer was
rushed TO sea under sealed orders from
Germany. Since that date and the
present the Nurnberg has been casting
about upon the Pacific hunting friend
ly havens for coal and provisions and
hostile warships. Persons who
have kept track of hor rowing say that
she has no port of cell open unless II
be on the Mexican Coast or in the
Marshall Islands, which are east of the
Philippine Archipelago. New Zealand,
ers are in possession of German Samoa
an d the japanese are blockading Using
tau and the British are searching tn,
waters of the Far East for German
prey. Therefore the Nurnberg seems
destined to cOntinua her Toying and
runs a chance of "going dead at sea
for lack Of coal. sF d.
Warned Of "ProWIer gr
When Captain Lamont sailed from
Newcastle with the Strathardle he was
warned to beware of the Nurnberg and
replied that he would never show his
face dgain il the German got his eeai.
The fuel was consigned to the Inter
Island Conf ny and the Strathardl'
was convov N 'hr the Australia and
WRrego until within some distance of
this coast, when they stood by but kent
in wireless communication with the
Until she entered port.
The Nurnherg has speed of twenty,
four knots an hour and was built in
the Kiel yards, being completed in 1908.
Her dimensions are as follows: Len2th
over all, $50 feet; waterline, 1854 LIZ
feet, beam "A l.2 feet, maximum
draupht ~ l.2 feet Her armament
consists Of ten A. 40-ealiber guns and
eight 5.pounders of So caliber, besides
-four machine guns and two submerged
toraedo tubes 49,
The Australia Is a - dreadnouRht
cruiser and a sister ship of the New
Zealand, which was in tho British fleet
that fought the recent battle with the
Germans of HeliVoland, She waa-b'l!it
in Fairfield and has normal displace'
ment of 10000 tons. Following are
no.. +. T.anf,Nh IxuafhplipaA f.