The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-10-26
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MAX SCHlEMMER
WILL Be REMOVED
FROMLAYSANELE
Naval Tug lroquois To Take Him
OF On Return With Ship
i, wrecked Crew =.
RADl0eRAM SENT CRAFT H. E. -
BY WASHINGTON ORDERS
HonoIulan Is There Without Per-
!. mission Of Government, Il
Is Revealed j.

Max Schlemmer win be removed
from Laysan Island. The United
States naval tug 1roquois VII bring
him to Honolulu. At the request Of
the department. of agriculture, the
navy department instructed Capt Sum
rer f. W. Kittelle Of the cruiser Mary.
lSnd yesterday to have the tug call AZ
Laysan on her way back from Midway,
where she went to pick up the crew Of
the wrecked schooner o. NJ. Kellogg
Schlemmer was not named specifically
in the eablegram, but the order was
aimed At him. He and his family are
the only persons ON the island. unless
some Japanese bird poaehers have
gone there as they did seven years ago,
when they killed thousands of set fowl,
and at different times since. ~
viii Delay Maryland 2,
"A fadiogram was transmitted TO the
I1oquois by the Pearl Harbor station
Yesterday afternoon as directed by the
navy department. The call probably
viii delay the sailing Of the MARYLAND.
Iroquois, auxiliary Nanshan and three
P.elass submarines for San Francisco
via Hilo beyond the new scheduled
time OF sailing, Wednesday morning.
I Had she come direct from Midway
the Ifoquois hardly would have ar
rived before Tuesday evening, and the
Laysan call probably win put her here
"Wednesday morning. She will need
several hours to get ready for sea. It
was decided yesterday morning. before
the cablegram came, to sail Wednesday
morning.
Schlemmer thus finds a problem solv-
ed for him. The crew Of the o. NJ.
Kellogg, making Laysan in the ship 4
boat from Marc reef, found Sehlemmer
there, and chartered his sloop Helene
for the voyage to Midway. The sloop
is at Midway now in charge Of the
Commercial Pacific Cable station.
Schlemmer thus had no means of re-
turning here and would have had diff
iculty in getting the Helene sent TO
Laysan.
schiemner There without OIL
1t is not known whether he made
request to be taken of, but the cable,
gram would not indicate il, as it stated
that no permission to be on Laysan
had been issued this year by the de-
partment of agriculture and that all
persons were to be removed.
The Helene sailed for Midway in the
latter part of June, having Schlemmer,
his daughter, Miss Mary Schlemmer,
two sons, Eric, twelve years old, and
Otto, nine years old, and a Japanese
aboard. They took provisions for only
four months, Schiemmer said. He had
a guano contract with the gov.
eminent and had resided on Laysah
during fourteen years. His contract
W as cancelled when the japanese bird
slaughterers made their tremendous
killings, seven years ago, and he re-
turned to Honolulu.
While his trip in June was without
Permission, he evidently anticipated 40
Tilikia. He had applied to the depart,
ment of agriculture for a position as
guardian of the birds; the application
remained unanswered when he sailed
Removal Had Been Anticipated
Directly after he sailed There wer"
reports that the Coast Guard Thetis
would remove him, but the necessity
for repairs to the Thetis would have
prevented her sailing had she been or
dered to do so.
No formal statement was made that
Schlemmer s presence on Laysan with
cut permission was not considered IA
vorably by government officials, but
there is excellent basis for the belief
that 1t was not, and that the Thetis
would have gone TO Laysan when in
shape for sea had not the Iroquois been
among the bird islands now
Laysan is one Of the islands of the
Hawaiian bird reservation, which in.
cludes all the leeward islands and
shoals through fifteen degrees of long
itude to Ocean island, except only Mid
way. The islands are in charge of the
department. of agriculture.