The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-16
UTILITIES BOARD -.
TOMAKE CAREFUL
INQUIRY INTO H.
Commission viii Go To Bottom
d., OF Mauna Kea Fatalities
At Lahaina
DROWNING OF SEAMAN
ALSO WILL BE PRoBED
Program Included General InVes-
tigation Of Navigation Conn.,
pany'S Handling OF Crews

pdlly HdIluHIIY VI SIV"S
Subpoenas commanding tn" appear
ance before the Public Utilities ON
mission next Saturday of Senator Will
lam T. Robinson, Senator II. b. Pen
bRllow, manager of the Waiuku gar
Company, and Representative Edward
X. WaiahalO will be drawn up tins
morning in the attorney general = or
fee and signed and sealed 10y Charles
r. Forbes, chairman of the commission.
Service will be made by Henry I.
o Sullivan, secretary of the commits
sion, who will leave for Maui this
forenoon in the Mauna Kca.
The three Legislators were wltre. ses
last May of the accident in which a
/ Japanese picture b.ido and an aged
: Chinese, both deck passenger in the
| Nauna Kea, were tipped into the IoiI,
ing surf at Lahaina landing and
drowned.
Secretary o Sullivan also will carry
with him a sheaf of blank suhpocnas
to serve on any passengers he can hnd
who were dumped overheard at the
same time, but saved. Senators Pen
, hallow and Robinson and Representa-
tive Waiahalo had just been set n. no e
from another boat when the accident
occurred
! Inquiry To Be Searching
Since the circumstances have been
much discussed in the newspapers and
among the japanese it is believed that
| Secretary O sullivan, with the aid OF
Sheriff Crowell of Maui, will have no
difficulty in finding the witnesses the
commission desires.
| The whole case will be opened up
again for a hearing before the full
board and the attorney general next
Friday and Saturday, and at the same
time there will be a further imvcstiga
ton of other accidents and COM laints
affecting the Inter Island
At the session of the commission held
yesterday, Chairman Forbes shovel a
disposition to go into accidents with
! particularitv, to accept no perfunctOry
reports, and to fix responsibility with
dCfniteness. He felt that the evidence
| in the Lahaina accident ease was de
cidedly unsatisfactory, and Acting At
torney General Smith agreed that the
testimony was every, very vague.
Chairman Forbes reported the result,
VI a NOIlNi ihnl'N' NiOi Nv h''
of the Inter sIand and cattle steame
WailCle, from which a seaman WAS un
accountablv lost overheard.
Company Rec ords Figure
He had not tcrn al lie, to determin,
to his satisfaction whether the seaman
had rolled ovel board in his sleep from
the deck or not. There was nothing
to suggest "A motive for suicide or fOu
play.
What did strike the chairman
though, was that, so far as he ha
been able to discover, the compan.
II axes no attempt to keep accurat
: records Of its deck passengers or. crews
The lost sailor was listed in the com
Ianv s report Us George Moses or Mos
rS Kaualua. Nothing more defnit
about his identity, place of residenc
or relatives could he learned and, =
far AS Chairman Forbes could find Ou'
nothing NOR" could be expected, sine
il is the habit of the company ofte
TO sign on seamrn under nickname
Deck passengers arc listed i'll Il lum
AS 80 many Iauanesr.
Attorney General Su it'll was askr
tor an opinion. "Nrs,' he said, -
think the Inter island ought to kec
Il list Of all passengers and crews, BIT
o.. | don I know whether you can ma
;, EN-. He will look up the law
+ or''"r to giv" n NOR" positive opinion
: What the commission desires is a de
e mite check on all persons aboard.
II FroVi ions For Crews
: Since the commission has jur sdicti0
| hN statute over the safety, work Il
!. hours and wages of pul lie util ii