The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-07
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FROMLAySANISLE
Party Is Removed BY Collier
Nereus On Order From Navy
Department
WAS IN DISTRESS WHEN
VESSEL PUT INTO PORT
Stories Of Radio Plant To Com
municate With German Ships
.'.. Exploded

Max SchIPmmer returned from Lay
san island in the United States Navy
| collier Nereus Yesterday morning. His
twelve-year odd son Erie and Harold
Brand, Morse sailor, formerly of the
non-magnetic yacht Carnagie, who went
with him in the slOOp Helene in June,
/ also came
/ They were removed from Laysan by
order Of the navy department at the
request of the department of com
meree, and were given into tie custody
OF the customs officials. Raymsr Sharp,
deputy collector, permitted them to 90
under instructions to report to him
this morning. Mr.. Sharp did not know
! SeElPmInCr was being brought here and
he will await cabled orders from Wash.
tngton this morning as to what shall
! be done. SchlemmPr went to Laysan
| islsnd, which is in the bird reservation,
| without permission.
| Orders for the Nereus TO nick up
| Sehlemmer were received at Nagasaki
| by cable. The collier arrived at Lay
! san on Thursday morning and sailed ut
I one-fftaen O'Clock, after n stay of
about five hours, during which Sch1em.
mer' 8 belongings were packed and
placed In the shin s boat of the wreck
| ed schooner o. NJ. Kellogg. which was
brought in the NC~eus' davits. Schlem-
mer had lent his sloop to the crew of
| the kellogg, in which the rastaways
made Midway island, where the Helene
now is. Schlemmer has made no ar
rangements for her return here.
Distress Signal Was Flying
.Sehlemmer took his removal from the
island in good part; help, indeed, was
welcomed, for his food was low and the
continued diet Of rabbits had affected
the how Erie AND Brand, and the ma
tiornl ensign. reversed, was flying at
hPif-staff as n distress signal when the
Nereus dropped anchor 1t had been
run up as soon as the three saw the
smoke of the collier on the horizon.
But the stont did man hadn 7
planned to leave the isirnd. He re-
Que" ted that Eric and RraHd be brought
IN Honolulu and some .Gne sent 10 ne,
main with him: however, when he WIS
told that all were to he brought here
he sold: "HoOray; WILL all of MS wild
60"
1t was June % When Srhlemmer,
! Erie. RraDd and two Others, Mis- Mary
Sci lGmmer and another SON Otto, s1il.
ed from HonOlup in the Ho'enp for
iJ,avsan Miss Schlemmc- and Otto
were left at Waimca, Kauai aud hnd
ret"-n"d to Uonolu'u. Sehlemmsr =
motive for going to the uninhahitea
bird island was that he thought bis
nroEen"o there might mid him in secur-
ing appointment from Washington a.
guarding of the sea birds, place FIR
which he had made application. This
was his statement before he departed,
American Cittzcn And Loyal
1t was with surprise that he henud
from Mrs. Schlemmer Yesterday that
an afternoon Raper had Published let,
tiers that passed between an unnamed
man here and Washington, in which the
Honolulu correspondent asserted his lie
lief that Max had q radio station on
Lavsan for. communication with Ger.
man vessels.
And Max Schlemmer wishes to know
who that man was.
He was distressed at the accusat on.
~ am an American citizep,' he
said with feeling. 81 would not 90
to Europe to get nv head knocked off:
let others 20 If they want to, but
wOnld not do anything to help them
| never hay " aboard German shins
here nor he nything to do with the
men except th't 7 had some of them
working GU the Helene. Doesn L it
seem that the man who wrote those let
'ers was som"thin" like an anonymous
letter wTiterl Don't you think he
should say who he is and face me? !
wish Won would put that in the paper
| want to see him. There was another
man here who wanted the place gu
I.aysan, ] heard, Rud he has a gOvP-n.
ment job now. Maybe he wrote the
letters
In the published currespondence, the
Honolulu author of which was not
named ~ an afternoon paper, Schlrm
mer's German birth and alleged init
macy with men of German ships here
were urged against him. as reasons WHY
he might endeavor to commune ate with
German ships.
Radio Plant Ridiculous
Il, An officer of the .Nereus laughed
when he was asked whether he oh
served any radio equipment.
hN'N "Vh'' hN kSi INV NItNlih II
for wireless needs current. lie would
have need of an elevation for the
wires, and there is no elevation eN
cept the lighthouse, which climbcd |
saw nothing thore. ] looked around
quite bit, and | didn't see anything
suspicious. | didn't know who Schl,m
mer was or what he was doing on the
island when we arrived. and naturally
! was curious. There is no place that
aPna "qtus could be concealed.
Schlemmcr WIS on Laysan island for
fourteen Years in all, and it is some.
thing of home to him. During these
vearS he worked for the Pacific Guanu
and Fertilizer Co. digging phosphate
and later had guauO contract with
the government, but this was cancelled
when the japanese bird poarhcrs mad,
their big killings six or seven years