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HAT Is a moil Interesting narra
tive coines from the Pacific of a
shipwreck on a co al reef In I he
mlJ'lie of that vast ocean, the
escape of the passengers to an
island near by and the rood
times they had there until res
cued by their own ship, wh.ch was finally
saved by a wrecking crew from destruc-J
tlon on the reef.
The b.g steamship Mongolia, bound from
Yokohama to Honolulu and San Fran
cisco, had about five hundred Asiatic
st.-errige passengers and fifty cabin pas
sengers aboard. Those little to.ands out
i Dm Pacific are so small that It takes
a good navigator and a sharp lookout to
slirht one of them. In this ca.se the big
Pacific liner hnd no dlfflcu.ty In find n
the. reef bound island for It was In the
night and nobody was anVous to run
ashore on an Island, yet the big Mon
golia performed the feat with such good
seamanship that the vessel was n.t dam
aged to any great extent.
Ths passengers, however, considered
themselves shlpwrecled all the same.
When daylight came they were surprised
of th2 Sand Island cable station or tne
Commercial Cable Company. All kinds of
life saving craft were ait hand, and al
though the water Is four or Ave mill
thu smaller boats, so the cargo was like-
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.'he Hawaiian group wh.ch came Into the
possession of the United Sta.aa a:ii In
1.0 1 the government appontej Lleu-enint
Commander Rodman Governor of Mid
way, to hav the te. r.try surveyed. In
19,0 the Pacific Commercial Cable ,.ne wa.i
completed and an office op?ned at Band
Inland, making the MUway group an Im
portant point for the cable company, for
steamers and ships In general .nd for the
to And themselves In sight of the o.l ces g0vernment a war vessels in particular.
In 1887 the bark Wandering Minstrel was
I wrecked there, and Captain Walker and
his family and crew, barely escaping with
their lives, managed i to get ashore. For
deep in the back yard of the Island It was fourteen ntng th y suffered ihere and
only about a hundred or so feet deep In n irly priahed. The hardh.ps were ter
th'3 higoons of the reefs where the ship r We But for q,, flsh tney c,, ln the
stranded. 'comparative shallow lagoons and the birds
In a few hours the entire crowd of steer- and ef,ga tney roun1 !n the bushes they
age and cabin passengers were transferred w;yld nave stun ed. As It was, many of
ashore. Then the Chief steward landed the cpow dled of ,curvy.
a gang of cooks and assistant stewards,! lt u a ,inguiar fact that although Sand
together with provisions, to feed them all jgianj, leaa than two miles long, has
during the seven days they were marooned abundance of clear, fresh, sparkling water
on the island. obtained by digging only Ave or six feet
As lt was anywhere from a thousand to ;nto th0 sand, lt did not prove healthful to
eighteen hundred mllesto Honolulu and Captain Walker and his crew. On Eastern
a quarter way around the world to the island, adjoining, and only a mile and a
great continents the passengers consld- quarter distant, fhe water Is not so good,
ereil themselves lucky that they were on but for some reason lt Is much health. er
dry land. It was feared that rougrh and there was no l.lness among those 11 v
weatlier might set in, with the sea send- lng on that Island.
Ing great rollers over the reefs, pounding The scurvy and Its dreadful ravages
the ship to Pieces and worldna havoc with 're confined to those living on Band Isl
and, which la now the headquarters of the
government and the cable company.
wise removed. In hopes of lightening ship r the coral reefs which fence ln the isl
and getting her off the rocks. lands there would be no safety for them,
nf mr ti,. p.ku The Paciao storms, with their enormous
u,u ..ui nave suniciem suppues in store twee thcsj waU, of coral and tne lBiand
to feed so many guests, hence the con- are the lagoons, Aowlng with water of a
gratulutlons when the transfer of supplies dark D,ue color, but so clear that one seep
from the steamer was completed. Few " !? a m'rror far d0W" in thelr, "yBlal
depths. Sharks swarm the sea outside,
shipwrecks are so fortunate as to happen ' As these Islands are the summits of vat
within a store's throw of an ocean cable submarine peaks, which In bygone ages
offiVe and have communication with the! volcnoe threw. up from the depths, one
. can form some Idea of the vastness of the
wcrld. A government transport, the Bed- ocean there -a wilderness of water
foul, was cabled for to look after the stretching for tens of thousands of miles in
pasKeiigi'is, while the Iroquois and the every direction. Not far from these island
cable steamship Restorer were ordered to i?JfcJttto"Z
the island with a supply of stores. Not far away Is a submarine mountain.
Hut the passengers did not know then rising to within three or four hundred feet
what was belmr done for them at Hr.t of surface. If it had appeared above
. the sea Its tip top point would have bten
" ' i'H-y were io oe- called an Uland. lt soars three or four
tome lioiunson crusoes. and kept on the miles up from the ocean's bed.
Island for a prolonged slay. Fortunately! Such are the sublime surroundings where
there wer .n,.h hiMin.. . l,he P'As steamer went aflhore and Its
, "wuShlpwiecked passengers were rescued from
there to house them oil, and when they the shark Infested reefs. They had hardly
ha.l feasted as they never feasted before ! wa'kei around the island twice when they
anJ taken a look at the countrv wMnh 1 concluded they must have lome kind of
u,.. . I...- n . . amusement. Amateur theatricals were
proceeded to provide ways and means for
enjoying themselves.
To appreciate their situation a few facts
In regard .to the place where they were
m-any four thousand miles between Hon
,iu uU,.m. i ne aim way js,jnJs get of Florence,
their name because they are half way be
tween AU and America.
suggested and everybody said: "Yes; give
me rour tickets ror the nrst night."
SO THEY WROTE A PLAY.
out wnere are we to get a play?" The
answer came Instantly, "We will write
wrocKed may be interesting Th i.u-.ii)ne. So out there on that lon iir,ri
Islands are among a doaen ocean i.,,,,1 ,! thousands of miles from civilisation, the
..... , ... " playwright turned up and was readv for
ing in a straight line nearly business iuat as if it were In k.. v..l
eighteen hundred mllca northwest of Hon- on old Broadway, with 150 tvoewriior.
olulu. They breakthe long d.stanee of we'tlnir to copy the parts. i
I .r. iaqu9,,r, u. Bi. Margaret s
-U.lKe. St. Margaret's, Knjdand, and aUoj
naiy, onerea to wrlfo ,h.i
play, and tuilck.r than Mr. llammerateini
leuiitposeu u.s itii.iuua iutt, Wiuch xls Hiil
to have nieltfd the King of Belrlnm
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irars. ine vi"e wa reauy ror production 'J. V - ' IO 'id-' f r'-' :--5:-' Vl -7' k-!, t- 'I S ''' l f' I '3 ' f K"."-"' B f t ' '
The author selected Midway , tnts '""-I A- , . . V ' ' 'I fef'-i ' AiTrj& V-yrAl 'A w a WiU'Arl W..'. f- J J '
of the play. With great skill he wr'te t 1 1 1 P V ' MAX fKM'MT-W$f: t-:iV WALmt' "11''
around the islands, the scenery, the ocean IL t ?' t .-V y- A J si--'- : '.''' ' t-'l; N7r 'f
. ... . .. inrted iru... I t ir it. .m. f rw jk. ' - s ' 'ill js . - -w.--'- - - - - - -m lm
mile and three quarters long by a third of ,,'m'n , A ' -"g be. , if ' 1 1 I ' V t " (7 -- ' i j 1 J II I
rrr. .rrrCalSSls uto, 7 A 1 ; vIv-Aj ;l, M ' i hanhicraft in indun schoois.
average e evstlnn . frr.,.. . w.... ... .... wor d. Suddenly one msht i t f . f 1 s V r , f t. . I if . , II I J'
For the mo.,t part the Islands are very h.holds the tenth anniversary. ' ih a.udlto' V I h A I ill i. V . v I I
much In appearance like -oney Island of Mence on the island. The dude women i ! '! V 44 .Tt O ' ' ??r v
thirty year. ago. when It was a barren "h. uJrnh.1 Cru-'-ln V V V . ' 'VtT?-. "V X '
. ... icai-i, i a ti.i j-. ' sr- ' - - aT aT
hills as hlsh as . i. ,.r.r. k.. :t "voinson X X- ' ' . ' XX .
XX VSOUP OP THU.
THE MIDWAY ISLANDS.
Two Islands comiose the Midway group.
P.md Island, the larger, ore and a qunr-
,er iiu.es west or Kaslern Island. U
waste covered with sand
a house.
IS )..k. .
Crusoe. He is supported by his Z"
day. who applauds like any n.i!". ,1
Th Ml.luv iin.i. . .. ,, t.. mn When his master. R.m - nirea
, ..,.,,,,!,,,,...- . -- -....on c-rusoe.
bushes .. Ulna.
he
coral sand, covered ln spots with
and graa, where the aea bird
., a poem of his own corn:,.?"!'
telling of his esperlence on th. .
1.1V ... VrM V ,-HtU IntO Mlttllr.. . . UU tn
n.1 h.tc.h their voim. cl,tt . . .n,a a rsis ln saliirv "Pprovai
' vi ousnes " "
and grass dot both isUui.ls, but when tiva
Pm.mA.-. atorms iwceD in for 0
- ...wuo.nu ol .
Tne next event l.the arrivrj of
f Cook s tourUts-all young w0m.,.PViy
re captivated by Robln.u who
miles the Islands are hidden In clm.rt. r.t iviv Then follows s dan. "n
v . . . j - uiq
Lneir vwu vu.u. i.io ju.". enaa with u
h..trs tecomln,i- r.n.. ",iu the
It may te reca.ld that the
Bines government took pa suasion of all marry the Cook's tourlsu.
th.... i.i.nd. ditttlna- ths ocean in - . . from applause
ml: as from Honolulu that is, ail tuoo
women haters becoming converted t.T
pulia curtain l a messenger ik. ' the compauy made a hlsThly grotesque ap- Chisf of Or -tve.tr.
hopped in from the cable otfios witn a farancr,. This is the cast; Uiwiral luau-umeuu.
glow on his lace, saying that Crutr.i Ki.iuai iuau ui. tiow.tis
Ktuhinan had list cabled an offer to aacule f"u rtfUl
K.ruu wa bu;Jertoh Dr. 8. iktaui 01 Out yaa.cu.er uavu.g
HE 8upenolr.aeut of Indian Scuuo.. Indians of tho South half of the Navahoa
In discussing the woik of ha. Uepart- reservation weave annually more than
...ent. reeenuy said: lou.wo worth of blankets, and Hie quality
it Is the policy to preserve the na- la ...... r,.r ... lh. f,,r...-fiv ...a.u. About
tlve handicraft of the Indian, and the arts onefourln of the ,ul,Port of thtse lnd. i.is
of their ancestors are taught in the schoo.s derlv6j troln Ul of tn. Navahou
wherever It Is found that the children take blankets
artistic siaima.ua ............ niaa. at th clloU are rNlJ.iv oid. At
,work famous and given to It lis greatest ctllouco Uia .j. ta ilt bcllJ anil
value. This involves the preserving of the drilwn work; ut i-tioenlx. Ax.z., g.r.s are
symbolic tribal designs and employing only ugt b.ai.ket and basket linking and
those dyes and materials which have stood bwad w-jik. while at the l'ima. Tiaining
the test of time and use. School basketry Is taught. At Km of
I in. eiiwea.vor.nsT to extend Instruction In tie s-l.ooSa, ispeclaliy in New Mexico.
'nAtive Industriss It Is given more promi- pupils are encouraged in potu-ry work.
.......... j-. ur. Bt.nfVatl nenCe In the schools wnere tribes . art and some ui, que models in vases and Jugt
,. . . v. . reDrtsented wno are aaepis in particular have bcon tleveloped.
Ivate inakn.tf and
" .rt. 'ill us ln schools having a number Mexican drawn work receive cons il-rabla
A w.mn. nr 1,nil rhllilr.n rtfimnii,.n, n-tnttiti in Ih. alm.,. t.9 V. ... .1........
. Kverwu:' tMAii,en ui u.e piay. i nil w. i,t. MeHber.ua... ..Mi. liarla torm.r local ..Mtnagc. aa.d taat aunuua-a vl 7,.. l. 'Z ,. Z'r, . " . " , .
S .i.n BUM tf (Vnen..-. i 11 1 1 1)1 J UUCU i kAii Sav S) liri C.iJT MM ITM Dl.l llVIrSJf JJlt'Ilsl?! T. AIVUUI n . l - . . r I V 1 .. . I rtt.1 II I' " " ...... svvV..uaVl. 1 CIO UBm est mv I 1 V Oa Ut
north- .- ro"e 'd i.-if and was, another hit of the ev.ni..' lr Mr. 9i?,(..ra .T' , " if.."'"' " R,.eitic instruction is given ln strlng.nK i, ......rafts in America, and .M.. .m
westerly d recton for nearly two tuou-.nd " tor. at ihWcto-. of th. play re"J tn Although shme of the residents of Mi". fHUSV iX.;..-tVj;-rs.-lU,eT-'fi,y he had T few open dates. S to th. warp upon th. hand m.de loom, euro- hand looms has u-en introduced iirto
1 . " ". rijr .i htiiv ;,o v - uiay on. n rnt engage. nnts nun tne com- " "r - -,-..,m ... curi.cu.u . .uuuwai iiubuf
tar-en. Ihe costumes were Improvised and Jjt Mr! "e,. pany at various points on the two Island, threads to suit the pattern. Th. native tlon.
L-tors at the close of th. play.
But this was not all. before
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