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Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...
...Vanderbilt looked her over: below, where some of the rigging comes down through the hollow metal mast; on deck, where many new mechanical gadgets are?the "sliding-foot" boom, the instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State in his pocket...
...wind veering to the east. Both vessels took in their spinnakers for a reach (wind broad abeam). At the halfway mark shirtsleeved Skipper Vanderbilt went wide. Shamrock V, less than three minutes behind, passed close enough to the Thomas F. Moran to pitch a cork aboard. Both boats, breaking out jib, baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail, was leading...
Died. Jr. Lieut. Woodward Phelps, 28, married, son of Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps who is Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; by his own hand (revolver) aboard the U. S. S. Northampton in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Three days prior his Annapolis roommate and cruisemate, Lieut.-Commander Benjamin F. Staud, had killed himself similarly off the China Coast...
...significance was the annual revival of the oyster business, starting last week. But of great significance was a 6,000-ton steamer, slowly going down the Atlantic seaboard. She was the Frango, first ship of the new American Whaling Co. Aboard her are 69 oldtime Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag...