Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — LITTLE BUT USEFUL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LITTLE BUT USEFUL.

The Hiram fling ham. Made for Missionary Work Among the Gilbert Islands. ' The smallest missionary vessel afloat recently left San Francisco for the Gilbert Islands. She is 50 feet long, 14 feet wide, and 0 feet deep, is a two-masted schooner, was built

at San Francisco, and her name H the Hiram Bingham. She was paid for, however, by the American Board of Foreign Missions, of Boston, and is registered in that city. Rev. J. Walkup, who commands her, is a captain as well as a missionary, who has passed twelve year's of his life among the Gllbor.t Islands. Internally the vessel is all cabin, as the crow is composed entirely of tho missionaries who intend to work among the islands, and the vessel is designed for a sort of tender to tho big missionary brig Morning Star. It is built, therefore, to run in and out among all tho channels and harbors whore tho large vessels cannot go, and an odd feature about it is a 10-horse*power gasoline engine and attached screw, so the vessel can navigate the narrow channels by steam in a calm.

THE HIRAM BINGHAM.