LEFT ON ISLAND -- A Cincinnati Boy Lost on a Voyage in the Pacific. Newark Daily Advocate, OH, Oct. 9, 1889
While President Arthur was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he was waited on by a Mrs. Hibben, of Cincinnati, who asked the assistance of the naval authorities to find her son, William C. Hibben, twenty years old, who was a passenger on board the bark Spartan, Captain Crossiey, which left this city for Honolulu on March 12, last.
The vessel reached Ahger, Java, on July 9, and proceeded, expecting to arrive at her destination six weeks later. On July 13, while near the coast of Agincourt, one of the Polynesian Islands, the captain sent his son Herbert and two of the crew in a boat to examine the island. Young Hibben was allowed to accompany them. That was last ever seen of the boat or the men.
Mrs. Hibben handed the president a letter which her husband recently received from the captain, in which he says that the men are probably on some Polynesian Island. He searched for them a long time, but could not find them and continued his voyage. As soon as possible assistance was applied for from our consul at Amoy for a gunboat to search the adjacent islands, but as he was about to visit Japan with his family he did not take any active measures for their relief. President Arthur promised to do all in his power to assist the sorrowing mother to recover her son, if he is still alive."
While President Arthur was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he was waited on by a Mrs. Hibben, of Cincinnati, who asked the assistance of the naval authorities to find her son, William C. Hibben, twenty years old, who was a passenger on board the bark Spartan, Captain Crossiey, which left this city for Honolulu on March 12, last.
The vessel reached Ahger, Java, on July 9, and proceeded, expecting to arrive at her destination six weeks later. On July 13, while near the coast of Agincourt, one of the Polynesian Islands, the captain sent his son Herbert and two of the crew in a boat to examine the island. Young Hibben was allowed to accompany them. That was last ever seen of the boat or the men.
Mrs. Hibben handed the president a letter which her husband recently received from the captain, in which he says that the men are probably on some Polynesian Island. He searched for them a long time, but could not find them and continued his voyage. As soon as possible assistance was applied for from our consul at Amoy for a gunboat to search the adjacent islands, but as he was about to visit Japan with his family he did not take any active measures for their relief. President Arthur promised to do all in his power to assist the sorrowing mother to recover her son, if he is still alive."
LEFT ON ISLAND -- A Cincinnati Boy Lost on a Voyage in the Pacific. Newark Daily Advocate, OH, Oct. 9, 1889
While President Arthur was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he was waited on by a Mrs. Hibben, of Cincinnati, who asked the assistance of the naval authorities to find her son, William C. Hibben, twenty years old, who was a passenger on board the bark Spartan, Captain Crossiey, which left this city for Honolulu on March 12, last.
The vessel reached Ahger, Java, on July 9, and proceeded, expecting to arrive at her destination six weeks later. On July 13, while near the coast of Agincourt, one of the Polynesian Islands, the captain sent his son Herbert and two of the crew in a boat to examine the island. Young Hibben was allowed to accompany them. That was last ever seen of the boat or the men.
Mrs. Hibben handed the president a letter which her husband recently received from the captain, in which he says that the men are probably on some Polynesian Island. He searched for them a long time, but could not find them and continued his voyage. As soon as possible assistance was applied for from our consul at Amoy for a gunboat to search the adjacent islands, but as he was about to visit Japan with his family he did not take any active measures for their relief. President Arthur promised to do all in his power to assist the sorrowing mother to recover her son, if he is still alive."
While President Arthur was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he was waited on by a Mrs. Hibben, of Cincinnati, who asked the assistance of the naval authorities to find her son, William C. Hibben, twenty years old, who was a passenger on board the bark Spartan, Captain Crossiey, which left this city for Honolulu on March 12, last.
The vessel reached Ahger, Java, on July 9, and proceeded, expecting to arrive at her destination six weeks later. On July 13, while near the coast of Agincourt, one of the Polynesian Islands, the captain sent his son Herbert and two of the crew in a boat to examine the island. Young Hibben was allowed to accompany them. That was last ever seen of the boat or the men.
Mrs. Hibben handed the president a letter which her husband recently received from the captain, in which he says that the men are probably on some Polynesian Island. He searched for them a long time, but could not find them and continued his voyage. As soon as possible assistance was applied for from our consul at Amoy for a gunboat to search the adjacent islands, but as he was about to visit Japan with his family he did not take any active measures for their relief. President Arthur promised to do all in his power to assist the sorrowing mother to recover her son, if he is still alive."
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