The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-17
WHARF AND WAVE.
DIAMOND HEAD. Dec. 16.-9 Pm.
Weather, foggy wind, light \.

The Hawaiian steel bark r P.
Rithet was lowered from the Mar
inc Railway yesterday, thoroughly
cleaned and reprinted She will
load sugar for San Francisco.
The barkentine Amelia is being
reprinted black out in the stream.
The schooner Liholiho will most
likely leave for Laysan Island for
another cargo of guano about the
end of this month.
The bark J. c. Glade will receive
200 bags of sugar from the c. R.
Bishop to-day.
The steamer w. G. Hall ar
rived after 6 o'clock last evening
from windward ports. She brought
cargo consisting of sugar, coffee,
etc. A part of the sugar will go on
board the barkentine S. G. Wilder
to-day.
The barkentine W. H. Dimond is
over 90 days out from San Fran
cisco for this port.
The barkentine S. n. Castle was
unloading bricks at Brewers wharf
yesterday. Her cargo is almost all
out. She will soon be ready to re-
cieve sugar for San Francisco.
The steamer J. A. Cummins
brought another load of sugar from
Heeia for the bark J. c. Glade last
night.
The whole Of the crew of the ship
Port Glasgow, with the exception of
the first mate, have been arrested at
Sydney, n. SW., for disobeying the
captains orders on the high seas.
The crew have been sentenced to one
months imprisonment each on the
charge of disobeying the orders of
the captain. The men accused the
captain of incompetency, and threat
ened to throw him overheard if he
interfered in the navigation of the
ship. They petitioned the mate to
take command, and alleged that dur
ing bad weather the captain re-
NAMED below when the vessel was in
danger of laundering. The captain
was compelled to hand over the COM
mand to the first mate.
1t is not generally known that the
first steamboat ever built in the Uni
ted States was constructed by James
Rumsey, at Shepherdstown. w. Va,
In the year 1855. Robert Fulton,
with his Clermont, was anticipated
by Rumsey twenty-five years. Ac-
cording to the Frederick CIV. Va.)
News the steamboat was fitted up
with machinery partly manufactured
at the Catoctin furnace'of the John
son Brothers, near Frederick. The
boiler, two cylinders, pumps, etc,
were manufactured ia Baltimore.
Some portions Of the works were
made at the Antietam Iron Works.
On March IA, 17S6, a public expert
ment. the first ever undertaken in
River. Rumsey succeeded In attain
ing a speed of four miles an hour
against the current. The steamboat
was eighty feet long. 1t was pro-
PEELED by steam engine which
worked vertical pump in the middle
of the vessel, by which the water was
drawn in at the bow and discharged
through horizontal trunk at the,
stern. The boat bore load of three
tons. The weight of its machinery
was 666 pounds. The whole of the
machinery, including the boiler, oc-
cupied space but little over four
feet square Two distinguished men
were patrons to Rumsey's expert
ment-George Washington and Gov
ernor Thomas johnson, of Maryland.
The experiment was made in the in
terest of the proposed Chesapeake y
Ohio Canal. Rumsey clearly and
satisfactorily demonstrated that a
boat could be propelled by steam
against the current.