The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-04
WHAT SAILOR MEN TALK Of
THE OLD KAIMILOA GOES TO THE
BONEYARD.
Rough Weather Reported Along the
Hawaii Coast-Movement of Sugar
-Gossip of the Water Front.

The Lyman ID. Foster is discharging
Westport coal at the Mail dock jog.
The gunboat Wheeling is anchored
i'm the Philadelphia former anchor
age.
The Bennington is taking on 100
! tons of coal, enough to fill her bunk
ers.
The Claudine will probably be gone
six weeks. During her absence the
| Helene will have the Maui route.
The Rufus L. Wood will discharge
coal about Thursday, and will get Off
for the Sound on Saturday. She has
been chartered to go to st. Michaefs
in the spring.
The Philadelphia may get away this
evening. but the chances are better
! for her to go in the morning. She
has 1000 tons of coal in Der bunkers,
and will not take more
| The Lebu has been ordered to San
| Francisco, to carry cargo of wheat
to England. She will finish discharg-
ing her nitrate cargo tomorrow, and
will probably have ballast enough in
to sail Wednesday.
The Lehua is on the marine railway
making ready for sea. She is to haul
sugar from Hawaii for a while. No
date has been set for her sailing vet,
but she will probably go to sea before
the end of the week.
The Irmgard is receiving $3.50 bags
of sugar from the Noeau and 1889 bags
from the Mkahala this morning. Cap
tain Schmidt has been unusually fort
| 70. hi t,irN 10 NxFi11 chi 70, i,n
Coast about mid-week.
The Alden Besse received 4462 bags
of sugar from the .laudine this fore
noon. She will probably get the great
er portion of the Mauna Loa's cargo
tomorrow, and there is enough more
in sight probably to fill the bark be-
fore the end of the week.
The Mokolii did not get in until al
most noon yesterday, because of hea-
Wy weather during almost the entire
trip. She brought down so sheep, 35
bales of wool and IS bags of taro. Mrs.
| Hugh McCorriston and James Aud
the only cabin passengers.
The Noeau and Mikahala we're
among yesterdays arrivals, the for
mer bringing $3.50 bags of sugar ftnm
/
sugar and 27O bags of rice rem Ka-
uai ports. Purser Tuft reports rear
ly 10000 bags of sugar left On klTAi.
The Kaala is having her boilers
cleaned today. Tomorrow or on We'd
nesday she will probably make anoth-
er special trip to Lahaina with coal.
| Captain Mosher has purchased the os-
trich ranch. and is thinking of quit
ting the sea to devote his entire time
to raising eggs for the market.
| The Claudine arrived yesterday
! morning with IA full cargo of sugar,
and island products, after an unusu-
ally rough voyage. The wind was
blowing almost IA living gale during
the time she was loading at Paauhou.
| The Claudine is now outfitting for her
voyage to the Coast for repairs and
Captain Cameron hopes to get away
on Wednesday.
The Helene arrived this morning,
with no sugar, but 50 head of cattle.
Captain Freeman says the weather
on the Hamakua coast was terrible.
He has rarely seen it blow so hard at
| Paauhou, where the steamer worked
an entire day, with hawser ashore.
| 4
! Captain Freeman had to hurry back
to fit out the vessel to take the Clau-
dimes run tomorrow.
The old converted steamer Kaimil IA,
famous as the only war vessel own
ed by the Hawaiian Government, is
to be removed from her anchorage
in Naval Row, where she has been an
eyesore for years, and will be relegat-
ed to the boneyard up town, in the
vicinity of the old fish market wharf
Since King Kalakaua's famous ,Xpc-
dition to Samoa, the Kamiloa has been
known the world over through writ
ers, most of whom wrote in iiumor-
Gus vein. Of late years she has stood
in Naval Row, near the light boise,
where she has not only been an eve
sore, but has been constantly in the
way. The Harbor Master finally has
exercised his prerogative. A force of
men was put aboard to pump the hulk
out this morning, and this afternoon
the tug will remove her 10 her final
resting place.
ARRIVALS.
Monday, October T.