Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-27
THE AMERICAN BARK MARTHA
DAVIS OUTWARD BOUND.
ship y. r. Hitchcock VIII Sail Tomor-
row-Hito shipping-News Ga
thered Along the Docks.

day.
The schooner Nokomis has sail
ed from Hilo with a full cargo of
sugar for San Francisco.
The Canadian-Australian steam.
ship Warrimoo will leave at 10 to-
night for British Columbia.
The bark Mohican received her
first instalment of sugar from the
steamer James Makee today.
The steamer Hawaii is engaged
collecting sugar on the Hawaii
coast for foreign vessels loading
at Hilo.
Tomorrow, high tide large 0:50
m; high tide small 0:25 p m; low
tide large 5:22 p m; low tide small
7:50 a m.
The steamer James Makee
brought sugar today for G Brewer
& Co, and the Keauhou for VIM
G Irwin g. Co.
The James Makee leaves at 4 p
m today for Kappa, and the Wal
aleale the same time for Kilauea,
Kalihiwai and Hanalei.
The big American ship S ?
Hitchcock will finish loading this
afternoon and will depart for New
York tomorrow afternoon.
The Norwegian ship Andvake
has about finished discharging
coal, and will probably leave with
In week for Puget Sound.
The Hilo Tribune says: The
Henry Willard, Indiana and Cal
lao, three deep water vessels will
be here soon to load sugar for the
East.
Besides few hundred tons of
coal for herself, the Warrimoo
leaves 134 tons of freight at this
port. The white liner is well
laden this trip.
People on the waterfront were
treated to some enjoyable music
last night, which was dispensed
by small band aboard the Bri.
tish gunboat Icarus.
The Inter-Island steamer Mau-
ma Loa arrived shortly after 5
O'Clock last night. Captain Sim
erson says the weather was little
rough along Hawaii, the wind
blowing from all points of the
compass.
The Matson line Hawaiian bark
Rodorick Dhu, Rookie master, ar
rived in port last Wednesday
afternoon, fourteen days from San
Francisco. A fine and pleasant
trip was experienced down. The
Roderick Dhu brought down 720
tons of cargo for town and district
people. Mr.. Plupkett was the
only passenger.-Hilo Tribune.
After long stay in port, the
bark Martha Davis, Captain Soule,
set sail this morning for San
Francisco. If the wind now blow
ing keeps him company a few
days, Captain Soule should make
a good run to the Golden Gate.
The bark's cargo was made up as
follows: G247 bags sugar shipped
by Q Brewer d 90, 1928 bags
sugar by F A Schaefer & Co, 4572
bags sugar by 9heo III Davies d
Co, 1850 bags sugar by Castle d.
Cooke, and 56 empty wine barrels
by A Fernandes. The sugar was
valued at S72.06S .SS.
The biggest sailing vessel in tho
world is the German ship Potosi.
She has also the distinction of be-
ing the only fve-masted, square
rugged sailing vessel afoGt. There
are several five-masted and some
six-masted fore and aft-rigged
schooners sailing under the Amer
lean flag, one or more being fami-
liar objects in San Francisco bay.
The Potosi is square-rigged on
four masts, the fifth being bark
rugged. Her dimensions are huge.
She is 1862 feet in length over all,
40 feet 8 inches breadth of beam,
and her tonnage is about 5000
tons.-Exchange. 49,
One of the greatest things ever
done for those who 60 down to the
sea in ships was the establish
ment of tho signal code of flags,
for it matters not what tongue men
may speak, If they can read their
own, they are able to communicate
with another vessel. A vessel on
the high seas a few days ago
from some far-off port, with an