The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-14
Bennington Will Carry it if Peru
Fails to Arrive.
MICHIGAN is EXPECTED HOURLY
Big Accumulation of Papers and
Letters-The Boys in Blue
Correspondence

This is the first time have been
fooled" said Postmaster General Oat
last evening in speaking of the non
appearance of the Pacific Mail S. S.
Peru on schedule time Had the Peru
arrived yesterday she would have
taken the mail to San Francisco ahead
of the Miowera AS it is now, it is
case Of bad luck and while the con-
sequences of delay will not be
dangerously grave, there will be re-
sultant not a little inconvenience.
Captain Nichols of the U. s. Gun
boat Bennington sent word yesterday
that he expected TO leave here with
his vessel Immediately upon the ar
rival of the q. S. S. Mohican, expected
hourly and that he would be pleased
to carry forward a mail. Mr.. Oat
thanked the commander of the Gun
boat and accepted the offer, condi-
toned on the further delay of the S.
S. Peru. Mr.. Oat found that he had
on hand last evening about twenty
and 10000 letters. This big lot in
cludes the mail of the Boys in Blue.
All mail marked ''MiOwera" was sent
by the steamer for Vancouver. A great
many people held back their letters
till the Canadian boat had gone, wish
ing to use the Peru.
The trouble that the Honolulu mer-
chants have is that their orders for
goods to arrive here the latter part of
the month are still in the Postof1ce
and will remain there till the Peru or
Mohican happen along. To catch the
next steamer back with the goods the
orders should be in San Francisco by |
the 21st A number of business men
interviewed yesterday said that while |
there might be experienced some an
noyance, there could be nothing like a |
famine. The largest houses all have |
on hand stocks of staples that will |
last several months. A few sailing |
vessels are on the way and will re- |
lieve the shortage in some lines. Hay |
and grain will feel the effects of |
scarcity first Feed for stock has been |
on the upgrade as to price for some |
months 1t was expected that by the |
time the mail now in the POstOffice |
here had reached San Francisco hay |
and grain from the mountain States |
and from the northwest would be in
San Francisco for immediate ship |
ment. Mail for British Columbia, |
Canada and the northwestern States
went on by the Miowera and the
Seattle, Portland and Vancouver boats
will bring quantities of goods in due
time.
There was mention yesterday of
proposal to dispatch the Wilder S. S.
Co. CIaudine. to San Francisco with
mail and to return with a cargo of
freight of urgent character. Up to a
late hour last night there was nothing
tangible of the enterprise. Wilder's
had not been called upon with a bust
ness talk. 1t is more than likely that
the Chamber of Commerce would take
the lead in such a matter and the
plan has not yet been brought before
that body. In 1898 the Claudine was
sent to the coast with the Annexation
commissioners at a charter price of
800 a day When the Miowera re
fused to take mail from here during
the cholera visitation in 1895 it was
proposed TO again dispatch the Clau-
dine and a meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce was held and the pro
iect discussed. It was finally abandon
ed. At that time the Wilder people
stated that they would ask more for
the steamer than they had received
in 1898. as the first charter had not
pai... Should the Claudine be sent at
this time she would have a number
of passengers. A score or more Of
peopIe-perhaps half a hundred-are
waiting for some chance for a steamer
trip to the coast. Some of the travel