The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-21
WHARF AND WAVE.


| mate on the Andrew WEIGH tomorrow
The America Maru, from Yokoha-
ma, is probably delayed by bad wealth
er or quarantine.
The United States hospital ship Re-
lief, with medical supplies and nurses
for Manila, is due tomorrow from San
| Francisco.
The steamer Re Au Hou. from EIe-
ele, arrived yesterday morning. re-
porting some delay at Koloa discharg-
ing freight.
Various merchants of the city were
inspecting yesterday the large amount
of stores from the steamship Victoria
which will be sold at Oceanic wharf
| today.
The steamer Lehua sailed for kaun-
| akakai ports yesterday with Captain
Parker in command Captain Bennett
remains in port TO accept a promotion
to another of the Wilder line OF
| steamers.
| The steamer Helene, from Hama
kua, with a small cargo of sugar, ar
| rived in port last evening. The He
| lene has been away some time dis
| charging general freight at Maui and
Hawaii ports.
The schooner VIM. F. WitZemann
was to have sailed for the Coast yes
terday, but after the pilot was
on board the captain changed his mind
and decided to postpone his departure
till this morning. She sails for Port
Townsend in ballast.
The three transports Thomas, Logan,
and Meade are now on the transport
service in the Pacific, which seems to |
indicate that the last of the troops for |
Manila have sailed from New York. |
The Thomas. Logan and Meade are
vessels similar to the Sherman and |
Grant, ships with capacity of from
1,5O0 to 1000 soldiers. The Hancock.
Sheridan and Warren are almost as
big, and it is probable that these eight
transports will do the bulk of the
transportation, and several of the
chartered vessels will be returned to
their owners.
The United States cruiser Marble
head, which is now on the Coast. may
come to Honolulu in the near future
The Marblehead is a sister ship to the
Detroit and Montgomery and was
built at Boston in 1892 She has a
speed of II knots and is good, handy
vessel. During the war with Spain :
she was principally employed in bonn
harding small places on the coast of
Cuba. The officers of the cruiser are
Commander H. G. o. Colby, Lieuten-
ant Commander j. A. Nickells, Lieu
tenants E. S. Willets, G.. F. Williams
and w. G.. BrethertOn, Passed Assist
ant Surgeon S. G. Evans, Passed AS
Slstant Paymaster H. A. Dent. Naval ,
Cadets w. p. Cromar and r. B. White :
and Pay Clerk w. P. Atwell She car 5
les crew of 218 men. .
The American barkentine w. H. Di- r
nond, with general cargo and a deck 5
Dad of live stock, arrived in port yes
erday morning, and, after discharging S
ne horses and mules off the deck, | S
vent out In the stream, where she will S
'emaln about week awaiting a berth. h
but why should the vessels from s
san francisco complain said
Wealthy plantation man the other day. II
Ihey keep our sugar cargoes in the a
tream at San Francisco although we I;
re quite as anxious to get them dis n
harged and get returns from them as L
ney are now to get their cargOeS dis s.
harged at this port. There is a good \
eal OF buncombe about this harbor +
eng crowded. Busy seaports all the r
World over have times when their n
1harves are unable to accommodate
III the shipping seeking berths. Asl a
is there is no other prominent port s,
the world where vessels have as
u1ck despatch as in this very port, n
airing modern facilities for dis .
harging and loading vessels, which
ldeed is no fault of the harbor ITSELF
In March, 1888, Congress authorized
ur hrst steel warships, the dispatch
oat Dolphin of 1 POP net tons and the ds
cruisers Boston and Allan ca
OF 1926 tons and the Chicago of | y.
5O7. The contracts for their construc-I -
on were awarded to John Roach, the -.
west bidder. The building of a war =,
ZIP OF steel-a metal then so little ~
nown in practical working-was a '"
sk that might we'll tempt the most ds
dent ambition. But already in De- Cd
'mber, 1882, we had taken a contract. pe
aught with almost equal possibilities. M
n the construction of the first metal Ie
liling ship built in the United States IN
Id one Of the very first in the world Sa
his was the Title E. Starbuck, a tn
lll-rigged iron ship, launched April Fs
1883. This vessel was of 2,03S tons, tn
'st S15O,OOO, which was considered a &C
eat deal of money to put into a sail Re
G ship, was 273 feet long, 423 feet
,am, 26.3 feet depth of hold and ITS
ct from her main truck to the water
lie was the first sailing vessel in the
orld to carry metal masts, hers being blu
three-eighths inch iron plates, But m,
e Starbuck's superiority to many de
amp steamers did not depend entire
on her speed. The Starbuck was fol
iron ship. The first steel sidewheel ma
steamer in the United States so
as the Alaskan, launched in the en-
oacn yards In 1883 for the Oregon br
allway d Navigation Company. Ea