The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-30
SEA AND SHORE
Fumigating Warehouse
on Mail Dock.
Mauna Loa ArriyeS--R. P. Rithet With
MerChandise--New Light Keeper
Capt. Cutler in Port Again.

There was "A hole in the wall,
when Inspectors Reynolds and Char
lock came TO pass last night on the
smoke-prOof structure that was has
tily erected yesterday afternoon by
the steamship company TO aid the fu-
migation of Oriental freight during
the epidemic. IL was no fault of Con-
tractor Harrison. who supeTintended
the job For, though apparently ev-
cry chink and Granny had been filled
and every cleat we'll caulked, when the
electric light was turned on the rays
shOne through under the caves where
the corrugated iron roofing met the
rafters The force of carpenters was
turned on again, and before many
hours the improyiSed warehouse,
stretching nearly 200 feet on line par
allel with the wharf front and extend
ing TO it's edge within a few feet was
made proof against the escape of any
OF the fumes from the fumigating
plant Eighteen hundred tons of sake,
soy. silks, curiOs, bambOoware, sam
shoe cuTios and stuffs from Asiatlc
ports of the Algoa will feel the force
of the germ-killing sulphur smoke to-
day. IL will be almost dangerous
thing even to open the big sliding
doors when the fumigation is accom-
plished. Volumes of dense white smoke
will pour out in sitting clouds. Il re-
member the case of dog" said In
spector Reynolds, who survived flu
migation while locked in a room in
In, NJ 70 Of
the heat and smell the animal. by keep
ing its nose close to the floor, had
managed TO secure enough pure air TO
live: but he was almost dead, and 1T
was some days before he was able to
walk" If the Hongkong Maru, which
is due this morning, arrives in time
for the fumigation there will be in the
neighborhood of 600 more tons of
freight. which will be added to the lot
off the Algoa. The bark R. p. Rithet,
with general cargo from San Francis
co, and the undertaken barkentine
Klikitat were arrivals in the afternoon.
The coal-laden ship JabeZ Howes was
towed in during the morning from the
offing. The Rithet has made good
passage from the Coast and has on
board a big load of staples, which fully
relieves the local market. An Ameri-
can four-masted schooner was sighted
off Diamond Head towards evening,
but sailed off to leeward before her
name could be distinguished. She
will be off the harbor this morning.
The Algoa Sails.
The big freighter Algoa sailed for
San Francisco yesterday afternoon.
The waterfront of the Bay City has
been looking for the leviathan for
some months past and is all full, ac-
cording TO published accounts, of con-
lectures as to her shape and size. They
will now be satisfied. but not until
they come to see the thousands upon
thousands of tons of freight that is
taken from the monster steamer
hold will they realize what large
ocean carrier such as is frequent upon
the Atlantic ocean can take as a load.
The 2.2O0 tons of freight taken off the
Algoa at this port takes up large
portion of Pacific Mail wharf. the
space occupied usually by the coal pile
makai of that docks entrance, and
some OF the stalls of the public mar
ket across the esplanade.