The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-05
WHARF AND WAVE
Togo KiS8n Liner America MaTl's
Good Passage.
SCHOONER ALICE COOKE ARRIVES
Vessels on the Esrth * Au Hou
With MuIes-Cusrom House
Changes.

The Togo Kisen Kaisha liner Ameri-
ca Maru locked at Pacific Mail wharf
early yesterday morning after aspleas-
ant run of nine and a half days from
Yokohama, bringing Oriental news up
TO November 25th in the afternoon
Good weather was experienced all the
way over and the new commander of
the America Maru, r. H. Going, who
Joined the steamer at Yokohama, com
mences his Jrans-Pacific voyages under
suspicious circumstances. Command
er Going replaces Captain Cope. whose
conduct in handling the vessel was the
cause of much unfavorable comment
in the Orient as well as on the Coast.
Commander Going was formerly a
popular master in the Calcutta trade.
Purser J. V. Comfort. a kamaaina. is
on the America Maru. Mr.. Isoshima
of the local emigration company. and
some other Japanese were among the
Honolulu passengers. Among the
through passengers were the ChevaIier
de Wonters de Oplinter, Belgian no
bleman touring around the globe: Rev
r. +. Aiken, the well-known Oriental
missionary and family. consisting of
his wife and three children; Mrs. C. Z.
WadSwOrth of San Francisco. and a
Russian nobleman travelling incog as
Mr.. Van Grot. The America Maru
brought a large cargo and $50 Japan
csc immigrants for this port and will
sail for San Francisco at 9 o'clock this
with number of passengers
who are booked at the local agency.
NEW CUSTOMS GUARDS.
For some time past the native Gus
IONS guards have been gradually re- |
placed by white men until now there |
ire some eight or ten of them the rest |
being HawaiianS. The espionage of |
he crowded harbOr during the past !
-ear with all the transports going and |
coming has been a hard one and calls |
or men OF the best caliber whose faith
ulness and devotion TO duty is beyond |
Ill question. \ constant watchfulness
must be exercised on all the vessels in
he stream, on the ShorebOats plying
about the harbor. and on the Island |
nOOred to the wharfs. Among the new |.
men lately appointed customs guards
ire: j. j. Mcclure. III. Lubbock. A. Bad
II. J. Powers. f. Miller. H. Ludwig.
Z. Allen. W. Smith.
\ VALUABLE SALVAGE INVEN-
TION.
There was witnessed the other day
N Nnu- Work hprhnr. n |
With a new telephone device for divers
The adjustment of this device may be
made to any helmet of any style. and
an be detached at pleasure, so that if
elephOnic connection with the diver
5 not desired, as, for instance. in get
ing out cargo from a sunken vessel.
he unnecessary wire need not be car
led for him 10 look after. In building
sea wall. or anything of that sort.
where communication with a derrick
owering stones, or with other divers
Il work on the same job is desirable
he equipment may be readily at
ached, and thus for the first time by
ny devices a diver in deep water may
'e enabled TO converse with the man
longside of him. The test was made
n all sorts of positions, and pro-
lounced highly satisfactory. One GU
iOus thing about this device is that it
equires no special mouthpiece for the
liver; he simply talks in an ordinary !
one in his helmet, which, being a
ounding bell in itself. conveys the Vi
ration through the wire as clearly as
it were a speaking tube. On the oc-
aston referred to three or four people |
round the instrument on the wharf, (
Without having it TO their ears, could
lear the diver talk very audibly, al J
hough ne was under 30 feet of water
QUICK PASSAGES.
PORTLAND. Or. Nov 13.-Ship Ne
eide tGerD reached Portland Nov. II
fter the fastest passage on record be-
ween Nagasaki. Japan, and the Co II
lmbia river. covering the distance in I