The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-03
How the PfIuger was DismantIed.
Another Whale Story.
Shipping Notes.

Barkentines Irmgard and skagit sail
ed yesterday for the Coast. The Irm-
gard carries sugar to San Francisco,
and the Skagit goes in ballast to the
Sound.
The manager of the AmericanHa-
waiian Steamship Company, Captain
w. D. Burnham, is making arrange
ments here for the initial run of the
steamers of that line. The American
will be here about the first of next
month, and after her departure vessels
will make the New York, San Francis
co and Honolulu run every alternate
month. The big Californian, recently |
here, and now en- route to Manila, is
one of the vessels of the new company. |
Captain McCauley will hereafter at
tend to the business of the Hawaiian
Navigation Company, of which the
gasoline schooners Eclipse and Surprise
are carriers. McChesney & Sons were
the agents, but from today Captain
McCauley will be the business manager
The captain is one of the pilots. He
will continue plotting and will at the
look after his new duties. AS has al
ready been noted in the Advertiser the
Hawaiian Navigation Company has
placed orders in San Francisco for two
new gasoline schooners.
| ADVENTURE WITH A WHALE.
| SAN FRANCISCO. July 26.-The
| pilots have another whale story to tel.
On this occasion there was no disaster,
4 htIt ha T,nnI m c M ha tnf
Oracle will not forget the incident
| in a hurry, nevertheless
One of the leviathans while out hunt
| ing opened its huge ,lwS to take in a
mouthful of small fish, and engu. fed
the kedge anchor of the pilot boat. A
| fiuke of the mud hook must have hurt
the mammal, for it rose to the surface
| and started off at the rate of about a
mile minute with the pilot boat in
tow. After going about five knots the
kedge line parted and the pilots and
crew went down on their knees and
said prayers. Captain Erskine led the
devotions.
Monday night the pilot boat Oracle S
was on the outside station and within
a few hundred yards of where the
Bonita was run into by whale and
sunk. Captains Erskine and Kortz
were the only pilots left aboard, the
others having boarded off, during the
not thing in sight, so after posting
the lookout Captain Erskine went be-
low to Join Captain KortZ. The latter
was already in bed, so Erskine decided
to follow suit. He undressed himself
leisurely and had just removed his
shoes when the Oracle S gave a jumI
ahead that threw him off his feet.
The shock brought Captain Kortz ou
Of his bunk standing, and In a flash
he and Erskine were on deck, and thel
they saw the cause of their trouble
The whale was running through ths
water, leaving a phosphorescent trai
behind it, dragging the pilot boat
which was almost bows under. Just a
the men were preparing to cut tn,
kedge line it parted and when haule,
aboard showed that 1t must have com
, right away from the ring in the stool
of the anchor. The Oracle crusa
all that night, and ii goes without say
ing that just as bright a lookout wa
}. Kept for whales as was kept for ships
Il have never in my life seen as man
whales off shore" said Captain Ersllin
yesterday. During the day they ca
be seen spouting in every direction an
at night you can hear them breathn
all around you. I'm glad that we es
capped with the loss of kedge ancho
1t might have been worse"
PFLUGER DISMANTLED.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.-In tw
seconds the German bark j. c. P1uge
bounding merrily over the sea be- OIL
ten-knot breeze, was reduced to
dismantled hulk hanging helpless O
the ocean. The dismasted vessel arri,
ed yesterday morning In tow of the RI
lief from Santa Barbara.
"A whirlwind high in the air caugl
our loftier spars,'' said Captain Hoeve
land like a flash smashed the mair
mast; and as the upper yards ar
masts went down the stays carried IL
mizzen mast and the upper and low,
foretopmast yards
The j. c. Phuger sailed from he
on July II with a cargo of wheat f,
Queenstown, and got a strong nortl
west breeze as soon as the tug let
OF her outside of the heads. On IL
Following morning, 10 miles from pol
she met with her strange misha
which had it occurred further away,
had a storm been raging, would ha,
meant the loss of the vessel Geor
Mulleitner, the second officer was
deck In charge of the starboard waite
He alone saw the accident
1t was at $40 o'clock said he. "a1
the watch had gone below for coff
} was on the quarterback and had ju
turned forward from the compass VIII
l heard report like a cannon [ loo
ed up and saw the main topmast swa
ing and almost bent double. AS loo
ed up the mast fell, and as II we
down the staysails carried the mizz
mast. the fore royal and upper and To-
er fore topsail yards.
When the miZZen mast began goi
, 1 ran back to the man at the whe
. The mizzen boom swung over our hea
webbing from side to side at a feart
rate. The lower portion of the mai
4 mast had fallen on the skid, complete
vi smashing two boats. When I saw til
)( everything that could go was gone
cried to the captain and all hands
come on deck. The bark amidships "
filled up with broken masts and spa
sails and wreckage Of the boats. T
men got to work as quickly as possil
TO clear the wreckage and it was 7
- until O'Clock that night that we we
- free. We had with great difficu
oent new foresail and the ship "
making about 3k knots an hour, ste,
ing southeast
we Kept on this course TIL the 16
when we were picked up by the steam
\ Greenwood and taken to Santa r,
bara.
AT the time the accident occurr
there was a nice breeze h,ou;ng a