The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-18
WAS A MARROW Escape.

The French ship Bossuet which is ,
voyage of 142 days from Nantes. France, |
narrowly escaped the same experience |
of the bark Dunreggan. When the tug
Fearless went out for the vessel Tues
day morning near Diamond Head the
Bossuet was heading directly into the
reef which proved so disastrous to the
Dunreggan. Captain Brokaw of the
Fearless saw the danger which the YES
sci was running into and steaming up
near enough to be heard he shouted to
the officer on the Bossuets deck to put
his helm about. The officer, although
a Frenchman, understood the req lest
and throwing the helm over hard a-rort
swung her out of her dangerous posi-
ton into deep water. Had the Bossuet
sailed on for five minutes longer she
would have crushed her bow hard
aground upon the reef.
COPTIC COMES AND GOES.
The o. & o. S. s. Coptic, Captain
Kinder, arrived in port at an early
hour and was docked at 1:35 o'clock by
the Fearless. The Coptic brought a
large amount of mail for Honolulu-six
days in all-and left number Of stop
over passengers>here who will resume
their voyage on one of the steamers of
the same line at later date. There is
a new purser aboard. Former purser
C. C. Goodrich turned benedick on
the last trip of the Coptic into San
Francisco and intends to take up shore
residence there. A. E. Rennie, former
ly freight clerk on the Belgic occupies
the pursers cabin, and is well known
to Honoiulans. Several passengers
were taken from Honolulu for Japan
and China ports. The vessel left exact
Iy at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon for
the Orient.
NO VESSEL ASHORE.
Although the tug Fearless did not go
out on "ship-on-the-reef' hunting ex-
pedition early yesterday morning ac-
cording to reports which came to the
captain, the latter and all his crew
were on the alert and had steam up
ready to leave at moments notice.
The message came by telephone from
the manager of one of the largest
plantations on the Island and said that
they were unable to see through the
udT hUtSS W llc iCCl Odt ihNho hS0A0
minute guns which seemed to be from
some ship on the reef.
AUSTRALIA TO TAHITI.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. THE new
mail service between Tahiti and the
Marquesas will be inaugurated on No
yember l. Hitherto all the passengers.
cargo and mail have been carried by
the barkentines Tropic Bird and City
of Papeete and the brig Galilee. These
three vessels have given excellent SER
vice, but of course it has been slow,
and in consequence the French colo
MES have been cut off from the main
land sometimes for two months at
time.
When Governor General G. Gallet
passed through San Francisco several
years ago on his way to Papeete he said
that one of the chief aims of his ad-
ministration would be to establish a
permanent steamer service between Ia
hiti and the Pacific Coast. The rounda-
bout service via Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji,
New Zealand, Australia and England
to Francafdid not meet with his approx
al. Ever since then Governor Gallet
has been trying to establish steamer
line between Papeete and San Francis
co. An attempt was made with the
Homer. but IL failed. The little steam
er is comfortable and well equipped
"
carry coal enough for the round trip,
and in consequence her performance
was not much better than that of a
sailing ship.
When the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany began building it's new ocean
flyers, Governor Gallet began negotiat-
ing with the company sfor one of it's
spare boats. After much discussion the
Oceanic Company decided to place a
steamer at the disposal of the French
Government, and in consequence the
Australia will be withdrawn from the
Honolulu run on her arrival here next
Wednesday and placed on the Tahiti
run.
In order to do this the Oceanic Com
pany has been compelled to charter the
steamer Queen from the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company. The latter vessel
will go to Honolulu for one trip and
| then the Zealandia will take up the
running until the Alameda and the new
steamers are ready for service
The Australia will be a revelation to
the Tahitians. She is a modern vessel
in every respect Her cold storage
plant will enable the merchants of Pa
peete to send a big lot of tropical fruits
to this port, while run of ten days will
seem nothing compared with thirty five
and forty days usually taken by the
sailing vessels. Tahiti is the Lotus
ioiio VI the IdClilc, anu a rev months
will see it the most eagerly sought after
excursion point in the Southern seas.
ALAMEDA'S RECORD.
| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. IA re-
| markable record is that of the steamer
Alameda, now en- route here from sgd
ney, and due on the 18th. Much of the
credit of the well known steamers
continued good fortune since she was
turned out at the Cramps shipbuilding
yards. seventeen years ago, is accorded
TO her chief engineer, A. d. Little, who
upon arrival here, will go East to take
the position of chief engineer on the
new steamer Ventura, third of the fine
vessels recently launched at Cramps
yards for the Oceanic Company.
Inc Alameda was built in 1889. and
d. the time of her trial trip the builders
paced Chief Engineer Little in charge
OF her machinery. He was then in the
Cramps employ, but upon the firms
recommendation was appointed CHIEF
engineer of the Alameda. The trin aht
made from New York to San Franc;scS
was a recordbreaker, and has nave,
since been surpassed, the time betweer
the ports being forty-five days Ate,
reaching the Coast the Alameda NOD.
tnirteen round trips to Honolulu wher
She was placed on tho Austro1;. -