The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-30


toms for this port by the last mail will
prove of immediate interest to engin-
GERS, masters, mates and owners of
steamboats, plying in these waters:
STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SER
VICE.
Office of Supervising Inspector,
First District
Port of San Francisco, Cal,
November, 1900.
To Vessel owners, Masters, Mates
and Engineers, Operating Vessels
in the Waters Of Hawaii:
You are hereby respectfully noti-
fled that the department has direct
ed me to send to Hawaii, for about
two months, the United States Lo-
cal Board of Inspectors of Steam
Vessels, for Juneau, Alaska, dis
trict, which board will leave here
about the LIST of January, 1901. for
the purpose of inspecting vessels in
the waters of that Territory, and
licensing officers therefor upon APP
plication.
Owners, masters and engineers
will please have their vessels in
readiness for such inspections in
conformity with the laws of the
United States and the rules and
regulations of the board of super
vising inspectors of steam vessels
copy of which, together with
copy of the laws governing the
steamboat inspection service can
be examined at any custom house
in Hawaii.
Every master, chief mate, second
mate, or third mate, To receive q
license, besides being required to
hA nit
an examination in navigation and
seamanship.
Every engineer TO obtain Il IL
cense, must be an American citizen,
and pass an examination as to his
knowledge of marine machinery
and boilers, and be able to deter
mine the weight necessary to place
on the lever of a safety valve of q
given dimension to sustain a GER
tain pressure. Respectfully,
JOHN BIRMINGHAM,
Supervising Inspector, First Dis
trict
THEY ROLLED DOWN FROM
FRISCO.
Thanksgiving day witnessed the com
ing into this port of four vessels,
mail steamer and three deep-wate
sailing vessels. Early in the morning
the Mariposa, which had arrived OF
the harbor from San Francisco tn
might before, came into port, after be
ing examined and passed by the doe
tor. and locked at the Oceanic wharf
There were several passengers for Ho
nolulu and they lost no time in gettin
up town to celebrate their Thanksgiv
ing day ashore among their friends.
The Mariposa was booked TO leav
for the Colonies at o'clock in the aft
ernoon, but the work of putting tn
necessary coal aboard was carried o
in very SLOW manner partially on &C
count of it's being holiday, and it wa
late in the evening before the steame
got away for Australia.
The barkentine Planter, as was not
ed in the Advertiser, arrived from Sa
Francisco on the evening of Wednes
day. She is now lying at Sorenson
wharf ready to discharge her cargo {
general merchandise She brougf
down lot of plantation machinery o
her deck. The Planter was twenty
eight days on the voyage from tn
Coast, having very little wind all tn
way down and practically rolling t
port from San Francisco.
The bark st. Katherine, which wa
reported outside on Wednesday nigh
was towed into port yesterday mornin
by the tug Fearless and moored along
side Brewers wharf, where she pu
ashore what was left of her deckload O
pigs.
On the last day of last month the s.
Katherine sailed from San Francisco
She was twenty-nine days making tn
trip from port to port. She expert
leneed absolutely no trade winds at a
curing the passage; every breeze tina
blew was southerly, south westerly o
westerly; no northerly zephyrs stirre
the full-spread canvas of the worth
bark.
II the st. katherine had made a
much Roadway lengthwise as she mad
sldeWise she would have arrived her
many days sooner. She rolled for a
she was worth, and she is worth
great deal. But, Notwithstanding he
rolling. she did not take a drop of wa
ter on her decks and the weather, ex
Icept for the absence of fayora bl
winds, was as delightful as any on
would desire. The rolling of the yes
! sci and the monotony of the voyag,
however, proved the death of a larg
number of the pigs on the vessel
decks. There were 433 pigs put aboar
IN san Francisco. About 125 died @
the voyage down and their carcasse
were given to the sea and its inhab
tants. Most of the pigs which die,
however, died as the result of being tC
fat. This is no joke but the actu;
fact. The pigs did not have anythin
else to do but eat and they just natu
ally got tired of eating and loafing ar
laid them down and died. They we,
treated to salt water bath every da
to freshen them up and if it had n,
been for this treatment the rest
them would have probably died, to
BESIDES the pigs, the KatheriI
brought down eleven horses. two GOV
and twenty dozen chickens. One hor
dled at sea, apparently from pnel
MONA He was very sick and the ca
tain gave him about a pint of rum
brace him up and he dropped dead
Captain Saunders is master of II
81. Katherine. He is ACCOMPANIED I
his wife and little children