The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-05
MEMORANDA.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-The trial
trip of the Californian, the pioneer
steamer of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Company, will take place on
Thursday. The finishing touches are
now being put on the vessel at the
Union Iron Works, and it is confidently
expected that the vessel will more than
fulfill her requirements. She will leave
the Union Iron Works early in the
morning and be given a squirt on the
bay to warm up her engines and then
go outside the heads.
The trial of the Californian is of in
treest to the Coast for more reasons
than one. In the first place she will
establish a new route for steamers be-
tween here and New York by way of
Honolulu. From here the steamers of
the new line will carry general mer-
chandise to Honolulu, then take sugar
to the Atlantic seaboard, and return
to San Francisco with general cargoes.
The Californian is the largest CONNER
cial craft ever built on the Coast but
the keel of a larger vessel for the same
company has been laid at the Union
Iron Works.
The Californian, as soon as she has
been accepted by her owners, will COM
mence taking in cargo for Honolulu.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.-The
British ship Hilston, on which reinsur-
ance has been offered for several days,
has been posted as bound from Homo
lulu for Puget Sound. The rate of re-
insurance is only ten per cent, which
is considered small for the reason that
the vessel is out sixty days. The mys-
terry of the small rate was solved to-
day, when NJ. A. Newell, the reinsur-
ance broker, received a cable from
London saying that the Hilston is
bound from Honolulu for the west
coast of South America. The vessel
may be delayed a long time near her
destination by calms, and apparently
the English underwriters are not great
ly alarmed about her
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.-Rein-
surance on the overdue schooner Am
ericana, loaded with inter, and bound
from Iquique for this port, jumped to-
day to forty per cent. If the vesesl is
not heard from within the next few
days the reinsurance will advance to
fifty per cent and perhaps more. Local
spectators have been doing considera-
BILE business in the overdue craft, and
much interest is taken in the welfare
of the vessel for various other reasons.
The Americana is out 119 days and has
not been spoken since she sailed
While the overdue craft was at Iqui-
que she was bought by c. A. Hooper
and others of this city. Among the 9TH
ers is Captain Murchison, who is 20
nave command OF the NeSSel Wnen Sle
arrives. The purchase price of the Am
ericana was $4,000. Notwithstanding
the vessels long passage, there are
many who think that reinsurance on
her is a good investment. She has a
record as a slow craft, and it is said
that she was very foul when she sailed.
Captain Murchison has insuredlhis in
terest in the craft at 20 per cent.
WASHINGTON, June 26-The war
department today issued an order to
the big department tug Slocum, now in
! New York harbor, to proceed imme-
diately to San Francisco and report
there for duty in the war department
This is one of the biggest tugs in exist
ence, and is possibly the first to go over
| the course made famous by the trip
of the Oregon. The tug is being sent
to San Francisco because the Spreckels
people, who own the only tug fit for the
service of the government now there
rent their tug to the government at a
big price and weave conditions around
the rental that are repugnant to the
department.