The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-02

Germany is rushing steamers to San
Francisco. Two of them are now on the
way and more will follow Horses,
mules and fodder and black diamonds
from the Puget Sound collieries are to
be rushed to China, and as the Kaiser
cannot charter vessels in America he
has to send over some of his own mer-
chantmen.
The Bosnia is now on her way to San
Francisco from Baltimore and the ST.
lesia from Yokohama. Both of these
are enormous carriers and will take
away about $4,000 tons of freight be-
tween them.
NEWS OF TRANSPORTS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-Uncle
Sam is about to rush coal to China for
the men-of-war. That article is get
ting very scarce in Chinese waters and
a supply is wanted at once. The naval
Golfers Nero and Justin have been put
will get away with a full cargo inside
of a week. Each vessel will be COM
manded by d naval officer but all the
remainder of the crews will be civil
lians. The first, second, third and
fourth officers will all come from the
merchant service and the engineers
will come from the Marine Engineers
Association. Some-little work has to
be done on the Justin, but the chances
are that August l will see her on her
way to China.
The orders in regard to the transport
Hancock have been changed. Instead
of landing her passengers at Nagasaki
she will push through to Taku on a
rush order, and will probably make a
record run to the Chinese coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.-Uncle
Sam has chartered the transport Siam
for six months. She will make one
more trip to Nanaimo for coal and will
then be fitted out to carry horses and
fodder to China. The Siam was for
quite a while in the Manila trade and
had an unfortunate experience on her
first trip. She was caught in typhoon
and nearly every one of the cattle was
killed.
| The transport Warren sailed for Ma
gasaki on July 16 and the Logan on
July II, both for San Francisco. 1t was
the intention of the Government to
send the Logan back to China, but she
got away from Nagasaki before the or
i ders arrived The Warren should reach
here about August and the Logan
about thirty-six hours later. Both YES
sells will be given a hurried overhaul
ing and will get away again abou,
J August Is or IS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.-There
will be busy times around the trans
port wharf for the next week to come
The Hancock docks this morning anc
the work of loading her will begin a
once She is scheduled to sail mex
Sunday and will carry 500 marines
three batteries of artillery and $50 re
cruits, all for China. From here tn,
Hancock will go to Nagasaki and from
there to Taku. II the trouble in China
is over before the transport reaches
Nagasaki the men will be sent to tn,
Philippines.
AS soon as the Hancock is away tn,
Meade will go into the berth and sh
will be rushed away also. The Warner
is expected in from Manila about Aug
and if it is possible she will sal
again on August 10. In the meantim
the Aztec, Strathgyle, Universe AM
Belgian King will be loading mules am
horses and supplies for the soldiers, s.
that the quartermaster's department
will have it's hands full for some day
to come.
FOUR COLLISIONS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.-Th
British ships Champion and Lord Kin
naird were in collision off the Sout
American coast sorhe time in June last
but the news only reached here fror
London yesterday. Both vessels reach
ed Antofogasta in a badly disable
condition. The Champion sailed fI'or
Port Hadlock on April II for Antofo
gasta in charge of Captain Jone:
From that point she was to bring
cargo of nitrate to San Francisc,
The Lord Kinnaird sailed from New
castle, Aus, on April 1 for Antofc
gasta in charge of Captain Mutcl
From that port she also was comm
to San Francisco with nitrate. TT
Champion had for a cargo 1,070, 100 fee
of lumber, and the Lord Kinnaird cal
ried about $500 tons of coal. A telt
gram to the Merchants Exchans
states that both vessels are almo.
wrecks and that it will take months
repair them. This is bad news for tt
powder makers, who never wanted n
trate worse than they do now.
BELFAST, July 22.-In a collisiC
} last evening outside Belfast Tough, b.
tween the local passenger steame
Dromedary and Alligator, five passel
I gers were killed and more than fit
! more or less seriously injured, In mar
! cases the amputation of legs beir
necessary.
There were 600 passengers on boar
the two vessels and terrible scenes 10
lowed the collision. 1t is feared tn;
some others have been drowned.
, LONDON, July PA dense fog hur
over the Irish Channel yesterds
morning and the Cunard line steam
Campania, en- route from New York f
Liverpool, struck the Liverpool bal
Embleton, bound for New Zealan
\ amidships, cutting her in twain. TT
Embleton sank Immediately.
Seven of the crew were rescued, b
1t is believed the other eleven membe