The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-13
MG GN H0 MMNWD RULINGS JUDGE EH THAT mNM HDM BOATS READY
THE OLD TUG MAY BE LAID
OFF.
Claim That as a Government Boat She
Has No Right to Compete with Priv
ate Enterprise.

A warm controversy RACES on the
water front as to the rights of the tugs
Eleu and Fearless. The Fearless made
her first run for business, with the
Eleu after her, on Saturday afternoon,
when the schooner Aloha was sighted.
! With her superior power the FEARLESS
naturally got there first and she
| brought the schooner in. When the
! Fearless first arrived here there was
! discussion as to her right to go into
business against the government boat,
! which has had a monopoly. Now the
discussion has changed to a question of
whether the Eleu has any right to try
to compete with the Fearless
The Fearless is a tow boat owned by
! private parties and is engaged in bust
ness in these waters. 1t is claimed that
the Eleu, as a government vessel. has
no right to attempt to or compete with
the enterprise of the Fearless owners.
! When the Aloha was sighted the
| Fearless went TO her with an offer to
bring her in at the same rate as the
other tug has been charging The Eleu,
hurrying along as best she could be
! hind flung to the breeze signal warn
| ing Captain Frey against having any
thing to do with strangers"
Captain Fry took the tug that got
| to him first and was quickly brought
into the harbor. Since then he has
been told several times that the Fear
Collector General Stackable visited
the tug Fearless on Saturday to look
at her papers. IIe found that Collector
| Jackson had given her papers to do
1 business on the Pacific coast or in
! ports of the Hawaiian Islands 1t is
the duty of the collector here to respect
! those papers just as it would be the
| duty of the collector at san Francisco
! to respect similar papers that might be
| issued here.
| $50 far as l know" said Mr.. Stack
able, there is nothing in the law to in
terfere with the Fearless doing business
here. Her documents are all right. AS
for the Eleu l do not know what her
status is. The Eleu is not under the
control of the custom house now.
understand that she is the property of
the territorial government"
AS a government vessel, it is claimed
the Eleu has no right to perform any
services for pay, under Americans laws.
! Under the old government she did all
the TOWING and received pay therefore
under rules made by Minister of the
| Interior Gulicl, in 1885 Now her status
| is said to be the same as thaesof the
Iroquois, which is a government vessel
and is supposea 90 help- vessels in cis-
tress, but may not received any money
| for doing So
The Fearless is getting the business
now. Yesterday she towed to sea the
schooner Meteor and the bark Alden
Besse. Neither of them took Il pilot.
/ deming it unnecessary when in tow of
a tug that can be handled as the Fear
! less can. The work of the Fearless
here means reduction in costs of yes
sells coming here, as many of them will
be able to do without pilots and the
new tug can dock them herself, with
| out the heavy charges that have been
! paid in the past for putting out lines.
The Eleu is an old tug, and has been
| in the service of the Hawaiian govern
ment for many years. A protest will
be made against her efforts to compete
with the private corporation that is
running the Fearless, on the ground
that the government has no right to go
! into business as competitor with citi-
Zens, and if the protest succeeds the
old tug will be laid off or sold.