The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-01
A NEW SOUL
FOR IWALAN|
Smart Island Steamers
Transformation.
WILL CARRY MORE SUGAR
Machinery Of the Wrecked KiIohana
To be Placed Aboard Boiler
For the Reef.

"She was altogether too fast; in fact
she had too much speed and not enough
so now she's laid up for cou-
pie of months for alterations"
So said Purser Chaplain of the crack
Inter-Island steamer Iwalani, speaking of
the boat which was lying at the end of
the Inter-Island dock with her smoke
stack out and the top of her house ripped
off.
You see she carried a very big boiler
and engine for the size of the steamer and
much of the space occupied by the ma
lchinery might much better be used for
carrying sugar. When the new boiler and
engine are placed aboard there will be
room for 1000 bags of sugar more than
carry about $500 bags of sugar. Soon she
will be able to load $500 bags"
| Great spars are now being rugged on
the dock for the purpose of removing the
old boiler from the Iwalani. This neces-
STATED the removal of the smokestack
and part of the house, including, of course,
the roof. The Iwalani now has the APP
slide or a healthy waterspout. The old
boiler at present lies on the vessels bot
tom awaiting the hoist that will forever
separate IL from the noble little vessel OF
which IL has for so long been the living
force. 1t weighs, stripped of all accesso-
ries, just twenty tons; with superheater
and fixings ii would weigh twenty-five
lions. The new boiler and engine are now
at the company's shops; they were taken
from the Inflated Kilohana which now
lies wreck on the reef at Lahaina. They
are much smaller than the old ones, but
as good as new and are the best of their
kind
The old boiler will in all probability be
least upon the reef on the seaward side OF
Naval Row and used to tie great and lit
tie ships to. II will be added to the row
lof big, rusty. heavy old boilers standing
sullenly on the coral there, serving as
hitching posts for all kinds of crafts from
all parts Of the world, carrying all kinds
of goods and full OF all kinds of good
stories and exciting yarns of the great
locean. And the Iwalani's discarded boil
Ter Will probably enjoy the distinction OF
being the biggest of its species on the
reef. If IL goes there, and can lord il ovel
the other boilers in great style. 1t will
lcertanly be the warmest boiler on thu
beach, for Ii will have the most recent,
felt the fires.
And the new boiler and the new engine
from the Kilohana will be as a new sou
to the Iwalani. Sailors know all abou
these things and they will tell you tina
ships have souls. The change will maxi
a big difference in the character of tn
Iwalani. She will be as one transformed
, she will be as person suddenly endowed
with a new mind.
The old engine of the Iwalani Is book
, ed as a passenger for San Francisco OIL
: the Australia on her next trip and will
be placed in a new boat now building 70
, the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Com
psny.
The Iwalani is a boat Of about $40 ton
= and in every way most serviceable ear
: rier. Captain Gregory Is her commander
. IPurser Chaplain, who has considerable 10
= cal fame as a rising young artist, is put
. ting in what time he can spare from hi
Office duties painting the boats name o
the ships boats, life buoys, fire buckets
water pals, ash cans, poi barrels, ma
bag and SO forth. He is at present G
i work on political signs and posters an
: lscreamers and Is also going to paint
% picture of the new Iwalani when she gel
her machinery placed and new coat {
- paint on. Just think" remarked C1al
- ham, POLITICALLY. that old boiler now Coz
soon be happy growing-ground for ba
J. nacles and seaweed on the reef"
The Iwalani will receive thorough o.
erhauling before she again gets to wol
and when she sails once more as a blu!
"a sugar transport she will be manned
!, the same crew and officers. Genial sol
y. Captain Gregory Will still command h
-. and handsome Purser Chaplain will Ike
- the records and before long, he hopes,
iU visiting a certain bright-eyed little lass
on one of the other Islands, whose heal
no doubt, is a-weary with waiting VIII
the Iwalani Is being equipped with a ne
u soul.
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