The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-21


looking after the two steamers of the
Togo Ki5en kaisha line in port. The
Nippon Maru lay at the Pacific Mail
wharf, and the Hongkong Maru lay at
the Navy wharf, and there were just
six inspectors to handle both of them,
three inspectors to a boat. About 6
O'Clock in the evening the Hongkong
sengers from this port.
The Nippon Maru was much later in
getting away, being delayed on account
of the large amount Of freight which
she brought to this port.
Berger's band was on hand to play
the Nippon Maru off to San Francisco.
Music delighted the people aboard from
4 o'clock until after o'clock. 1t is not
a usual thing for two boats of the
same company to be lying right next
to each other in this harbor. When
this does occur, however, 1t is very
pleasant for the officers of the respec-
tive boats. for then they are enabled
to exchange calls among themselves.
and the majority Of the officers on the
boats are acquainted with the officers
of other boats of the line.
A ''PIPE-D DREAM"
The following interesting letter
throws light on the cheap and nasty
methods employed by the Honolulu
Republican, in attempting to obtain
news. The letter refers, of course, to
the article published in the Republican
concerning rats on the Hongkong
Maru.
The letter was addressed to the doc
tor of the Hongkong Maru, and reads
as follows:
Marine Hospital Service, Office of
Medical Officer in command. Honolulu
November 20. 1900 My Dear Doctor
Please convey my respects to the caps
tain AMI tell him the item in the Ho-
nolulu Republican this morning con-
corning the determination of rats on
the ship was a pipe-dream.
1t should have. read that lis rats
were killed by sulphur fumigation of
Nippon Maru at Hongkong
With kind regards, yours very truly,
j. w. AMESSE.
Assistant Surgeon NJ. II. s.. in Com
mand.
QUEEN OF THE NAVY.
NEW YORK, Nov. S.-The Queen of
the United States Navy is now Uncle
Sans splendid battleship Kentucky.
She is the big beauty that went under
Brooklyn bridge one night not long
ago. when the moon was high. There
was Ear blockade, and hundreds of
people watched the great drifting ma
chine as she slowly drifted under the
bridge. Everybody knew that she was
war vessel. but none knew her name.
She was hailed: What ship are your
The answer came from a group of men
She was bred in old Kentucky.
| Where the meadow grass is blue.
| Hundreds of cheers sounded and the
great battleship went on down the
lNarrOwS, her jackies still singing
| And now comes news from Gibraltar
that the Kentucky has broken all long
distance records for war ships Even
the Oregon's marvellous performance
during the Spanish war must take the
background when the knot question is
considered. for the Kentucky has beat
len her
| The Kentucky left New York October
I26th. and has, therefore, made the dis
lance to Gibraltar in just twelve days
From Sandy Hook to the big rock is
about four thousand miles, and the
Kentucky. therefore, has made speed
averaging fourteen knots, all the way
across.
BOSTON. Nov. 10.-The three-masted
schooner Myra B. Weaver was wreck
ed In Vineyard Sound early today and
six lives were lost. The names of the
dead: Captain Vannamann, Philadcl-
lphia; Steward William Peterson, Chas
Magnussen, John Hegeman, Miss Maj y
Emerson, aged twenty-three. Mobile
Miss Ella Dae. aged twenty five. also
of Mobile. Miss Emerson was a sister
in-law % the captain.
THREE TYPHOONS AND A GALE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1s.-Three
| typhoons. a gale and many succeeding
days of calm were responsible for the
delay in the arrival of the British ship
lCarmaniln, which reached port yeStei :
day from Hongkong after a passage of
seventy-eight days. Captain Burns re-
ports that he sailed from Hongkons
on August 90, and the first part of the
voyage was marked by light winds
Before the ship was out of the China
Sea, however, typhoon swooped down
on the vessel and split two topsaiis
Two more typhoons overlook the Car
manian during the month of Septenl-
Der, both being of considerable severi-
ty. although the ship was not mate
irially damaged After getting into the
Pacific The ship passed through a gale
Fine weather followed until fogg,
. weather was encountered off the Coast
TO PREVENT. COLLISIONS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The Ameri
can delegates to the International Ma
rine Conference-Rear Admiral Frank
lin, Captain John w. Shackelford an,
Messrs. w. w. Goodrich, Clement A
Griscom and S. /. Kimball-met at tn
Bureau of Navigation today to conside
the proposition to modify in severd
. particulars the rules for preventiH
collisions at sea in so far as they relat
to lights on fishing vessels The chang
es relate particularly to trawlers in tn
North Sea. In so far as they refer I
American fishing vessels the change
proposed are in accord with the view
OF those most directly interested. Ate
some discussion the delegates deter
. mined to ask Congress to adopt tt
proposition which originated wit
lGreat Britain. The enforcement ,
these rules. if adopted by Congress
, VIII be conditional upon their adoptio
by the other principal maritime pow
ers, as the intention is to secure grea
er uniformity in the rules to prevei
coilisions at sea. The American ru
Tor lights on steam pilot vessels Is al:
m INT