The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-27

lit would be on account of her alleged
shortcomings in this respect.
Others say that she is easily handled
in ballast or with full load and that
she is built to defy the elements
through a long and prosperous career.
There is one point upon which all
nautical men, who have viewed the
bark, agree, and that is that the Kaiu-
lani can give many an older and more
famous vessel cards and spades at sail
ling with fair wind.
| This is the first trip of the Kaiu'a1i
to this port and her arrival naturally
excited a great deal of interest on the
waterfront yesterday. She experienced
none of the severe weather which re-
cent steamers have gone through al
Though Captain Dabel remarked a
very heavy swell and arrived at the
conclusion that there had been an IN
usually rough bit of weather in some
quarter.
| The Kaiulani was built by SewalI az
Bath, Maine. She is steel through out
even including her decks, which are
covered with heavy pine. The accom-
modations aft are up to date and COM
Portable and she is possessed of par
sticularly fine dining saloon.
| Several passengers can be carried
and they could not want for more con-
venient and elegant accommodations
than are to be found on the new bark.
She is vessel of l, ,43O tons, CAPABLE
of carrying 3,40O tons dead weight.
There are at present about $500 meas
ured tons of general merchandise and
the vessel is only drawing thirteen feet
of water
The following eleven We're passengers
for this port from the Coast on :he
Kaiulani: w. G.. Mcpherson and wife.
DR.. G. L. Fox, Miss Cloud and niece.
Miss Mabel Carr, Miss l.. Carr. Mrs.
George Mcclellan. Miss Alice Fisher.
Howard Fisher. Mr.. Sumter
The Kaiulani was built for the Ia
waiian trade and is owned by Hackfeld
& Co, costing about 100000. Captain
Dabel her master, has had over TWEEN
ty years experience in the business
and has an enviable reputation as a
. sailor both in this port and on the
, Coast. He was formerly commander
of the schooner Aloha
The Kaiulani will take sugar from
{ this port to San Francisco and bring
general merchandise back
"SKINNERS" KICK.
, SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. IA suit
in libel for damages in the sum of $40.
900 will be filed today in the United
States District Court by Attornal
Reardon and Lande against the steam.
ship Rio de Janeiro of the Pacific Mai
steamship Company for breach of con.
tract and harsh treatment alleged Il
. have been received by 142 passenger.
on the recent trip Of the steamship tC
: this port from the Orient These gre
: the teamsters who returned from tax
ing horses to China for the Gern1a
government ~
: These men, all of whom are Ameri
can citizens and nearly all residents OF
this state. were treated worse thar
, cattle while on the Rio de Janeiro,'' sale
+. Attorney Reardon yesterday "They
= had no idea when they boarded tn,
? ship at Nagasaki that they would b,
given any other accommodations tha.
= what their paid tickets called for
Otherwise they would never have come
i home in the vessel.
:. When the Rio de Janeiro pulled nu
of the harbor at Nagasaki the men CIs
covered that they had been assigned t
l. the Chinese. Japanese. Filipinos anC
other denizens of the unsavory quarter
They protested to the captain of tn,
. Rio, but their complaints We're of NJ
avail. About ten of the men were as
signed to the European steerage, bu
the others were compelled to accept tn,
vile quarters assigned them by tn,
ships officers. That mutiny and blood
shed did not occur was due to the gooC
character of the men. who are law
abiding American citizens. The stor!
they told me on their arrival is sicken
! ing in every detail.
THE food given to the men was no
as good as that given to the Asiatics
> and for the entire voyage they wert
compelled to exist on bread and sugar
| this diet being varied by the charity o
: the second class passengers. who, un
y known to the ships officers gave tn,
suffering and starving men some as
q siStance."