The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-29

broker on Puget Sound. He has turned
steamers, and it is estimated that if
they are used by the Government for
only three months Waterhouse will
clear $150000. AS some of the vessels
are almost certain to be in the service
for at least six months, his earnings
will in all probability be much greater.
Following is a complete .list of steamers
in the Pacific chartered by the Govern
ment, the first twenty-one of which
were turned over by Waterhouse:
PAX Ling, Kintuck, Almond Branch,
Port Albert, Port Stephen, Sikh,
Strathgyle, Belgian King. Thyra, Car
Isle City, Meyune, Ching Wo, Copack,
Teenkai, Hvarvan, Garonne, Inverness,
Wilhemina, Buckingham, Lucia, Chau-
Ger, Federico, Siam, Arab, Universe,
Samoa, Hyodes, Aztec, Eva. The last
named vessel is due at this port from
Yokohama on September 18th.
CHANGES ON STEAMERS.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21-Many
changes on steamers We're announced
yesterday. Chief Engineer Kellar of the
Zealandia will take the place of w. H.
Neiman on the new steamer Sonoma.
Chief Officer A. n. Walton of the trans
port Sherman has been appointed cap
tain of the transport Egbert succeed
Captain and Chief Officer Hawkes. of
the Sherman will go as chief officer of
the Sherman. Captain A. Crosby, who
has been chief officer of the Grant, has
been cabled to proceed to the far east
to take command of the hospital ship
Relief, relieving Captain Harding, who
is returning home on sick leave. Cap
tain Reid of the steamer Arcata has
bought an interest in the new steamer
Iaqua, and becomes captain of the YES
sci. He is succeeded on the Arcata by
Captain II. G. Nelson of the Empire
and Captain McGinn takes command of
the Empire. Captain Randall will take
the steamer OriZaba, soon to leave for
ST. Michael, to lay a cable. The vessel
is now on dry dock. Captain Shea will
! take the steamer Pomona, which has
resumed her place on the Eureka route.
| Chief Officer Guthrie of the Santa Rosa
has been promoted to captain of the
steamer Alex. Duncan.
GENERAL SHIPPING.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 21.-The
British ship Ilala was reported from
| London yesterday as having put into
Montevideo disabled, having lost her
foretopmast and main topmast in a
gale. The Ilala is bound from London
to Vancouver.
The schooner Americana, which re-
Gently arrived from Chile, after rough
and eventful passage, has been placed
under the American flag. The vessel
was formerly under Hawaiian registry.
A new survey of the Americana gives
her net tonnage as S39. 40 tons.
The bark Willscot has been purchas-
led by Hume Brothers & Hume for 800,
600. The vessel is now in port
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.-The
steamer Thyra, recently chartered by
the Government, will be due here to-
morrow from Hongkong via Yokohama
land Honolulu. The steamer is bringing
a cargo of freight for the California
land Oriental Steamship Company, and
was scheduled to call at San Diego, but
at Honolulu the captain was ordered
to come direct to San Francisco to save
time. The east-bound freight brought
by the Thyra will be sent east over the
Santa Fe from here. President o. H
Butler of the California and Orienta
Steamship Company, who has been or
an extended business trip in the Orient
is. returning on the Thyra.
A new crew has been engaged for the
engineers and deck departments of the
hospital ship Relief, now in the Orient
The new complement consists of fifteer
men, who will sail tomorrow on tn,
transport Sherman to relieve the pres
ent employees on the Relief. The oc
caSion for the change is not given a
headquarters, but it is presumed tina
trouble has arisen on the hospital ship
The battleship Iowa will leave Tues
day for Monterey, but will return her
before September 9th. Visitors were re
ceived on the vessel yesterday includ
ing a party of about sixty students
from the State University. Visitor
will be received again today for tn,
last time before the battleship sails.
The freight transports Westminste
and Wyefield are expected to reacl
p1t ri n,,fI
will be loaded with supplies and sen
back.