The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-31

= RosamOad, Captain Ward, both
| sugar. OF course t will be a race, and
al exciting che st int In fact, the
Oh. npic ard HoSamo-. ;,ye racing all
the time. op - tie la and back
again they So. ta,-- .-yiag % outdo
,.-e other. zen y a ,l.scharging
t. ir scafgues, ara raCe :. aG.ag, too.
There Is -lcIey L., o. u n boats,
AID 1t is u45Gel s,ood tAat -As shippers
,AemselNes Aayo d hat y two or a
few cigars OF the issue.
BARKENTINE lRMGARD ARRIVES.
After rough passage of twenty
three days from San Francisco, the
I barkentine Irmgard, Captain Schmidt,
arrived yesterday afternoon and made
/ fast alongside the Irmgard wharf She
| sailed from the Coast on the 7th in
stant and experienced many heavy
head seas and unfavorable winds dur
! ing most of the trip.
| - The Irmgard brought a general car
go consigned to F. A. Schaefer & Co.
Two passengers arrived here on the
| barkentine, Miss Johnson and Mr.
| Milloglay. The Fearless towed the
4 Irmgard into the harbor.
HONEYMOON BARK HERE.
Twenty-four days is not very quick
time from San Francisco for smart
craft like the bark r. p. Rithet to
make. but the time did not seem SO
long TO Captain McPhail this trip, for
he was accompanied by his bride.
| The Rithet came into port on Sat
urday afternoon. few days after the
l "a nj Cor Ernn I,
| last trip, Captain McPhail went to
Oakland and was welded to Miss Nc
| Iver The captains Honolulu friends
are congratulating him on his good
| fortune
| There were others aboard the Rithet
on the trip down besides the recently
married pair: Mrs. G. W. r. King.
who left Honolulu for the benefit of
her health, returned very much the
better for her travelling. Miss Eliza
beth Quint, of Alameda, was also a
passenger, coming down with Mrs.
King to visit a few months in this
city
James Vane, on trip OF pleasure
and business combined, was also a
passenger on the bark
very merry Christmas was enjoy
ed aboard the Rithet
/KILAUEA HOU WRECKED.
/Wilder's steamer Kilauea Hou is
wreck at Hilo.
II She was driven ashore during a
Iheavy gale on Thursday last in the
morning. Every effort was made to
save the old boat, but she could not
be moved, and when she was lasI
heapd of she was full of water and
sand.
The Hile Tribune gives the story OF !
the wreck as follows: go ggs aSr |
" The kilauea Hou after battling the
Felements for the last quarter. of a cen
tury is now helpless wreck on the /,
Waiakea beach some three-quarters OF
mile ont of town !,
While lying at anchor at her usual
Nmooring Thursday morning about 2 a. ,
m, the little steamer experienced Il
gale that forced her in spite of her
anchors, high and dry. This took but
short while, and it was impossible
to get her under way before the wheel
was on the sand
The Helene worked all day on her
but accomplished nothing, the wreck
having imbedded itself too deep in the
sand. 1t was hoped that the Kinau
would arrive in time to help matters
out, but the Kilauea Hou had spr1lns
too many seams, and was half full of
water by noon, and would have sunk
as soon as she got out of the sand
bottom.
AS the paper goes to press the Off :
GERS and their crews are removing
all unnecessary material from the
doomed boat and will possibly make
another attempt to save her when
they have lightened her, although it
seems but little use as sand has gen !
orally formed around the vessel. as
she lies almost bow on to the land. I
T The kilauea Hou was the oldest of
Wilder's steamboats,. She was built in
1878 by Tibbets and Sorenson. her !!
frame being of koa wood The Kinau
which brought the news of the wreck.
also brought all of the crew of the
kilauea Hou to Honolulu, with the ex-
ception of the first officer. who re-
mains in Hilo in charge of the vessel :
AMY TURNER WINS.
HlLO. Dec. 2S.-Considerable inter-
est was manifested in Hilo by the
friends of the masters OF the Amy
turner and ROderick Dhu and much
money was placed on the result of the
voyage of the vessels from San Fran
cisco to Hilo. They left port nearly at
the same time on December 2. and i
when a short distance out the Roder-
lex passed the Amy The Kaiulani for
Honolulu had preceded them. and the
Amy soon passed her. On the second
day Captain Warland steered his bark
to the westward. and Captain johnson
to the southwark and they parted com
pany The Amy Turner arrived in
port on Friday evening, and the Rod
erlck Dhu shortly after noon on
ChEstnas day. Or four days behind
her rival Captain Johnson explains
MS defeat by saying that at this sea-
son of the year the fair winds are
encountered further south. but instead
OF hnding them he had nothing but
mead winds the entire distance. Cap Z
tain Warland had about fve-mile
mile breeze all the way along. The i
Amy Turner, under Captain Warland, I,
has for five years past held the rec
ord voyage from Hongkong to Balti-
m H. Iofs l.