The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-11


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1t is hundred times easier to be a
Robinson Crusoe, clothing ones self in
goat skins and living upon turtle eggs
and wild honey than it is to be cast
away in Honolulu or any other great
city without bank account.
The erstwhile jolly sailors of the late
bark McNear, wrecked recently on
Dowsett reef near Laysan Island-may
Davy Jones rest her timbers-are heart
lily wishing they had desert island
or two which they might call their own.
Dowsett reef would be all right provid-
ing the shipwrecked men had diving
suits. Laysan Island was little para
disc to them. To be sure they don't
grow overmuch OF course-dinners in
that district, but fish there are only too
glad to be eaten and fellow need not
starve there. The shipwrecked crew of
the bark McNear, when they left Lay
san on the bark Ceylon for the Paradise
of the Pacific, looked forward to a bet
ter time than they are now receiving
They are shipwrecked men-men who
The McNear was lost-wrecked. The
crew barely escaped with their lives
They are here in Honolulu and are
looking for food and lodging.
There are ten men in the company
They lost everything i'm the wreck and
came here destitute. They are mem
bers of the Seamens Union, but there
is no representative in Honolulu to look
after them.
The agents of the vessel in which the
men so nearly lost their lives do not
consider themselves responsible for
their welfare. Agents of wrecked YES
sells do not as a rule refuse to help
their shipwrecked crews.
The Sailors Home is not a charitable
institution and therefore can't care for
the sailors. There is no source from
which to draw money for their relief.
SO the shipwrecked sailors must get
along as best they can or go to Lewis
and Turk for advice
IN TOW.
Dickie Davis, with Chester Doyle in
tow. anchored in Waikiki for a few
hours on Tuesday. After entering the
Claudine for the free-for-alI pacing
race, to be,trotted the next day, Dickie
raised sail and steered for Kahului
signaling back as he ran to the wind
ward of the barber shop that the re-
sponsibility of looking after Chester
was turning his hair gray.-Maui News
OPIUM QUOTATIONS.
HONGKONG, June IL. - Quotation
are (Allowance net to catty): Malwa
new, $3.50 per picul: Malwa, old. 1910 t
1920 per picul; Malwa. older. 1910 to sos
| per pfcul; p. 'per-wrapped $3.50 De
picul; Persian, fine quality, 1910 pc
picul; Persian, extra fine, 1925 per picul
| Patna, new, 81, OPS per chest; Patna. old
sl,On.5 90 per chest; Benares. new, 81, OF
per chest; Benares, old, s1,O40 per chest
KAHULUI SHIPPING.
Vessels in Port-Sch C. S. Johnson
| from Seattle, June 4.
! Sch Robert Searles, Piltz. from New
castle, June Z.
Sh Emily Reed. Baker, from Tacoma
| May 80.
Sch Eva. from Seattle.
! Bgtne Lurline, from San Francisco.
! Sh Bangalore, Blanchard, from Ho
nolulu, July L.
! Vessels Arrived-July G. sch Eva Fl or
| Seattle.
July 6, bgtne Lurline from San Fran
cisco.
| July 6. Claudine from Hilo and ports
Vessels Departed-July 3, sh Luzon
Park, for Philadelphia, with 2S526 bag
sugar
July 6. blk Carrollton, Jones, for Ia
coma in ballast.
! LONGEVITY OF WHALES.
Some light was thrown a few year
ago upon the subject. of the vitality o
whales by finding one of these animal
in Behring Sea, in 1890, with "toggle
harpoon head in it's body bearing tn
\ mark of the American whaler Monte
yuma. The vessel was engaged in whal
| ing in Behring Sea about ten years, blu
mated that the whale must have carrie,
| the harpoon not less than thirty-si,
years. While it is very likely that tn
whale really makes the passage from
Greenland waters to Behring Strait, al
| uncertainty must always be allowed
for ships were often changing owner
ship, and their tools were sold and pu
| on board other vessels, and harpool
irons were sometimes given or trade,
| to Eskimos. 1t therefore becomes pos
| sible that the animal was struck wit
a secondhand iron.-Appleton's Month
! ly Magazine.
LARGEST ARCHED BRIDGES
The largest arched bridges on tn
| Continent, which span the Rhine, rep
resent type of bridge which, althoug
very popular on the Continent for larg
spans, has not found much application
in England, although it originated /
the cast-iron arch of the Coalbrookedal
bridge of 1879, over the Severn, whic
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