The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-01

British ship Spoke, sixty seven days
from Sydney, y. 5. w, arrived yester-
day afternoon.
The battleship Wisconsin will sail to-
day for Puget Sound TO go on the Port
Orchard dry dock, after which she Will
make her official trip in Santa Barbara
channel.
The steamer Carlisle City; of the Cali
fornia and Oriental line, is expected to
reach san Diego from Hongkong next
Monday, and two days later will be due
here She has been chartered by the
Government TO carry freight to Manila.
The ship George Skolfield has been
purchased by the American Trading
Company. and will take freight to Port
Arthur. The Norwegian steamer Hor-
da. which arrived Thursday from Aus
tralia, has been chartered To carry
freight to the same. port
The bark Amy Turner was searched
for opium by the customs inspectors
before her departure for Honolulu, but
none was found.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-The
German transport Samoa began load
ing horses for the Orient last evening.
She will take away in all about $50 ami
mails. and will be the pioneer of fleet
that will carry Kaiser Wilhelm's cav
airy horses from here to China.
a NARROW ESCAHt.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 21-Tierra
del Fuego seems to be lending a whole
lot of interest TO the passage of the
Straits of Magellan. The Land of
Fire" seems to keep up its name, as
every native who leaves that inhospita
bic shore carries in his canoe fire"
that is never allowed to go out. Once
extinguished the men and women who
live in the fraiI bark are liable to die
but alight and in good working order
the small flame has proved a menace
to many good ship that has essayed
the passage of the Straits of Magellan.
The latest vessel to run the gauntlet
was the Kosmos liner Herodot. She
was on her way here from Hamburg
and made the long voyage in 102 days.
| When the steamer passed Sand Point
on the westerly entrance to the Straits
of Magellan a gale was blowing. Cap
| tain Brandenburg knew his way, how
ever, and the big liner went along with
out incident until the steamer was
within few hours sail of Smythe
| Channel. Then a number of canoes
showed up on the starboard quarter as
the Herodot slowed down for the night
! When an anchorage was made a dou-
| BILE watch was set, and it was Well for
all hands that Captain Brandenburg
! took such a precaution. The Indians
crept up when all hands were supposed
to be asleep and fired arrows aboard
tipped with tow and lighted in the fires
kept constantly burning in the bow OF
the canoes. Had there been no lookout
the Herodot would have been burned tC
the waters edge and looted, but as il
was, no harm was done, as the crew
turned out and eXtinguiShed the fires
The next day two of the TERRA de
Fuegans boarded the Herodot and ask
ed for something to eat Soap seemed
to be a delight to them, and when Cap
tain Brandenburg gave them two oil
three pieces of the scented variety their
joy knew no bounds. They ate it an
inch at bite, and rolled it under theil
tongues as a sweet morsel. The ordi-
nary washing soap that comes in Ions
bars was eaten with relish by the other
men in the canoes, and had it been pos
sible to utilize it the whole land of Tier.
ra FuegO could have been bought for q
case of common, ordinary washing
soap.
Captain Brandenburg, who brings the
Herodot into port, was formerly CHIEF
officer of the Tanis. He was also here
in 1861 in the ship Count Louis, and has
therefore a number of friends here
Chief Officer E. Moller has quite g
string of relatives in San Francisco, 81
his visit to California is sure to be {
pheasant one.
Captain Brandenburg says that aftel
the encounter with the Indians he de
lcided not to try Smythe Channel anC
so stood out to sea. Very heavy wealth
er was encountered from that on t
lCoronel, but after that the Herodot haC
fair weather to port.
ANOTHER GERMAN TRANSPORT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Eth,
German steamer Frankfurt Captain
Ernest Malchow, arrived last evenin:
sixteen and one-half days from Moi
Japan, and anchored in the stream. Sh
has been chartered by the German Gov
eminent to carry horses to China 70
the imperial cavalry, and will be abb
to accommodate about 1000 animals
Some of the firemen had saved up thei
daily portion of beer on the way owe
and drank rather too heavily of tn
boarded supply just before reaching
, port with the result that one of then
became unruly and had to be put il
irons. Otherwise, according to Chic
. Officer Remmers Dirks, the voyage wa
uneventful. The Frankfurt is a ney
steamer, owned by the Norddeutsche
Lloyd, and is of extraordinary size
having gross tonnage of $500, and
, carrying capacity, dead weight. of s. 10
tons, when her draught is 81 feet Sh
is 43O feet in length, with a beam of )
feet and depth OF AZ feet. The vessel i
lifted with twin screws and bilge keel:
, with double bottoms, and carries 90
tons of water ballast. There are min
water-tight bulkheads, and the Frank
furt has speed of thirteen and one
half knots an hour. Unlike the Bosnia
2 which is also new and has great ca
/ pacity, the Frankfurt has fine cabj
!, passenger accommodation for thirt
: persons, and for LOO steerage passen
= gers. She sailed from Wilhelm's Ha
I ven, Germany, on July Sd last wit
troops, who were landed at TAXI
: China. After calling at the Germa
port of Kiaochu. in China, the Frank
furt sailed for Moi, Japan, and theme
to this port.
e HORSES FOR CHINA.
! SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. PIN tn
|, past two days the mammoth BIRTHS
steamship Samoa measuring 465 fee
: long and SO wide, received into her hold
: and had closely stalled all along thre
tiers of decks total of s6S cavalry AM
- mails reared in California and destine
for the Kaiser's troopers in the cam
paign against the Boxers. These ar
! some of the horses that but a mont