The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-13
SEA AND SHORE.
Will any Vessels Sail
Today?
Friday the Thirteenth = Examining
the Sebastian Bach--Harry
Evans Resigns.


been considered an unlucky Gay by
many people who are not superstitious.
Today is Friday; it is also the 18th OF
the month. 1t is not often that the
combination of the unlucky day and
unlucky number occurs, and today will
be watched from sunrise to sunset by
sailors especially. 1t is seldom that
Friday Is set upon as sailing date.
Never under any circumstances is
new vessel launched on Friday. The
last time Friday fell 'on the 18th was
in October of last year. The Boston.
on her way home from Manila, was in
the harbor and was to leave on the
18th for San Francisco. Some one
happened to note, however, the COM
bination of date and day, and the war
ship remained until the day after.
There are several vessels here now
ready to sail. but 1t is safe to say that
none of them will get away today I'M
less 1t is in ignorance of the comoina-
ton of the day of week and month.
Yesterday was a dull day along the
front. There was but one arrival and
no departures OF foreign vessels. The
Cummins, for Oahu ports, and the Mo-
kolii. for Molokai, left during the day.
The Newsboy, from Tacoma, made the
run in twenty-six days. She brings
1921 feet of lumber. 20,997 redwood
posts and 100000 shingles. Captain
Underwood reports an uneventful voy-
age.
Captain Hansen of the bark Sebas-
tian Bach Is receiving many visitors
aboard his vessel these days. Men in
terested in ships have been making
surveys of the old vessel with an eye
to bidding on her at the auction sale
on Saturday The Sebastian Bach was
built in Bremen thirty-two years ago.
For many years she ran as a crack
packet between Bremen and New York.
She was built for an emigrant ship and
piled in the service until the steamers
began taking the best of the trans-At-
lantic passenger trade. She was sold
to parties in China and has been used
| in the Orient for many years. She
| was on her way to Tacoma to load
lumber for her owners when overtak-
en- by the storm which so badly DAM
aged her that it was thought safest to
put in here instead of running the
chances OF encountering another storm
many as to the present value of the
bark. Intending purchasers have
been carefully going over her good and
bad points with an eye to bidding al
the sale. The old vessel has been scru-
tinized from stem to stern and from
keelson to truck. She has been sound
ed with hammers and prodded with
| chisels; her seams have been poked
into and her braces explored. That
she has worked considerably in a sea-
way Is plain to be seen. The bidding
for her promises to be lively, as there
have been two huis formed which have
plans arranged for repairing her and
putting her in the lumber trade.
No Longer in Harness.
| In his official capacity the waterfront
will know Officer Harry Evans no more
| Yesterday he rendered his resignation
to Marshal Brown and il was accepted
Harry Evans has been identified with
| shipping ever since he came here in
1885, He started in to work for the
Inter-Island Steamship Company and
remained with them till 1893 when he
was taken on the police force. His
sphere of usefulness has been the wa
terfrdnt where he and Jim Kupihea
! his assistant, have done excellent work
Being himself a sailor Evans was spe-
! cially capable of handling the sailor
men needing attention. Evans and Ku-
pihea were always the persons hunted
up by shipmasters in pilikia with their
crews and the pair have been a terror
to refractory sailors. Evans gives up his
police duties to devote his entire time
to the stevedore business in which he
has lately engaged No successor has
as yet been named for The position
made vacant by Harry Evans resigna-
ton, but Kupihea is looked upon as the
most likely man to fill the position as
his long and efficient service under
Evans has specially fitted him for the
position.
April Winds.