Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-11-27
SHIPS KINDERGARTEN
FOR HAWAII PORTS
Big Fleet That is Head
ed for the Hawaii
Waters.
TRANSPORT FOR MANILA
CALLS OFF The PORT
Big Cargoes Of Coal for Honolulu
Hopes Expressed for Wachusett
General News in
Shipping.

The S. N. Castle loaded for the Coast
with sugar will leave about Thursday.
rhe schooner Mildred cleared from
San Francisco for Honolulu on the Sth
last.
The ship Courtney Ford is due at Hi
10 with cargo of fish fertilizer from
Alaska.
The Iwalani is on the ways having
repairs made to her. She will return
to the island run shortly.
The steamer Hawaii unloaded $500
sacks of Laupahoehoe sugar into the
c. d. Bryant lying in the stream.
The ship Fort George due at Victoria
from Honolulu. has been chartered to
losd lumber at Chemainus for sydney
A three-masted ship. evidently the
Addcnda, from San Francisco was pass
ed By the China some twenty miles
out al sea.
The Hawaii brings little news from
H6makua and Hilo ports. 1t was re.
orted that the ship Annie Johnson
h5l been sighted outside of Hilo
The new steamer John Ena now un
dor construction on the Coast for tbs
lEtcr-Island Co. will in all probability
reach here some time during February,
1901.
The British steamer Allan Branch,
under command of Captain Anderson
hove to this morning just outside the
channel. She is bound for Manila with
forage and other supplies.
The gas schooner Surprise on her re-
cent trip picked up an empty ships
boat belonging to Macfarlane & Co.
about four miles southeast of Nawili-
will. She also passed large amount
CT driftwood and number of large
trees, evidently carried into the ocean
from some stream during the Kona
storm which revailed short time ago.
The bark X. p. Rithet arrived safely
IN San Francisco on the 9th inst. It
will be remembered that this Is the
'essel that spoke the British ship
Flintshire abotu 500 miles west from
San Francisco dismantled and drifting
in midocean. The Flintshire is three
mnsted iron ship of 1878 tons. and Is
owned by Hughes & Co. Of Liverpool.
No news has yet been received of The
wher eabouts or fate of the American
ship Wachusett now out l76 days from
Newcastle for Kahului. 1t is stated
that 80 per cent reinsurance is offered
upon her. w. L. Mighell. her principal
owner, has not, however. entirely des-
paired Of the ships arrival at the Isl
ands. Unless fire has overtaken her, he
thinks she may yet be heard from.
A lifeboat propelled by twelve
horse power engine was given a severe
test In heavy northerly storm re-
Gently at Marquette, Mich. She ran Out
into the open lake In the teeth Of
fifty-mlle gale at the rate OF six miles
an hour and was handled with entire
success. An oar-propelled boat would
not have been able to round the break
crs. Captain Cleary of the Marquette
station will report to the Government
on the trial, and II is believed that the
adoption OF the engine for general use
In l.feboats will follow
The recent trial OF II. NJ. S. Viper
in London waters is the first torpedo
boat destroyer to be fitted with steam
tdgDine propelling machinery, In conse-
querco of which the vessel has attract
ted much attention. After thorough
t'ial 1t was found that mean speed OF
IS.S3S knots was maintained with about
four-fifths of the maximum power. the
coal consumed being at the rate of 2.i9
pounds per indicated horse power per
hour The official trial was for twelve
hours coal consumption. The contract
speed of the vessel was 81 knots. The
speed attained by the Viper makes her
tie fastest vessel afioat.
There has been considerable talk rela'
ticNe to a big Atlantic steamer com
Eine, that Is being formed for the pur
pose OF controlling the freight carry
ing between New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and London. II Is said that
the Atlantic Transport Company which
has been in service now seventeen
vessels ranging in tonnage from 4,2j0
to 1920. The Mlnntonka and the
Minhewaska, now building at Belfast,
vii. be launched next spring and placed
In the New York-London trade. They
will be Is, 24O ton vessels, and similar
in design to those now building for the
company by the Maryland Steel Com
pany. Besides these vessels, the com
pany is building two at the yards OF the
New York Ship Building Company at
Camden, ~ j., and will shortly award
contracts for two more. The latter YES
gels will probably DC built at Norwich,
Conn, The ships now In service are the
Minneapolis, Minnehasha. Mesabn,
Mapitou, Menominee. Marquette, Mo-
EGwk, Michigan. America, Europe and
Manhattan, on the New York-London