The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-26


men, recruits. hospital and signal corps
men. The Port Albert sailed from Sc
attic September ed with animals and
forage. The animal transport Kintuck
has sailed from Nagasaki for San
Francisco and the transport Wilhel-
nina has arrived at Nagasaki on her
way to the Philippines with forage for
the army.
GREATEST SHIPS FOR PACIFIC.
/ NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Nov. 15.-Ac-
tual work began this week on the lay
ing of the keels to the mammoth iron
steamships to be built for the Great
Northern Railway at the works of the
Eastern Shipbuilding Company at Gro
ton, opposite New London. There was
issued from the office of the company
today an authoritative statement re-
garding the size of the ships, which
shows them to be the largest vessels in
the world now building or being plan
ned. The new vessels will be of 10000
tons register and $4,000 tons displace-
ment, or just 10000 tons more displace-
ment than the new Atlantic greyhound
Deutschland. The new steamers
which are being built primarily for
cargo carriers, are not as long as many
Atlantic liners, but are much wider
and deeper. The following are the prin-
icipal dimensions of the vessels Length,
$50 feet; beam, 70 feet depth, Sc feet.
They have each five continuous decks,
extending the whole length of the ship,
with three additional partial decks
amidShipS.
| Passengers as we'll as freight will be
carried, and accommodations are pro-
vided for nearly 1000 passengers in
three classes. The vessels will have
speed of fourteen knots an hour and
| will nar A of IN,
their bunkers. They are designed to
carry cattle, chilled or frozen meats in
refrigerator chambers, fruit or any
kind of cargo that may appear for
transportation. 1t is estimated that
when completed the steamships will
cost fully S5,000O00, and they will run
from the Pacific Coast - Oriental
ports in connection with the Great
Northern Railway.
LEFT ON A BURNING STEAMER.
VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 14.-Writers
in Oriental papers say that public
opinion in Japan is much excited
against the master and officers of the
steamer Matsuyamo Maru, which took
fire near Seen Zaki. The master and
officers deserted her in small boats
leaving her crew to the terrible fate
which must have befallen them had
not the Matsu Maru happened to see
some passengers on the burning YES
sci and proceeded to their assistance
The officers have all been arrested and
lare awaiting trial.
FIVE DAYS ON SINKING VESSEL.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15.-After
floating on the ocean in a helpless con-
EDITION on sinking vessel for five days
Captain Anderson and his crew of
thirteen hands of the Norwegian bark
Highfiyer arrived here today, having
been rescued by the British steamer
Georgian Prince, Captain Flett, from
Hull. During the five days that the
lcrew were at the mercy of the waves
they only saw two steamers. The first
one. according to Captain Anderson.
lcame within half a mile of his vessel
but steamed away without giving aid.
The second ship sighted was the Geor-
gian Prince
The Highflyer sailed from Campbell
ton, Prince Edward Island for New
port, Wales, on October 18th, with a
cargo of lumber. Eleven days out the
bark encountered a severe gale, which
tore away her sails and strained the
vessel so that she sprang a leak of
nine inches an hour. Four days passed
and on the morning of the fifth day
a transatlantic liner passed near, but
answered the distressed vessels sig
nais by raising a flag. The next the
Georgian Prince, took the crew off the
bark and fired the derelict
LOGAN ARRIVES AT MANILA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.-Head
winds and occasional rough weather
delayed the arrival of the Army trans
port Logan, which reached port last
evening, thirty-one days from Maya
saki. The vessel went direct to the
Quarantine station at Angel Island, but
Will be released some time this morn
ing. 1t is not expected that the cabin
passengers will be landed at Folsom
h p,.f
disabled soldiers have been taken from
the Logan Three deaths occurred on
the voyage, one being that of A. c..
Hill, member of the crew, the two
others being soldiers.
FAILED TO SAIL ON MANILA
TRANSPORT.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The Sun saws:
Among the thirty or more officers
wives who sailed on the transport Kill
patrick hence for Manila today, there
was to have been Mrs William F.
Hancock, wife of Captain William F.
Hancock of the Sixth Artillery. but an
accident resulted in her deferring her
departure. She remained at the Grand
Hotel today and will go with her sis
ter, who is with her, to her mothers
home in Columbus, Ohio, to await the
next Manila transport. which is likely
to sail from San Francisco
GENERAL ITEMS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 14.-At Q
O'Clock this morning the steamer
Queen, of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company, will sail on the first regular
trip to Southern California ports I'M
der the new schedule. Santa Barbara
VIII be the first port of call, and Port
Los Angeles and Redondo are the only
other ports to be visited before San
Diego is reached at o'clock Friday
morning. The Queen is to sail from
here every Wednesday at a. M. and
the Santa Rosa every Sunday morn
ing at the same hour for the same
ports.
Word has been received that the
French bark Eugene Fautrel, which
sailed from Swansea for this port 329
days ago, is again ION her way. On
March 18th last the Fautrel put in at
Buenos Ayres with her rudder broken
and other damage, and after a survey
ON April I'd, began repairs, which occu-
pied the time up to September 18th
when the vessel sailed Four DAYS
later, for some reason not known, the
iFautrel put in at Montevideo. sailing
lagain the same day for San Francisco.
"A dispatch received from London at