The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-07
New Pacific Liner.

PHILADELPHIA, May 29-the new
Pacific liner Sierra was successfully
launched at Cramps yard this morn
ing. Several hundred persons, includ-
ing the officials of the Oceanic Steam
| ship Company of San Francisco and the
officers and experts of the Cramp cor
poration. saw the launching. Miss Cas-
sic l.. Hayward, daughter of Captain
Henry M. Hayward, who is to command
| the new steamship, officiated as sponsor
| and gave the handsome craft her bap-
tism of champagne as she started for
the water At the conclusion of the
launching an elaborate luncheon was
served and several congratulatory
speeches made.
! The Sierra is one Of the three steam
ships which the Cramps are building
! for the Oceanic Steamship COMPANY.
and, with the exception of the Ameri-
can liners st. Louis and st. Paul she
! Is the largest passenger carrier ever
constructed here. The Sierra and her
sister ships are to be operated from
San Francisco to Hawaii, Samoa and
Australia. The principal dimensions
OF the Sierra are: Length between per-
pendiculars. 400 feet; extreme breadth.
| % feet; depth, 43:6 feet; displacement.
1909 tons; speed, II knots. The contract
Tor the steamers was signed March s.,
1883. II Is expected that the Sierra will
be completed in time for delivery in
San Francisco before September Ist
The Caroline Islands.
The little schooner Queen of the Isles
arrived in San Francisco on Nav 27th
after passage of fifty-one days from
the Caroline Islands. Captain Hitch
field was the only white man on board
his crew of six men being natives of the
Marshall Islands, who have never be-
fore visited any foreign port but Hong
t.
gent black who speaks English and
whose one name is Andre. Captain
Hltchhelds wife accompanied him on
the voyage to San Francisco. She is
native of the Carolines, whom he
married about two years ago His lit
tie seven-y ear-old daughter Edith.
whose mother was a full-blood native
OF the Gilbert Islands, is the only other
person on the Queen of the Isles ex-
cept the Chinese cook. The schooner
Is only about fifty feet in length She
was built at Benicia two years ago by
captain Matthew Turner for a firm in
the Carolines but upon reaching the
1ar-aWay islands was not accepted by
the traders and Captain Hitchfield be-
came her principal owner. He has been
traolng In the vessel between the ISL
andS and Hongkong. Captain Hitch
Heid reports that since the Germans
succeeded the Spaniards in the Caro-
INES d11a1rS have been very quiet al
though progressive in a commercial
way. While the Spaniards ruled the
Carollnes the natives were continually
veXed with petty quarreling among
themselves, much of the trouble being
caused by the Spaniards themselves,
whose government was deSpotic and
not calculated to encourage industry
among the natives. One of the good
results that followed the advent of the
new German Governor the first of this
year was the prohibition of petty bick-
er1ngs and of the importation of guns
ana ammunition, with which the ma
yves were becoming altogether too
Familiar. Japanese schooners. have been
IN the habit of landing these munition.
or war on the islands, but the Germans
notified the masters of the vessels that
the trade must stop; and when the
queen of the Isles sailed from the Caro-
lines, there had not been a Japanese
schooner arrive with powder and weap,
ons for some time. The natives. saw.
captain Hitchfield, show their appre-
cation of the improved form OF gov
eminent, and the indications are that
the neglected resources of the islands
Will De fully develOped WITHIN the pav+