The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-26

front just now than it has been for the
last week or two. With the transports
Grant. Wyefeld and Leelanaw in port
and the San Francisco Honolulu boat,
Queen, discharging, besides a gradual
increase in the. number of deep-water
sailing vessels along the wharves and
in naval row. things are looking more
lively than they have of late.
The Ceylon arrived from Laysan ISL
and yesterday morning and in the af-
ternoon the Zealandia got away for
San Francisco with the Mystic Shrin-
ers. Full particulars in regard to the
above bark and steamship appear in
other columns.
Waterfronters greatly appreciated
the change for the better in the wealth
or yesterday. The mud along the front
is stickier and dirtier and more abomin-
able than any other Honolulu mud-ex-
cept that peculiar to Kewalo-and the
stopping of the rain for a while is CIV
ing the "Esplanade' a chance to re-
cuperate somewhat before the next
heavy downpour
A strong breeze blew from the shore
all day; several boats were to be seen
in the harbor, going out to ships in the
stream, without the aid of the oars.
The wind took them along. This was
not fast work but it was easy and one
man had an oar raised in the bow of
his boat, using Ii as a SAIL
HOLLISwOOD'S GRACEFUL LINES.
The American bark Holliswood, ly-
ing at the bulkhead between Steuart
and Spear street wharves daily at
tracts attention on account of her
graceful lines and generally neat APP
pearance. says the San Francisco
Chronicle. Her clipper bows and stern
explain some of her fast voyages, one
Of which was a passage of only thir-
ty nine days from Newcastle, New
South Wales, to Honolulu last sum-
mer. She is loading lumber for Ere
mantle and will sail soon. The Hollis
wood is commanded by Captain A. NJ.
Knight, veteran mariner, who is ac-
companied on every voyage by his
wife and widowed daughter. He is the
! father of Captain G. b. knight of the
ship ]. b. Brown, who is one of the
youngest sailing masters in the world,
being only "a years old.
! REAR ADMIRAL CASEY
! AS was stated in the Advertiser re-
Gently. Rear Admiral SilaS Casey,
lCommandant of the League Island Ma
| Wy Yard, has been selected to succeed
Rear Admiral KautZ as commander Of
the Pacific Station. Admiral Casey is
one of the most popular officers of the
Navy, and won a capital reputation as
a fighter during the Civil War. He
came out of the academy in 1860 and
was executive officer of the gunboat
! WisSahickon, which took part in the
attack on Charleston under Dupont. He
| fought in the attack on Fort Fisher
as executive officer of the Quaker City
In 1866 he was commissioned Lieuten-
ant Commander and in 1872 was the
executive officer of the Colorado alag
ship during the Corean expedition
and commanded a battalion of sailors
in the assault on Fort Mckee. From
1891 to 1898 Casey commanded the
Newark and more recently the New
York. During the time he was sta
toned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard he
and his family were very popular in
New York society. Casey married Miss
Sophie Heberton of Philadelphia, and
their daughter. Miss Casey. made heI
debut in society last year.
STEAMERS IN COLLISION
LIVERPOOL, Oct. ia singular Sc
ries of accidents occurred in the Mer-
sey today. The Norwegian steamer
Veritas collided with the Leyland line
Der ). Unsuccessful efforts were made
to beach the Veritas on the Cheshire
shore. after which she was towed over
to the Liverpool side, where the cable
parted and she collided with the
steamer Earl Of Powys, causing the
latter to break from her mornings
lThereupon both steamers drifted down
the river and the Veritas crushed into
two thick iron booms stretched from
the pier head at ST. Georges landing
lstage. Everything about her deck was
icarried away. and she Is now a sub
merged wreck. The Earl of Powys
while drifting, smashed her boats, lost
her propeller, and her crew leaped up
on the dock wall. The south end of the
Handing stage was extensively injured
The aggregate damage will amount tc
thousands of pounds.
WAS CHAPMAN MURDERED2
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14-Yester
day there was floating about ''oi
Change" a blood-curdling story o
murder on the high seas, and of a mu
tinous and piratical crew who. afte
killing their captain, had beached thei
ship on savage island and set III
as rulers of the land. Just where tn
lstory came from none seemed to know
but the ship captains told it from
tongue to ear, and it was current ais
in Seattle and the Sound ports.
The story concerns the British shi
Lancing, which left Port Blakeley Of
the Sound on June 1st, bound for Por
Pirie In Australia. Though the Lane
ling holds the record for the trip be
tween this harbor and Sydney-a voy
age of fifty-four days made only las
year-and though she is we'll know
as fast sailer she is now out 1S
days on voyage that should not TAX
her much over half that time, and 9
per cent of reinsurance has been OF
fered on her.
She is an old craft, having bee
putt In 1866 as the steamer Pereir,
and afterward transformed into
four-masted ship of 2,6O5 tons. She
500 feet long, 43 feet beam and q fee
depth OF hold. Her owner Is f. RIOS
OF Glasgow, and her captain is, or wa.
r. w. Chapman, a young man eener
ally considered an excellent sailor an
cool commander. Her cargo was e85
$50 feet of lumber.
The fact that the Lancing ia an nj
snip OF great length and peculiar line
| mas led many to suppose that she Ia
met with a great storm and had hee
broken by 1t. But now comes this tal
from somewhere out OF the sea RI.