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

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1.-THE
Roanoke, the largest sailing ship In the
bay. will come down from Port Costa
today, ready to sail soon as suffi-
cient number of men before the mast
can be secured. Like her sister ships
Of the Sewall line, the Dirigo and
Phelps the Roanoke is embarrassed
by scarcity of sailors. but the cap
tains of all three ships expect to get
away this week
The steamer Valencia, which is be-
lieved to have left Nome on October 5,
is expected to arrive here at any time
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12.-Out of
fleet of twenty craft ready to sail
fonly seven We're able to get away yes-
terday. Many of the deep-water ves-
sells cannot procure crews and some of
the coasters could not get their. car
goes aboard. The steam schooner
Whitesbofo got away for one of the
lumber ports, the Zealandia, with the
Mystic Shriners aboard, departed for
the Paradise Of the Pacific; the bark
entine John l.. Eviston sailed for Ia
coma, the Corthinean for Boweps
Landing and the Eliza Miller for Grays
Harbor. This list of arrivals and de-
partures forms one of the smallest
lists seen on the books of the Mer-
chants Exchange in many a long day.
Captain Lew Williams. perhaps the
best known Of the Arctic whalers. got
homie from Cape Nome few DAYS
ago. He went north with Barney
Cogan on the bark Alaska and lost
everything except a suit of under
clothes when the vessel went ashore
Not cents worth of stuff was res
cued from the wreck
| Captain Harry Johnson and Captain
Charles Bruce are also back from the
frozen north. Johnson made money by
turning boatman and carrying gold
| hunters to and from their ships i'm q
dory. Captain Bruce is ahead in ex.
perlence, but he expects to make mon.
ley next season.
! The earned Llewellyn loads wheat "a
Tacoma for Europe, ASS, prior to ar
rival; the Norman Isles, lumber anc
merchandise to China, prior to arrival
the Philadelphia. flour at Portland fol
Cape Town. prior to arrival; the vi
dette, railroad ties to Salinas Cruz.
The German ship Alsternixe cleared
yesterday for London with the follow
ing cargo. valued at s527,59S: 43,92S c,
canned fruit, 91,096 cs canned salmon
315 cs canned asparagus. 5000 gal.
wine, $3.50 ctls barley. 10000 feet lum
Der dunnage, 45,503 lbs cascara sagra
da. 1,9SS lbs beeswax, SO cs household
goods, IL pkgs personal effects, ! car
riage.
The quarterly statement of the Com
missioner of Navigation shows that 80
sail vessels, of $3.50 gross tons, wer
built in the United States and officiall,
numbered during the quarter ende,
September 80, 1900. OF the vessels con
structed of wood 100 were sail and IL
!; steam. OF the steel vessels four wer
sail and II steam. OF the whole mum
Der, 100 were built on the Atlantic an,
Gulf coasts; 2S on the Pacific; 80 on tn
Great Lakes. and IS on the Western
rivers. The largest tonnage, 37.057, wa
on the Great Lakes, and the next larg
! est was on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
The United States Army cable steam
J er Burnside sailed from New York OF
, September 20 for the Philippine Islands
where she will be employed in layin
local cables for some time. The Burn
side was formerly employed In trans
porting troops to and from New Yorl
to Cuba and Porto Rico. She has beel
thoroughly overhauled and fitted III
with all the modern appliances 70
cable laying. The work Of altering an
fitting her out was done by the Mors
Iron Works at their shops at Brooklyn
New York. She is under the comman,
OF Captain Latin. who Is skillful nav
igator, and who has a wide experienc
In the Far East trades