The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-20
THE HAwsER PARTED.

THE HAWSER PARTED
While the bark Dominion was moving
out into the stream from her wharfage
Yesterday afternoon the hawser which
she was paying out over her bow part
ed with report like pistol and shot
through the air over the water and
landed in heap under the bow, which
was then about seventy-fve feet away
from shore. A shore boat was passing
beneath the taut hawser. When 1t
parted the boat was in line with the
flaring ends of the rope. 1t whistled
past the rower's head and the latter
was ducked just in time to avoid being
struck. Had he come in contact with
lit there is a strong probability that a
fatality would have occurred. The yes
sci swung back toward Naval Row, but
was finally headed toward the channel.
and later anchored safely.
THE HEAVENLY Twins TO LEAVE.
Water front loungers, masters of
craft sailing in and out of Hawaiian
waters, and the general public are sur
prised to learn that Turk and Lewis,
whose fame has waxed and waned from
month to month, are about to leave
Honolulu Turk intended to leave for
San Francisco. and of course Lewis
made UP his mind to do the same thing
Turk usually lays the plans for the
heavenly twins and Lewis parrots his
smooth faced partner. They intend to
leave on the Alameda, and have booked
for their passage Honolulu, however.
is not to be rid of the pair for any
length of time. They say they will
come back some time to reap another
golden harvest, for Honolulu as ship
ping masters port has been fruitful
one to the pair. Two or three other
shipping masters were glad to hear the
news, for it leaves the field open to
and determine whether or not they are
| fit successors to Turk and Lewis.
Whether San Francisco will profit by
the presence of Turk and Lewis re-
mains to be seen. If they spend all
the money there that they, have made
| here, there is a certainty that San
Francisco will extend to them. the glad
hand.
! Turk and Lewis are not attending to
the water front as attentively as in
former times. The reasons are dual.
First. there is little shipping in the
harbor at present, and second, the
twain are engaged in a hot game Of
politics.
They intend to leave for Frisco on
the 9th of November. so
WANTED-A CREW.
! If the Fort George can secure a crew
by tomorrow she will unflIrl her sails
and set her course for the Sound in
ballast. She took big lot of ballast in
lher forward hold last week. and having
finished discharging her cargo of coal.
she will take in the ballast for the after
hold and make ready for her departure.
More than one crew has been sent
laboard and all have deserted. Every
vessel leaving for the Coast lately ex-
lperiences the same hardship in keeping
lenough hands on board to do the daily
routine of work First Mate Morse oil
the Fort George leaves the ship to take
the same position on the Irmgard, now
discharging at the old Fishmarkei
wharf. The Irmgard's present first
mate, Crosby, will take the position
made vacant by Morse.
REWARDED FOR DILIGENCE.
Three natives who have made a home
in the wreck of the Edward O'Brien
whose bones are bleaching on the chan.
mel reef. are richer by $50 for saving
two of the Oahu Railway Company's
coal barges on Tuesday night durins
the storm. The two barges got adrif
and came in the vicinity of the wreck
and the three natives made them fast
superintendent Dennison made the
men present of the half hundred dol.
lars yesterday.
GAELIC ARRIVES OFF PORT.
o. & o. steamship Gaelic from Yoke.
hama and Hongkong, arrived off tn,
harbor last night, but did not come in.
side. She will enter at daylight, ant
leave for the Coast today. She viii
carry mail, but no passengers.
A SIX-MASTED SCHOONER.
Recently. developments in shipbuild
ing have mainly been connected will
steamers, yet that the shipwright'.
skill in constructing sailers has by n,
means lapsed during these later day
Is demonstrated by the case of the six
masted schooner George W. Wells
which has just been put into the waite
by an American firm of builders. Sh
is the largest vessel of her kind in TIN
world, and is regarded with not mucl
less interest than the Oceanic an.
Campania among the stately liners.
She is ESQ tons net register, with
carrying capacity of over 5000 Sh
is 302 feet long in the keel, 345 fee
long on top, % feet deep, and has
beam measurement of 4S1a feet Sh
has two decks, her frame Throughout
being made of white oak, while all he
planking and ceiling is of hard pine
Her keelson is remarkable, being 1
feet high aft and IL feet forward, an
built of hard pine lumber 1t is fast
ened with no fewer than so tons of 1ss
inch iron bolts. The vessels fitting
include windlass. operated by a 8
horse-p power engine; two pumps, with
combined capacity of 1000 gallons
minute: stockless anchor weighin
$500 pounds. and another ancho
weighing $500 pounds, besides kedg
ana stream anchors, weighing respect
lveiy 900 pounds and 600 pounds, an
zoo fathonhs of 21s-inch bar chain.
Her water tanks hold 1000 gaIlon
her six lower masts are splendid stick
OF oregon pine, each 119 feet long. an
90 lnches In diameter in the partners
.oPmasts each So feet long, the fore
tODmaSt IN inches ~