The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-13
STEAMER LINE TO HILo.

STEAMER LINE TO HILO.
The S. S. American, built for the Am
erican- Hawaiian Steamship Company,
at Roach's Yard, Chester, Pa, was
launched on July 14th, to run between
New York, San Francisco and the Ha-
waiian Islands. She will load at New
York in August. The American is a
sister ship to the Californian, just COM
pleted by the Union Iron Works at San
Francisco, and of the Hawaiian and
Oregonian. now being constructed at
Roach's. These four steamers are each
425 feet long, 81 feet beam, and 33 feet
deep, carrying $500 tons net. The com
pany has recently contracted for two
more of 1900 tons burthen, twin
screws. These steamers are of the
highest type of cargo boats, built under
Lloyd's inspection. Williams. Dimond
& Co. are agents for San Francisco:
II. Hackfeld & Co., Honolulu, and T.
II. Davies & Co. Hilo. Oscar T. Sewall.
who arrived in Hilo by the Kinau to in
vestigate the harbor, is a member of
the Board of Directors.-Hilo Tribune.
HILo ITEMS.
Arrivals-Bk. Martha Davis, McAII-
man, master; merchandise from San
Francisco, August 7, to Hackfeld &
Co., Ltd.
Am. schr. Mertha Nelson, o. Isoock-
son, master; 20 days from Tacoma.
1923, 900 feet rough lumber for Hilo, 247,
900 feet rough lumber for Mahukona.
Departures-Am. schr. Robert r.
Kinds. J. S. Hellingsen. master; for
San Francisco; cargo consisting OF 10,
5S4 bags sugar. Onomea Sugar Co,
$52,920; 5,O64 bags sugar Honomu SUI
gar Co., s2S,7S7.50; so bags Hawaiian
coffee, H. f. Soule & Co., Ltd. sS99. 60;
"a bags Hawaiian coffee, H. Hackfeld
| Co., Ltd, S531.42; so bundles hides, H
Hackfeld & Co., Ltd, $145.60. Tota
value of cargo. $7s,23412.
KAHULUI SHIPPING.
KAHULUI. Maui, Aug. 1o.-Vessels
in port-Ship Bangalore, Blanchard
from Honolulu; Bktne. Mary Wrinkle
man, Benneke, from San Francisco
Schr. King Cyrus, Christensen, from
Newcastle; Schr. S. 7. Alexander, Up
sen, from San Francisco; Ship Yose
mite. Look, from Newcastle; Schr. An
tiope, Murray, from Nanaimo, will
coal.
SUGAR ON HAWAII.
The amount of sugar awaiting ship
ment on the various plantations of Ha
wall is as follows: Onomea Sugar Co.
5000; Honomu, $500; Hakalau, 90 600
Kukaiau, 500; Laupahoehoe, 500; Ho
nuapo. 200; Honokaa, 1000; Punalu,
$500; Wainaku, 1900; II. p NJ, 800
Waiakea, 5000; Paauhau. 9i5. Tota
63,245 bags.
MAHUKONA SHIPPING.
Arrived-August 4, bktne George. {
Perkins, Mas, from Honolulu in bal
last to load sugar.
Departed-August s, bktne George. {
Perkins, Mas, for San Francisco. wit
1,34S,S61 pounds sugar, value s54, 969. IA
Hawaii Railway Co.. Ltd, agents.
CALLED AT HONOLULU.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-Th
whaling bark Gayhead. which sale
from here January 18th for a cruise i
the Arctic, has been heard from at Tn
alaska in sore distress. Two of he
crew had died and number of other
were i'll with a malady the nature G
which baffled the knowledge of Car
tain Foley, gained in his long expe
rience hunting blubber in the NORTH
The cabin boy was the first to be take
down and was the first to succum,
Second Mate James W. Smith followed
and he. too, became a victim. The
the malady spread to the crew, an
Captain Foley decided to make ia
land. He reached Unalaska about tn
middle of July.
The strange disease had some of tn
symptoms of dropsy, and it's actor
from all accounts, was rather sudder
The Gayhead called at Honolulu owe