The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-05

the Pacific somewhere in a partly dis
masted condition. The American ship
st. David, which arrived this morning
from New York, spoke the vessel on
August 9Th in latitude 27.35 degrees
north, and longitude 1872 20 degrees
west. The Pacifico's foretopmast and
foremost head, the latter three feet be-
low the cap, was gone and the bark
was sailing close-hauled. The st. Da-
vid signaled the bark, but the only an
swer she received was a display of the
Chilean flag. The Pacifico had on
board when she left Port Blakeley $780,
346 feet of lumber.
The ST. David experienced considera-
BILE rough weather off the straits of LIE
Marie and rounding the Horn, but met
with no damage.
TRAINING SHIP FOR THE COAST.
SEATTLE, Aug. 2s.-Private Wash
ington advices today state that the
Government has decided to establish a
full f1edged naval training ship and re-
cruiting office at the Puget Sound Ma
val Station, at Bremerton, Wash. The
ancient Nipsic, which has been used for
Port Orchard drydock, is to be remod-
eled and dedicatedito training ship pur-
poses. The stations acquisition car
ries with it full complement of naval
officers. At present there is but one
receiving ship-that at Mare Island
+, located on the Pacific Coast.
| TACOMA STUCK IN THE SAND.
L, A 1.
big steel steamship Tacoma, Captain
Dixon, long operated between Puget
Sound and China, ran aground at Ak
Point in a dense fog at o'clock this
morning.
At high tide this evening the steam
ship was pulled off by the tug Richard
Holyoke. Her officers say she is unin-
jured.
The vessel was bound from Tacoma
to Seattle. She was to have sailed to-
night from this city on her third voy-
age to Nome. The Northern Pacific
Steamship Company owns the Tacoma
BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2S.-The
battleship Wisconsin will go-out on heI
trial trip on September 18th. Prepare
lions for the event have already begun
the men necessary for the trip having
been engaged, including even those In
the stewards department. All hands
have been ordered to report on board
the battleship tomorrow afternoon, and
have been engaged for six weeks.
The Wisconsin has been under con-
struction for mere than three years
and would have been completed long
since but for the shortage in material
When the war with Spain was declared
the Navy Department first considered
the practicability of finishing the war
ships then in process of construction
The Wisconsin at that time, early in
1898, was reported as being half COM
pleted. To finish the other half of the
vessel has taken a long time, but the
Government could not furnish the
armor plate, which delayed the building
of the battleship. 1t is the largest YES
sci ever turned out on the Pacific Coast
and no larger craft has yet been COM
pleted in the United States. The armor
plate came in sections and the big guns
came one by one. But now everything
is here and in place, and the prelimin-
aries for the trial trip are being ar
ranged.
! Before the trial trip can take place
there are many details to be gone over.
many rivets to be secured, and the ma
chinery all to be tested. The engines
will be turned over and over again at
the dock before the ship will go for a
run. Then will come spurts on the
bay, the warming up of the vessel and,
lastly, the trial spin out on the ocean.
Before this last test is made the Wis
consin will probably run up to Puget
Sound and be put on the drydock at
Port Oxford, there being no drydock
here large enough to hold her. On the
dock she will be overhauled and clean
ed and put in the best possible condi-
| ton.
| The Wisconsin is larger than the Ore
gon by 20G0 tons displacement and has
a displacement of 1000 tons more than
the Iowa now in port
GENERAL SHIPPING.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2S.-The
army transport Westminster arrived
last evening from Manila and went into
quarantine. She has on board two