The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-13

low, and she will be compelled to pro-
vide additional safeguards for passen-
gers, safeguards which have been or
dered placed on all the inter-island
vessels carrying passengers.
A life-preserver must be provided
for every passenger carried on the local
boats in the future, members of the
crew included. The shore boats now in
!, use will have to be converted into life
| boats by the addition of alright COM
partments, and the life-boat accom-
mediation will have to be in proportion
to the number of people allowed to
(, travel on the vessel. Life-rafts will
| do in place of ife-boats, and several
| life-rafts have been sent for by the
steamship companies.
| Among other new things to be intro
duced in the local steamer service will
be fire drill. Circulars concerning the
scheme of fire drill have been posted
on all the steamers of the Inter-Isl
and Steam Navigation Company.
| It is required that there shall be
the life-boats from the davits, on ev
cry trip.
In the posted notices complete di-
rections are given every officer and
member of the crew as to his duties In
case of fire.
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bring the outfits of the steamers up to
the standard required by law have
! been ordered by the LEGAL steamship
companies. Wilder's steamer Mokolii
has been examined and granted a IL
cense to carry freight. In her case a
license to carry passengers was not
asked for.
The Binnacle Shines Again.
1 This morning the third issue of the
Binnacle, the bright and newsy little
paper published aboard the United
States tug Iroquois by Chief Yeoman
McGettigan, editor in chief, reportorial
staff and business manager as well as
publisher, is given to the world. 1t is
as twinkling and luminous as ever, as
witness the following editorial:
!. We are thankful to the Advertiser
for its complimentary notices on the
Binnacle's amateur efforts Pleasing
! words are as the magic art and en-
enlargement to a young Journal is the
breath of life-being the recipient of
| both from the Advertiser, the Binnacle
| ought to thrive.
} owing to recent events we deem it
advisable to state that our editorial
, sanctum is turret of a man of-war
and that two 81 Hotchkiss and one
Colts machine gun stand prepared to
uphold the assertions of the Binnacle
A recollection of the naval site as ii
was two years ago and it's magnificent
) wharves and improved surroundings
of today are two glazing oppositeS
} The Government honorS Hawaii by at
, taching the largest tug in the Navy
to it's naval station, and such honor is
but a forecast of the good the Depart
ment has in view for the Islands.
, EDITORIAL
Though the blue jackets of the Iro-
t tauois have an aloha for Francis Muir
2 ply, his resemblance to Admiral Dew
FL ey is not the cause of nor does it af-
: feet their regard for him. and they
, would rather hear any phase of his
, beef steak story than the lengthy
billingsgate oratory of at least one OF
. his female antagonists.
OUR APPRENTICES.
]. Three thousand homes Throughout
I. the United States claim representa-
4 tiveS among the apprentices of the
: United States Navy. Despite the look:
askance of our eldest inhabitants, tn,
. apprentices of our day do not comprise
e the scum or incorrigible youth of oul
!. commonwealth. There was tim,
I. when, to be a boy in the navy mean
[. wickedness, stubbornness and all sucl
r. evil things the parish priest or deacon
J, could put upon the child so ostracised
, but now, Notwithstanding his covering
!, of blue and ways unbecoming to hi
= land lubber friends, the apprentic,
> boy avows a profession and represent
:. the best part of Uncle Sans service
l. Our best warrant officers are ex-ap
: prentices, our best petty officers served
: their time as apprentices, and a da.
}, not far distant will prove that nava
d force of Americans trained from
youth to the hardships inherent to tn
service is a power indeed.
Sighted Land Over a Week.