The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-03

wait weeks for a chance. The San
Francisco Drydock Company has APP
piled to the harbor commissioners for
wharf room, and the board has practi-
cally decided to build the necessary
piers.
| When the drydock company an
nounced it's intention of building the
three floating docks if the commission
would supply the necessary wharf
room, the matter was taken under
consideration The bulk of the board s
| income is pledged for some time to
come so it was decided that if the con-
| tractor who got the job would take
part payment in cash, and the balance
| in warrants extending over one, two,
three and four years. the commission
ers would go on with the work. AT a
recent meeting of the board the dry
+, dock company announced that con-
| tractors would bid on the board
terms. Commissioner Herold then
moved that the chief engineer prepare
plans and estimates for the necessary
wharves. which will be built near the
Arctic Oil Works. The motion was car
ried, and the work will proceed as soon
as the preliminaries are completed
Railroad Ties for Ecuador.
The British tramp steamship Adato
sailed from San Francisco on the Gath
the first consignment of lumber and
railroad ties to be used in the compile
ton of the road between that seaport
and Quito The contract calls for 49,
100000 ties in all, and it Will take the
Adato eight trips to land that number
at Guayaquil There was some spirited
bidding for the order, and at one time
the Puget Sound lumber dealers
thought they had secured the plum.
They made characterization, however,
and San Francisco secured the. con-
tract. ~
The Adato took away 1,sS9,353 feet of
lumber. 50,o29 railroad ties and a small
quantity Of merchandise.
Schooner Robert Searles.
They are not a happy family in the
cabin of the schooner Robert Searles,
now on her way from Honolulu for Pu-
get Sound, says the San Francisco Call
of May 22d The vessel left here last
year, and Captain Piltz took his wife
along with him. The lady's brother
wanted to go to sea, so the captain
shipped him as cabin boy. All went
well for a month or SO, and then the
lad decided that his brother-in-law
should treat him as one of the family,
and not as one of the crew. Mrs. Piltz
sided with her brother but the captain
could not see it in that light. In con-
sequence, the gallant skipper had to
take many a curtain lecture. Things
reached a climax at Honolulu. There
Captain Piltz discharged his brother
in-law and shipped another cabin boy.
On May 10th he sailed for Port Town
send, but hove to ffDiamond Head.
The American Maru did not bring the
end of the story, but the superstition
is that Mrs. Piltz won the day, and
that the captain sent ashore for his
brother in-law and is bringing him
home as a passenger
Movements of Steamers.
WASHINGTON, May 21.-A cable
gram from Manila announces that the
Hancock. Buford and Aztec sailed on
Saturday with volunteers. The Logan,
Fitzpatrick and Ohio will sail not later
than the Both, and the Grant and
Thomas will return as soon as they ar
rive in Manila and can be loaded. The
cable announcing the departure of the
troops is as follows: Transport Han
cock, 81 officers, 1,O42 enlisted men,
Thirty-first Volunteer Infantry; trans
NJ
Company H. Forty-second Volunteer
Infantry; transport Buford, 81 officers,
80 enlisted men, Forty-first Volunteer
Infantry; 225 remains, sailed May 18th
via Nagasaki."
Shipping Notes.
Captain Charles. Barring has taken
command of the steamer Conemaugh;
Captain Fred Warner. late chief officer
of the st. Paul, of the Newsboy; Cap
tain Apslund, of the bark Hayden
line schooner Barbara Hernster.
John Desmond. a longshoreman, fell
down the hold of the steamship KAN
byses in San Francisco recently, and
sustained some severe scalp wounds
The steamship Loa of the Compania
Sud Americana de Vapores line is not
going to San Francisco, her place hav-
ing been taken by the Colombia, which
will arrive there June 5th.
The battleship Wisconsin will sail
from the coast for the China station
this week. She takes the place of the
Oregon, which is now here The bull
dog of the navy" will receive an en-
thusiastic welcome when she reaches
San Francisco.
The Mariposa went on Hunters
Point drydock in San Francisco on the |
ed of May to be cleaned and painted |
She sailed for Honolulu, Page Page, |
Auckland and Sydney on the 30th.
All work on the transport Sherman
and the Oceanic Steamship Company's |
Alameda has stopped, owing to the
strike of the machinists on the coast
The five-masted schooner W. H. |
which was moved from Mis- |
sion street wharf in San Francisco on |
May oath to make room for the four /
masted barkentine Lahaina, did con-