The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-28
LAHAINA LAUNCHED.
Fine New Bark for HIND Rolph & Co.
Christened.

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Fine New Bark for Hind, Rolph & Co.
Christened.
OAKLAND May 1S.-Shortly after
the mighty Ohio slid from the ways at
the Union Iron Works today similar
event. of happy augury for Oakland's
future, the launching of the first
home built vessel. took place at w. a.
Boole & Sons shipyard, at the foot of
tAdeline street. When Miss Lila Boole
broke bottle of California champagne
over the vessels bow and pronounced
the words II christen thee Lahaina,
she was cheered from pier and shore
and waiting steamers by thousands of
spectators, among whom were the
members of the Oakland Board of
Trade, the Merchants Exchange, the
City Council and other city officials and
invited guests, including many people
prominent in Oakland and San Fran
cisco society.
No launching could have been pref
tier. Many San Francisco guests came
direct from the launching of the Ohio
on the steamers from which they wit
messed the ceremonies at the Union
Iron Works At Las o'clock blow from
a sledge split the last block impeding
the Lahaina's passage to her bridal,
and she slipped noiselessly down the
ways, while the hundreds of people on
her decks responded to the cheers of
the thousands below. Then as she
glided out of the estuary the sirens
and whistles on all sides screamed a
strident welcome. ~
Oakland may well be proud of her
first ship for she is the largest of her
class on the coast. -
The Lahaina was built for Hind.
ROlph & Co. for the Oriental trade.
She is a four-masted bark. entire of
1900 tons burden, 245 feet in length.
41.6 feet beam and is equipped with
steam hosting gear, including an
Choir hoist and sail-setting apparatus.
On her first trip she will take 1,400O00
feet of lumber from Puget Sound to
China She. will be commanded by
Captain NJ T. Carlson, formerly of the
ship Muriel.
The keel of sister ship to the La
haina will be laid Immediately by the
Bodies.
These ships, the largest of the feet Of
their owners, will afford unusually COM
modious and comfortable quarters for
their men, while aft the cabins are to
be luxurious in their appointment.
Efforts to Unionize. -
Energetic efforts are being made 70
unionize all workmen along the water
fronts of Tacoma and Seattle that do
not belong to the sailors or longshore-
mems unions Recently representa-
IL. fNl La s<vH <f
San Francisco arrived In Tacoma, and
while there unionized the men employ
ed on the army transport Rosecrans.
That serious labor difficulties are
threatened is apparent, and 1t is not
denied by steamship men and dock
owners. The trouble was started by
the demand of the Longshoremen's
Union that steamship companies
should discharge their non-union sail
ors 1t is estimated that about 10 per
cent of the sailors shipping from Pu-
get Sound are not members OF the I'm
ion.
1t is evident that a we'll organized
campaign has been started by the labor
leaders on the waterfront to either
force uon-union men in various de-
partments into the unions or, else to
drive them out of their employment.
Strenuous efforts are being made to
organize all the longshoremen and
stevedores not now members of
union. The firemen and sailors, it is
stated ARE working together to bring
this about, threatening to strike in
case the dock owners and steamship
companies employ non-union long
shoremen The steamship men agree
that the present temper of the work
men indicates that serious strikes are
likely to occur.
Shipping Nc es.
The schooner Helen n. Kimball clear
ed from San Francisco on the 18th in
slant for Tanning Island via Kahului |
1t is expected that George B. Gregg. the |
king of Tanning Island" will return |
to San Francisco in the schooner.
A F. Dalstead, late second officer of |
the transport Warren, has been ap-
pointed chief officer of the transport Sa- |
moa ]. G.. Dow. second officer of the |
Sherman, is now second officer of the |
Warren. j. w. Ma1oney, third officer of |
the Warren, has been made second off,
Ger on the Sherman.
seyen-masted schooner, said to be |
the largest ever built, Is under construc
ton at Franklin, Frenchman's Bay, Me.
1t win be 335 feet long on the keel with |
beam of 81 feet and depth of 80 feet.
The big schooner will have tonnage of |
1900. and is to cost $15500O. |
The iron bark Kaiulani went into dry
dock at San Francisco the other day for |
an overhauling. =
The importation of sugar from Hawaii |
at San Francisco on the 18th instant |
amounted to 1s4,454 bags, valued at ST.
250.0eo. Such heavy arrivals in one day
are seldom recorded. The sugar was
taken by the following vessels: Ship
Charmer, 1850 bags; barkentine Archer,
22,14; bark Santiago, $1,000: bark Dia-
mond Head. 23.5S3; bark Andrew WEIGH, |
2s, 531; bark Alden Besse, 24,SO0; bark Amy
Turner, 1856.
The freight transport Samoa, carry