Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-01-11
News Of Shipping
Along Water Front

The American schooner Columbia Is
at Tacoma loading coal for this port.
The II. NJ. S. Aorangi left Sydne.
for Vancouver via Honolulu on jan
uary list.
The ship Florence is discharging her
cargo for the o. r. & l.. Co. at the
companys wharf.
The schooner Stanley cleared from
San Francisco for Kahului on January
list with general cargo.
On December % the Garden City
spoke the schooner Compeer in lat.
i5N. Ion. 126w. bound from Port Lud 9.
low to Kahului.
Among the latest freights and char
ties from San Francisco to Honolulu is
the American ship Geo. Curtis with
passengers and merchandise.
The steamer City of Picking of the
Pacific Mail line was scheduled to leave
San Francisco on January 8 at II a.
m. for Hongkong via Honolulu and Yo.
kohama.
The steamer Albion of the Kimb,ll
line of cold storage steamers arrived In
San Francisco on January I'd 1917 days
from Honolulu. She Is in command Of
Captain Erickson and will commence
loading for this port.
The Hongkong Maru OF the T. X. X.
line arrived of the harbor about :
o'clock last evening and locked at the
Pacific Mail wharf at about o'clock on
her way from the Orient She left for
the Coast at noon today.
There are many queer names given
to sailing craft of various kinds but
no doubt the owners of the vessels
could advance good and sufficient rea-
sons for so naming them. One instance
is the sloop Never Touched. which was
built at Seattle in 1892 for c. Snyder
her home port being at the place where
she was launched.
The crew Of the barkentine Alta
lying at Navy wharf No. walked out
In body Wednesday. It is undet-
stood that the men have no complaint
to make regarding their treatment by
the captain, but claim that the ship is
too heavy for the number of men com
prising the crew. Stevedores were en-
gagged to clear the vessel Of her coal
which is consigned to the government.
The new battleship Wisconsin was
formally turned over to the Govern
ment at San Francisco on January
at the Union Iron Works. San Fran
cisco, and went under the Stars and
Stripes. Since the vessels trial trip
some weeks ago the Wisconsin has
been undergoing much. minor work.
and. while not entirely completed, is
practically finished. The battleship
is not expected to be placed in COM
mission for some time.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
will shortly have their two new and
elegant steamers, the Korea and Siber-
Ia In operation. They are twin screw
steamers OF 10000 tons cargo capacity
and with speed Of IS knots an hour
The ships Of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company comprises the Korea. Siberia
and Algoa Of $4,000 tons each the Chi
ma. City Of Peking and Aztec Of 5000
tons each, and the Rio de Janeiro, Peru,
Para, sydney, Newport, Colon, Acapul-
co, San Jose, San Juan. San Bias, Cos.
ia Rica. Baracoata and City OF Pa
mama aggregating a capacity of nearly
5000 tons. The trans-Pacific fieet
consists OF three steamers, the China,
City OF Picking and Rio de Janeiro.
The U. S. animal transport which left
her on January 4th for Manila had on
board several men who while occupy
ing positions as boss packers were on
their way to the Philippines ostensibly
for the purpose Of engaging in the bust
only recently returned from Cuba, COM
ing out to New York on the transport
Sedgwick. Their names are William
Muir, J. II. Brain, ID. d. Andrews and
NJ. Page. They have been In Matan-
zas for two years packing for the gov
eminent and have had ample time to
study up the mining conditions and feel
satisfied that 1t can be made a prof.
table industry. They left New York
for Seattle over the Northern Pacific
where they took passage on the Kin
tuck. About fifteen miles from Trini-
dad there are several who are engaged
in mining, among whom are two min
ers by the name of McClosky aud
Thorndyke who are operating an aras-
ira on prophry formation which car
ries gold in free state. It is stated
that they are doing well which was the
incentive for the above quartet return
ing to Uncle Sans new possessions to
wrest the precious metal from mother
earth.