The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-26

part of the Aloha the engines deck
house and all but the stem. were
burned, leaving mere shell OF the
hull.
The Aloha was built in 1898 by Hav
X Wright for j. S. Kimball, and was
OF 2l623 tons register, with a length
OF 1865 feet, breadth of 305 feet. AMI
depth of 10 feet After plying In tne
Mendocino lumber trade for several
months, the vessel was purchased nv
the j. S. KimbaH Steamship COMPANY.
and placed in the Alaska trade. later
being sold to the Dollar Steamship
Company. A member of the firm
states that the fire was probably
caused by rats gnawing matches. The
vessel was insured
Carleton Has Union Crew
As a direct result of nearly a month
spent by the ship John A. Briggs in
getting a non-union crew and getting
to sea with her cargo of coal from
Tacoma to San Francisco, the Sailors
Union has won a decided victory, says
the Tacoma Ledger of August 10. The
ship S. D. Carleton, Captain Dad.
Amesbury. which finished loading
Thursday night, with. 3.1O0 tons of Ros-
lyn coal for Honolulu, will take a full
union crew for the first time. AS a
result. she meets with no delay. and
will probably get to sea today IL her
tug arrives.
The fight between the California
Shipowners' Association and the Sail
ors' Union has been waged bitterly for
some time. In the case of the Briggs
1T proved disastrous to the vessel.
which lay loaded and idle for nearly a
month, at a cost of something like
500 day to the ship for the delay.
When she did get away the other day
1t was with a volunteer crew compos-
ed of leading shipping men OF the
Sound.
Heretofore the Carleton has taken
non-union crews. The union demands
$40 per month for the Honolulu voy-
age, and rather than suffer delay and
annoyance the Carleton pays the re-
quired wage. and already has her crew
aboard, and will get away without
either delay or annoyance. The Garlic
tons cargo is valued at s10,S75
Surgeon Calk1ns Again in Honolulu.
One of the persons aboard the mule
transport Siam, which encountered a
typhoon in the China Sea off the island
of Luzon in October, 1899, was DR..
Calkins, surgeon United States volun-
teers. DR.. Calkins is now a passenger
on the transport Meade, lying in Ho-
nolulu harbor, en- route to Manila for
the second time, after four months
leave of absence from the department
of the Philippines. Since leaving Ma
Mia he has been advanced to the grade
Philippines and in China during the
Boxer outbreak. DIR. Calkins is one of
the young, energetic officers of the
medical department of the army, and
he has fine record. On the Siam he
was an efficient officer and during the
typhoon which made the Siam famous
as having lost all her horses and mules
at one fell stroke during the height OF
the terrible storm, he was second in
command of the men. and did some fine
work When he made his returns OF
the medical stores placed in his charge
which We're totally destroyed in the ty-
phoon, the surgeon general promptly
accepted them-something very unu
sual in a department where red tape
cuts a big figure.
Improved Method of Ship Loading.
Capt. w. L. McCabe. of the steve
doring firm of McCabe & Hamilton, OF
Tacoma and Seattle, and McCabe,
Hamilton, Renney & Co, of Honolulu,
iiNNhtVl VI the 4ntAdDt pOlt snip
and warehouse conveyor. and the Nc
Cabe friction shute. visited New York
last week, bringing with him two
working models of the inventions which
he exhibited to number of steamship
managers, stevedores and others In
terested in shipping matters, says the
New York Maritime Register. He was
accompanied by James McCabe his
brother, also of Tacoma who is well
he H.
of his brothers inventions. The, con-
veyor, which has been in service on
the Pacific Coast for the past five
years, is a rapid, safe and economical
device for loading vessels, and il elfmi-
mates the causes of accidents to steve
dores or ship, and the bgeakage of car
go.
Captain McCabe. in working his con-
veyor, has introduced a movable tres
tie or truss on which the conveyor is
slung, thus allowing it to be shifted
into any position desired. The con-
veyor is fitted with an adjustable arm
placed on the top on which a guide
sheet may be shunted to the delivery
side from an angle. The initial force
of the conveyor is sufficient to place
! the package raised well along the slide
i when even level with the top of the
conveyor, Its long service at Puget
/ Sound ports and Honolulu has proven
it a success.
| An example of the difference in dis
, patch in loading between the conveyor
and old method can be gained from
the following Six hundred tons OF
flour, bales. packages, etc, per day, is
considered an exceptionally good days
work in hoistitng by sings or by stag
ing. while with the conveyor and the
| same or less number of men, nearly
double that amount of work can be
accomplished and this at any stage
of the tide; in fact, the number OF
/ packages that can be carried by the
conveyor is only limited by the amount
of cargo that the gang can properly
stow In the vessels hold The con
veyor is arranged so that an awning
cover may be spread over its entire
length, extending over the vessels
hatch, thus allowing the vessel TO De
worked in all sorts of weather. Captain
McCabe has also been working fol
several years a friction shute. fol
which he has patent pending. The
chute is giving very satisfactory re-
suits in it's use in the warehouses anc
on the ships at Puget Sound ports anC
! Honolulu. BY the employment OF the
chute packages of the most fragile ma
ture can be sent down from the ware
house ar into a vessels hold WithOu