The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-07
THE Pacific Mail steamship China,


mail and news of the outer world. The
China viii probably bring a story of :
pretty rough times at sea and uncom- !
Portable experiences with the southerly
gale She is one of the very finest
boats which cross the Pacific, however,
and it would take severe storm in
deed to work her injury.
People along the waterfront who have
been watching with interest the great
seas breaking over the reef near the
entrance to the channel, until the en-
trance is lost in one angry, heaving,
breaking mass of giantwaves, are
wondering if the China will have any
difficulty in coming into the harbor,
should the storm continue in all it's fury
until the arrival of that vessel.
inspectors Are at Work.
Messrs. Lehners and Whitney, the
hulls and boilers inspectors. are being
kept very busy. Yesterday morning
they issued chief engineers certificate
to John S. Purdy of the tug Fearless
and third assistants papers to w. II.
Winn and w. H. Parker. These certifi-
Gates give the holders the right to work
on vessels anywhere in the Pacific. The
inspectors have been very favorably
impressed with the manner in which
the native crews handle the boats in
rough weather while the steamers are
making Roadway. 1t is expected that
within the next two weeks all the
steamers of the Island fleets will have
been examined and those of their cap
tains, mates and engineers who quail
| fly will be given certificates.
A Romance of the Storm.
There is a young man in town who
| is anxiously awaiting the departure of
the steamer for Hilo. He is Inspector
Gomez, one of the most popular and
obliging of the customs men. He is
about to be married and the young
lady of his choice resides upon the Is
LAND of Maui. Gomez has received a
| vacation of five or six days for the
purpose of going to claim his bride; at
the end of the allotted time his vacation
will be up. He has already lost a day
and a half on account of the great
storm which is raging and which has
prevented the Kinau from sailing, and
still he is no nearer his hearts desire.
Each hour which the Kinau was held
made the young man more anxious and
he began to wonder whether he would
be a bachelor or benedict at the end
iof his vacation and whether he would
have to ask Collector Stackable for an
textension of his vacation in order to get
married Then he thinks that the
lyoung lady will very naturally get anx-
ious at his non-arrival and the non
arrival of the steamer and picture hel
imagining that the good old Kinau hao
been sunk in the terrible storm while
on the way to Hawaii and Maui, or per.
haps floating on the angry seas, bottom
up, with her intended husband and Pur-
ser Beckley clinging to the inverted
keel.
Thinking in this strain he could no
rest and, thinking that the kina'
would be likely to sail at any time, a
soon as the weather cleared little, h.
did not like to leave the Kinau whar
and so remained there as long as day
light lasted, going homewards onl
when the darkness fell and he was sur
that the boat would not sail until an
: other day had dawned.
All who know Inspector Gomez Xix
him for his honesty, frankness and gen
iality and wish him all manner of hap
pfness in the years to come.
Nine Lives Gone Out.
There is mourning on the Pacific Ma
wharf jimmie the amiable and wor
derful cat, who had for so long a tim
been the pet of all who had any bus
ness on that wharf, especially the lSint
hearted men of the Custom house,
dead. She came to her death by fun
cation; in fact, everything goes TO $40
that the sagacious animal commute
lcni n Ia deed thrOuuu C-rI
over the recent loss of her three fanci
little kittens, Sam Parker, Prince Dav
and Wiikoki Animals have been know
to invite death through grief, and NAL
well-authenticated instances have BET
observed. Faithful dogs have starvt
themselves to death on the graves
their masters, for example.
Jimmie and her three kittens, name
after famous local people by the Adve
tiser, have been the subject of many st
ries in the press of this City. 1t is WE
known, therefore, how the three kite
recently met death through suffocati'
in the fumigating shed on the Paci
Mail wharf; also how they had sever
times previously narrowly escap
death in the same manner, and how t
heroic jimmie had rescued them fro
the suffocating fumes and resuscitat
them The last time that the kite
were accidentally imprisoned, howev'
Jimmie was not on hand In time 10 II
cue her children or was unable to G
lat them to render them any assistant
She was there when their little bod
were brought out of the fumigatir
room, however, and her grief was
tense. 1t was noticed by the men on
wharf that jimmie always hung arou
the entrance to the fumigating-room a
er that and that she was exceeding
melancholy and refused to be comfort
= She became SO absorbed by her gr
that the rats took no notice of her g
had things pretty much their own "
on the wharf. Once or twice when
doors of the fumigating-room were alb
to be closed on lot of Oriental goo
jimmie" would attempt to secrete h
self in the room and would be W
much annoyed when rescued from
death chamber just in time.
At last, however. jimmie succee,
in accomplishing what was evidently
object When the Oriental goods fl
the Nippon Maru were closed up in
shed for Immigration she managed to
: inside and yesterday, when the do
D were opened and some of the goods
= u been taken out, the body of the fel
tsufcide was recovered and there was
Imediately mourning on the wharf.