The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25

-HE Oceanic steamship Mariposa
will leave this port for San Fran
cisco on Wednesday afternoon at
3 O'Clock, from the Oceanic wharf.
on Thursday, the 2Sth instant, the Zea-
landia will also sail for San Francisco.
She will get away at noon. She mas
been refitted throughout and will take
cabin passengers.
Sounding at Pearl Harbor.
! Preliminary soundings were made yes
terday over the bar at the entrance to
Pearl Harbor. Mr.. Henry of the firm of
Clark & Henry, which has been award
ed the contract for the dredging OF
Pearl Harbor, went down TO the harbor
Yesterday in Archibald Young's splen-
did gasoline launch. Others accompan-
led him for the purpose of making
soundings over the bar. The Young
brothers had the handling of the
launch which, as everybody knows, is
called the Water Witch.
The Water Witch left Honolulu about
$50 o'clock yesterday morning and re-
turned about o'clock in the afternoon,
She made a fine run down and came
back in even better time. 1t was an
ideal day for this mode of travelling
and those aboard, outside of the bust
mess accomplished, had most enjoy
able time. II
Soundings We're made both on the in
! side and outside of the bar at the en-
trance of Pearl Harbor, as well as di-
Irectly over the bar. 1t was found that
the water over the bar averaged from
twelve to eighteen feet. 9.;A u.3sa-=1 s.
/ Mr.. Henry went ashore for the pur-
pose of selecting-a sitefef quarters and
offices and SO forth, while the dredging
is going on. He chose. the spot where
the. old salt works used to be.
The contractor was more than pleas
ed with the conditions and was vel
satisfied with the 1soundings made
These soundings were only preliminary
however; a specially equipped boat
will go down to Pearl Harbor within d
day or two and men will proceed tc
investigate the nature of the materia
(which forms the bottom.
Mr. Henry returns to San Francisco
on the Mariposa and will Immediately
arrange for sending all the necessary
paraphernalia down here so that worl
can be commenced on the dredging o.
Clark & Henry offered to do the worl
for $4,000. This is $4,000 less than the
amount provided for by the United
States Government.
The channel to be dredged, according
to the conditions of the contract, is t.
be 200 feet wide. 80 feet deep at Low
tide and 1900 feet long.
Ma1iposa From the Coast
The Oceanic steamship Mariposa
Francisco on Saturday morning, bring
ing one days later news than wa
brought by the America Maru.
She was six days and fifteen hour
coming down, sailing from the Coast oil
, the 18th instant.
The following passengers arrived o.
the Mariposa: NJ. 7. Adams, Mrs
C. Ainsworth, A S. Armuth, ]. L
Barker and wife, Miss Barker, j. 7
Barraclough B. F. Beard, Miss E
Beard, l. G. Bees, Mrs. f. c. Brown
; S. Brown, wife and child; F. f. Cantel
Mrs. J. w. Carnes, Miss A. Christal, r
J. Cochran Miss NJ Cunningham. G. W
,, Currier, Miss Currier, w. j. DeGeal
,, Miss Louise Eager, A r. Fowler an
fNllt, y. II. .FtoWltI, WHY, = Cilllu al
[ maid; h j. Hart, G. F. Henshall Mrs
S7B. r. Herbert and child H. G. Howard
: IA. c. Hoyt, Thos. Hughes ,andt Wit,
, Miss NJ. Huntington, Miss Jessie John
son,. Miss f. Killean, Miss M. l.; Kim
, tbaIi. Mrs F. Knowlton, J. Lucas, A. ,
Mc0arty and wife, +, b. MeClanahar
wife and child Geo. S: Mckenzie. T
,,sfF Nichols J. w Parmalee, VIM Pet
a ,ers, Mrs. o. F. Pfafflin, 5. S. Power
! Miss N. Raymond w. H. Rice. Miss
] Russell Mrs. J. A saucedo, W. y
,Schenk. G. Schneider. Mrs. f. NJ. SimI
q son, NJ. A. Smith, A. H. Thompson an
> 4wife, G.. Turner, ]. A. Tutfiill-ap wifi
j. w. Wilson and wife, H. Wolff, J. !
4 Mayfield, Col. CT. w. Macfarlane
g Love Turns Somersault
). one of the aueerest accidents whic
o ever occurred in this harbor happene
: on Saturday morning when the steamsh
Mariposa was entering port from II
$ Coast.
Il The Young Brothers We're alongside
q the steamer with their gasoline launc
n and We're being pulled along at a gre;
rate at the end of line from the TO
# ward part of the vessel.
v After the Young Brothers had bee
e alongside moment or so, James l
10 Love, representing an express compan
Il went there in rowboat and succeed,
II in getting a line thrown to him. The
" We're then two boats racing alongside
lie the steamship she started to ent
n the channel to come into port.
9, The Young Brothers warned Love tn
he was in dangerous position and tn
a. the launch was about to cast loose fro
as the side of the vessel. Love was told
get out of the way, but claimed that
boatman could not let go of the rope
Id was advised to cut the rope, if that W
the case but Love was anxious to e
aboard the vessel and was not runnil
10 any risks of getting left. There was
t. Representative of another express cor
pany aboard the launch and competiti
was getting high.
- However, it was necessary for t
launch to cast away, and she did
Even when the launch cast loose a.
swung rapidly behind. the occupants
the other boat did not take warning
time. At the last moment when tn
saw there was going to be a rear el
collision, they made an attempt to dods
but it was too late. The launch w
rapidly falling behind the steamer sin
she had let go her line and the rowbo
was. of course, coming ahead with t
speed of the steamer, still holding on
her line She was coming along at
great rate and her bow was sticki
u away UP out of the water. Shouts we
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