The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-21
The EriC's Second
Nate Fell
Dead.
Donau Off For Japan.
The SewalI
Here.
r,pAY is likely to prove a lively one

steamship Zealandia is due to ar
rive from the Coast and the prob
abilities are that the Togo Kisen Kai-
.5a steamer America Maru will follow
or precede. The America Maru is not
| due until tomorrow but is in the habit
/ Of arriving in the afternoon or evening
| prior to the day upon which she is
| scheduled to come in.
4 There Is also the possibility of a
/ transport entering, to remain here a
couple of days. on her way to Manila.
/ Tomorrow the Hongkong Maru may
make port from the Orient.
On Saturday the Mariposa is due to
4 arrive from San Francisco.
The Naval Ship Completed.
The official survey of Naval slip NO
Is now practically completed The
i slip has been finished for some little
4 time. During the last day or two Off
GERS Of the navy have been engaged in
j making a survey of the work. 1t is said
1 to be satisfactory in every particular
and the officers of the Naval Station
Hawaii are much pleased. They ex-
4 press themselves as perfectly satisfied
] with the manner in which the superin-
] tendent of the California Construction
i Company, Andrew McNally, has man
/ aged the work.
The dredging has been performed in
/ a way that has exceeded the anticipa-
/ tons of the officials.
According to the contract the slip was
to have been dredged to a depth of
4 twenty-eight feet and six inches at
4 mean low water. As a matter of fact
the bottom has been blasted to more
1 than the required depth, the superin-
endent not satisfying himself with
merely complying with the terms of
1 the contract.
i The probabilities are that there will
4 be no necessity of cleaning up any por
4 ton of the slip for a great while to
4 come
4 The blasting was expensive work, but
means the best results and the slip is
in a condition to last
The new slip is even deeper than the
deepest portions of the channel. At
4 mean low water the channel is not over
4 thirty feet, while the depth of the slip
1 runs from thirty 10 thirty-two feet and
4 six inches.
Schooner Eric Loses a Man
When the American schooner Eric
4 came into the harbor yesterday morn
4 ing she was flying her flag at half-mast,
4 having lost a member of her crew dur
4 ing the voyage from Caleta Buena.
The Eric Is the third vessel which has
a lost a member of her crew during
voyage to this port within the last
week
The man lost aboard the Eric was
the second mate. James Brooks, a ma
tive OF Maryland. He was not lost
overheard, however, as was the case of
the other two vessels, the Olympic and
The Henry Willard.
Brooks worked aboard on the day be-
fore the vessel arrived at this port. He
was pulling on a rope when he sudden
4 y dropped to the deck. Although his
shpmates hurried to his assistance and
did all in their power to help him, he
never recovered consciousness and was
probably the victim of heart disease.
j The body was brought to Honolulu,
where it will receive burial
The Eric was forty-nine days from
4 valeta Buena with a cargo of fertilizer.
1t IS expected that she will go from
mere to San Francisco, but she has not
4 yet received orders. Captain Roos is
Il hey commander.
4 The Arthur Sewau Arrives.
A One of the finest vessels which has
come to this port since the Erskine M.
4 Fheips was here last year is the four
masied ship Arthur Sewall, which en-
'sred the harbor yesterday morning and
a uocNed alongside the old Fishmarket
wharf. She is twenty-five days from
Yokohama and arrived off the harbor
VI Tuesday night, lying off port until
/ Inc morning.
Al The Sewall Is in ballast and called for
Y'1sIs. On the trip across the Atlantic
a rom New York the Sewall was struck
a " sGuall and lost her main topgal-
ant and main royal masts. Material
was so high at Yokohama that the
sNpper made up his mind to wait until
a ~ arrived at some American port be-
'Ie he made repairs. The trip was
"hpleted by improvising sticks to take
we place Of the missing masts.
a heavy squall was also met with on
we trip from the Orient to this port
a1u the irnprovised royal mast was
carried away.
-aptain Godfrey is the master Of the
s"aH. The big vessel will remain here
'oad sugar for Hackfeld e. Com
"IS She will take her cargo either
IRNadelphia or New York. She is
"7si ship of 2919 tons register.
a Need More Frequent Service.
ne strike of the machinists at the
'Onoluiu Iron Works was the cause of
- Kennedy and Robert Scott of that
sASern going to the Coast on the
~,nShip Gaelic for the purpose of Sc
ing men to take the places of the
not generally known that the
s,s men paid s275 apiece for their tick
css. !" san Francisco, but such was the
o,s, le Gaelic, being foreign vessel, is
'"arily not allowed to carry passen-