The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-17


fagration of the North German Lloyd
piers at Hoboken, n. j., in June last.
was made by the Volunteer Life Saw
ing Association on board the captains
vessel. the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
on the, evening of April 26th. Colonel
j. Wesley Jones and the Hon. Abraham
Gruber made the presentation speeches.
The Cunard Steamship Company has
decided to place a permanent installa-
ton of the Marconi wireless telegraphy
system on board its ships. The company
has had the matter under considera-
ton for some time, and Signor Mar
conf let on the Campania April
Goth to prepare TO install wireless
plant on that vessel He will establish
receiving stations at Montauk Point
and the Highlands of Navesink, from
which points the arrival of the steam
ships will be reported.
A joint meeting of the Sydney CD,
Town Council and the Board of Trade
was held recently to hear Mr.. Grove
of Duluth regarding the location of a
steel ship-building plant at Sydney har-
Dor by the American syndicate repre-
scented by him. Information obtained
indicated that the town had agreed.
subject to ratification by the rate pay
ers, to render substantial assistance
which would probably be in the nature
of a bonus equal if not larger than that
given to the Dominion Iron and Steel
Company.
In marine circles a good story is told
regarding well-known Rockland sea
captain, who, however, has since aban-
.doned the rolling deep and is gaining a
livelihood on the land. Not many moons
ago this. captain arrived at New York
with the loss of spanker. Wishing to
obtain one. which he had at his home,
and wishing at the same time to notify
his wife Sadie to come on to New York,
he sent to his agent a brief but express
sive telegram This is what the agent
read: Send Sadie and spanker."
At Sestri Ponente. near Genoa. there
was launched on April Gath a new
steamer named lombard, for the Ital-
ian Royal Mail Steamship Company
tNavigazione Generate Italiana Florio-
Rubattino), to ply between Genoa,
Naples and New York She is the sec
ond new steamer out of five sister ships
for the New York line which soon will
be ready to go into service. She has all
the cabins above deck, with dinin-; sa-
loon on the promenade deck and la
dies parlor and an elegant smoking
room on the upper deck.
II. Yugata of Toxic, a prominent Jap
anese railway and steamship official.
passed through San Francisco recently
en- route from business trip to Lon
don and New York. Mr.. Yugata said
that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. or
Japan Mail Steamship Company.
which now runs line of steamers be-
tween the Orient and Seattle in con-
nection with the Great Northern Rail
road, and which is the largest steam.
ship company in the Orient, is to ex-
plot the commerce of China, Corea and
Siberia by adding some thirty-eight
steamers to it's already big fleet. Presi
dent Kondo of the company has asked
the Japanese Government for subsi
dy with that object in view. He has
in contemplation ten new lines, radiat-
ing from Yokohama and Kobe to all
parts of the Asiatic coast.
Worlds Naval Notes.
The battleship Formidable has gone
through her first coal consumption
trial without a hitch, developing, under
one-fifth power, 1892 horsepower with
233 pounds steam, IS revolutions and a
coal consumption of 2.02 pounds The
vessel averaged lis knots.
Germany is rapidly increasing her
docking facilities in government yards
and private establishments At Kiel
the navy has one floating dock and
fouf~ craving docks, all of which are
being enlarged, and the Howald Works
dock is. in course of frightening to ac-
commodate vessels of $1,000 tons.
farrows, at Poplar, the noted build
ers of torpedo-boat destroyers, have
purchased an adjoining shipyard, and
the establishment now covers an area
of eleven acres, with a water front of
700 feet. The buildings, tools and labor
saving appliances are all of the latest
improvements, and electricity is almost
exclusively used for motive power and
for lighting purposes
Bad luck or poor design and material
In the machinery of British war yes
sells is worrying the admiralty consid-
erably. Thes new battiesnip Furious
ordered to the Mediterranean, had to
return to the dockyard BEFORE reach
ing Gibraltar to repair defects in her
boiler tubes, and another new cruiser
the Perseus, is detained at Portsmouth
owing to defects developed in her en-
gines
The old Achilles, rated on the effect
I've navy list of Great Britain as An
armored cruiser, is to be utilized as a.
guardship at Malta, taking the place
of the Hibernia, former 11o-gun line
of-battleship launched in 1904. The
Achilles is the second iron-clad vessel
built for the British navy, and was
launched in 1853 Her first cost wao
222,130. and the repairs nave consum-