The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-04

MAIL goes to San Francisco today
Al on the Occidental and Oriental
n steamship Coptic She sails
from the Pacific Mail wharf at
II o'clock this morning.
The Coptic was sighted coming from
the Orient YESTERDAY afternoon about
clock Shortly after o'clock she was
alongside the wharf, and little While
afterwards her passengers, all except
two or three of them going through 70
the coast, were ashore.
Sailing from Hong Kong on the Path.
of last month; from Shanghai on the
l17th.; from Nagasaki on the 18TH; from
Kobe on the 21st, and from Yokohama
| on the oath, the Coptic enjoyed a very
pleasant trip to port.
| Passengers for Honolulu were as fol-
| lows: Captain and Mrs. l.. r. ALL
born, Miss A McCully and Mr. and
Mrs. John T. Laing.
| Those going through to the coast are
as follows: E. Achenbach, A. j. Kor-
| thals-Altes, Mrs. A. ]. Korthals-Aites,
Gustav Antoni, Captain c. H. Arnold,
| U. S. N, e. Baukal, /. Beck, Baron
D. Won Berger and valet, V. l.. Boeck,
Lieutenant-C Commander J. M. Bowyer,
U. S. N, Leon Brock, w. K. Chisholm,
| N. S. Clarke, Lieutenant E.. Cohnitz,
Captain H. G. o. Colby, U. S. N,
Mrs. A. Deane Cooper, Thos. K. Coop
er, Miss M. w. Crozier, Mrs. Derk-
helm. Miss S. J. Devonshire, NJ. C.
Emerson, G.. Nj. Ford, Mrs. F. de
Promoter, R. w. Irwin. Chas. Lazy, Jr.,
III. l.. @. Lawrence, Mrs. ]. A. Levan-
dowsky, A. H. White, A. w. Wilcox,
l, n n
B. Lindsay, Mrs. B. Lindsay, Master
Lindsay, Mrs. Chas. C. Lister, Chas. c.
Lister, Jr., H. w. LOCKER, A. Marck,
Michael, child and maid, Master
Michael, Won Moller, Mrs. A. J. Nor
liarity. Rev Jas Murray, F. w. New
son, DR.. Ohrt, r. D. Paine, j. A. N.
Patyn, A. Paul, T. Paul, c. A. Paulden,
CHI Poirson, E. F. Porter, H. N. Rid
LEY, Mr. and Mrs F. A. Riege, Mr.. and
Sellerbeck, Mr. Seller Captain Street.
S. Swart, F. Whiting, H. NJ Woods.
| The Coptic's passenger list includes
seven-nine cabin, seven European
steerage and Gas Oriental steerage.
japanese.
hand to see the vessel come in. 1t took
the assistance of the powerful tug
Fearless.
Mariposa From the Coast.
At O'Clock last evening the Oceanic
steamship Mariposa, Captain Rennie,
was alongside the Oceanic wharf. ar
irving from San Francisco She brought
/ rather an unusually small number of
passengers. The following is the list:
A. F. Allen, Mrs. P. Bellocq, w. A.
Burke and wife, A. s. Cantin, wife and
child, Miss Cantin, Mrs. J. B. Cogswell,
Mrs. NJ. P. Collette, Mrs. K. B. Davis,
L. D. Bates, j. H. Faraday, A. -Harri-
son, Mrs. Howell, F. c. Hotalir?. Mrs.
A. P. Hotaling, Miss H. James, Mrs. J.
H. Johnson, Clifford Kimball, Miss G.
Kingsland, Frank Lewis Mrs. o. G.
Lewis, James Mallon, j. Michaels, A.
C. Palfrey, Miss E. II. Ryan, Robert
Scott, F. J. Swadling, Miss Venci, A.
G. Wooley
The Mariposa sailed from San Fran
cisco on the 9th of last month at 1882
p, M, making ~the run to port in six
days, four hours and seventeen min
utes. It was not long after o'clock
last evening when the vessel was sight
ed ten miles east.
The Oceanic wharf was crowded
when the Mariposa came alongside
Everybody wanted to make a rush ur
the gangway at once, as usual, inter
fering more or less with the coming off
of passengers.
Big steamship.stranded.
HONGKONG, April 26.-The PENN.
sular and Oriental Line steamship So.
braon, of 1882 tons, launched last year
(which has been running between Shang.
hal and London, is badly stranded OF
Tungyung Island, and will probably bt
a total loss. The vessel went ashore il
a dense fog Wednesday morning. Thu
passengers were all safely landed Som,
were taken off by Chinese junk, anC
later the steamship Coromandel from
Shanghai took off the remainder of tn,
passengers.
This morning a dispatch was received
from Captain Wibnea of the Sobraon
stating that all the passengers had beer
safely landed, but the ship was in
dangerous position and assistance wa
urgently needed. The crew was still oil
board. The mails and passengers viii
be forwarded to London by a Nortl
German Lloyd steamship
Deserters Throng3HonoluIu.
Captains of vessels recently arrives
at San Francisco from the Hawaiian
Islands, says a coast paper, say tina
never in the history of Honolulu hav
they seen so many idle sailors on tn
beach. Every vessel that reaches Ha
D wall loses from three to six of he
crew, these join the band that is liv
ing a lotus life. They sleep under tree
: or in the open, and the balmy breeze
of the sub-tropical lands only lull
J. them into a sounder slumber. Banana
and bread fruits are to be had for TIL
p asking, and fish are there for wnoeve
will catch them. AS long as this stat
of affairs lasts Jack will not go t
sea, and in consequence many a stor
ship has to come home short-hande,
- THE men are getting to be regula
- beach-comers.' said a captain yesterda
land if something does not turn UP I