The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-19

Incidents Of the Departure of the
Ventura for Page Pago and
the Colonies.


thereupon removed a belt and tool
therefrom several hundred dollars il
gold, turning all the money over to the
lpurser and taking receipt in turn.
! Even after this he was constantly OF
the watch and evaded any one who ap-
peared to want to talk to him. He still
believed that some one was anxious tt
get his money and was apparently
afraid that he might be attacked ever
after he had put it in safe place.
/ Mr.. Spencer said that he had never
before left the Islands and that he
found it hard to go. He added, how
ever, that he had good prospects in Sa-
moa and that he was going there te
engage in business which would un-
doubtedly prove remunerative.
The Belgian King Arrives.
The large freight steamship Belgian
King arrived in port yesterday morning
from the Orient, en- route to San Diego.
She locked at the quarantine wharf,
where the work of fumigating every
thing in her hold was commenced right
away. This work is being derie by the
quarantine officials for the first time
at this port AT s o'clock in the morn
ing the engine started to pump the hold
full of the fumes of sulphur. This was
kept up until late in the afternoon. The
Belgian King brought about 1000 tons
of freight for Honolulu. She also
brought several passengers.
Four Sailing VasseIssArrlv
Four sailing vessels came into this
harbor yesterday morning. They were
the British ship City of Hankow, Cap
tain Williamson, fifty-five days from
Newcastle with Goals the American
ship Hecla, Captain Nelson, forty-three
days from Newcastle with coal; the
American schooner Expansion, Captain
Larsen, fifty-three days from Newcas-
tie with coal. and the American bark
entine John Smith, Captain Anderson,
from Port Blakeley with lumber.
Coal Fire on the Thomas.
A furnace is raging in the heart of
the cargo of coal aboard the ship Jo-
seph B. Thomas. Yesterday morning
she was hauled over to the Oceanic
wharf to discharge her burning cargo.
The Thomas came here from Newcas-
tie on June IS, in distress, having lost
her captain overheard and had most of
the yards of her mainmast carried
away in a gale in the Southern Seas
Naval Notes.
The British Admiralty is seriously
considering antidoteS to submarines,
the problem of which has been mar
!,
first is to fire shells filed with high
explosives, which, bursting in the wa
ter near the boat. will beat it in. The
second plan is to utilize the old plan
of spar torpedoes, and the third is
by deliberate underwater attack The
success of the first method depends
upon accuracy of gunnery and the
certainty that the shell will burst at
just the right moment. The second
means proposed presupposes that there'
will be several boats armed with spar
torpedoes awaiting the appearance of
the submarine on the surface, in which
event the latters humiliation is pref
ty certain. The third method simply
means a fight under water between
the attacking and defending subma-
rineS.
A Reconsideration of vessels of the
United States navy has been ordered
ny Tie IIeStuS1t. OHuST llle new SyS-
tenn, which went into effect on June Z,
there will be four rates, based on their
tonnage alone, divided as follows, for
vessels of war: First rate, 5000 tons
and over; second rate, 1000 tons and
under 5000 tons; third rate, 1000 to
1000 tons; fourth rate, all other YES
sells. Auxiliary vessels of 5000 tons
and over, except Golfers, hospital ships
and other special class vessels, are to
be of the second rate, the exceptions
going into the third rate. Commands
are assigned as follows: Admiral, to
command fleet; rear admiral, to fleet
or squadron; captains. to division or
ships of the first or second rate; COM
to division or ships of the
second or third rate; lieutenant COM
to third or fourth rates;
lieutenants to fourth rates, a destroy
er. torpedo-boat, tug, or tender; lieu
tenants, junior grade, to torpedo-boat
tug or tender: ensign to torpedo-boat
or tug.
The inventor of the Belleville water
tube boiler has not accepted the con-
demnation of his generator by the COM
mittee of the British Admiralty with
graceful acquiescence. On the contrary,
he has issued statement traversing the
report and asserting that the failure, if
failure" is to be the term used, was
due to improper handling. He MAIN
tains that his boiler has given good re-
suits in the French Navy, and supports
this statement with a congratulatory
letter from the japanese Admiralty up
on the performance of the Belleville
boilered Adzuma on her voyage from
England to Japan. If one accepts the
inventors defense Of his steam genera
tor 1t must be concluded that the criti-
cism was unjust as well as severe, and
yet his argument proves that the boiler
requires extraordinary care and skill In
fitting and handling, which would be diff
hcult to obtain under service conditions,
especially in time of war.
In connection with the recent return
home Of the U. S. s. Buffalo the follow
ing facts will be found of interest: There
have been 4S7 men discharged to May 90,
of whom 249 were given transportation
to the places in which they enlisted. The
following are the places to which they
were given transportation, with the
number to each place, total 240: Phila-
delphia, Pa, 46; Boston Mass 30: