The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-27

Lehua to TINS port from the coast.
Wireless Message for Mutton.
Two hundred sheep, save one, We're
brought to Honolulu yesterday by the
schooner Golden Gate from Lanai for
the Metropolitan Meat Company.
These sheep were ordered last week by
wireless biography. Manager Waller
Alika Dowsett Lanai. telling him to
send an immediate shipment of sheep
by the schooner Golden Gate. The
order was received without any trou-
BILE and was filled the sheep arriving
in good shape on the schooner
Wheresthe Porto RIcans Go.
On Monday afternoon the steamer
Waialeale took forty families of the
Porto Ricans, who arrived on the Zea-
landia, to Makawei plantation The
Hanalei took seventy-five families to
Lihue. Thirty families are for the
oahu plantation, on this Island. Yes
terday the Kinau and the Claudine
took the rest of the laborers to the
other Islands. Eight families went to
Spreckelsville, twenty families to
Paia, eighs families to Wailuku ten
single men to Oiowalu and thirty
seven. families TO Kihei. Another death
has occurred among the immigrants
since their arrival here.
The Transport Sheridan.
The transport Sheridan, now lying
at Navy wharf No l. was almost an
hour late in leaving San Francisco on
the 18th instant. late Coast paper
gives the reason of the delay as fol-
lows:
The Sheridan was forty minutes
late in getting away. the delay being
due to the nonarrival of Captain t.
A. Raldwin's baggage. When the
. trunks finally arrived everybody knew
it. four mule team, dragging a big
conmlssary wagon, came tearing down
the dock, kicking and rearing and
plunging, and was hauled up cleverly
in front of the gangplank. The bag
gage consisted of four trunks. a baby
carriage and a tiny bathtub. Captain
Baldwin evidently intends to make "A
stay in the Philippines
Among the passengers on the trans
port are Lieutenant Crimrnns and his
bride, who was formerly Miss Marga-
! ret Cole of San Francisco. They were
shoWered with rice as they boarded the
/ transport at the wharf In San Fran
cisco by their many friends who had
| gathered to wish them a pleasant voy-
age. Mrs. Cummings shared her hus-
| bands tent at the Preside, so she
knows something of a soldiers life.
First Lieutenant Jack Barnes. a son
! of the General is in command of Com
pany A of the Twenty-seventh Regi-
ment, aboard the transport. The men
! of his company made HIM present OF
a handsome meerschaum pipe and d
! silver matchbox before sailing from
San Francisco. Barnes is thought 2
great deal of by his command.
Another Carnegie Scheme.
Another of Andrew Carnegie's
dreams is nearing realization. That is
the establishment al New York of the
greatest shipbuilding yards in the
world right alongside the largest iroT
and steel plant ever projected. Slater
Island is the place named for these in
tdustrles. and some recent purchases %
several hundred acres of shore lan6
are said to have been made with thi:
object finally in view
1t is authoritatively learned tina
the plans of the big steel combination
do not contemplate that the constituent
companies of the new $500 900, 900 Uni
ted States Steel Company shall los'
their Identity. 1t is understood that ;
plan viii be followed similar to tina
adopted when the Federal Steel Com
pany was formed That company tool
over stocks of the Minnesota Irol
Company, Illinois Steel Company, Ell
gin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Com
| pany, Lorain Steel Company OF ohl
and Lorain Steel Company OF Penn
sylyania, issuing its own stock in ex
change. Each of the companies is OPP
Grated under its own charter and or
ganizatiop the. revenues or the Fed