The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-12
BARK ALDEN BESSIE WHICH ARRIVED YESTERDAY
Task of the Cutters.

The Treasury Department has out
lined busy season for five of the Pa
cific coast revenue cutters IN ALASKAN
waters during the coming summer.
The Rush, which is to be stationed at
Sitka, has already sailed for that port.
| This is the first time a cutter has been
stationed at Sitka. Her particular du
| ty will be to cooperate with the Gus
toms officers, and in a general way see
| to the enforcement of the sealing laws.
In fact, the prime object of sending
| most of these cutters to the Arctic wa
| ters is to protect the seals. While each
vessel is assigned to some special du-
ty, constant eye will be kept on the
seals when the cutter is in a neigh
borhood where these valuable animals
may be found.
| The second of the cutters to sail
north, was the Manning, which left
San Francisco May 10. Her station will
| be at Dutch Harbor, from which point
| she will cruise among the seal islands.
Like the Rush, this cutter will assist
| in generally inSuring the enforcement
of the customs laws and other regula-
tions of the Treasury Department.
There has been demand for the
presence of a revenue cutter off the
| Nome beach. There is more or less
disorder in that section among ship
pers, during the last season considera-
| BILE difficulty having been experienced
because of vessels landing persons In
| fected with contagious diseases. In
| this way and in many others cutter
| is Of great importance and assistance.
I Iii fIn T1oati DC m
| St Michael on June l, taking her sta
| ton off Nome for the summer as soon
as the season opens.
| As usual the Bear will make her
annual cruise to the Arctic, going far
| Their north than any other cutter. In
cidentally she will make a brier voy-
age to the Siberian coast after rein
| deer, when repairs to her have been
completed at Tacoma, which is likely
| to be some time yet in view of the
machinists' strike. The Arctic waters
\ is the yearly assignment of this old
cutter, and she has done excellent SER
vice, particularly among whalers and
ships which have become icebound and
disabled. She visits the seal stations,
| looks after the natives, and during the
summer months, beyond the reach or
mail and telegraph, Captain Francis
| Tuttle is the sole monarch of all he
surveys. He settles petty disputes
among the natives, and has a thou
sand and one things to engage his at
tention. The Siberian cruise will take
! but a short time if the Bear is ever
! ready to start on it. Once that Is
over she will proceed to her station.
! With the vast amount of coast line
{ and salmon canneries strewn almost
! its entire length, it is necessary that
some cutter shall be detailed to keep
an eye on the North Pacific coast can
neries and see that they obey the law.
That is, an effort will be made to Sc
cure comparatively strict compliance
with the law, although 1t IS recogniz-
ed that infringements will be made
from time to time where there is IA
disposition on the part OF Gamers TO
adopt selfish and unlawfui methods.
+ The Grant was assigned this season to
; what is known as the cannery cruise.
, and was to have carried a special
agent of the Treasury Department It
/ was contemplated that she would In
| turn visit all the larger institutions
The cruise was to commence In the
waters of Southern Alaska and to fol-
low up the coast clear to Bristol Bay
making a tour of some thousand miles.
This is one of the exacting cruises of
the cutters on the Alaska station II
the wreck of the Grant is complete
some other vessel will undoubtedly be
assigned to that duty
The cutter McCulloch. which was last
year assigned to the Alaska fleet will
be withheld this season. and do duty
up and down the Pacific coast from
Southern California to the north coast
of Washington. Her companion cutter
will be the Perry. These two will work
in conjunction with each other 1t has
been found by past experience that one
cutter is not enought to patrol this
vast extent of coast, hence one of the
Alaskan cutters will hereafter be as
signed TO the coast States.
The City OF Peking.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Pc
king is scheduled to arrive from San
Francisco tomorrow There is a posi-
bility of her making her appearance this
evening. She will bring five days later
news.
j. q. Potter From Tacoma.
The American ship ]. c. Potter, Cap
tain LorentZen, which arrived yesterday
morning from Tacoma, is at present ly-
the railway wharf to discharge coal The
Potter was twenty-four days on the trip
from the North. She is the vessel which
was sighted twelve miles off Diamond
Head on Monday evening but whose
identity could not be ascertained by the
lookout on account of her distance out.
The Bark Diamond Head.
The old bark Diamond Head, Captain
Peterson, which arrived yesterday from
San Francisco with a general cargo,
made the trip in fourteen days. The
bark Alden Besse, thirteen days from
San Francisco, which also arrived yes
terday, is the vessel of which Captain
Potter was commander until her last
trip. Captain Potter is in port with the