The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-03
Big Fleet Enters
This Busy
Port.
Transport Lawton and
Seven Sailing Yes.
sells Arrive.

sells Arrive.
~ light vessels arrived in this port
D. yesterday. 1t is long time since
Honolulu harbor has experienced
such a busy day The tug Fearless
was kept on the move from sunrise
Those who were in a position to view
the harbor and the sea from the hills
yesterday witnessed scene that was
as entertaining as it was Significant.
Nine vessels were in sight at once, in
GLIDING the great battleshfp Oregon,
lying at anchor off port. Eight Of the
vessels came into the harbor.
The first to enter was the United
States transport Lawton from San
Francisco. She came in at an early
hour, being reported the first thing.
Then followed, one by one. as fast as
the Fearless could tow them, the seven
sailing vessels. from Newcastle and the
coast. They were the American ship
Governor ROBBIE, Captain Harrington,
forty-nine days from Newcastle; the
American schooner j. A. Campbell,
Captain Smith,. thirty days from Port
Blakeley; the American. ship Balaciu-'
tina, Captain Peterson, forty nine days
from NEWCASTLE; the American ship G..
F. Sargent, =, Captain Melville. thirty
days from Tacoma; the American bark
Charles B. Kenney, Captain Anderson,
fifty days from Newcastle; the Ameri-
can schooner Defiance, Captain Blum,
twenty-six days from Tacoma, and the
American schooner w. F. Witzemann.
Captain De Witt, twenty-five days
from Grays Harbor.
Narrow Escape From Creditors.
ship Company's Coptic sailed for the
Orient yesterday, says the San Fran
cisco Call of May 22d. There was
big crowd of Chinese down to see the
vessel away. and some of them would
have liked very much to have detained
one of the passengs. who was poking
fun at them.
Yung Lun was. up to Saturday night
last, female impersonator in the Chi
nese theater on Jackson street. He
was paid high salary. but fan tan
and lottery keeps him always in debt.
Lun finally came to the conclusion
that he would never be able to pay
what he owed, so he quietly packed his
trunk and purchased ticket for China
on the Coptic. When he attempted to
board the steamship yesterday his
creditors grabbed him and a free fight
followed, in which Lun lost part of his
queue. The customs officers interfered,
and as there was no warrant for the
arrest of the debtor, they insisted on
his being allowed to board the ship. 1t
was then Lung Lun showed his mean
ness as he secured a prominent posi-
ton aft and laughed and jeered at his
angry creditors as the Coptic moved
away from the wharf.
Ship Iroquols for New York.
Since the advent of the American
Hawaiian steamship line between San
Francisco. Honolulu and New York
the sailing vessels have been forced to
look for charters in other directions.
Since January last and up to May 23d,
not a wind TANNER had sailed from
San Francisco for the East with a gen.
eral cargo, but on the date named the
ship Iroquois broke the monotony. She
is now on her way to- New York with
a cargo valued at tens of thousands.
Among it Isl 4,499 barrels of California
wine, canned goods, cedar logs, scrap
iron. wire rope and 478 bales Of rags.
The latter consignment when sold to
the paper mills will realize quite neat
sum, while sthe wire rope and scrap
iron will be$sold as junk.
The wine was shipped for the sake of
the voyage. sThe trip around the Horn
will give lisa racking that, will add
several years to the age of the cargo,
and that is that the owners. are after
Bengaps Captain Sick.
The bark Star of Bengal from
Chemainus. B. c.. for Adelaide, Aus
off San Francisco on May 23d. A flag
was set for pilot, and when the Am
erica sent a boat alongside the mate
reported that the captain was serious
ly ill with tonsilitis, and wanted to be
taken ashore The sick man was ac-
cordingly transferred to the pilot-boat
and taken in. He was at once sent to
st. Luke's Hospital.
The Star of Bengal left Chemainus
Oi Tie lolu VI May, idi liilo Soiiic
heavy weather off Flattery. Captain
Henderson was suffering from sore
throat when the vessel left the Sound,
but thought the sea air would cure
him. The storm off the coast made
him worse, however, and he decided to
run for San Francisco. On the pilot
boat Captain Henderson could only
speak in a whisper, and he seemed to
suffer great deal. 1t will be sometime
before he can leave the hospital.
AS soon as the owners of the Star of
Bengal were notified of Captain Hen
derson's illness they at once secured
the services of Captain Uhlberg, who
went out to the bark and took COM
mand. The vessel was at once put on
her course, and before shutdown was
well on her way to Australia. Captain
Uhlberg, who took command of the
Star of Bengal, was formerly in the
Abby Palmer, and is well known on the |
coast. Should Captain Henderson re-
cover in time he may sail on the Mari |
posa for Australia to resume command |