The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-12

force Will be increased to 100 as soon as
additional machinery can be installed.
Tests show that this coal will make
excellent coke, and material for twenty
coking ovens has been ordered. The
manufacture of coke viii not be firmly
established until regular shipments to
San Francisco have been commenced.
The Northern Pacific Railway is buildr
ing additional bunkers here, portion
of which will be used for loading yes
sells with new coal for California and
the Hawaiian markets. These coal
mines near Fairfax were originally To-
Gated by men working for Henry VII
lard fifteen years ago. Willard started
to develop them. but the money strin-
gency caused him to quit.
Missed the Transport.
The United States army transport
I Garonne sailed for San Francisco
about s o'clock yesterday morning. One
Of the military officers who was trav-
cling from the Philippines TO the
Coast evidently misinformed as to the
time of the departure of the vessel,
got UP early yesterday morning and
went up Pacific Heights to get good
view of the surrounding country.
He reached the top of the hill a little
after 8 o'clock and started to take in
all that there was to see. His expect
ed pleasure was somewhat spoiled,
however, for the first thing which met
his gaze was the Garonne going out
! of the harbor.
Immediately scenery and all else
We're forgotten and the young man
started down the hill for all he was
worth, in a vague attempt TO catch the
frl SYlnr ha Srnt flat
way somebody called that he had
dropped something. He continued run
ming, but the cries of the stranger, who
was now running after him to return
/ the article, were so persistent that the
| officer finally came to halt to see
/ what the matter was. He accepted
! pair of field glasses which the honest
/ stranger gave him, and then started
to run again. The stranger called him
back and gently inquired as 20 the
! cause of his haste. He explained that
| he was going to catch his transport.
/ The stranger volunteered the informa-
+, ton that the transport had sailed half
an hour ago.
| We'll. confound it all, that's what
I'm running for said the exasperated
| officer, and took to his heels again.
| When the running military man hit
| the town and went racing through the
streets, people wondered what the
matter could be. Curious ones took the
trouble to call him back and ask for
| an explanation. He needed them not
around for a hack or a horse car but.
as chance would have it, nothing of
| the kind came in sight.
| After he had aroused the suspicious
| of nearly every policeman On the line
of his speedy travelling, and had run
| into half a dozen or more people, he
! finally brought up, out of breath, and
almost speechless, on the Navy wharf.
| He looked around for boat or a
| launch to take him out to the trans
port, which was now stealing around
Diamond Head. or whereabouts. but no
one seemed willing to take him out
on any such hopeless mission. Some
body suggested chartering the Fear
| less, but she was otherwise engaged
| a little, sympathetic crowd gathered
| around the officer who had been so
sadly left and, after he had fully re-
covered his breath. listened to the few
! appropriate remarks he had to make
| in honor of the occasion.
| The young officer will probably go to
the Coast on the Mariposa, next We'd
nesday:N in the meanwhile he will
| probably go up Pacific Heights to take
in the glorious view which he was not
| in a position to appreciate on his last
| trip to that delightful place
Navies of the World.
| Ine french submarine boat Goubet
is said to have made speed of TWEEN
| ty-fve miles an hour during a recent
| trial. The report, however, does not
state whether the vessel was submerg-
ed or running on the surface or the
| water.
| The christening of war vessels Is
usually performed by unmarried ladies'
and this custom has only been depart
ed from in four instances at the launch
! of fifty-three ships of the United
States navy, not including torpedo
craft. In England, however, the five
| ships launched last month were chris
| tened by the wives of prominent off,
! Gals.