The San Francisco call., 1901-10-31

SF HE Oceanic Steamship Company's s
Alameda and the Pacific Mail
IN Company's City of Para arrived
III from Honolulu yesterday. The
latter vessel has been carrying
I Porto Ricans from Port Los Angeles to
the sugar plantations and has come home
for an overhauling. She brought up two
steerage passengers and no cargo.
The Alameda was expected to make
good rum but did not do any better than
before her engines were changed from
compound to triple expansion. The trou-
Dle was due to the firemen. The vessel
took away a Japanese crew, and nearly
all of them turned out to be green" in
stead of seasoned" hands. They could
not keep steam in the boilers, and conse-
quently the vessel fell behind time.
The Alameda brought up considerable
amount of cargo, fifty steerage passen-
gers and the following named in the
cabin:
c. L. Argus, ]. B. Atherton and wife. Nine.
Cole. w. R. Duglas, G. H. Fairchild, wife.
three children and two maids, ]. w. Hunter
and wife, J. F. Libby. Mrs. Myers. M. O..
Shaughnessy, r. Pechotsch A. H. Reetz, L..
Reinardt. f. NJ. Swanzy and wife. w. o. Smith.
Miss a Watson, Miss J. Watson, H. E. Waity,
wife, child and maid. c. A. Watson, M. Mil
lar aed Mr.. Schulz.
There was no sign of the overdue Amer
ican ship Benjamin F. Packard, now out
141 days from Norfolk, Va, for Honolulu,
and on which Is per cent reinsurance is
being paid. The City of Peking, due to-
day. may bring word of her. If she does
not the rate is sure to advance.
Among those who arrived on the Ala
media was W. o. Smith, former ATTORNEY
General of Hawaii, who goes to New
ork on business 1t was published in
Honolulu that he was going to oppose the
income-taX act Of the late Hawaiian
Legislature at Washington, but to a re-
porter he said
when L am through with my business
in New York 1 may go to Washington,
incidentally. 1 am not going away for
my health or for politics"
Joseph B. Atherton, head of the large
corporation of Castle & Cooke, Limited
and president of many other Hawaiian
companies, also arrived on the steamer
and goes to New York.
Both Smith and Atherton positively de-
Died that their trips had anything to do
with the development of water arising
on public lands.
Smith volunteered an opinion that the
ruling Of Thomas Ryan, First Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, adverse to the
proposed Kohala Mountain water fran
chise, was based wholly on the distinc-
ton between license as applied for and
q lease. A lease would have been within
the power of the Territorial Government
to grant, under the condition of term
Of twenty-one years and that of compe-
tition at public auction for the privilege.
Atherton's visit to New York may be
in connection with the affairs of the Ha-
waiian Automobile Company, a concern
in which he is heavily interested.
Another arrival on the Alameda was
F. NJ. Swanzy, managing director of the
old English house of Theo. H. Davis
& Co., Limited and acting British Vice
Consul in Honolulu.
Among the passengers was c. A. Wat
son, who is connected with the STAN
dard Oil Company, and was on
visit to the islands in the interest of
that corporation. r. Pechotsch is a
noted violinist, and Madame Cole is a
singer who is touring the world with him.
Both artists will be heard here.