The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-06

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work as the masts OF the vessel will!
have to be raised from the bottom to
/ put in the new tinbers. The discovery
of this serious injury is a great dis
appointment to Captain Amesbury and
Chief Officer Moxon, and it Is feared
/ that still more damage will be disclosed
! as the coal is removed in the direction
| of the windmill pump.
Lita VIII Soon Sail.
The German ship Lita has discharged
her miscellaneous cargo and Is now be-
Ing supplied with ballast of which she
will take a large amount. The Lita is
at present lying al the Irmgard wharf,
but she will probably be towed over to
the Quarantine wharf during the be-
ginning of next week where she will be
fumigated. Captain Harms knows that
his vessel will be going to the Pacific
coast but he does not know as yet to
which port he will be sent. He is ex-
pecting orders from San Francisco.
While In this port Captain Harms has
been meeting host Of friends. Among
them are Captain Dabel of the Kaiu-
lani who served In the German Navy
with Captain Harms a number of years
ago. Fish Inspector Berndt is another
old friend of Captain Harms and he
has filled the cabin OF the Lita with a
number of preserved specimens of queer
monsters of the deep. The Hogan
troupe are among the other admirers
of the genial German captain and there
is nearly always a small gathering in
the Lita's commodious cabin listening
to or telling strange tales from all cor
ners OF the earth.
Lighthouse Report.
The annual report of the United
States lighthouse board shows that; at
the end of the fiscal year there were
under the control of the lighthouse es-
Adjustment the following aids to nayl-
cation:
Lighthouses and beacon lights, 1906;
light vessels in position, As; light yes
sells for relief. s; electric lighted buoys
in position. IL; gas lighted buoys In
position, 81; fog signals operated by
steam, caloric or oil engines, 179; fog
signals operated by clockwork, 222;
post lights, 1927; day or unlighted bea-
cons, "a; bell buoys is position, 122;
other buoys in position, including pile
buoys and stakes In fifth district and
buoys in Alaskan waters, 4,7S0.
In the construction, care and main
tenance of these aids to navigation
there were employed: Steam tenders,
"a; steam launches, IL; sailing tenders,
?; lightkeepers, 1.420: other employees,
including crews of Iightships and tend
ers, las; laborers in charge of post
lights, 1874.
The board asks for an appropriation
of $50 900 to reconstruct a buoyage sys-
tenn and man the lighthouses of Porto
Rico. and $4,000 for the maintenance
OF the Hawaiian system. The board
also asks Tor other appropriations as
follows:
Supplies for lighthouses, $500, 1856; i'm
provements at lighthouses, $3.50, 900:
salaries of light keepers, fuel. rent, ETC.,
SSSS.0OO; expenses of light vessels. 1925
GOO; expenses of fog signals, $4,000;
lighting of rivers. $500, goo.
Authority to construct five new light
vessels and several new light tenders
also is asked. The report says that
while the board does not propose
either TO gather or disseminate marine
news, 1t is 6esirous in the interests of
commerce and navigation, as well as
of economy, 10 be put into early and
quick communication with its outlying
light vessels and lighthouses, and it
Is for this purpose alone that it asks
an appropriation to enable 1t to install
wireless system of telegraph between
such points in the lighthouse estab- |
lishment as shall seem to be most nee
essary.
li..sasesSsii W W Irene at Astoria.
The German ship Sirene arrived in |
Astoria from Honolulu yesterday noon, |
and for a few hours the grain feet in |
the Columbia river numbered SO ships |
of total tonnage of over $4,000 tons |
net register. This was cut down a few /
hours later by the departure of a cou- !
pie of vessels which had been loaded |
the longest. Now that the Sirene has |
arrived in port. II is to be hoped that !
some of the Puget Sound and San |
Francisco papers which have had her /
headed for Tacoma will credit her to I
he port where she belongs. Yester- |
days Seattle Post-Intelligencer had !
both the Sirene and the Crown OF IN
Gia included in the list of vessels en-
route for Puget Sound. The Crown of /
India is at Astoria ready for sea.
with a cargo of grain loaded at this
port several days ago.-Oregonian. No
Yember 70.
shanghaing Sailors.
a despatch from Everett gives par
ticulars Of more shanghaing by the
crimpers, who for blood money. rang