The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-12

Governor of board of three Pilot
Commissioners for Humboldt Bay and
bar.
Eddie Conroy, secretary OF the san
Francisco Pilot Commissioners, who is
here, denounces the bill as a ''cinch"
measure. He points out the losses
sustained by the pilots through the an
nexation of Hawaii and the sinking OF
the pilot schooner Bonita, and declares
that all of the commercial interests of
San Francisco are perfectly satisfied
with the present charges.
The Worlds Navles.
Thirty-seven British naval vessels
have received or about to be fitted
with wireless telegraph apparatus, the
principal system used being the Mar
conf.
Two vessels are to be laid down in
japanese drydocks second-c1ass
cruiser at Kure and a third-class
cruiser at Yokosuka.~The material has
been ordered from England.
Five vessels have been struck off the
expective list of the Italian navy,
namely: Torpedo-gunboat Folgore,
built in 1886; Maria &delaida and Wit
toria Emanuel, training ships, built of
wood in 1859 and 1856; the Palestro,
ironclad, built in 1872, and the Conte de
Cavour, an iron ship transport about
thirty years old.
An illustration of the loss of speed
| of vessel due to foul bottom is shown
| in the trials of the British cruisers
Pioneer and Pandora. The trials In
| both cases extended over thirty hours,
| the Pioneer with foul bottom making
an average speed of 1853 knots under
| 1865 horsepower, while the Pandora
with clean bottom realized 1871 knots
on 3638 horsepower.
L TIa Of naonr,har 81
last stated that the Russian armored
cruiser CHRONOLOGY was at Davenport
dockyard and was taking in over TO-
| 900 tons of COAL The CHRONOLOGY is of
| 1856 tons displacement, with nor
NAL coal capacity of $500 tons, and the
extra supply must not alone make the
| living quarters somewhat contracted
| but also bring the ship down away
above the Plimsoll mark.
! The triple screw engines Of the
| French armored cruisers DeSaiX, Du-
pix and ISleber have cylinders of 81
| AZ and II inches diameter with 31R
linch stroke, and are calculated to de-
lvelop 1900 horsepower with 256 pounds
of steam land $50 revolutions. The
Kleber has twenty Niclause boilers
with a total CRATE surface of 110t
square feet and $500 square feet OF
heating surface. The weight of en-
gineS is 663 tons and of the boilers, in
Guiding water. 612 tons, making a to-
tai machinery weight of ia pounds
per horsepower The other vessels are
fitted with Belleville boilers and the
three ships are calculated to make 6
speed of 81 knots.
Surgeons in the British navy make
we'll grounded complaints over the
slowness of promotion to higher rela.
tive grades in the corps. The limit Of
age for appointment is % and his rel
ative work is that of Lieutenant witt
no less than eight years service, ant
l he does not reach the rank OF com
mander until after twenty years, Oh
at the age of, say As. During the
same period the Lieutenant with which
he ranked on first joining the navy
has become post captain, close t.
promotion of Rear Admiral. The sur
geons in the United States navy hav'
also cause for complaint in that begin
ming at the age limit of so, the rank il
only that of an ensign, and there ar,
several instances where the rank o
commander is reached only after near
lily thirty years service, and that o
captain in thirty-six years.
Fifteen new torpedo-boat destroyer
were added to the British navy las
year, their official trials giving the fol
lowing results: