The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-17
Aztec Comes and
Goes In a
Day.
Measles on fitzpatrick.
People Booked for
Frisco.

and found a berth at the Irmgard
wharf She had 200 mules and 270
horses on board. She did not behave in
the usual way animal transports act
when they come here. According to the
example set by many vessels of her
,class, she should have remained in this
harbor for at least week, allowing her
animals to come ashore to stretch legs
land have a good rest before resuming
their journey.
instead of remaining here for a few
days and taking on a large quantity of
coal while the stock kicked up their
heels in the government corral, how
ever, the Aztec chose to treat Honolulu
with more or less Indifference. She
came and went in the light of one day.
This is more, even, than the passen-
ger steamships sometimes do.
Sunrise saw her standing off port
ready to be passed by the doctor and
come into the harbor to take on a hum
dred tons of coal and sunset saw her
poking her nose out of the channel,
bound for the Philippines.
The hundreds of mules and horses
aboard had just had the chance to get
Wnl11 OF fragrant pastures when the
steamer made her departure.
The Aztec occupied nine days in COM
ing down from San Francisco. The
trip lacked in events of any particular
Importance and took place under the
best of meteorological conditions, fine
weather being enjoyed all the way.
Only three horses and one mule were
given over to the deep during the voy-
La he of
stock was due to the good attention
given them by the people in charge and
the pleasant weather.
1t is hard to see just what the Aztec
stopped at this port for at all. She
only took a hundred tons of coal and it
seems that she might have managed
without that. The action, while an en-
tirely new departure for animal trans
ports, is in line wit hthe recommends
ton of Captain Shaker, the former depot
quartermaSter at this port, who notified
the quartermaster's department that he
did not deem it a necessity to land the
lanimals at this place for the sake of a
few days rest; that the animals were
. able to complete the journey to the
Philippines, in almost every case, with
out any such visit ashore.
LieutenanteA. c. Nelson is the quar-
termaster in charge of the Aztec. He
did not see any necessity of landing the
horses and mules here and thought it
advisable to resume the journey to Ma
Mia yesterday evening. The animals,
all of them, were a fine looking lot The
majority of them were brought from
Nevada. They are in charge of DR. w.
e. McBain, of Toledo. Ohio. He is as
sisted by DR.. w. E. Chase
Besides forty-four teamsters in charge
of the stock there are several passen-
gers aboard the transport
Latest shipbuildipg Returns
The latest monthly report of ship
building returns received by Collector
Stackable from the Treasury Depart
ment, shows 81 vessels of 1920 gross
tons built in the United States and Off
cially numbered during the month of
March, of the present year
OF this number 40 Were wooden sail
ing vessels, totaling 1858 gross TONS
80 were wooden steam vessels, totaling
l,44l gross tons; 2 We're sueei sailing
vessels, totalling 30,943 gross tons.
OF the wooden sailing vessels, 40
were for the Atlantic and Gulf trade,
totaling 7,147 gross tons; were for
the Pacific trade, totaling IA gross
&,
of 81 gross tons,
OF the wooden steam vessels, 10 were
for the Atlantic and Gulf trade, total
ing 9l2 gross tons; 10 were for the Pa
cific trade totaling 293 gross tons; 3
were for the Great Lakes, totaling los
gross tons, and We're for western
rivers, totaling 12S gross tons.
OF the steel sailing vessels, the two
were for the Great Lakes anG toIaled
as above.
of the steel steam vessels, were
for the Atlantic and Gulf trade, total
ing 1883 gross tons, and were TOR
the Great Lakes, totaling 29.404 gross
tons
The gross tonnage, Therefore, was as
follows: For the Atlantic and Gulf
trade, 62 vessels of all Kinds of 81 9S
gross tons; for the Pacific trade, IA
vessels of 1.067 gross tons ror the
Great Lakes, Il vessels of SO, 400 gross
tons and for the Western rivers, IL
vessels of 165 gross tons.
Inc largest steel setam vessels in
Guided in these figures are: The John
). Albright, 4,S05 tons, built at Cleve-
iand, Ohio, and owned by the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding Company; the Wal
ter Scranton, 4,S03 tons, built and own
20 as above; the J. I Hutchinson, s.
l54 tons, built and owned as above
the Neptune, 3,717 tons, built at Lo-
ram, ONO, and owned as above; the
saturn, 3,117 tons, built and owned as
preceding, the Northeastern. 2157
tons, built at Chicago and owned by
the Northeastern Steamship Company
and built at Chicago and owned by the
Northeastern Company, the Northern
the Northtown and the Northwestern.
all of 2,157 tons.
The foregoing figures do not include
craft without motive power of their
own. From other sources than con-
struction one vessel of ISIS tons was
ADDED to the merchant fleet. being the
Enterprise, officially numbered by Act
OF Congress on the 23d of FEBRUARY
last
A Case of Measles.
signal was shown on board the
transport fitzpatrick, lying in quaran
tine outside of the harbor. yesterday
afternoon, and waterfronters thought
that another case of smallpox had
been discovered aboard the vessel. The
| quarantine officer went out to the
transport to find out the nature of
the trouble, which turned out TO b,
nothing more serious than a case or
measles