The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-02

8,
she did not get away as early as was
planned.
Vessels Launched.
AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Esperanza,
built for the New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Company, was launched at
shipyard She is to be used on the
Mexican route of the line. Her length
is 341 feet, breadth AZ feet inches, and
depth of hold sc feet.
At Phipsburg, Me-Three- masted
schooner Seguin was launched at
Phipsburg, Maine, on January 25. She
measures 1877 feet in length, 49, in
breadth, and is 1913 deep. She halls
from Portland, and will be commanded
by Captain Lane, formerly of schooner
Cakes Ames. She is a first-class vessel
in every respect, and rated al for fiji
teen years.
AT Toledo, O.-The Meteor, a new
260 foot steamer. built for the Hawgood
Navigation Company, of Cleveland,
was launched at Craig's shipyards at
Toledo, o., January 49, Her tonnage is
5000, and she is almost as wide as is
permitted to pass the Welland Canal.
Almond Branch Arrives.
The United States transport Almond
Branch, Captain Anderson, the odd
built British steamship, arrived on the
Sound on February 9Th, from Manila
via Nagasaki. She left Manila jan
uary 9, and Nagasaki on the 18th.
The Government charter on the AL
mond Branch expires with this voyage.
She will be inspected at Seattle and
returned to her owners. The vessel
has been chartered to load lumber at
Portland for China, and will go to
Portland as soon as the release is eff
I A y, lot Inc.
voyage from Tacoma with big cargo
of forage and army supplies and
small amount of coal
Ship Building.
At Camden, n, 1.-THE Atlantic
Transport company has awarded to
the New York Shipbuilding Company,
of Camden, n. j., contract for four
passenger and freight steamships suit
able for fast transatlantic trade. TWO
of the vessels will be 600 feet in length,
. and the others a few feet shorter. The
| two largest are to be of $4,000 tons
carrying capacity, and the four when
completed will cost the company over
$1,000, 900. Each vessel is to be con-
structed of steel throughout, and will
be built in excess of the underwriters
requirements.
Claims Pacific Coast Record.
mcCdDe ~ f1dIllltOn nave HlliSiiSu
! loading the big four masted German
bark Alsterdamm, Captain Cordts, at
Tacoma, which bears the distinction,
according to shipping men, of being the
second largest sailing vessel in the
! world. The Alsterdamm carries the
record cargo for Pacific Coast sailing
vessels. Reliable shipping authorities
state that her cargo of 5,375 tons OF
sacked wheat, aggregating about 2oO,667
bushels, is the largest cargo ever ship
ped in q sailing vessel from a Pacific
j Coast port
Will Remain in the Orient.
1t is announced that the British
steamship Tartar, which has been I'M
der charter to the United States Gov
eminent for transport service, and
which charter has expired, will be re-
tanned in the Oriental trade. She has
been on the drydock at Kowloon,
where her engines have been overhaul
ed and an immense hood placed to pro-
! tect her steering gear. Her tween
decks have also been altered, giving
her accommodations to carry LOO
, steerage passengers.
| Shipping Notes.
! Captain Pond of the Honolulu Naval
! Station has received letter from Cap
! tain Merry, who is in charge of the Ma
/. val work in Guam. Captain Merry writes
! that he is experiencing great trouble in
securing the proper kind of rock for use
! in the construction of a breakwater. The
! coral is not hard or heavy enough. He
expects to finish making a survey of the
! harbor and other work which he has on
hand by the middle or latter part of
this month. 1t is possible that he will
then have to go to San Francisco to
finish the work and make his reports to
| Washington.
! 1t is said that in the next month or
| two all the men of the inter-Island
! steamer fleets will organize themselves
/ into league. The object of the asso-
! citation will be the furtherance of fra
| ternal, benevolent and protective inter-
ests. 1t will be composed of the mas
tiers, mates, engineers and pursers of
/ the steamers which ply between these
| Islands.
| Masamota, the Japanese who spent
hours watching on the Inter-Island
Wharf for his runaway wife and the man
who had stolen her from his side, was
rewarded for his patience, and discover
ed his recalcitrant better half before she
could get away for the Island Of Kauai
In the words of one who was an eye
witness to the reunion of the couple, the
Japanese knocked his wife over cou-
pie of barrels and then administered
/ tongue-lashing that was a record for
lrapid pronunciation of unpronounceable
words. She ran away from the wharf
Iswearing to have him arrested. The man
who had stolen the wife, on finding that
her husband was waiting and watching
on the wharf, took to his heels ard dis
iappeared.
The Oceanic steamship Mariposa is due
to arrive from San Francisco the first
thing today with four days later news
and mail.
The tug Fearless was kept busy yes
ter day taking vessels to sea.
|
A fiber company of Loekport N. Y,
is preparing to manufacture gun stocks
of fiber with view to tightening the
weight of the present rifle. If the ex-