The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-15
Will Garry Mail
For Uncle
Sam.

w The Hawaiian Savi us; Co.
Ltd. of Honolulu, A. A. Young,
president, has been awarded the con-
tract, and orders have been issued by
Postmaster General Smith establishing
a steamboat mail service between Ho-
nolulu and points in the Territory of
| Hawaii.
The mails, according to the terms IN
| the contract, must be carried in safe
and suitable steamboats,, as often as
steamers may run at irregular inter
walls. The agreement is binding from
April /, 1901. to March 81, 1902, and
| the service is TO extend between Homo
lulu and any points on the Island of
Kauai and return. and between Ho
nolulu and any points on the Islands
Molokai, Lanai, Maui and Hawaii.
This service is 70 be known as Route
| so, 092
| Another contract was awarded to the
same firm whereby they are directed
| to carry the mails three times a
month, and by a schedule or regular
sailing dates satisfactory 10 the Post
ninety-one hours running time between
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, by Lahaina,
Kihei Maizena,, Island of Maui; Ka-
waihae kailua, Keauhou, Napoopoo
and Hookena, to Hoopuloa, on the out
ward trip, or ninety-six hours on the
inward trip. This agreement is to OPP
crate from April L, 1901, TO March 81,
1902, and the contractor is TO notify
postmasters by telephone of arrival at
as Route S0,093.
Pilot Freemans Return.
Pilot Freemans anxiety to get back
to the Golden Gate has resulted in an
account of his home coming being
transmitted to Washington by the San
Francisco customs officials, who do not
sympathize with his homesick feeling,
and are intent on entangling his return
trip with federal regulations. Free
man was carried to sea on the steam
ship Sierra, as the weather was too
rough to put him off after plotting her
clear of the coast. The first vessel
that sailed from Honolulu for San
Francisco after he reached here was
the Gaelic, of British register, and
rather than violate the provisions pro-
hibiting vessels of foreign register
from doing 'coaStwise" business, the
captain refused to help the anxious pi-
lot out of his difficulties. While the
latter waited, Tuning at the act of
Congress which annexed the Hawaiian
Islands to the Pacific Coast line of the
United States the Hongkong Maru
came into port bound for San Fran
cisco. and the captain proved more
tender hearted than the master of the
- IT, 80 10. l. -,
defense he told the customs officers on
arriving at this port that he, had a
contract with the japanese line by
which he was virtually on duty from
the time he left Honolulu, although
his name did not appear on the ships
jurisdiction does not extend beyond
the coast waters of California.
Ex-Transport Tartar Damaged.
The ex-transport Tartar is in trouble
again While she was under charter
to Uncle Sam there We're several pro-
tests from the soldiers who were car
ried to and from Manila in her On
one occasion there was almost a mu-
tiny on board and the steamshwip was
tied up for several days at Nagasaki
When released by the government
the Tartar went to Puget Sound, and
has since been running between Ia
coma and the Orient. She has had sew
eral close calls. but during the last rev
weeks has met with an accident that
will keep her out of Pacific Coast wa
tiers for many months to come.
The Tartar sailed from Tacoma on
March with general cargo. She
reached Nagasaki all right, but after
leaving there for Hongkong she ran
into an ice-fioe and was badly crushed
The dispatches say her plates were
how
were started and twisted Not a word
is said about the crew and passengers,
but If the accident was sufficient TO
crack the steel plates they must have
had lively time of 1t. The Tartar is
British vessel, and is commanded by
Captain Pybus, the same master who
had her when she was a transport
Movements Of Transports
For the next two or three weeks the
transport officials at San Francisco
will have busy time of it. over 5000
men are scheduled to arrive there from
the Philippines, and about 5000 will de-
part from the transport wharf. The
Aztec sailed on the 9Th instant with 472
horses, the Ohio on the 18th instant
with $50 soldiers, the Logan sails on
the 18th instant with 1900, and the
| Warren on the Goth with 1000 men
/
Francisco during the next two weeks
are the Thomas, which left Nagasaki
on the oath, and Rosecrans, on the
18th, with the Twenty eighth and the
| Ihrty- fifth Infantry; the Grant. which
| left Nagasah on March 30 with the
twenty ninth and Thirty In
fantry, Company F of the Twenty
sixth Infantry. and 1875 sick soldiers.
and the Sheridan, which has sailed
from Manila with the Forty-fifth and
Forty sixth Infantry. All of these men
will probably be in camp when Presi-
dent Mckinley pays California his
visit.
The Hawaiian at Frisco.
| The American Hawaiian Steamship
Company's Hawaiian arrived at San
Francisco from New York on the 4th
instant. She brought no passengers,
but an enormous cargo. After dis
charging the Hawaiian will come to