The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-24

Leon, J. r. Wilson, j. A. Heimberg and
wife, r. l.. Anderson, Harry w. Girls
void. E. H. Paris. Frank Wong Leong
b. *. Denbigh wife and child, Mr.
Barmwell and wife, P. K Gordon and
WIFE, T. A. Shute, H. r. Spalding. F
Carly and wife, Mrs. A. Fernandes, Miss
G. Fernandes, Miss NJ. Fernandez Miss
n. Davis, E. P. Kealakaihonua, j. Spitz-
er, Mrs. Grothier, Miss Schubert, w. B
Mailing, Miss c. S. Abbott, B. j. Zabris-
kie and wife, Miss Daisy NJ Rotwer, D.
Shine.
Gong on the Miowera
The Miowera which is to sail for Van
couver from Honolulu on Wednesday
August Is, will carry the following per
sons booked here: Miss johnson. Mr..
and Mrs. Wheeler and son, Mr.. A. J.
Chaplain, DR.. NJ. A. Mendes de Leon,
T. l.. Holloway and daughter, MT. H.
c.. Holden =
IRWIN & Co. Office Exte nsion.
An extension of the office space of w.
G. Irwin & Co.. is being made whereby
the mauka office room is being furnished
for the use of the freight and passenger
business in connection with the Oceanic
Steamship Company, and also the insur-
ance business. Handsome bank fixtures
with windows designated for the freight,
tickets and insurance departments arriv-
ed on the Mariposa and are now being
Installed. The makai office will be used
for the general business affairs repre-
scented by w. G. Irwin & Co.
Doyle Again on Duty.
I Wa1t he ,tlar
of the Custom House inspectors and
guards, returned to duty yesterday after
a two weeks vacation. He was on duty
at the Pacific Mail wharf and made in
roads on the Oriental freight which ar
rived on the Hongkong and did the
work of two men, showing that a brief
respite from the arduous labors imposed
on the Customs men, is beneficial not
only to themselves but to the govern
ment which employs them. Doyle made
a bicycle trip around the island, via the
Pail and found good roads at all points
with the exception Of the stretch between
Laie and Kahuku
Has Inspected HAWAII.
Jay C. Cummings, special agent of the
Treasury, who was detailed to inspect
the customs service In Honolulu some
weeks ago, came back on the steamer
Sonoma, says the Chronicle of August
l6 and will return to- his headquarters
in New York this week. He speaks en-
of business in the ISLANDS,
and thinks their acquisition valuable from
business as well as strategic reasons.
The revenue from customs at Honolulu
for the past year was practically $780,
700, nearly one-sixth the revenue of this
port. The removal of the coral reef at
the entrance to Pearl harbor will furnish
a refuge and coaling station unexcelled
by any on the Pacific.
For Those Who Perished on Rio.
Garlanded with flowers from stem to
stern and with gaily tinted paper Ian
terms decking all her rigging, the steam
er Caroline, Captain w. D. Leale at the
helm. was the sensation of the water
front as she swung out of the dock yes
terday morning. Her decks were crowd
ed with japanese bound upon a mission
at once reverent and poetical, the like
of which was never before witnessed on
San Francisco bay. Gliding past the
shaking herself free of other
craft, the Caroline sped around Tele-
graph Hill, with it's scars and chasms,
Russian Hill. with its picturesque homes.
Black Point and the Preside, to anchor
under the shadow of Fort Point. at
spot where 1t was supposed the Rio de
Janeiro sank, carrying down her living
freight. In accordance with a national
custom, the friends of drowned Japanese
to the locality yesterday and
held memorial service for those of
their countrymen over whom the waters
closed six monl.s ago.
When the appointed place was reached
a little altar. inscribed with strange
characters, was brought out and placed
on a stand, heaped with flowers and
fruits. Rev. K. Nishijima, head of the
Buddhist Mission on Polk street, in
robes of black and purple,
seated himself before this improyised
shrine and began an incarnation, low.
and pathetic, while the as
sembled company listened with bowed
heads. This service concluded, all on
board Joined in strewfng the sea with
flowers, fruit and CONNECTIONS, while
some slips of tissue paper, bearing the
names of the dead ancestors of the dead,
We're also consigned to the waves. This
ceremony ended, the boat proceeded on
a four hours pleasure trip around the
bay, circling around the Sausalito shore,
up as far as San Quentin returning to
the city about o'clock.
This tribute paid by the Japanese to
their dead countrymen was made pos
sible through the courtesy of K. Ogawa,
A wealthy Japanese who chartered the
boat and invited $50 Japanese to be his
guests on the excursion. Refreshments
were served and Japanese music, games
and exhibitions of legerdenain enlivened
the trip after the solemn obsequies were