The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07
NEWS OF THE WATERFRONT.

~ Maru. Captain Filmer, arrived IN
mort Yesterday morning from the
Orient, docking at the PACING Mail
wharf.
There was large crowd on the
wharf. People were rather surprised TO
see the British flag flying at the tore
as she entered the harbor, and We're
at a loss to account for its presence
there until they learned that SIR
Claude Mcdonald, the British Minister
to Toxic, was aboard as passenger.
The Maru was sighted at O'Clock;
about 10 O'Clock she was alongside the
wharf. She sailed from Hongkong on
NAV 18th, and left Yokohama on the
2Sth, experiencing a pleasant and I'M
eventful trip.
Only two of the Maru's cabin passeh-
gers stop at this port The following
is the list of through passengers: KEY.
Geo Allachin, Mrs Geo. Allacnln ana
three children. Veron Andrews, Mrs.
Joseph Andrews, Miss Andrews, Louis
Basch, Rud Bauer, c. III. Blake MIS-.
G. n Blake. Lieutenant G. N. Biloxi
huis, Captain Borckenhagen, MIS- :.
M Botshwick, ]. Braubach, A. Van
Brucker, Rev. T. w. Burkholder MRS.
S. H. Biomham, H E. A. Child, E. H.
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Mrs. Davenport and child, Mrs. Fl. b.
Fukunaga, Mrs. E. de Gaun, L. Gfver-
maud. C. Givernaud, Mrs. c. Givernaud,
Mrs. Lai Gam Y. Hara, VIM. f. Hart
ness Miss A. Harverdell, E. Hieber,
Hook Kan Hing..+B. Hirosawa, Rev.
E. w Hopkins, Mrs. E. w. Hopkins
and three children. Chung Wing
Hsiang and servant, H. Ichii, S. Ikuta,
S. Ito, VIM B. Jones, N. Kajiwara,
Mrs. K. Kasai and maid, Miss A. Kelly,
Mrs F. P Kirby, C. C. Kinsey, T.
Kurioka, Dr. Laning, Miss Seneria
Laning, Richard Laning. Geo. Laning,
Sir Bosdin T. Leech. Lady Leech, Miss
Leech, A. j. Leech, Sir Claude M. Mac
donald, H B. Ms. Minister to Japan,
Lady Macdonald, r. Nishikawa, L. Oil
YER S. Otani, Captain Otto and SER
want, Miss Oxlad, Nurse Oxley, Geo. B.
Pettingen Miss H. P. Phillips, G. Rit-
ter. T. Shibayan1a. Mrs. Law Shee and
infant, Franklin p. Slemmer, Lii Sui.
Mrs Lii Sui, DR.. A. j. Torrilhon, Mrs.
K Uyeno, two children and maid,
Lieutenant Wolfram, ]. Yasui. w.
Whitehill
Fire on the Waterfront.
Shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday at.
ternoon the fire whistles startled the
town, and hose carts and engines hur
ried to Brewers wharf. crowd fol-
lowed the engines and upon their ar
rival at the wharf, looked for the fire.
The department looked for the fire, al
so. A little smoke and few baby
flames were finally discovered In a pile
of lime and straw. One of the boat
boys strolled over to the confiagration
and threw a couple of buckets of wa
ter on the struggling blaze and the
rubbish was then shoveled into cart
and taken away. The department was
called upon in moment of excitement
by some one on the waterfront.
To Meet the Mohican.
Lieutenant Hutchinson, u. s. N. ar
rived on the Mariposa from San Fran
cisco, to meet the United States
training ship Mohican which is ex-
pected in Honolulu almost any day
now, from Hilo. The Mohican sailed
from San Diego about May q for HiIo,
where she was to remain three or four
days. Her stay in Honolulu will be
about five or six days, whence she sails
for Puget Sound, and again back to
San Diego. Lieutenant Hutchinson will
take his post aboard as one of the
watch officers.
Vessels Launched.
The Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding
& Repair Co. launched on May 16 the
steel schooner yacht Ermina, built for
F. K. Brewster of the New York Yacht
Club Her dimensions are: Length over
all, SO feet; length on waterlne, 20 feet;
breadth of beam. 20 feet, and draft IL
feet. She was designed by Cary, Bar
hey & Smith and is of the 70-foot class.
She is intended for racing purposes and
will meet the crack yachts during the
coming season.
The new steamship Arapahoe of the
Clyde Line was launched on May is al
the Cramp Shipyards in Philadelphia
This vessel and her sister ship, Apache,
launched on March 80. will add to the
Clyde Lines already large fleet of
freight and passenger steamers two OF
the most efficient and desirable vessels
ever built for the eoastwise trade The
Arapahoe is to ply between New York
and Charleston, s. c., and Jacksonville,
Fla. She is $40 feet long, 46 feet wide
and 81 feet deep, with speed of Is
knots, and capacity for 5000 tons of car
go. She has accommodations for over
200 passengers.
The Union Iron Works Company. Sal
Francisco, launched from their yard on
May Is the new steamer Alaskan. fol-
the American-Hawaiian Steamship Com,
pany. The Alaskan is the largest mer-
chant steamship ever built on the Pa.
cific Coast. She is of 1900 tons gross
burden. 4S9 feet long and 81 feet wide,
with depth of hold of 81 feet She is
intended for the run between San Fran
cisco, Hawaii and New York.
Messrs. William Dobson & Co. launch
ed at Newcastle, E.. on May 2 steel
screw steamer named Lord Roberts
which they have built to the order of
the Lord Line of the Irish Shipowners
Company, Ltd. The Lord Roberts Is In
tended for the Baltimore and Belfast
and Dublin business. She has been built
to the highest class at Lloyd's for their
spar-deck rule and is of the following
dimensions: Length, between perpendicu.
lars, $40 feet; breadth, AZ feet; depth.
moulded, 80 feet inches She is fitted
with cargo poop and bridge and topgal-
liant forecastle. Water ballast is arrang-
ed in the cellular double bottom all fore
and aft and also in a large deep tank
aft of the machinery space. The prope-
ling machinery consists of set of en-