The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-12
Marine Notes.

Captain William 3. Hilton at spe-
cial meeting of the New York Cham
Der of Commerce held on March 18th,
was unanimously elected pilot COM
missioner for term of two years.
A new 11,090-ton steamer to be nam
ed Mount Temple, is beng built In
England for Elder, Dempster Compa-
ny. She will be placed on ,ne route be-
tween London and Montreal during the
coming summer. She will be 500 feet
long, 81 feet beam, and 80 feet depth
of hold.
The admiralty ceurt at London has
awarded the German steamer Valencia
$4,000 for services to steamer Carin-
thia, which, while en- route from New
Orleans to South Africa, with 1,4oO
mules for the British army. was wreck
ed on Haytien coast last May.
Notice has been issued to vessel own
ers that vessels OF fifty tons burden
or over arriving at Turks Island from
ports beyond the sea, calling for orders
or provisions, fuel or water for con-
sumption on board only, are 70 report
arrival and departure. Light dues are
not charged, pilotage is not compul-
sorry, and rate has been reduced.
The officers of the Bath (Me) Iron
Works have completed the general
plan for the improvements in their
local shipbuilding yard to accommo-
date the increase in work already
promised. A new set of ways will be
. located about in the same place where
the monitor has been building. The
course win 533 feet long, with rise
inland of some thirty feet. The ways
must be strong enough to bear 1900
tons, the estimated weight Of the new
battleship.
Promising that in law Ito divert
water course is so TO use your own
land as to change or stop the natural
flow of water over the adjoining land,
to the injury of its owner. l will tell
YOU a story of Mr.. Evatts He and
the late r. h Dana and Judge Hoar
(who told it to me), were driving to-
gether along the banks OF the Upper
Connecticut, when they crossed a pref
ty little stream, and Dana quoted
something about the Laughing brook. "
Fyarts exclaimed: Laughing brook :?
If it be right for a brook to laugh,
how can it be wrong to divert water
course ?"-Boston Transcript.
Barber & Co. have in their New York
office a handsome model of their
steamship Satsuma, recently built by
Short & Bros, Ltd, at Sunderland.
The model represents a very fine
freight steamer, equipped with all the
modern Improvements for the rapid
handling Of cargo, and the safe car
riage of cattle. The original steamer
is $50 feet over all, 370 feet between
perpendiculars As feet inches In
breadth, with 80 feet depth of hold,
moulded. The engines are OF the trip Q
expansion type, the diameter of tie
| cylinders being 26. 43 and II inches. by
/ 4S-inch stroke She bears the Barber
& Co. distinguishing mark, which is a
/ deep white band, with four blue tr1pes
and a red star with the letter "B'' IN
white circle.
At the Erie Basin dry docks, where
large force of men is constantly en-
ployed in the machine and other shops,
as well as on the vessels undergoing
repairs. the employees at times meet
with accidents which need immediate
attention As the works are long
| distance from the ambulance depots
much suffering is allayed and serious
| consequences avoided by the aid render
| ed by Chief Engineer Joseph Edwards,
who is skilled in dressing wounds and
attending TO the disabled. The en-
| plovees keep up their supply Of ban
| dages, liniments, etc, by regular, but
small contribution, and Chief Edwards
| is always ready to attend to the suf-
feving. The sailors and outside en-
| ployees also share in the benefits OF
| the chiefs skill and knowledge, when
injured at the yard or in its vicinity.