The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-07

loss of stern screw, breakdown of
| CINE or shaft.
| The arrow-headed steamship is indie
pendent of the rudder, as in case of ac-
cident to it she can turn easily in mar
| row channels with tide, wind or cur
rent against her, and can safely ap-
preach quays, wharfs other vessels
without tug line assistance.
| If required to land against surface
/ wash or currents, by running her for
ward propellers against the current and
| increasing the speed of the after one
going astern the vessel will be dragged
| into her berth while by equalizing the
speed of her propellers she can remain
almost motionless without lines out CT
| anchor down.
| ship building Yaros Combine
Plans are practically perfected for
the pooling of the business of the four
American shipyards.
| In the deal are the Union Iron Works
of San Francisco, the Bath Iron Works
/ of Bath, Me, the Newport News Ship
| building and Drydock Company of
Newport News, Va, and the Crescent
Shipyards of Elizabeth, n. ]. I'm
| founded rumorS We're afioat to the eff
4 feet that not fewer than a dozen ship,
yards are brought into the combina-
| ton with the object of sitting compe-
| tition. This, however, those interested
in the amalgamation assert, is abso-
lutely without foundation. Competition
Will be courted rather than evaded
| and the men who have the enterprise
in charge will refuse-and, indeed, have
| refuSed-to widen its scope.
This combination will bring together
| Lewis. nixon of the Crescent Ship
| yards; Edward w. Hyde, president OF
| the Bath Iron Works; Calvin B. Or
cult president of the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company,
and Irving NJ Scott, president of the
| Union Iron Works. The Huntington
estate Will be largely interested in the
deal
l. Limited to the four shipyards men
toned, the combination will probably
| form a working agreement with the
Cramps, of Philadelphia, which will
add greatly to it's strength, and ena-
bic 1t to carry out the purposes for
which it is being brought into exist
ence.
Foreign competition is responsible for
the new move of the American ship
builders, and, in fact, English methods
of business are being followed. There
is to be no shipbuilding trust Com
munity of interest of the four concerns
is what is to be established.
| To Lewis Nixon, who owns the Cres-
| cent Shipyards at Eizabethtown N J..
belongs the credit of bringing about the
| combination which is now being ma
| tured.
News of the Ocean
| The unusual number of disasters to
tramp steamships crossing the Atlantic
| in ballast to United States ports dur:
ing the winter, involving losses to the
| marine underwriters of upwards of
| 81, 100000 in salvages and other claims,
thave considerably helped the efforts OF
| the seamen's friends in having estab-
lished what is known as the under load
| line rule This would mean the gov
! eminent marking of line on a ships
side, which must be submerged before
she is given certificate of seaWorthi-
ness, the same as the Plimsoll mark
(which prevents the overlooking of yes
| sells. Within the last three months at
| least ten steamships arrived at New
| York from Europe in ballast leaking In
| their forward ballast tanks this ACCT
dent being solely the result of the YES
sells not being submerged sufficiently
| to be able to combat the elements In
4 the winter season. Another matter
| that the past winter has served to
| bring to the attention of the shipping
| community is the extortion practiced
| by the natives of Bermuda on disabled
vessels that are compelled to put into
| that place in distress. Many of the
| American sailing craft that got with
| in twenty to thirty miles of the island
We're picked up by one of the two tugs
| located there and charged from $4,000
| to $4,000 for services rendered. which in
| many cases occupied not more than
three hours time.
Uncle Sans Coal Piles.
England has 27 coaling stations scat
tered over the oceans and seas of the
world Five them are right at our doors
Halifax, Bermuda, Port Royal, st. Lu-
Icia and Esquimalt
Now we are going to have some coal
Ing stations for the American Navy. Ne
Quotations are In progress looking to the
requirement of sites in several foreign
countries. We already have a conces-
lsion from japan for one at Yokohama
from Brazil for at Rio de Janeiro
from Mexico for one in Lower Califor-
Inia.
We expect to be given at least two
lcoaling stations in Cuba when We turn
lover that island to its new government
One OF these will be at Nipe or Levisa
Ebay, On the north coast. another in
Guantanamo bay5 and possibly third
: in the Isle of Pines.