The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-15


ham, of the steamer Hanalei, is wei
known on the waterfront as we'll a
elsewhere for his cleverness with TIL
brush and pencil. Clapham has a clos
second in Frank Costa, who is EN-
ployed in the office on the wharf
Costa has just produced a handsome
souvenir of the steamer Mauna Loa.
1t is large, highly decorated worl
| of waterfront art, framed in white ant
| gold 1t includes a picture of the
| Mauna Loa, and portraits of her cap
| TAIN. first officer, chief engineer, sec
| ond engineer, purser and steward.
In the center, surrounded by rost
| leaves and resting on golden arrow
| symbolical of speed and COLDER
anchor, indicative of safety, is draw,
! ing of the Mauna Loa, under full
steam. Surmountfng this is pencil
portrait of Capt. A. C. Sfmerson. Te
! the captains right, thanked by pic
ture of Kamehameha, wearing he'll
! met cloak, and bearing a spear OF
gold is portrait of First Officer P.
| Olsen To the captains left, fianked by
| the Goddess of Liberty, robed In a
gold-starred shirtwaist and pink-strip-
ed shirt, with a golden star shining
from her front hair, is a picture OF
Chief Engineer w. ]. Donnelly.
On either side of the central picture
is flag, artistically draped. On the
right is an American flag, on the left
the company's flag.
In the right hand lower corner is a
portrait of Purser w. K. Simerson.
Surmounting this is female figure,
wearing wings and blowing "All
Aboard!" on a golden trumpet. About
her brows is a carnation lei of Won
drous beauty.
In the left hand lower corner Is a
portrait of Second Engineer d. j. Cur
rem. Perched upon top of the border
of the picture is an American eagle,
with wings spread. A little below this.
and towards the center, is a scroll up
on which appears a seascape. 1t pic
lures Diamond Head in the back
ground with the Mauna Loa in the
foreground, making all haste to get to
this port. Shells cutting the water
in great shape and making fast time.
At the bottoms of the work of art,
in. the center, isga portrait of Steward
Aki, a most important man aboard the
vessel, having charge of the pantry.
"A dove of peace hutters over the cen
trail sketch.
In the lower left hand corner the
artist has engrossed his name.
The production is a curiosity, and is
especially interesting in that 1t not
only contains portraits of all the
steamers officers, but is full of ale
gorical figures.
American Tonnage OF the Year.
Vessels built in the United States and
Navigation during the fiscal year end
ed June 80, 1901, number lib, of 401,-
2S5 gross tons, compared with LOSS, OF
305,677 gross TONS for the previous ifs
cal year. Unrigged barges, canal boats.
etc, will add 1881 tons to this total.
Such construction the previous year
aggregated 1916 tons. The whole ton
mage built has been exceeded only
twice in our history, in 1854 and in
1855, when the maximum, 5S3, $50 tons,
was attained.
Excluding unrigged barges and canal
boats, three-fourths of the new tom
mage is comprised in Ill vessels each
of over 1000 gross tons. To these
large vessels the Great Lakes, where
steel shipbuilding in the past few years
has been highly developed contributed
forty steel steamers of 1882 tons.
This tonnage exceeds the steel steam
product of the entire United States
for any year before 1899. The industry
of building small steel steamers for the
seaboard has developed considerably
during the year, but as the length of
the locks is only 270 feet, this con-
struction does not materially affect
salt water navigation.
The ocean steel steamers built on
the sseaboard were fifteen of 1861
gross tons, to which may be added
nine of 1883 tons, all small, built on
the Great Lakes for salt water traffic
| The principal ocean steamers were
three Spreckels mail steamers Of Is, 495
| tons, for the San Francisco, Honolulu
Australian mail service; three New
York and Cuba mail steamers, of 15, 40s
tons, and one Venezuela Red D steam
er. of 1.713 tons. all built under the
Ocean Mail Act of 1891. The remain
| ing ocean steel steamers are for the
| coasting trade. including three Ha-
waiian-Amerfcan steamers, of 1915
| tons, and four Chicago steamers OF
| S.26S tons, temporarily in trans-AtIan-
| tic trade
| During the calendar year 1900 Grea,
| Britain launched 664 steel steamers, OF
492 500 tons and Germany completed
1 sixty-three, of 2139S4 tons, nearly all
of which We're for ocean trade.
! Wooden schooners, the third impor-
tant item, numbered twenty-five, OF
1929 tons. The limit of size for these
vessels appears to have been attained
and large steel schooners will be built
next year Rugged barges, some OF
steel, and some for the Cuban trade
number fifteen, of 24,313 tons Nine
steel ferryboats and steam dredges, oil
| 1907 tons, We're built, and six square
rugged vessels of 11,257 tons. Only -four
wooden steamers, aggregating 6,55:
tons, exceed 1000 tons. though 46t
wooden steamers, of 1891 tons, were
built. Wooden sail and steam vessels
number 1,052, of 141. 032 tons.
Geographically, vessels were built as
follows: Atlantic coast, 735, of 1909
tons; Great Lakes, los, of 153, 1873 tons
Pacific coast, Isl, of 46105 tons, ant
western rivers, 1S2, of 1904 tons. IN
crease over last year on Great Lakes