The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-11

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some time in May.
In about two months the steamship
Hawaiian, another of the great
freighters of the American Hawaiian
line. will arrive here. AS before noted,
| she has sailed from New York for San
| Francisco.
The Transport Lawton Here.
| Respondent in a new coat of white
paint and looking as neat and we'll
kept as a pleasure craft, the United
States Army transport Lawton is now
| in this port, lying at Navy Wharf
| No. 1.
The first thing on Saturday morning
she was sighted and very shortly aft
erwards she was in her slip. The Law
ton sailed from San Francisco on the
/ 1st instant at noon, about the same
time as the steamship China sailed for
| this port Among the passengers for
| Honolulu were the new depot quarter
master for this port, Major w. W..
| Robinson, and his clerk.
Captain Magune, at one time CHER
officer of the transport Warren, is the
commander of the Lawton. J.. j..
| Spiers is her chief officer. Spiers was
second officer when the transport was
last here, when Captain Thomas was
commander. j. T. Martin is now the
second officer, while j. G. Dow and
spectively. ]. ]. Murphy is the chief
engineer and his assistants are DON
laid Hilman, J. Spencer, William
Schultz and NJ Cook. Her purser is
Is. P. Elliot, her first clerk H. P. She'll
worth Captain Cannon is the quar-
ltermaster in charge of the transport.
The Lawton sails tomorrow for Ma
Mia, via Guam.
The Head of Sailor Trust.
4 Captain Hank Half has formed a
| sailor trust at Deer Isle, Me-, that will
| bend only to the will of Thomas I.
Lawson. the builder of the Boston cup
defender Every Deer Island. sailor
+ that is capable of working on the cup
yacht is in the trust" and the other
! day, when Captain Rhodes of the
Herreshoff cup defender went down
there to pick up some men for his
boat. he found that he could not get
a single one Half has them all.
Captain Fred D. Weed of Deer Isle
engineered the trust There are only
about 200 eligible men on the little ISL
and, and Captain Weed has every one
of them pledged not to sign the pa
pers until Captain Half has picked his
crew. Captain Rhodes helped Weed
very much in clinching his trust
though he did not mean to. When ne
went there he had list of forty-five
men, and announced that he would
take twenty of the very cream of the
Deer Island sailors. He ignored Cap.
. tain Weed entirely, and that nettlec
, Weed and his friends. Several sailor:
! called on Rhodes to ask for places, ant
Rhodes is alleged to have made very
brusque reply. That made then
: angry, and then they spread the news
{ 1t made every other sailor mad, FOL
| these. sailors hang close together, ant
, a q !,
without a single man.
: Overdue Vessels In 1900.
The past year has been better Oh
for overdue underwriters than ha
been their lot for several years. II
: the case of steamers only about l
$ were posted as missing, compared 7
Il over 20 in 1899. If steamers under loo
a tons register are ruled out the result
: show that steamers were posted dur
: ing the last twelve months, of whlc
SO were general cargo boats, the Eau
6 illac Planet Mercury and the Llvor
= no; 2 had grain cargoes, the Rosemor
ran and the VENT Septembre ma
e coal, the Falls of Inversnaid and lds
and last of all the Merrimac with
cargo of deals With the exception {
the Ida and VENT Septempre, whic
" were lost in the Bay of Biscay, tn
;, others were missing in the North Al
lantic.
IS Sailing vessels only came out apol
= the average so far as iron or ste
vessels were concerned, but in tn
" case of wooden vessels the number wa
% a considerable drop from the pre-
n yious year. Ballast voyages were n
Al sponsible for 5Nvessels out of Ia iron {
10 steel ships, and coal cargoes showed
IL similar number. OF the coal vessels,
q Duntrune Knight Commander, Anne
"a ioue and Annie Thomas, We're VI
N doubleday lost off the Horn in the s.
! we're weather in the autumn of 189
: while the Martha Fisher was missir
l. ON a voyage to Para. The ballast ve
&C sells were the Lima, Viduco, Perseve
Is ance, Hearthbank and Limache. TV
If vessels with phosphate from lamp
the NTH for Sydney and the Louise +
N Yokohama; with shale, the Anton
= from Sydney to Rotterdam, and wit
: general cargo, the Henry Clemel
: from Rotterdam to Kaio Chau, con
plete the list The latter vessel W;
- confidently expected for long tim
&c | as she had been reularly in the owe
>, due market since she was built al
=, had made some surprisingly long pa
w sages. OF the wooden ships the mo
= important was the Wachusett, with