The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-30
is the last trip of the Athenian as a
transport
New Hospital Ship.

transport
New Hospital Ship.
Army officers at Manila have beer
ordered to Hongkong for the purpose
OF buying hospital ship. The Relief
is used as a hospital ship for the Phil
ippines and the Asiatic coast, but can
not enter all the ports on account OF
ner draft, and smaller vessel is de-
sired in order properly to look after
all the sick under the jurisdiction of
the army in the East.
Captain L. Robinson, late of the
steamer Coptic, has taken command of
the British bark Melanope, and will
sail from San Francisco for Sydney,
N. S. W.
] Work at Hunters Point
Work is progressing fayorably at
hunters Point, where the great dry
dock is being constructed for the San
Francisco Dry Dock Company. The
immense pump pit has been excavated
and is now ready for the concrete bot
| tom. The pit is 20 feet in width SO
feet long and 40 feet deep, and three
| gigantic pumps which are to fill and
| empty the pit in raising and lowering
the dock will have combined capacity
| OF 10000 gallons minute, or sufficient
TO supply city of 1000, 900 people with
water. The discharge tunnel from the
pit through which the water will pass
mas diameter of eight feet
The Poltalloch's PLIGHT.
| The British bark Poltalloch, which
| went ashore at North Cove. near Ia
coma, on November 9th, is still fas,
| In the sands, and the British under
writers have despaired of doing any
thlng with her until spring. The vessel
was bound from Santa Rosalia for the
Sound, and went ashore In dense fog
She is high and dry among drift logs.
and her keel is in seven feet of sand.
AT low tide one can walk entirely
around her.
The bark is intact, but 100000 worth
OF property win be, for months to
come, at the mercy of the elements.
one thing in the vessels favor is that
she has thus far withstood the storms,
and several fierce gales have swept
over her since she went ashore.
Condor Short Of Coal
The British steamer Condor. when
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th
instant, from Iquique with the biggest
cargo OF nitrate ever brought into port
had close call on the voyage. When
she reached the Coast she had barely
enough coal to start her donkey engine
gong Coal is scarce commodity in
Dry account for the shortage of the
Condor The steamer encountered
stormy weather at one stage of her
voyage, but had she got a southeastern
nearing port she would have been in
poor condition to be handled She was
taken to Oakland Long Wharf to dis
charge her nitrate, and shortly after
ward a schooner loaded with coal was
alongside of her
Inc condor is under charter to Grace
d Co., and it is supposed that she will
return to the west coast with general
merchandise, although this has not vet /
been announced by her charterers
The Czarlna Ashore.
The schooner Czarina, which sailed !,
from San Francisco for Unga on No !
vember 3, is ashore at Pearl Harbor, /
Sannack Island Alaska The news
was received by mail, by way of Seat |
tie, at the office of the owners. the |
Fishing and Trading Com I
pany. The vessel was driven ashore |
during a hurricane and at a yery high
tide. Part of the vessels keel is gone. /
but otherwise she is not damaged.
From all accounts there is slight /
chance of getting the schooner off. for
at nigh tide there is only three feet /
of water around her. She is said to be I
we'll insured, and the insurance men I
are sanguine of getting her off, They |
claim that she lies on a sandy beach |
but those who know the ground well I
say that it is rocky. At any rate. it
will require an exceptionally high tide
to get her out.
Saved the Edmund.
The German ship Edmund when I
went ashore at Santa Rosalia last |
month, as she was about to sail for |
Portland, has been safely towed off, |
and IS now on her way to Guaymas I
The work of getting the vessel out of |
her dangerous position was intrusted |
to Captain John Metcalfe, Lloyds' sur
veyor at San Francisco, who has vet
to score failure in work of this kind. |
He took with him there the tug L..
in command of Captain
Mccoy, and from all accounts
a very good job has been DONE
captain Metcalfe has had some pref
ty rough weather to contend with On
t he night of the 18th gale, which had
been raging for the whole day, in
creased in force to almost hurricane
ana Dig seas were constantly breaking
over the ship. The storm continued
all the next day and that night il was
feared the vessel would go to pieces.
Inc Edmund moved astern seventy
feet in two nights, but luckily she had
been kedged. On the 18th the weather
moderated and the ship was towed off.
AT Guaymas she will be temporarily
patched up and taken to San Fran
cisco by the Luckenbach.
Maybe Schooner Falcon.
shipping men in Port Townsend are
almost forced into the belief. that the
derel1ct reported as dismasted and
awash to the decks off Gray,s Harbor
by the German tramp steamship Eva,
from Hongkong to Portland, is the
schooner falcon, Well known small
Coast carrier.
Inc Eva reports that the three masts
We're gone and the vessel was down in
the water until her name was invisible
She was painted white, and of about
100 tons.
The Falcon, now slightly overdue ar