The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-04
WHALEBACK
MAKES PORT
Caithness Comes
From Puget
Sound.
MISTAKEN FOR
A MAIL BOAT
She Has Three Million Feet of
Lumber for Australia
Aboard.

The town stood a-tiptoe shortly before
three whistles, sounded by the electric
light plant, disturbed the stiffness of the
night. The news that a steamship from
the Coast was off port started people
thought that she was the Mariposa. ar
irving ahead of her expected time, while
others thought it might be Wilder's
steamer Helene, returning from the
Coast, WHITTIER she went not very long
ago to be repaired
Diamond Head" Charlie, who knows
almost everything about ships, reported
that steamship from the Coast was OF
Diamond Head and that as near as he
could make out. she seemed to be some
large freighter. He did not recognize her
for the reason that the vessel has never
bfore been to this port. If she had been
any steamship that Charlie had ever seen
before in all his life, the probabilities are
AS soon as the vessel arrived off the
harbor the Advertisers chartered launch
was alongside. 1t proved TO be the Brit
ish steamship Caithness, Captain John
Joseph Proud, from the Sound, bound for
Australia with almost three million feet
of lumber. She sailed from Port Town.
send on the 23d of May and experienced
very fair trip to port.
Captain Proud was very glad to get
two days later news OF the outside
world, whence he had come, in the cop
les of the Advertiser furnished him by
the reporter.
The CaithHess is whaleback and is
one of me first of her kind, if not the
first, to come TO this port She is u yes
sci Of 2.222 tons and will attract great
deal of attention along the waterfront
when she comes into the harbor this
morning.
It is not yet known what wharf the
Caithfie$s will go to-, The harbor has
been rapfdfy filling during the last few
days with numerous arrivals from the
Colonies and the Coast and almost all
of the wharves are occupied. She may
go to Navy wharf No. or the Pacific
Mail wharf. The America Maru is ex-
pected tonight or tomorrow morning
from the Coast, however, and she would
not, remain at the Pacific Mail wharf
long. The .Caithness intended putting in
here for coal when she sailed from the
Sound. : his, however, was. not general
ly known here. She will take on about
200 tons OF fuel and then proceed to
Australia
Captain Proud, q jolly and accomplish
ed English navigator, has never before
been 20 Honolulu and looks forward with
great delight to day or two ashore. He
is a. man who has had a great deal of
varied. experience in ali the oceans OF the
werid and what he doesn't know about
the sea and a steamship could be written
on the back Of postage stamp. AS
commander OF the Ceithness he has been
several times to China in recent years.
The last time he was in the Orient was
in March of the present year. In No
vember of last year the Caithness took
a large amount of supplies for the Ger
man army from the Sound to China.
When the captain was last in China he
made a valuable collection OF curios.
Many OF the ships company were also
afflicted with the collectors mania and
laid in store of valuable and interest
Ing souvenirs of the Orient. The cap
tain has. his collection aboard and
wonderful collection 1t is.
Last night the Caithness lay at an
Snoi ouessoe tife hdfooi, iiot fdr lroll the
great .hattleship Oregon. In the moon
light the immense floating fortress and
the big ,whaleback loaded with lumber
high above her deck, presented a most
beautiful picture. A great transport of
commerce, lying at anchor. waiting for
daylight before entering port; and one
of the mightiest of the guardians Of COM
merce, the battleship bristling with
guns. quiet and bespeaking power In ev-
cry metal line.