The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-14

TRAVELLERS from the far Orient ,
and from the Australian continent
had the opportunity of seeing Ho-
nolulu yesterday when she was in
no dress fit to be seen by visitors. She
was surprised, as 1t were, while having
if the people who arrived here on the
steamships Rio de Janeiro and Warri-
moo have ever been to this Paradise of
the Pacific before they. could not have
visited the country under less happy
From the rising of the
sun until the going down of the same
the rain continued to fall in torrents
and many of the passengers, bound
through this city, from the Orient and
the Colonies, to San Francisco and
Vancouver and Victoria, did not care
to venture ashore, but remained on
board their respective vessels and en-
deavored to get glimpse of the glori-
Gus scenery through the heavy rain
clouds which hung dark and dismal
over the town all day. A few braved
the storm, however, for the sake of
seeing what they could of Honolulu,
even if it was raining hard, enough to
discourage a Londoner or Hilolte, ana
to visit friends in the city.
The Pacific Mail steamship Rio de ia
metro arrived off the harbor yesterday
morning about o'clock; it was over
seven hours later, however. before she
came alongside the wharf. Captain
Ward registered a big kick on account
of the boat not being able to get in
sooner and he also made a protest to
hi re in ct the unnecessary loss
of time The Rio was late in arriving
here on account of very rough trip
from the Orient She experienced bad
weather all the way from Yokohama.
There We're not many passengers
aboard and only three in the cabin for
| Honolulu. In the steerage there were
Isixteen Orientals for this port She
brought 375 tons of freight for these Is
LANDS and yesterday afternoon and last
might she took on 200 tons of coal she
sails for San Francisco this morning.
the mail closing at s o'clock. The
passengers on the Rio for Honolulu
were Col II. s. Olcott, VIM Quisin-
berry and w. Brander, Jr. Those going
through to the Coast are as follows:
| r. Wildman, U. S. Consul General;
Mrs. Wildman and two children and
nurse. Capt. L. Hecht, Russell Harper
r. Heltz H C. Matheson, E.. c. Howell,
IJ. K. Carpenter, II. f. Seymour Mrs
K. West, C. Dowdell, A. Hart. Mrs. A.
Hart, Mrs G. LIE Herean, F. B. Lee.
A Letter From Guam.
| In the third issue of the Binnacle, the
brilliant little paper published 4aboaro
/ the tug Iroquois by Chief Woman Nc
lGettigan, and which came out yester-
day morning, there is most interest
ling letter from Guam, received by Cap
tain Pond, from Fred E. Harvey. 1t
lis as follows:
Pitt Island of Guam.
/ Dear Friend: We are expecting a
/ transport in today or tomorrow, SO VIII
drop YOU line by her. OF course you
bava hoard of the loss of the fine Yo-
semitic and of the typhoon that wrecked
the towns of the island
i The center of the storm passed about
four miles inland and came from the
north. The Yosemite and Justin were
ianchored near each other. Lieutenant
Rierer. who used to be with you, and
| lieutenant Moritz were the only line OF
fcers on board - a.
During the morning of the 18th The
barometer began to jump and fall rap
j idly. so steam was got up. AT aDou
noon the storm was at It's heiShl aiie
. tboth vessels began to drag
The air was so full of flying spray tina
, lit was impossible to see twenty feet. Ih'
!, Yosemite finally brought up stern mrs
on a. reef just below the town OF SOM
wave on the Orote peninsula. me!
Thought themselves safe there, When
. LITTLE after / the wind shifted student.
from due north to south, blowing ne
: of the reef, twisting the rudder and dis
2 abIing the propeller; both per ancno
2 ichains went out by the run and the sni
was soon drifting out to sea.
. She was found to be making wave
/, rapitiIy and when the pumps were slhr
: ed they were found useless. All hano
: worked hard to save the ship, but it wa
Isoon evident she was too far gone. In
next day found them about sixty miIe
Ito the north of Guam; two OF the pidus
lof the propeller were gone ana the OH
2 ers bent out of shape.
Al Rv "jigging' the engines they nna.l
81 managed to clear the propeller and MAX
81 iabout two knots, but the jury rudde
lthey rugged was carried away. VINE
. thav saw this condition of affairs the
, hut up signals of distress and nreo gun
Din the meantime the Justin had rare
|, Ihetter so on the second day went
search of the Yosemite. They tried
N Tow her. but found it useless, so aoal
2 tdoned her and all hands went apoal
the Justin. Twenty-Five minutes afte
she went down in 1900 fathoms of WI
tier.
During the height of the storm the ba
ometer read 27.40. Practically no hou
Ion the island escaped destruction; eve
1.-THE palace, where the Governor reside
Twas unroofed and otherwise damage
All the fruit is destroyed, and 1T will
a long time before the place RECEIVERS
am afraid / will not be able to S
Won any mats, as the trees from WIFI
they weave them are all switched out.
am very much pleased with the islam
however. We built house 45x15 on {
shores of the harbor and are very col
Portable. Nearly all the time We have
icool breeze and although the thermom
81 ter is around so degrees during the da
we do not notice the heat much.
take a dip every evening in the salt "
fer but it is not as fine as Midway, ev
liz it is right at our door. Our dinin
II room is in tent 16x16, and we live 6
lcelIent. Captain Merry and Captain b
die live in tent, while we boys, wi
MIR Beecher, live in the house. We e
iploy natives as axemen and on the b'
ing barge They are excellent help a
&c. are paid so cents per day. They {
ne cheerful and good-natured and very
IN lite. Their huts are made of bamboo a
are matched with cocoanut leaves. tn
lspeak a language of their own with
OF. little Spanish mixed in.
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