The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-29

I Trip were put ABOARD, ana f,UVO lOIls
!, of freight stored away in the holds. On
the night of the 18th the Thomas was
ready for sea. and was to sail at noon
on the 20th with 300 recruits and 15C
marines for the Philippines.
| The United States army transports
Lawtons and Rosecrans have been re-
leased from quarantine at San Francis
CO. The Roseerans had ten officers and
2S1 men of the Thirty-fifth Infantry, 260
casuals and discharged men, two men
of the marine corps, twenty-five OK
Government employees, nine cabin pas
sengers and five deported men,
The deported men We're classed by the
authorities at Manila as worthless. .
They were two lazy to work and net
ashamed to beg.
il On the way to Honolulu the Llwton
passed the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany's Mariposa on April IL, at ] o. M
On April 14th the British bark Vandu-
ara, forty-eight days out from Caleta
Buena for San Francisco was Spoken
in latitude 80 degrees % minutes north
longitude 135 degrees SIS minutes % sec
onds west. The captain wished to be
reported call WE'LL
/ The horse transport Arab will be in
San Francisco for several weeks
Twelve new furnaces have been or.
dered from New York for her, and unit
j they arrive repairs cannot be made
I The Arab, it will be remembered. broke
down soon after leaving with horses
for Manila and had to put back. She
was passed as ready for sea by ths
inspectors of hulls and boilers at Seat
tie.
! The department people say that tn,
Pacific transport service is a fixtur,
that will be maintained permanently
Tkis declaration is brought out by thu
news that a committee of prorainen
Californians. respectively representing
/ the San Francisco Chamber of Com
meree, San Francisco Board of Trad
and the San Francisco Produce Elk
change, is on the way to Washington
for the purpose of having freights nov
carried on the transports diverted
from the private steamship lines 70
the purpose of helping to establish :
direct steamer line between San Fran
cisco and the Philippine Islands TO
commercial purposes.
/ The United States amy transpor
Grant arrived at San Francisco from
the Philippines on the 18th with al
that is left of the Twenty ninth ant
Thirty-second Infantry. There were al
so 129 convaleseents aboard when tn
steamship left Manila, but two of tn
men died on the way over and severn
more are still dangerously i'll witt
pneumonia.
The Grant took home all told 1.724 Of
ficers and men.
For the Coast Trade.
1 San Francisco ship owners hav
every faith in the future of the 'swint
ljammer," and in consequence almos
every shipyard along the coast is rush
ed with work. Matthew Turner /
busy at Benicia on another of 9Th
last I will build This time it viii
be a handsome four-masted barker
tine OF LOO tons burden. She will b
l220 feet long, AZ feet beam and II fee
deep. Her sail plan will be peculiar
as she will carry no gaff topsails. Stay
sails will take their place. The new
vessel has not been named, and Cap
tain Turner says he will not fix
name until the last moment.
Hay & Wright have launched tn
four masted schooner Mindoro. She
175 feet long, 3S feet 6 inches bean
and IA feet deep. She is 700 tons bur
den.
lNaua A Ship With a Jag<on.
} If ever a ship was loade
down 1t was the big American shi
Henry Willard which staggered out o
this narbor on Saturday and the
dropped her mudhooks outside to sobe
up before attempting the voyage to tn
lcoast. She has large cargo of suga
aboard, but that is not the load re
ferred to above. She was drunk
|, shamefully and horribly drunk, an
acted much in the same manner tina
a man does when he's been takin
aboard more alcohol than is good 70
him.
1t seems that the entire crew of tn
: Willard was drunk. The men had evi
IDENTIFY been taking on enough ashore t
last them until they arrived on tn
coast. Not one of the sailors was sobe
enough to tell the difference betwee
the main brace and the pinnacle.
The consequence was that, when tn
tug Fearless took hold Of the ship an
} started to take her out, of the harbo
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