The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-27

Yet graceful and noble and grand;
An army of ships from far and near.
Sentinel-like they stand. /
Ships from the North and the South,
Craft from the East and the West, 3
In the stream near the harbor's mouth
Queens of the sea at rest.
Black are their hulls in the night.
L4Ae forest their masts uprise;
And the CLEAN of each riding-light
Appears as a star in the skies. n
Hoodoo and hell-ship and wreck
And pride of a nation are here;
A packet whose blood stained deck
Knows a story of terror and fear.
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Clipper and sky-scraper. too. c
Crossing lines with the hulk and the
scow: ~
Fleet carriers. old and new, J.
And the tub with the ancient prowti
Vessels from round the Horn,
Where Boreas blows both ways; L
Craft which follow the dawn
At sea for hundred days
Ships from the land of COAL
Ships from the forests Of pine
Bringing their treasure and paying their
toll
On produce of woods and mine.
Vessels of wood and of steel,
Ships which have won great fame;
And here on the reef the keel
OF a packet which has no name.
She may have been great in her day,
Though her ghost now skins the sea-,
While the fish in her ribs at play
Know naught of her history.
At the furthermost end of the row
Lies the hulk of an ancient bark,
And all the old sailors know
She's the haunt of the spirits at dark
And the ships which are new and grand,
And the ships which are old and weak,
AT rest in the stream, near the land
When the day is done, can speak.
They talk of the oceans way,
They talk of their masters and men:
But at the approach of day
They all become silent again.
They tell Of the voyages made.
OF ports round the earth's long rim,
OF tricks that the wind has played
And how they've outwitted him.
They whisper of treasures untold,
OF romance and murder and wreck,
OF regions of heat and of cold,
And of things which have happened on
deck.
And they boast of the deeds they have
done.
OF the speed they have made with the
wind;
And each one claims to have run
While the others tarried behind.
Wind TANNER and schooner anu bark.
Silent and grim and severe,
Tell tales when the harbor is dark,
Not intended for mortals to hear.
Hoodoo and hell-ship and pride
OF a nation, all in a row,
In the stream, in the night, side by side,
Whisper the secrets they know
WILLIAM F. SABIN.
-, at the railway wharf, discharging
coal; the American ship s. d. Carleton,
], 7SS tons, Captain Amesbury, from Ia
coma, arriving April IA, at the railway
wharf discharging 1000 tons of coal; the
American bark Diamond Head, 952 tons,
Sdpldlu IelerSOl, ITOul Sa1 II TdnClScO,
April IA, at the railway wharf
1900 tons of general mer-
chandise; the American barkentine Benz
ella, 65S tons, Captain Bowes, from San
Francisco, arriving April II, at the Irm-
gard wharf, discharging 1000 tons of
general merchandise; the American bark
entine Planter, 1913 tons, Captain Chase,
from San Francisco, arriving April IS,
at Brewers wharf, discharging LOCO tons
of general merchandise; the American
schooner Helene, SOS tons, Captain Chris
Hansen, from San Francisco, arriving
April 19, at the Irmgard wharf dis
charging 1850 tons of general merchan-
disc; the American bark R. P. Rithet, L.
O43 tons, Captain McPhail, from San
Francisco, arriving April 10, at the old
lishmarket wharf. discharging 1850 tons
of general merchandise; the Oceanic
steamship Zealandia, 1.717 tons, Captain
Dowdell, from Los Angeles, arriving
April q, at the railway wharf loading
sugar, sails for San Francisco this aft
ernoon at o'clock; the American steam
ship Centennial, 1.2S7 tons, Captain An-
derson, from Seattle, arriving April %,
at the Irmgard wharf, just finished dis
500 tons general merchandise;
the American schooner Alice Cooke. 722
tons, Captain Penhallow, from Port
Gamble, arriving April a., at the Allen
street wharf discharging 100000 feet of
lumber; the American ship Tillie E.
Starbuck, 1,S2S tons, Captain Curtis,
from Kobe, arriving April rs, at Soren-
sons wharf, discharging 600 tons of coal
ballast and the American bark Snow
and Burgess, 1,52S tons, Captain Olsen.
from Newcastle, arriving April rs. living
IN the stream, awaiting berth to dis
charge 2,140 tons of coal.
Steamers for Month of Nav
The first mail steamship to arrive at
this port from the Coast in the month
of May will be the Occidental and ORR
entail steamship Doric. scheduled to
reach here on Thursday next, the I'd of
May. The probabilities are that she will
make port the evening previous.