The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-21
NEWS OF THE WATERFRONT

This morning early the Occidental
and Oriental steamship Gaelic is
due to arrive from San Francisco.
She will bring five days later mail
and newspaper files. People will not
have to wait long for their letters to-
day, as the mail will not be fumigated
The Gaelic will dock at the Pacific Mail
wharf.
This afternoon the Occidental and
Oriental steamship Doric will probably
arrive from the Orient, although she is
not due until tomorrow morning. She
will dock at Navy wharf No. l.
Zealandla SAILS Saturday.
Chief Engineer Keller of the Oceanic
steamship Zealandia has succeeded in
making the necessary repairs to the
vessels boilers and the steamer will
sail from the Oceanic wharf for San
Francisco at o'clock tomorrow after
noon. A number of people will take
passage on the boat, and she will carry
a quantity of freight from this port.
Captain Ryder's Duties.
Captain Ryder, the husband of the
California Shipowners' fleet. who came
here recently on the City of Picking
from the coast on business for his COM
pany, and who got here almost at the
same time that the company's ship j.
B. Thomas came into port in distress
from Australia, with her master lost
overheard at sea and the yards missing
from her mainmast, has his headquart-
ers at Tacoma.
The Tacoma Ledger of the 1st instant
49,. r11I1, ~ arraira
captain: Captain Ryder, the we'll
known master of the American ship
Florence, which is engaged in the coal
carrying trade between Tacoma and
Honolulu, and is now taking cargo at
the Roslyn bunkers, has been succeeded
by First Mate Spicer. who will hereaf-
ter have command of the Florence.
1.-The reason for the change is the an
nouncement made yesterday morning,
whereby Captain Ryder is made Puget
Sound superintendent for the California
Shipowners' Association with head
quarters at Tacoma.
''The California Shipowners' Associa-
ton embraces fleet Of thirty-nine YES
sells plying between the Pacific Coast
and all parts of the world. Tacoma
being the chief loading port of these
VeSSS1S OH IuSeI- SoOuH0, tIiio 1ity -
made Captain Ryder's headquarters"
cargo for Honolulu.
There has been heavy demand for
Honolulu transportation at Tacoma re-
Gently AS a result Carey w. Cook
has chartered the American ship Henry
Willard, 1,453 TONS Captain Quick, and
will dispatch her for these islands with
"a general freight cargo.
Transports Circulate Money.
A summary of the May disburse-
ments of the United States quarter
masters department shows total ex-
penditures of $234,O24 Despite Seattle
claims to the contrary, the greater
part of this money has been expended
in Tacoma in wages to employees about
the government warehouses. 1t has
included the wages of longshoremen,
warehouse men, carpenters, machinists
and laborers of all kinds who have
been employed upon the several gov
eminent transports. Some $4,000
worth of general supplies have been
purchased from Tacoma and Seattle
merchants. The department expects
that June expenditures will be still
heavier.
Of the months expenditures, s44,250
was general, including dock laborers
loading transports, unloading cars and
putting freight into the warehouse.
The greater proportion Of this goes to
Tacoma, inasmuch as at Seattle the
government only loaded a small guam
tity of hay and oats on the transport
Samoa during the month. Salaries of
Office employees aggregated $1,526, and
bills of lading for freight, $4,000. Pur-
chases of hay, grain and oats for ship
ment amounted to $7S,735, and charters
of transports $4,000.
General Shipping.
Governor Odell has appointed Joseph
Simonson. of Richmond county, as quar-
antine commissioner of the port of New
York in place of Hugh McRoberts, de-
ceased.
The Union-Clan lines to South Africa
will hereafter dispatch their steamers
from New York at dates further apart
tddil pTeSSHI anu WILL QlScHdrSe at
one port only, owing to the difficulty and
delay found in discharging vessels at
South African ports.
The neutrality-suspicious. line steamer
Deutschland, which arrived at Plymouth.
Eng, at 1925 o'clock a. m. Of May %
from New York, averaged 1881 knots an
hour on her trip. She made the run
from New York to Plymouth in five days,
twelve hours and sixteen minutes. The
record for the southern route is tive days.
eleven hours and forty-fiye minutes.
The American Bureau of Shipping re-
Gently classed and rated the following
vessels In the Record of American and
Foreign Shipping: American screw
steamers Oregonian and Esperanza.
American schooners Mindoro, A. s. Wool
ley, Springfield, John Francis, Georgia
and Eliza A. Scribner. American barges
Cardenas and Rutherford. British bark
Romanoff, British schooners Carib II
and Onoro. Swedish barks Andrea ana