The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-31

NEWS OF THE WATERFRONT
Wharf for
Steamers From
Orient.

IN AND AFTER tomorrow, Sep
TENDER 1, the channel wharf or, as
~ it is generally known, the quar-
passenger steamers coming from
Oriental ports en- route to San Francis
co or other Coast cities. Hackfeld &
Co., agents for the Pacific Mail, Togo
Kisen Kaisha and the Occidental &
Oriental Steamship Companies. have
taken over the wharf and hereafter all
freight from the Orient will be landed
there and subjected to Immigration in
the new sealed chambers especially fit
ted for this purpose. All Japanese and
Chinese immigrants who are detained
by the quarantine and immigration Of
ffcials will also be held there temporar-
lily until it is decided what final dispo-
sition will be made of them. In the case
of Porto Ricans they are merely to be
held in the large freight room until ar
engagements are completed to ship them
are consigned. The wharf approaches
are provided with two drawbridges
which are to be raised and communi-
cation broken with the shore when i'm
migrants are held within the sheds.
Hackfeld & Co. have already establish
ed a large coal pile in the rear of the
dock on made land just within the ma
val breakwater. from which steamships
will receive supplies. The crowds of
Honoluans that generally watch the
incoming of steamers from the Orient
will find such vessels at the channel
wharf IN the future instead of at the
Pacific Mail. Vessels from San Fran
cisco en- route to the Orient will dock
at the Pacific Mail as usual.
Festivity on the Tobey.
The bark Gerard C. Tobey will prob
ably leave for the Coast sometime to-
day. pleasant surprise was rendered
Captain Cove on Tuesday evening, in
which music, dancing ana refreshments
were the features of the evening. The
music was furnished by the Male lima
Quintet Club. Those present were:
Miss Amy Thomas, Miss Thora Oss, |
Miss Nettie Jobe, Miss Mabel Bruins,
Mrs. j. N. Shafer; Messrs. Herbert
Simpson, Sam Jacobsen, James Craik.
James McGin, Robert Anderson, James |
Todd Smith, Edward
Schlief, ]. n. Shafer Scott and the
genial Captain G. w. Cove.
Large Cargo of Sugar.
The Bath ship Arthur Sewall. Gaffry, |
arrived at Philadelphia on August s |
from Honolulu with a cargo of S9,431 |
bags OF sugar, said to be the largest |
cargo of sugar ever landed at Phila- |
1elphia from a sailing vessel.
Cost Of Transport Service.
Twenty million dollars scattered broad |
cast in San Francisco is sum sufficient |,
in size to produce effective results among |
the merchants and tradespeople of the |
city General Oscar r. Long superin- |
tendent of the Army stransport service In !
San Francisco, will show to the Quarter |
of the Army, in his an
nual report for the fiscal year ending |
June &c. 1901, that this amount has been |
disbursed in the maintenance of the !
service there alone
An idea of the enormous cost OF trans
porting troops, to say nothing of the gen.
eral running expenses and average wear
and tear, can be had from the following
figures: The estimated cost of transport
ing a soldier from San Francisco to Ma
Mia is shown to be 1896; for a cabin pas
senger 1856. The capacities of the trans
ports that come into this port will vary
from 1900 to 1000 passengers. but If only
HOO pasSengers-100 cabin and 1000 soldiers
are transported each trip across, the
two ships coming and the two ships 60
ing each month, the cost at the end Of
the year will show approximately $685.
500 expended. SO 800 passengers having
been transported.
The above figures will not cover the
number of passengers carried by the
transports during the past year. as two
armies have crossed the Pacific during
that time. first in the volunteer Army
that was brought home and the regulars
who have taken their places
Another big item In the expenses of
these ships Is the coal consumption. The
Meade. which arrived In Honolulu last
night, will burn on an average Ito tons
per day for twenty-five days. That alone
Is an item of $4,000.
General Longs report will be very ex-
plicit when completed, but will not be
ready for publication until 1t has been
compiled with the annual report of the
Quartermaster-General of the Army
This branch of the transport service has
been most successfully organized, and is
considered by all higher officials a credit
to the service.
Must Show Their Credentials,
R. Beverley Kidd, the Adonis and