The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-10


clpal place of business is in San Fran
cisco. The directors of the company ar
NJ F. Tarpey, A. B. Tarpey, Alameda
L. K. Kentwell, Honolulu; J. E. Ben
nett, Berkeley; K. E. Harrington. Oak
land Capital stock, s5OOOO0 subscribed
SIPS.
Merry Writes Fro m Guam.
] BY the Hongkong Maru from the Orien
yesterday Arthur L. Merry, clerk at tn,
Naval station, received letter from hi.
uncle. Captain John F. Merry, U.S.N.
president of the Harbor Board of Sur
vey at Guam
Captain Merry arrived at Guam or
thu. Solace on November g. He saws thai
the people aboard the Solace were Yer,
much shocked at the terrible experiences
through which the Yosemite had recently
gone
/ The typhoon which so nearly brough,
death to all those aboard the Yosemite
did great deal of damage at Guam. All
OF the buildings were unroofed, including
the palace and the cathedral. The ba-
nanas and cocoanuts were almost en-
/ uIely ruined and it will probably be five
years before an average crop is forth
coming.
On account of the devastation of the
I storm the work of the Harbor Board
! OF Survey will be very much handicap-
ped and Captain Merry does not expect
10 see Honolulu again for at least six
months. When he wrote he was putting.
up large building for the accommoda-
uoE or the members of the survey party
ana tney expected to move into the new
quarters in a day or two
The Justin was at Guam when Can
tam Merry wrote and the Brutus was
expected very soon. Much grip and fe-
yer were prevalent and the weather was
cool, there being more breezes there than
in Honolulu
Shipping Notes.
The American schooner o. NJ Kellogg
Is at present at Eureka loading lumber
for Hilo.
IN Oceanic steamship Alameda. with
two days laters news and mail. is ex-
pected the first thing this morning from
San Francisco.
lhe ship William H. Macy has almost
completed discharging her cargo of coal
and will soon take on ballast and sail
for the Sound
Latest advices received at the HonoI,1
III Naval station have it that the Solace
sails today from Nagasaki for Cavite
thence fer San Francisco via Guam and
The Togo Kisen Kaisha Hongkong Ma
ru expects to get away for San Francisco
this morning at o'clock The story of
'he ZIP anu arrival OF the Maru an
pears in another column.
Arthur L. Merry, clerk at the Naval
station, is still filling up all his spare
time in making photographs of things
IF interest and Importance In and around
he Naval station. Yesterday he secured |
good picture of the barkentine Alta |
iischarging coal at the Navy wharf.
Since the Chinese have been dischare-
"a from the transport Hancock and |
Vnite men have been employed as stok |
rs 1T mas been found impossible to deyeI /
p the same speed with the vessel. Twice |
ne number of Chinese can be EMPLOYED
or the same money as is at present paid
he force of white men
Chilean Bark Temuco Disa bled.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Dec. 30.
-Ihe Chilean bark Temuco, which
sailed from Port Blakeley for South
America on November 29th, has re-
urned here in tow in disabled condi-
ION, with some of her sails gone and
eaking. The Temuco reports that
when nearing the entrance to the
traits an Indian canoe put out to her
nd reported schooner bottom I'D off
he west coast of Vancouver Island. A
ug was sent from here TODAY Ia find