The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-24
WATERFRONT News.

Mathews and Chief Engineer George r.
Kingsland, and the other officers of
the Sherman. Captain Grant leaves the
| transport to take the position of sail
| ing master on Howard Goulds private
| yacht Niagara.
| CAPT. BRADLEY TRANSFERRED.
| Quartermaster Captain John j. Brad
| ley, of the transport Hancock, one of
the best known and most popular Off
GERS of the fleet of transports. has been
| detached from the Hancock, and ap-
pointed an aid on the staff of Major |
General Otis at Chicago. For some |
time Captain Bradley has had trouble |
with his eyes, and it is to afford him |
an opportunity to receive medical |
treatment that the transfer was made. |
His successor on the Hancock has not |
been named.
WEEKLY SERVICE TO ORIENT.
The Pan-American Steamship Com
pany, which was incorporated three
weeks ago in New Jersey, will begin
the operation in the spring of reg
ular freight service between New York
and China, Japan and the Philippines,
via the Suez canal. A weekly service
will be established.
PUTS IN IN DISTRESS.
The ship Two Brothers, Captain Will
son, DOuQQ from tacoma TO l1dQdlnd,
: put into San Francisco IN distress on
the Sth instant. The Two Brothers left
Tacoma December 23d. She encoun-
! tered heavy weather and sprung leak
when $50 miles from port. She was
. taking in eighteen inches of water
hour when she entered the harbor OF
San Francisco. She carries 1900 tons
E of coal.
WILL GO TO SEATTLE.
| he iS
pected. the steamer American, now
: discharging freight in San Francisco,
e will sail for Seattle to take on the re-
|, turn cargo, sailing thence Tor Honolulu
h and New York. While in the north,
l. however the American will call at Ma
It naimo to fill the coal bunkers, and this
e is to be done by every steamship Of
n the American Hawaiian Steamship
e line arriving on the Coast. The freight
d for all the big steamers will, in great
n part, also be taken on at Seattle.
e SONOMA AT HER DOCK
5 The new steamer Sonoma. of the
,. Oceanic Company's line now in San
d Francisco, is being made ready for the
: trip to Australia, and will sail on the
III 23d Like the Sierra, the black hull
y, of the Sonoma is to be painted white.
% Many passengers for Honolulu, as well
< as Auckland and Sydney, have been
IL booked for the trip.
%
as TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 1O-The China
Id warehouse is filled with flour awaiting
SO shipment to Chinese ports. 1t is esti-
Va mated that there are more than 240, 00i
he sacks held here for outward-boun6
We Oriental steamers, and the supply i:
he being increased daily by receipts from
ne local mills and outside shippers. TIL,
OF rush of other freight shows proper
er tionate volume of business. Thu
rs Oriental liners, Tacoma and Bramer
.ip are in port loading, and the Glenogle
its Victoria and Duke of Fife will be her
an before the end of the month.
Ter ALGOA REACHES PORT.
ny SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.-Earl.
er yesterday AFTERNOON the large steame
~ Algoa, which took cargo of freigh
AT to Manila for the government reache
10 port on her return, having been forty
- three days from Nagasaki. TIL
itc steamer was in ballast and the tri
TO was uneventful. Very little ballas
ne which consisted of a quantity of Jap
m anese coal. was however, brought b
'Ih the Algoa, and the points of the pro
ne peller of the big vessel were three fee
on out of water. Twenty hours before tn
"a Algoa sailed from Nagasaki the steam
ne er Californian left that port. bound fo
San Francisco, also in coal ballast, bu
shaving much more on board. The Cali
OFT fornian had not been reported off tn
ort harbor up to last evening. The Algo
will be released by the government a
ort a transport, and is to be turned owe
for 10 the owner, the racine Mail Con
M pany.
rs, SLIGHT HOPES FOR ANDRADA.
9TH SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.-Reinsul
as ance on the British bark Andrada ha
III. taken another sharp advance, now be
oL ing quoted at 55 per cent, an increas
rs of 10 per cent since Thursday, and {
TN 20 per cent since last Wednesday. Sine
no, t1nn n
els sighted off the Columbia river bar b
De, a pilot the Andrada has not bee
SEQ heard from, and the belfer Is gainin
Ger currency that the vessel was lost dul
is ing the terrific southeaster that sweI
his the coast about the middle of Decen
ma ber
-, WORKING ON THE SONOMA.
mel SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. PA lars
has number of mechanics are at work c
es the several decks of the new steam,
ces Sonoma, putting the vessel in shape
err leave for Australia on the Esd. All Il
mt. furnishings originally placed in II
,rt Sonoma have been temporarily reno
he'd ed, and when the workmen have con
,eir pleted minor alterations, will be r
Ba- placed.
the OWNERS OF THE MAY Film
he SUED.
rev SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12-T
ced Black Diamond Coal Company broug
re- suit yesterday in the United States Di
new trict Court 70 recover damages in +
eoe sum of $17150.17 from the Californ
IN Shipping Company, owners of the M
ars. Flint, for the loss of a cargo of &C
no at the time of the collision of the M
attic Flint and the battieship Iowa on Sc
luer TENDER Sth
iere 1919 unDn NAV uAx
ON fooN nGpISnED
San
Ma YOKOHAMA, Jan. l3-It is o1ncla
tain reported that 40O hshermen are mlssl
lief and that they are supposed to ha
arn- perished IN storm on January II
ors off tba xypct cOaSf