The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-17

along the waterfront. The City
j of Picking, which arrived off port
the first thing in the morning,
went alongside the Pacific Mail wharf
shortly after daylight and landed her
cabin passengers and four hundred and
odd Porto Ricans for the plantations
on these Islands, an account of which
appeared in yesterdays Advertise
Further particulars concerning the
Porto Ricans will be found in another
column. The Picking sails at o'clock
this morning for the Orient.
The collector of customs of this port
is in receipt Of the following informa-
ton:
Merchant vessels built in the United
States and officially numbered by the
Bureau of Navigation during the cal
endaf year 1900 comprised 1102 of $50,
791 gross tons, compared with 954 of
267, 642 gross tons during 1899. Steel
steam vessels numbered 80 of 1876 957
gross tons compared with Sc of 126, 1858
gross tons in 1899. The greater part of
| this increase is on the Great Lakes,
from IA vessels, 50,S36 tons in 1899 to 33
vessels, 10S, 511 tons in 1900 Steel steam
vessels built on the Atlantic coast, 81
of 73.SOS gross tons in 1899.
| For comparison VIM. Gray & Co.,
West Hartlepool, England, built "a
steel steamships of s1,794 tons in 1900.
| Steel steam vessels built on the Pa
cif1c Coast numbered Of 1881 tons.
compared with Of $50 tons in 1899.
Wooden sail vessels increased from 523
of S6,125 tons to SIS of 99,46O tons; wood
en- steam vessels from 335 of 80, 1854 tons
to 423 of 40,546 tons; steel sail vessels
Qncluding schooner barges) from 10 of
21,3S5 tons to IL of 2S,S2S tons. The
foregoing figures do not include for
either year unrigged canal boats and
barges.
TO SAIL FOR HONOLULU.
| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.-At noon to-
morrow the steamer Albion will sail for
Honolulu with a cargo of perishabIe
freight The Albion is unique in being
/ the only vessel of its class in the island
trade. being almost exclusively refrig-
orator ship.
] THE MAY FLINT
/ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6-All the
masts and rigging have been taken from
the wreck of the ship May Flint, lying
at the bottom of the bay off Steuart
street wharf, and although dynamite has
been employed to partially wreck thu
null it is now reported that efforts will
be made to raise the ship. AS much OF
the 1850 tons of coal contained in the
Vessel when she sank can be reacha 60
Iby strong pumps is being drawn to the
Isurface, preparatory to the task of rails
ling the bulky ship. The depth of water
over the wreck is twenty feet. Yester-
day the wrecking barge, which was re.
lTar xya6 frnr3 ha Tow lint fcyy
days ago on account of the high wind
was towed back to it's position. Divers
are still employed in going down, and re.
port the bow of the ship points directly
toward the Oakland wharf, and that the
vessel lies fiat on her starboard side.
George Roeth of Oakland, who purchas.
ed the wreck at auction some time ago
has already expended large sum In re-
covering the masts, anchors, hawsers
and rigging.
MAY FLINT JUDGMENT AFFIRMED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6-Captain
John Birmingham, Supervising Inspector
of Hulls and Boilers, affirmed the judg-
ment yesterday of the local inspectors
in the case of the May Flint, which came
into collision with the battleship Iowa
on the night of September 8th and was
sunk. The local inspectors held that
Captain Woodside was unskillful and
negligent and suspended him for one
year. The decision yesterday was made
on appeal
AMERICAN BARK WRECKED.
LONDON, Jan. 5.-A dispatch from Ma
Mia states that the bark Leonora, flying
the United States flag, has been wreck
ed. Part of the crew were landed, but
the remainder, including the captain, are
missing. There is no record of the YES
sci described in any of the shipping reg
listers.
TURK AND LEWIS.
PORTLAND, Jan. 4.-Frank Turk, well
known along the Portland and Astoria
waterfront, is back from Honolulu and
is contemplating embarking in business
ION Puget Sound. No subscription lists
are being circulated with a view to Sc
curing a subsidy to induce Frank to
locate at any particular city on the
Sound, but he has announced his inten-
ton of helping some of them out of the
hole by remaining with them. The Vic
toria Colonist has the following regarding
his arrival at the British Columbia city:
Among the recent arrivals at the YER
non Hotel are Frank j. turk and ..
Charles Lewis, who are well known to
those who go down to the sea in ships
on the Pacific Coast. They have been
running sailors boarding houses at Ho-
nolulu, and came up here for their health
that is, their object Is gwen as Sucn.
Messrs. Turk and Lewis were formerly
in the business of supplying ships with
sailors at Port Townsend, then at Seat
tie, and again at Portland, whence they
migrated to Honolulu. Now they have
come to Victoria, with the intention, it
is said of establishing a sailors board
ing house here. They say that the ship
ping business of Honolulu is on the de-
cline as far as sailing vessels are con-
cerned, for now the sugar is gradually
being moved more and more by steam
ers, instead of sailing vessels, as former
ly. Overtures have been made by them,
it is understood, to Mr.. Won Rhein, who
has been supplying all vessels that come
here, with crews, to have him come in
as a member of a company to be formed
by them in this connection, but he is
holding aloof
''Messrs. Turk and Lewis have been
kept prominently before the public in the
newspapers of the different cities in
which they have operated. Not many
months ago all the Coast newspapers had
long article telling of the shanghaiing
of Turk, who was said to have been
placed on board an outbound sailing ship
in mistake"
SAW SHIP DISAPPEAR.
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