The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-12
OOINGS
ON The
COAST
San Francisco to
Entertain the
Pythians.


- Francisco at present is the aa-
nual convention OF the knights
Of Pythias. Seven thousand os them
are expected 60 arrive here next
Monday and TO remain tor 81 week.
4 public subscription of nenTl, $780,.
900 has been collected for their
entertainment and to decorate The
streets in their honor. This is an add
tipn to the amount which the knights
both visiting and local viii expeud Iii
estimated that $4,000 viii be speut on
the electric light decorations alone.
Market street for o distance Of mile
Is going to be almost literally rooted
with inCandcsCent lights. In addition
to this. all the counties in the state
are making exhibits, in the great halt
of the Ferry building, or their re-
sources and attI actions California.
and more particularly san Fraauisco.
have reduced he art OF advertising the
beauties and attractions Of the state
To- more Of a science than any GthCr
community i'm tho Union The money
expended in the entertaining Of visitors
and advertising the attractions uf The
state is well spent, Tor by reason OF
II more convention and association
meetings are held in san Francisco
than at any otho' place in the United
States. and the community reap the
benefit thereof &C.. there is no more
profitable trade tAau that of providing
for tourists, who are uotoIiOus'y liberal
sueuiers ana the settlement is IN cash
Honolulu may wciI take lesson from
SAN Francisco in ms respect
OIL FOR HAWAII.
The Union oil Company's new oil
ship FULLERTON" l., at the dock in san
Francisco, having her finishing touches
lHt on. She leaves here for Ventura on
Tuesday next and will there take in a
load of oil and return to the Company'S
refinery ON san Francisco Bay, where
the load viii be discharged in order to
fully test not only the tanks but the
loading ana Unloading apparatus I'm
Wadidtuly thereafter, she will take n
load of oil on board and sail for Kihei
where she should arrive somewhere be
tween the 18th and 3lst of August. The
VESSEL is of most intense interest to
both shipping and oil men, as she Is
i'm some respects an absolutely new
departure i'm the way of an oil trans
port. In fact he H. frequently referred
10 as "thn freak" Some Of the odd
features about her are that she is built
Of wood, ana her entire hold from deck
ro keel is divided into seventeen com
uaruututs each holding, approximately,
% thousand barrels OF oil. Each com
partment is connected with every other
department by pipes and valves Each
compartment has also a separate hatch
way up through the deck. Around
each hatchway, a heavy box Is built
ia fpb
into which the oil from below is allow
ed to expand. If the heat causes 1t 50
10 do.
The captain, crew and galley are all
in the extreme after end OF the vessel
and are separated from the hold by a
coffer-dam consisting of two plank
walls extending all the way across the
ship with the intervening space filed
from keel to deck with water. This
prevents the gas from the oil getting
into the cabin and other living quar-
ters and from coming in contact with
the fire in the stove. The entire ship
is lighted by electric light and no fire
will be allowed on board. except In the
cook stove, which il located on the
upper deck at the extreme aft. The
Fullerton" has the honor Of being the
largest sailing vessel ever built on the
Coast; she is four~InaSted with square
rigging on the foremost. She is fitted
with double pumps for landing her oil.
one capable of being run BY steam. the
other by gasoline. which is to be pump
Cd ashore through 8-inch linen hose
specially made for the purpose. This 1,
the first time that hose has been used
for such purpose, and If it is success
ful it viii prove Of the greatest i'm
Uortance, as 1t will enable an oil ship
10 lie half mile from shore and land
her oil without difficulty.
The Union oil Company are building
two steamers for use in their island
business which they expect viii be
completed by January or February
next.
Meanwhile the Matson Navigation
Company is also constructing two oil
vessels, one, the Marion Chilcott."
recently IN the lli'o trade, is having
tanks put in her by the Ridson Iron
Works The other is one OF the MA
Mia transports which was recently pur-
chased for 500 900. She will he also CON
verified into a tank steamer. Both ves-
sells will be ready for business within
the next few months. so that the praC-
tical use of oil as fuel at the Islands
will be In fun operation long before
/ the summer of 1903,
THE SENATORIAL COMMISSION.
! The statements are stiil contradictory
as 10 who will come to Honolulu on the
Senatorial Commission. Senator Bur
/ ton of Kansas appears to be the only
/ certainty. The statement is made and
! also contradicted, that Senator Mitchell
! of oregon and Foster OF Washington
! win also come.
Ex-senator John NJ. Thurston. who
! has been acting in Washington as at
( torney for the Gehr Ditch proposition
/ and in opposition to the Parker bill
I Is booked 20 leave San Francisco for
\ Honolulu on the iith. He Is to be &C
| companied by his wife and is making
the trip partly in the interest of bust