The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-09
DO|NGS
ON THE
COAST
San Francisco to
Entertain the
Pythians.
HAWAIIAN OIL.
SHIP PREPARING
Ex-senator Thurston Is Coming
!isss-The KohaIa Ditch.
Walter Weldon.
Especial to the Advertiser

IAN FRANCISCO. August 9TH
principal matter interesting SaI
49, Francisco at present is the an.
Eual convention of the knights
of Pythias. Seven thousand OF then
are expected to arrive here mex
Monday and to remain for week
A public subscription of nearly $780,
900 has been collected for theil
entertainment and to decorate the
streets in their honor. This is an add
ton to the amount which the knights
both visiting and local will expend. Iii S
estimated that s30.01o will be spent on
the electric light decorations alone.
Market street for a distance of mile
is going to be almost literally rooted
with incandescent lights. In addition
is this, all the counties IN the State
are making exhibits. in the great hall
of the Ferry Building. OF their re-
sources and attractions. California,
and more particularly San Francisco,
sneauties and, attractions OF the State,
d more OF science than any other
Community in the Union. The money
expended In the entertaining of visitors
and advertising the attractions OF the
State is well spent, for by reason of
it more convention and association
meetings are held in San Francisco
than at any other place in the United
States, and the community reap -thei
benefit thereof, for there is no nnorei
r,,- kob froH n TtrOVidfnU
for tourists, who are VIGOROUSLY liberal
spenders and the settlement is in cash.
Honolulu may well take a lesson from
San Francisco In this respect
OH. FOR HAWAII
The Union Oil Companys new oil
ship Fullerton" is at the dock in San
Francisco. having her finishing touches
put on. She leaves here for Ventura on
Tuesday next and will there take In a
load Of oil and return to the Companies
refinery on San Francisco Bay, where
the load viii be discharged in ordSr to ;
fully test not only the tanks but thel
loading and unloading apparatus. Inn
mediately thereafter. She will take q
ioad of oil on board and sail for Kihei
where she should arrive somewhere be-
tween the 18th and S1st of August. The
vessel is OF most intense interest to
both shipping and oil men, as she Is
in some respects an absolutely new
departure in the way OF an oil trans
port In fact. she is frequently referred
to as 1.-THE freak" Some of the odd
features about her are that she is built
of wood, and her entire hold from deck
to keel is divided into seventeen COM
partments each holding, approximately,
a thousand barrels of OIL. Each COM
is connected with every other
Esf-Artment by pipes and valves Each
has also separate hatcn
way up through the deck Around
ZACH hatchway, a heavy box is built
'or ten feet square and four feet high,
MO which the oil from below is allow
"a to expand. if the heat causes ii so
% do.
The captain, crew and galley are all
n the extreme after end of the vessel
md are separated from the hold by a
offer-dam consisting of two plank
yalls extending all the way across the
hip with the intervening space filled
rom keel TO deck with water This
,revents the gas from the oil getting
MO the cabin and other living quar- ,
h., fire In the stove. The entire ship 3
: lighted by electric light and no fire ;
viii be allowed or board, except in the ,
ook stove which is located on the ?
PIPER deck at the extreme aft. The 8
Fullerton" has the honor of being the I
argest sailing vessel ever built on the q
cast: she is four-masted with square Z
igEing on the foremost. She is fitted r
18th double pumps for landing her oil, Z
ne capable of being run by steam. the I
Their by gasoline. which is to be pump
a ashore through S-inch linen hosel
pecially made for the purpose. This is
Re first time that hose has been used {
,r such purpose, and if it is success
II it WIFI prove of the greatest i'm [
ortance, as it will enable an oil ship d
, lie half a mile from shore and land Ii
b oil without difficulty.
The Union Oil Company are building a
We steamers for use in their island c
asiness, which they expect will be II
,npIeted by January or February G
ext. o.
Meanwhile the Matson Navigation lie
ompany Is also constructing two oil
essels. One, the Marion Chilcott,' 81
Gently in the Hilo trade, is having II