The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-11
SABBATH DAY
ON THE FRONT

It was a quiet Sunday on the water
front, all right. The Miowera came
in from Victoria, but the Miowera
never makes much Of a fiutter In the
harbor--nor in the city, for the matter
of that. She is such a dingy old ship.
and they were coaling her at the Mail
wharf yesterday afternoon, which made
her more dingy. Also, it made havoc
In white clothes IL a Sunday prom
enader ventured that way. So only a
few ventured, and that few went away
with the sin of vigorous language
cInging to their garments along with
the coal dust, and soiling them as
much. or more.
A couple of sailing craft slipped in,
too, but they came, in easily and
brought no story. The Miowera had
been little behind, as usual. and the
sailing craft did not make good time.
There was the ship George Curtis, Cap
tain Calhoun, from San Francisco,
lightly laden with just enough bricks
in her to stiffen her. Withal, she tow
cred uD like a house when she was
moored to the Brewer wharf She was
sixteen days from the Coast, and had
a week of Gains out of that. Sixteen
days is not half bad, but is slow for
the Curtis. She will load sugar as fast
as she can.
Then there was the British ship Ag-
mes Oswald, Captain Philip, hfty-six
days from Newcastle with coal. And
that was not fast passage. She saw
nothing on the road. and Just crept
along with way enough TO bring her
to port in time. And that is all that
came from the outside world to liven
matters up, and the livening was not
a great and abundant success. The
loungers down at the boat landing
slept on the sunny side of their various
boards, and nobody came to employ
them to go out to the ships or to go |
anywhere. And they did not seem !
wildly anxious TO be employed, If any
one had come. The loungsrs and the
swimmers. men in bathing suits and
small brown boys in nothing at all
to speak of, plunged and dived around
the several boat houses and the
wharves, and the small brown boys
sried out to the chance passers to throw
them nickels, but the shower failed to |
come.
There We're naked Japs in sampans.
too. here and there, but there are
always naked Japs in sampans. Sam
pans seem built to shelter naked Japs. /
And there was the usual run of natives
In canoes and small boats sailing toy
boats. That is great and intellectual
sport, for grown men, but il is very
popular. There are any number of
these toy yachts. The harbor is full of
them, and OF men following them in
larger boats, on any sunny day. There
s considerable feeling, by the way, be-
tween the owners of two of the toys,
called the Shamrock III and the Co
umbia, and those two yachts are to
sail series of races in all gravity.
The Shamrock III is the larger of these
TWO, and her owners say she is the
better. At all events, she carries the
wider spread of canvas. She has
suit. spinnaker and balloon
lbs and all. and when she gets it all
IN she carries cloth enough to propel
! fishing boat and it is as much as two
'arsmen in a skiff can do to keep up
With her.
The Miowera sailed at midnight for a
or Australia and Fiji. But that did
lot liven matters up any. either. The
oungers had all gone to bed, by that
ime. Her sailing only left the water
leaner than it was where she had been
ying. And there is reason enough to
wish the water of the harbor cleaner
my time, whatever the cause.