The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-24
STEAMER MEN
CAUGHT MAPPING

Shipping men on the Sound have
! been stirred up recently by reason OF
the action of Collector of Customs C
w. Ide in imposing fines on various
steamers at Port Townsend for viola
ton of the rules of navigation. The
fines and causes according to the
Tacoma Ledger. We're as follows
Steamer Garland, now plying on the
SeattIe-Port Townsend Whatcom run
via San Juan islands, fined $500 for
failure to provide relieving tackle or
tiller; for not having ladders or stair
! ways leading to the hurricane deck
where are kept the lfebOats, fire
buckets and other paraphernalia; for
/ failure to have the required number
of fire buckets, and the absence of the
required barrel and tank; for failure
to provide a sufficient number Of fire
axes; for failure to have any mark or
stencil on liferafts stating the carry
ing capacity in cubic feet and the
number of passengers each would
carry; for failure to have some of the
oars marked with the vessels name,
and for failure to have the lifeboat
falls and painters and some of the life
boats in good condition.
Steamer Prosper, of the same COM
pany, plying between Seattle and Port
Townsend, taking in the mill ports,
fined $500 for having one lifeboat with
out plug and provision for the outlet
of water for the absence of water in
the fire buckets, for absence of ladders
or stairways as above stated and for
failure to provide a sufficient number
Of fire axes.
The steamers Whatcom and Alice
Gertrude, the former on the Puget
Sound-Victoria run, the latter on the
strait run, were found to have no
means of escape by ladder or other
wise from the hurricane deck near the
stern of the vessel. No fine was as
sessed in the case of the two latter
vessels, but they were reported to the
inspectors of hulIs and boilers.
In accordance with announcement
previously made in The Ledger, Col
lector Ide says he is determined to fol-
low UP all manner of craft coming IN
der his supervision and see that the
letter of the law is complied with. To |
this end Collector Ide this morning is |
sued orders to the revenue cutters Ar
cata and Grant to proceed up Sound, |
there to inspect every passenger yes |
sci. large or small.
The cutters left this morning at 10 |
O'Clock and before they complete their
mission every craft in Tacoma Seat
tie, Everett and the smaller ports will |
have been examined. All the fittings
and paraphernalia of all steamers will
be inspected and an investigation into
the matter of boat and fire drills will
be made. In reply to a question Col
ector Ide stated that the revenue Off
GERS would not order drills held in their
presence. The law requires that all
passenger craft of more than thirty
ions shall conduct drills at least once
each week; that each member of the
crew shall have his prescribed place;
hat a card containing the instruc-
ions as to each mans position in drill
shall be posted in the most conspicu-
'us place on the vessel and that the
lay and hour of such drill being held .
;hau be recorded in the vessels log.
Fhe revenue officers will inspect the
og and inquire from members of the
rev as to the reliability and correct
less of such log I