The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-06-17
SMALL BUSINESS
ABOUT WAARVES

Yesterday was very lazy day on the
waterfront. In the Harbor Masters
office, at the wharf offices, and at the
pilot office and other places where wa
terfronters gather for business or gos-
sip the entire forces were busily engag-
ed holding down chairs. At the Oceanic
wharf a considerable quantity OF goods
was taken away by the draymen, in
Guiding a large number of new desks
! which are being transhipped to the
| school at Lihue, Kauai, but the chief
business in hand was the work CEN
tering around the coaling Of that popu-
lar flagship of the Waimanalo sugar
fleet, the steamer ]. A. Cummins.
Commodore" Searle was figuring out
the number of trips the Cummins had
made during her career to Waimanalo.
II guess the Cummins has averaged
about two trips week to Waimanalo
for the last eighteen years." he re-
marked.
Captain OLSEN, Of the Fearless, fig
ured that this meant about 1880 trips.
This is quite record for the small
steamer. She has met with but few
mishaps and has needed but few re-
pairs during that time so that her work
as sugar carrier has probably made
her owners more money than any other
steamer operating during the same
time in the islands. .-
Anchored over in "Mudville" could be
seen the small tug Kaena, which has
recently been in use in dredging and
towing work at Pearl Harbor and on
the Honolulu bar. Some one remarked
that the Kaena had quite a history.
She was formerly called the WANNA
nalo" and as such was for years regu-
larly engaged in packing sugar from
Waimanalo to Honolulu. She was an
old boat when brought to the islands
and as she has been here for many
years her present age must be consid-
cradle.
The small inter-island schooner Mol
Wahine, one of the smartest Of the
older vessels of the mosquito fleet, pull
ed in her lines from Allen & Robin
sons wharf and, with her native skip
per and his wife at the wheel, set all
sail for Kukuihaele, Hawaii. This was
about three in the afternoon.
From the Oceanic wharf could be seen
the big white ship Arthur Sewall,
which is moored at the Railway wharf
and is about ready to go to sea with
$500 tons Of sugar for Delaware Break
water. She is now securing a crew and
will receive the small amount of sugar
needed to complete her load on Satur-
day. The Sewall, all painted in white,
presents a very fine view now and is
worth the time of anyone who cares to
go to the wharves to see her.
Captain Willer, formerly an assistant |
harbor master, left for the Coast on the |
Alameda and has couple of ships in |
view there which are in need of cap
tains.
Coal was being stacked up on the |
Oceanic wharf in readiness for the Ven
tura which is expected from San Fran |
cisco on Wednesday. The Sierra will |
probably arrive from the Colonies on |
Monday evening and sail for the Coast |
on Tuesday.
The Siberia is due from the Coast |
today and will bring seven days later
mail.
The small schooner Esther Buhne,
Olsen, arrived from the Sound yester-
day morning with cargo of railroad
ties and other lumber On account of
the inactivity in building circles at
present the vessels Of the Sound lumber
fleet do not find as much carrying to
do to Honolulu. AS a result vessels of
the size of the Esther Buhne and BERTHE
Minor are being chartered for Honolulu
and the large lumber carriers are going
elsewhere.